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| Ebenezer Wales | see FAMILY TREE | |
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 | 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
MOTHER
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 1721/2 Windham,
Windham, CT
m. 15 Mar 1740/1 Mary Wetmore
d. 20 Oct 1783
3. Ebenezer Wales
b. 1724 Windham, Windham, CT
d. 13 Apr 1751
4. Elisha Wales
b. 18 Mar 1728 Windham,
Windham, CT
m. 23 Apr 1747 Mary Abbe
d. 6 Apr 1788
5. Solomon Wales
b. 19 Nov 1729 Windham,
Windham, CT
m. 4 Oct 1754 Lucy Strong
d. 20 Mar 1805
6. Elizabeth Wales
b. 28 Nov 1730 Windham,
Windham, CT
m. 8 May 1753 Joseph Ayer
D. 13 mAY 1763
7. Eleazer Wales
b. 20 Apr 1732 Windham,
Windham, CT
M. 4 dEC 1757 sARAH nORTON
D. 20 aUG 1794
8. Seth Wales
b.
12 Apr 1733/4 Windham, Windham, CT
M. 12 Mar 1754
Jemima Newcomb
d. Bef. 20 May 1785
9. Anna Wales
b. 27 Jul 1735 Windham, Windham,
CT
m. 31 Dec 1753 Abiah Learned
d.
10 Sep 1807
10. Timothy Wales
b. 07 Oct 1737 Windham,
Windham, CT
m. 17 Nov 1762 Sarah Loomis
d. 4 Mar 1808
CHILDREN with Deborah Ward
1. Susannah Wales
b. 02 Jul 1742 Windham,
Windham, CT
m. 25 Sep 1764 Phinehas Abel
d. 6 Feb 1814
2. Oliver Wales
b. 27 Feb 1744/5 Windham,
Windham, CT
m. 22 Mar 1767 Elizabeth Lawrence
m. 29 Mar 1792 Martha Hyde
d. 23 Mar 1816
3. Esther Wales
b. 08 Mar 1745/6 Windham,
Windham, CT
m. 25 Nov 1774 John Bliss
d. 24 Oct 1781
4. Elijah Wales
b. 26 Jan 1747/8 Windham,
Windham, CT
m. 14 Apr 1772 Rachel Nelson
d . 23 Mar 1826
5. Irene Wales
b. 03 Aug 1750 Union, Tolland, CT
m. 16 Nov 1775 Nathaniel Sessions
d. 3 Dec 1793
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
m. 31 May 1780 Lois Moulton
d. 15
Dec 1838
Genealogy of the Descendants of Timothy Wales of Connecticut, 1875
Children with Deborah Ward
1. Susannah Wales, born July 9, 1742
2.
Oliver Wales, born February 23, 1744
3. Esther Wales, born March 8, 1746,
died October 24, 1781 Married John Bliss, had one son
4. Elijah Wales,
born January 28, 1748 died April 12, 1774
5. Irene Wales, born Aug. 3,
1750. died December 3, 1793 Married Nathaniel Sessions, had 8 sons and 3
daughters
6. Lydia Wales, born March 9, 1752, died September 30, 1771
7 &
8 Shubal and Sarah Wales, born October 6, 1754
The names of two of the 20 children of Ebenezer Wales are wanting. Timothy was the 11th and last child of his mother, who died the day after his birth.
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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