Ebenezer Fales (1729 - 1797)

Born 8 Feb 1729 in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth (Bingham) Fales — married 21 May 1751 (to 1756) in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony

Husband of Esther (Bingham) Fales — married 1763 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 30 Nov 1797 at age 68 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Ebenezer was born in 1729. He was the son of Nathaniel Fales and Elizabeth Atwood. He passed away in 1797.

It has been recorded that he left his boyhood home sometime between 1737 and 1750 (after father died), and at some point in that period, appeared in Norwich CT. The next we hear of him, he is a young man of 23 in Norwich Marrying into the family of Deacon Joseph Bingham, a prominent Norwich family. His first marriage to Ruth Bingham feb. 21, 1751 yielded 3 children, Ruth, Ebenezer, and Elizabeth. [Ebenezer (the son) was killed June 17, 1775 in the Battle of Charlestown, and his name is on the monument located at Bunker Hill.] Ruth died May 22, 1756 and Ebenezer soon married Ruth's sister Esther, and they had 10 more children (see Fales Family Bulletin, Feb 1984, Vol. II, No. 1, p. 9).

Ebenezer, Esther and the children relocated to Charlemont MA sometime after 1756, left descendants in that area, and generated the Fales family that rode the new Erie Canal in 1828 and settled in Western New York. from The Norwich Story as written in Fales Family Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2 November 1999.

Known children with Esther:

1. James (1763–1808) - m. Submit Higgins
2. Esther (1765–1844) - m. Silas Y. Beckwith
3. Sarah (1768–1854) - m. Lebbeus Rudd
4. Jeremiah (1770–1810) - m. Alice Rudd
5. Lucretia (1772–1846) - m. James Parker
6. Ebenezer (1775-1853) - m. Charlotte Parker - she died / m. Hannah Bangs
7. Lucy (1777–1823) - m. Ezekiel Edgerton
8. Ruth (1779-?) - m. Philotes Lawrence
9. Mary (1783–1839) - m. Levi Lawrence

Sources

Fales, John Thomas, "The Fales Family: The First Ten Generations in America, James Fales and Anne Brock, Dedham, Massachusetts, 28 May 1655 - And Some of Their Descendants" (The Geneaolgy Printing Co., Seattle, WA), 2005; pg 42.

Find A Grave: Memorial #58683600 - Village Cemetery, Charlemont, Franklin County, Massachusetts