Ezra Ross (1761 - 1778)

Born 20 Jul 1761 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Died 2 Jul 1778 at age 16 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts

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Biography

Ezra Ross ^[1]

Birth: 1760 Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA; also 20 July 1761, Ezra Ross, son of Joanna & Jabez Ross^[2]

Death: Jul. 2, 1778, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA^[3][4]

Parents and (17) Children:

Jabez Ross

Johana Unknown

Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner was hanged in 1778 at thirty-two years old, along with three soldiers for killing her husband, Joshua Spooner. She was carrying the child of her 16 year old paramour Ezra Ross, also hanged along with the two other men, James Buchanan and William Brooks; all four were convicted of the murder of Spooner. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States by Americans rather than the British.

Burial

Leslie Road Burial Ground, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

Find A Grave Memorial# 127857501

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #127857501
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKM-PHC : 15 January 2020), Ezra Ross, 1761.
3. ↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5L-65J
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1V-B564 : 2 March 2020), Ezra Ross, 2 Jul 1778; citing Death, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009689.

• https://storiesfromipswich.org/2015/07/02/the-hanging-of-bathsheba-spooner-july-2-1778/
• Navas, Deborah; Murdered By His Wife. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
• http://www.earlyamericancrime.com/criminals/bathsheba-spooner