Person:Ebenezer Downs (5)
Ebenezer Downs
b.Abt 1728 Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
d.16 Sep 1803 Steuben, Washington, Maine, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Ebenezer DownsAbt 1728 - 1803
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Ebenezer DownsAbt 1728 - 1803
  • W.  Jane Walton1728 - Aft 1800
m. 1750
  1. Benjamin Downs1767 - 1840
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Facts and Events
Name Ebenezer Downs
Alt Name Ebenezer Downes
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][3] Abt 1728 Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
Marriage 1750 Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, USAto Jane Walton
Death[1][2][3] 16 Sep 1803 Steuben, Washington, Maine, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Downs, in Lamson, Darryl B. (Darryl Byron), and Leonard F Tibbetts. Early Narraguagus River families of Washington County, Maine. (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, c2002)
    1:260-1.

    Ebenezer4 Downes Jr, b 172?; d 1810+ [d 16 Sept 1803 per Stu TR?]; son of Ebenezer3 (Thomas2-1) and Elizabeth3 Hanson (of Thomas2-1 Hanson) Downs; laborer at Somersworth NH { 175 5}, moved to Arundel { 175 6}, then to Township #4 {1777} married second to JANE5 WALTON, b 1728/30+; d 1800+; dau of Samuel4 and Elizabeth3 (Pray) Walton of Newington NH. On 28 Nov 1791 he sold his 110-acre homestead lot north of Tunk Stream to son Ebenezer for 100 pounds [Wash Co Deed 1 :515]; He held settlers' lot at Cherryfield that was occupied 1796-98 by Mrs. Hannah(-) Fickett Wakefield

    This source is very reliable but the authors do not state the source of the information regarding Elizabeth Hanson.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tibbetts, Charles W, ed, and New Hampshire Society of Genealogists. The New Hampshire genealogical record. (Dover, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Genealogical Society )
    6:148-9.

    link

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Stueben Town Records.

    Died 16 Sep 1803 Steuben, Washington, Maine, United States

  4.   Priscilla Eaton, The Descendants of Nathan1 Lord of Kitery (Part II), in Lapham, William B. (William Berry). The Maine genealogist and biographer : a quarterly journal. (Augusta, Maine: Maine Genealogical and Biographical Society)
    Vol 33.2 71-88@78-81, May 2011.

    [This is part II of a three part article published in volumes 33.1-33.3 in Feb, May, Aug, 2001].

    Ebenezer3 Downes (son of Thomas2 and Mary2 (Lord) Downes), b. say 1692; m. ELIZABETH —. On 1 Oct. 1716, Ebenezer Downes of Dover sold to John Hurd 50 acres, “being one half of land given my brother Thomas Downes, by my grandmother Martha Lord.”298 Ebenezer’s captivity during Dummer’s War is much in print. In 1724 he was captured by Indians and carried to Canada, where he refused to dance for the entertainment of his captors. The Boston News-Letter of 2 Sept. 1725 noted that he returned from captivity in 1725, “having a Wife & five Children at Piscataqua.” Ebenezer was still living in 1755 when he bought land in Arundel.299

    Children of Ebenezer3 and Elizabeth (—) Downes:
    1. Ebenezer Downs,300 m. Jane Walton.301
    2. Nathaniel Downes, m. prob. Berwick, bef. 2 March 1756, Susanna —.302
    3. Lois Downes, m. abt. 1749, Mathurin Ricker.303
    4. Ephraim Downes.

    298 Lord, Descendants of Nathan Lord, 62.
    299 “Thomas Downes of Dover, N.H., and His Descendants, NHGR 6(1909):148.
    300 In 1746 his father deeded him half his homestead (Gen. Dict. Maine & N.H., 203).
    301 In 1777 Ebenezer Downes, with wife Jane, both of a place called Number 4, Lincoln Co., conveyed land at Newington to John Walton, father of Jane (“Thomas Downes of Dover, N.H., and His Descendants,” NHGR 6(1909):149.
    302 Nathaniel and Susanna Downs baptized sons Nathaniel and Ichabod, 2 March 1756
    (Anderson, Berwick Church Records, 212).
    303 N.H. Province Deeds, 44:410

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