"(VI) Ebenezer, second son and fourth child of Elder Thomas (3) and Margaret (Goodwin) Hodsdon, was baptized at Berwick, Maine, August 10, 1771, and was an early settler at Ossipee, New Hampshire. On January 16, 1797, Ebenezer Hodsdon married his cousin, Sally Wentworth, daughter of Lieutenant Timothy and Amy (Hodsdon) Wentworth of Berwick, Maine. She was born March 20, 1778, and died May 28, 1847. Her father, Lieutenant Timothy Wentworth, served in the Revolution, and lived on the old homestead in Berwick, which had belonged to his grandfather, Timothy. He died there November 29, 1842, at the age of ninety-five. Ebenezer and Sally (Wentworth) Hodsdon had ten children: Belinda, married (first), Rev. Henry Smith, of Ossipee, New Hampshire, (second), Rev. Sydney Turner, of Binham, Maine, both Congregational clergymen. Wentworth, died unmarried at the age of twenty-three. Olive, married Deacon Jonathan Ambrose, of Ossipee. Thomas, married twice and died in Sebec, Maine. Sally, married (first) Andrew Folsom, of Ossipee, and (second) John Burley, of Sandwich. Belinda, married Hollis Burleigh of Ossipee. Amy Wentworth, married Calvin Sanborn, of Wakefield, New Hampshire. Ebenezer, whose sketch follows. Lucinda, married Nahum Perkins, of Great Falls, New Hampshire. Harriet Newell, married Hiram O. Tuttle, and lived in Sturgis, Michigan. Ebenezer (I) Hodsdon died at Ossipee, New Hampshire, July 12, 1840."
