Ebenezer Starnes MD (1741 - bef. 1793)

Born 16 Feb 1741 in Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Calliham) Starnes — married about 1774 in District 96, South Carolina Colony

Descendants

Died before 13 May 1793 before age 52 in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Ebenezer Starnes was born February 16, 1741, in Connecticut Colony (see researchers notes) a son of Peter Stearns and Hannah Stimson. Ebenezer was married to 1) Elizabeth Calliham and 2) Elizabeth Young.

Children of Elizabeth Calliham include:

• Elizabeth Starnes, born December 31, 1774, in 96th District (modern day Edgefield County, South Carolina, died September 7, 1834, in Edgefield county, married William Phares,Sr.

• Moses Starnes, born near Stevens Creek in the 96th District of South Carolina, migrated to Marion county, Mississippi, married Nancy Graves, died October 16, 1845, in Barlow, Copiah county, Mississippi

Wilkes County is located in northwestern North Carolina. The county was formed from Surry and the District of Washington (or Washington District) by a 1777 legislative act. That act took effect 15 February 1778.

Ebenezer Starnes died in April, 1793, at the age of 52 years, in Wilkes county. His Find A Grave memorial indicates that he died in Wilkes county, Georgia: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59386581/ebenezer-starnes, however, his Will was written in Wilkes county, North Carolina. (See image)

Researchers Notes

Tolland County is incorporated into thirteen towns and was originally formed on 13 October 1785 from portions of eastern Hartford County, Connecticut and western Windham County, Connecticut.

The initial settlement of present-day Edgefield County occurred in the quarter century between 1750 and 1775, when the area beyond the coastal region was known as "the backcountry.” Some settlers came up from the South Carolina Lowcountry, but more poured down the “wagon roads” from the colonies to the north. In this colonial period, the backcountry economy was primarily a subsistence one in which the settlers consumed what they raised. At this time most of the northwestern part of South Carolina was known as the 96 District.

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Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Michelle Anonymous for creating WikiTree profile Stearns-958 through the import of Chapmond Cearley Brown Ward_2013-08-11.ged on Aug 11, 2013