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Ebenezer was born in 1760 at Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of David and Thankful (Dickinson) Landon.[1]. His marriage (1) is similarly noted[2].
Ebenezer's death date comes from his gravestone[3], and in a newspaper obituary[4]:
DEATH OF AN OLD SOLDIER.--We have also intelligence of the death of an old Revolutionary soldier, one of the few links between this age and the days that so tried mens souls. EBENEZER LANDON was born in 1760 and has just died at Sharon Springs in his 94th year.
He joined the Revolutionary army at the age of 17 and was in most of the operations about New York in the latter years of the war. He had seen and conversed with Gen. WASHINGTON, and witnessed the Execution of Maj. Andre. And finally, at the conclusion of the War, he was one of the seventeen, from a full company, who survived.
He left the city of New York in 1777, and has not been there since. For upwards of seventy years he was a member of the Episcopal church. He resided, some years after the Revolution, in Connecticut, moving from thence, first to Vermont then to Ohio, and finally finished the journey of life—having discharged its duties faithfully—at Sharon Springs, surrounded by his children, grand-children and great-grandchildren, leaving more than an hundred and forty descendants.
Ebenezer married first Permelee/Parmelia Clemons in 1783 at Litchfield.[5] Children:
Ebenezer married second Mary Slater, with whom he lived in Ohio. There is mention of another memorial for Ebenezer Landon next to his 2nd wife Mary, which is a fake headstone with a fake death date at Berkshire Cemetery in Delaware County, Ohio[6]. There are no records as to why this headstone was erected. Perhaps it is simply a cenotaph with the wrong death year, or a year symbolic for some other reason connected to Mary.
Ebenezer moved from Litchfield to Willsborough, New York on the western shore of Lake Champlain probably in 1805. He purchased almost 120 acres of land at Willsborough on 8 June 1805.[7] The record states that Ebenezer was at that time of Litchfield.
Ebenezer was in Litchfield for the 1800 US census, with household:
This accounts for all of the children alive at that time, except Noble.
Ebenezer was in Johnstown, Ohio for the 1820 US census, with household:
The record also shows one person engaged in manufacturing.
Family researcher and profile originator, Weldon Smith
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