Ebenezer Parsons (1746 - 1819)

Born 27 Feb 1746 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Died 27 Nov 1819 at age 73 in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Ebenezer was a merchant. With the start of the Revolutionary war he transferred his business to Newburyport and engaged in privateering where he made a great deal of money.

Refusing to insure his ships Ebenezer suffered great losses causing him to retire from business, move to Byfield and buy a farm.

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Sources

• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010). (Newbury Deaths, Vol. 2, p. 682).

• Forbes, Susan, Eben Parson and Fatherland Farm, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1896) Vol. 50, Page 59-64

• Vol. 50, Page 63: "Eben Parsons died in his country home Nov. 2, 1819, at the age of 74 years. His remains, with those of other members of the family rest in a tomb in the old Byfield cemetery... Of thirteen children born to Mr. and Mrs. Eben Parsons, ... only one who survived the years of childhood" was Gorham Parsons b.July 27, 1768.

• Hanaford, Mary Elisabeth Neal. Family Records of Branches of the Hanaford, Thompson, Huckins, Prescott, Smith, Neal, Haley, Lock, Swift, Plumer, Leavitt, Wilson, Green and Allied Families (Rockford, Ill., 1915)

• Page 259: "he engaged in fishing, off Cape Ann; he prospered, and soon owned several vessels, and became one of the largest importers, and had the reuptation of being a 'Princely Merchant'".