Person:Ebenezer Backus (1)

m. 2 May 1745
  1. Ebenezer Backus1747 - 1828
  2. Eunice Backus1749 - 1826
m. 7 Jan 1767
  1. Eunice Backus1768 -
  2. Eleazer Fitch Backus1770 -
  3. Elizabeth Backus1775 -
  4. Alexander Backus1777 -
  5. Lydia BackusAbt 1780 -
  6. Julia Backus
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Ebenezer Backus
Gender Male
Birth[2][3] 17 Aug 1747 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
Marriage to Phebe Calkins
Marriage 7 Jan 1767 to Elizabeth Fitch
Death? 24 Jan 1828 Cazenovia, Madison, New York, United States
References
  1. Sharps, Helen S. Turney. Calkins Family Manuscript. (typescript, 1949)
    33.
  2. 2.0 2.1 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    15:220, Jul 1861.

    ... (171) Elizabeth [Fitch], ... m. 7 Jan. 1767, Ebenezer Backus, b. 17 Aug. 1747, at Norwich, only son of Ebenezer Backus, Esq., of N[orwich]. by his 2d wife Eunice Dyer. They settled at N[orwich]., and had 5 children ; ...
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    [Note of Caution: states they had 5 children and then lists 6.]

  3. Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
    254.

    Ebenezer ye Son of Ebenezer Backus & his wife Eunice was Born Augt: 17th: 1747