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| Ebenezer Wales |
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| Born: Jun/1696 Milton, Suffolk, MA Baptized:
28/Jun/1696 Norfolk, Milton, MA |
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| Married: 1st to Esther Smith 20/Oct/1719
Windham, CT
2nd: to Deborah Ward 03/Oct/1741 Windham, CT
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Source; Barbour Collection |
| Died: 12/Apr/1774 Union, Tolland, CT |
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| Buried: The Old Cemetery, Union, Tolland, CT |
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The day before he died "Being asked whether his children who
lived remote should be sent for? he replied, 'It cannot be done with
convenience, and they must be content with what I have already said,' He
died at Union, on the 12th of April, A.D. 1774, in the 78th year of his age;
leaving behind a sorrowful widow, and fifteen children, to lament his death;
the next day his remains were carried to the place of public worship, where
an honorable character was given him, as a man of worth and piety, after
which he was conveyed to the grave, followed by eleven of his children, (one
being confined at home with sickness, and three others too remote for
seasonable notice) together with a great concourse of people. He had
20 children, viz, 11 by his first wife, 9 by his second, now his widow, 78
grandchildren, and 5 great-grand-children." |
FATHER
Nathaniel Wales
MOTHER
Susannah Pope Blake
WIFE
1st. Esther Smith
2nd Deborah Ward
CHILDREN with Esther Smith
1. Anna Wales b. 17/Sep/1720 Windham, Windham, CT
d. 13/May/1721
2. Nathaniel Wales b. 20/Mar/1722 Windham,
Windham, CT
3. Ebenezer Wales b. 1724 Windham, Windham, CT
d. 13/Apr/1751
4. Elisha Wales b. 18/Mar/1728 Windham,
Windham, CT
5. Solomon Wales b. 19/Nov/1729 Windham,
Windham, CT
6. Elizabeth Wales b. 28/Nov/1730 Windham,
Windham, CT
7. Eleazer Wales b. 20/Apr/1732 Windham,
Windham, CT
8. Seth Wales b.
12/Apr/1734 Windham, Windham, CT
9. Anna Wales b. 27/Jul/1735 Windham, Windham,
CT
10. Timothy Wales b. 07/Oct/1737 Windham,
Windham, CT
CHILDREN with Deborah Ward
1. Susannah Wales b. 02/Jul/1742 Windham,
Windham, CT
2. Oliver Wales b. 27/Feb?1744 Windham,
Windham, CT
3. Esther Wales b. 08/Mar/1745 Windham,
Windham, CT
4. Elijah Wales b. 26/Jan/1747 Windham,
Windham, CT
5. Irene Wales b. 03/Aug/1750 Union, Tolland, CT
6. Lydia Wales b.09/Mar/1752 Union, Tolland, CT
7. Sarah Wales b. 06/Oct/1754 Union, Tolland, CT
8. Shubal Wales b. 06/Oct/1754 Union, Tolland,
CT
From Genealogical and Historical, by W.H. Cleland, p 5,6:
"Ebenezer Wales, born at Milton 1697. He died at Union, Conn., April 1776,
leaving a widow and sixteen children. He lived in Milton, Mass, until about
sixteen years of age, then settled in Wyndam. He was deacon in the church
several years before he went to Union and was noted for his piety and
intellectual ability. His "Councils and Directions" was published in Boston in
1813, in a tract of 24 pages, 40 years after his death. He married first Esther
Smith, who was the mother of ten of his children and who died October 10, 1737.
He married October 13, 1741, Deborah Ward, a woman of great resolution and
patriotism. When two of her grandsons were about to start to Cambridge at the
Lexington alarm, she said to her son Samuel: "I would not send my boys where I
dare not go myself." He sent his boys and went himself, serving as captain at
the age of 45.
Deborah Wales is buried in the old cemetery at Union and her grave is annually
decorated by the G. A. R. Deacon Ebenezer Wales died just as the revolution
broke out, and she died March 13, 1779, aged 65."
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