Ebenezer Rowley (1727 - 1811)

Born 20 Oct 1727 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Annable) Rowley — married 18 Oct 1750 in East Haddam, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 7 Feb 1811 at age 83 in Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Ebenzer Rowley was born in 1727 in East Haddam, Connecticut, son of Ebenezer Rowley and Mary Church.^[1][2] They lived in the southern part of the town of Chatham, Conn., near the later residence of John N. White.

He married Susan Annabel 18 Oct 1750 in Chatham^[3] and then had thirteen children:^[2]

1. Susanna
2. Ithamar
3. Ebenezer
4. Mary
5. Olive
6. Anna
7. Lydia
8. Asher
9. Dorothy (Dolly)
10. Deuel
11. Lucinda (Lucena)
12. Elijah
13. Elisha

Ebenezer Rowley served with Civil Service, Connecticut during the American Revolution.

Ebenezer Rowley is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A099316.

He served as Surveyor of Highways, Chatham, 1779.^[4]

He and his wife were buried in a family tomb near their home, on the bank of Salmon river in Chatham (Middletown).

A writing said to be the Will of Eb Rowley late of Chatham Dec'd was exhibited in Court & for want of Testimony was disapproved & set aside & is ordered to be kept on file. Richard Cook & Archer Rowley were by this Court appointed Administrators of all & singular the Goods, Chattles, Credits & Estate of Eb. Rowley late of Chatham Dec'd & Bond taken according to Law. An inventory taken for the Court of Probate on Feb. 25,1811 amounted to $5428.26.

Research Notes

The following note was included above, but it cannot apply to this Ebenezer Rowley because he died in 1811 and the Battle of Bunker Hill was 17 Jun 1775.

"Henry Strowbridge, John Trowbridge, Judah West, Ichabod Stoddard, Benjamin Cobb, Dr. Amos Skeels, Dr. Robert Usher, Dr. Elias Norton, Capt. Silas Dunham, Capt. Stephen Brainerd, Capt. Stephen Olmstead, Stephen Olmstead jr., Daniel Judd jr., Nathaniel White, Peter Parker, Capt. Stephen Griffith, Nathaniel Ackley, Sylvester Summers, John Johnson, Lieut. Marcus Cole, Abner Cole, Hendrick Cole, Moses Cook, Nehemiah Gates, Soloman Bailey, Michael Smith, Samuel Young, Stephen Knowlton jr., Ebenezer Rowley, John Church, Lemuel Scoville, Na- than Scoville, Rev. Benjamin Boardman, Amasa Archer, Ichabod Lucas, Samuel Kilbourn, Timothy Kilbourn were killed in the battle of Bunker Hill, From: "History of Middlesex County, CT" pg 186.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Barbour Collection, Middlesex, CT, LR2:1121
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Rowley, Warren C. A Direct Unbroken Line of Ancestry from Henry Rowley of Scituate, Mass., 1632 to the Children & Descendants of Asher & Mehitable Rowley of Winsted, Conn., 1783. Warren C. Rowley for his Uncle Harlow's Family, 1924, pg 55.
3. ↑ Barbour Records, Chatham, CT 1:3
4. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, Patriot A099316, Mullen, CT Town Meeting Records, Vol 1, pg 200.
5. ↑ " History of Middlesex County, CT" pg 186. https://archive.org/details/cu31924097556595/page/186/mode/1up?q=+186+

• Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations - Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620 (Vol. 4) ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006) Page 107
• "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F76C-548 : 9 February 2018), Ebenezer Rowley, 1811; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 3,194.
• H. K. Brainard, NYGBR Vol 37, pg 206 "Henry Rowley and some of His Descendants." paragraph 33