Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Ebenezer DOWSE | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ebenezer, 4, bapt. 10 Sept. 1693 [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - EBENEZER3 DOWSE (SAMUEL2, LAWRENCE1) born in Charlestown, Mass., 4 Sept. 1693, died in Billerica, Mass., between 1778 and 1781. He married in Rowley, Mass., 23 Nov. 1715, MARY HUNT, born in Billerica, Mass., 1 July 1696, died, probably in Billerica, after 1778, daughter of SAMUEL and RUTH [MARY?] (TODD) HUNT. Tradition says that Ebenezer Dowse went to Billerica in 1708. As he would be only fifteen years old in that year, he was probably apprenticed to some carpenter in Billerica. One authority states that he died two weeks after the battle of Saratoga in 1777 and another claims that he died in 1781; but he was living in 1778 and his death is not recorded. He left no will and his estate was not administered. The name of Ebenezer Dowse appears as "Dows" on his headstone -- the fault of the cutter -- and his descendants adopted that spelling. Benjamin Dowse owned a house and land in Billerica. It was probably a grant from the town as no deed is recorded of its purchase. He sold this in 1725. I Ebenezer Dows of Billerica . . . yeoman in Consideration of three hundred pounds . . . paid me ["by" omitted] Benjamin Dows junr. of Billerica Husbandman . . . convey unto him . . . my homestead lying in Billerica . . . excepting the east End of my dwelling House I reserve during my life and the life of my wife and for my daughter Susannah to make it her home during her unmarried State . . . In Witness I the said Ebenezer Dows with Mary my wife . . . have set our hands and seals this nineteenth day of October . . . one Thousand seven hundred and seventy eight. Wit: Wm. Stickney, Wm. Manning. (Middlesex Co., Deeds, 79:508). Children 1716-34: Benjamin, John, Ebenezer, Martha, Mary, Anna, Susannah, Samuel, Eleazer. [ref 79:133] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Mary HUNT | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - daughter of Samuel HUNT and Mary TODD - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mary Hunt birth 1 Jul 1696 Billerica Middlesex /d Samuel and Mary [ref 76] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Last Modified 24 Apr 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |