Ebenezer Deming Sr. (1659 - 1705)

Born 1659 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Grant) Deming — married 16 Jul 1677 in Of Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 2 May 1705 at about age 46 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

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BIOGRAPHY:

Birth: 1659, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Death: May 2, 1705Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

Parents: John Deming (1615 - 1705) Honor Treat Deming (1616 - 1705)

Siblings: John Deming (1638 - 1712)* Jonathan Deming (1639 - 1700)* Samuel Deming (1646 - 1709)* Mary Deming Hurlbut (1648 - 1714)* Mercy Deming Curtis (1651 - 1714)* David Deming (1652 - 1725)*

Find A Grave contributor Don Blauvelt adds:

There is no proven surname for Ebenezer Deming's wife Sarah, let alone that it was Grant or Phelps, as in an errant 2003 compilation of the Wethersfield Wright family on the web by Albert Nye & an erroneous genealogy of the family of Samuel Grant and his wife Mary Porter, who by some are the purported in-laws of Ebenezer Deming. Nye either misread three separate 1901-1929 compilations of the Wethersfield Wrights, added the Grant surname from some undocumented reference from a member supplied genealogy to the LDS, etc.

Ebenezer and Sarah Deming were the parents of Prudence, the brief 1st wife of Dea. Thomas Wright, the maternal as well as paternal grandson of my ancestors.

Albert Nye in his errant compilation then proceeds to add nine additional children for Dea. Thomas Wright, when as verified by his own will in 1760 he had only one child by first wife Prudence and none by second wife Abigail Churchill.

In Judson Keith Deming's "Deming Geneaology" (1904), p. 14: "EBENEZER DEMING, (son of John 1) born at Wethersfield, Conn.; died 2 May 1705, at Wethersfield; married 16 JuIy 1677 at Wethersfield, SARAH...In the record of his marriage the family name of his wife is obliterated, and it has not been discovered from any other source. In the distribution of his estate, his widow and all of his children including his two sons-in-law Talcott and Wright, are named..."

In addition: Stiles: Ancient Wethersfield, Deming, p. 274. "FAM. 6. Ebenezer,2 (John,1), m. Sarah ____, 16 July 1677;..."

Further, in Curtis Wright's "Wright Family (1915), p. 120: "He m. Oct. 4, 1705, Prudence, dau. of Ebenezer and Mary Deming, who died Oct. 24, 1706." Ebenezer's purported wife named Mary is a mistatement by Stiles, who later calles Ebenezer's wife as Sarah as in the above citation, and copied verbatim by Curtis Wright.

And much further, the marriage record of Ebenezer Deming to a wife named Sarah in the Wethersfield VRs is recorded as follow: "Ebenezer, m Sarah ______, July 16, 1677."

According to the Grant family genealogy, the immigrant Matthew of Windsor being my ancestor, Sarah Grant, dau. of Samuel Grant and Mary Porter, was b. at Windsor in 1679 and died as an infant in 1680. Thus, she could not have the wife of anyone.

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Born about 1659 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, New England^[1]

Ebenezer Deming and Sarah his wife, were m. July 16, 1677.^[2]
Issue born in Wethersfield: Ebenezer, b. May 5, 1678; John, b July 26, 1679; Sarah b Jan. 6, 1681.^[2]

Mr. Ebenezer Deming died May 2, 1705.^[2]

• Ancestral File Number: 1TGL-V5 . The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 310 Shows that Prudence's parents were Ebenezer & Sarah Deming. As well as her husband being Thomas Wright and that her only child was Ebenezer Wright.

1. ↑ One World Tree
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} "Records of Wethersfield, Connecticut." (RR Hinman communicator). New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol 16, p 264. Boston: NEHGS, 1862.