Person:Ebenezer Emerson (3)

Watchers
m. 7 Dec 1665
  1. Lucian Emerson1667 - 1739/40
  2. Edward Emerson1670 - 1743
  3. Peter EmersonAbt 1673 - 1751
  4. Ebenezer EmersonAbt 1677 - 1751
  • HEbenezer EmersonAbt 1677 - 1751
  • W.  Susanna (add)
m. Bef 1705
  1. Nathaniel Emerson1704/05 - 1777
m. 27 May 1707
  1. Bethiah Emerson1709 -
  2. Susanna Emerson1713 - 1792
  • HEbenezer EmersonAbt 1677 - 1751
  • WMary Boutwell1685 - 1737
m. 26 Mar 1717
  1. Ebenezer Emerson1717/18 -
  2. James Emerson1719/20 -
  3. Joseph Emerson1721 -
  4. Thomas Emerson1724 -
  • HEbenezer EmersonAbt 1677 - 1751
  • W.  Mary (add)
m. Aft 1737
Facts and Events
Name[3][5] Ebenezer Emerson
Gender Male
Birth[5] Abt 1677 Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1705 Based on birth of eldest known child
to Susanna (add)
Marriage 27 May 1707 Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Bethiah Parker
Marriage 26 Mar 1717 Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Boutwell
Marriage Aft 1737 to Mary (add)
Death[1][4] 1751 Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Cutter, William Richard (ed.). Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (New York, New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1908)
    4:1539.

    Ebenezer Emerson, s/o Rev. Joseph Emerson, b. Mendon, d. 1751, M. (1) 1704 Bethia Parker [see discussion on the page for his son Person:Nathaniel Emerson (6) about issues with the marriage date], m. (2) 1716 Mary Boutwell. "It is said that he had two more wives, but the record has not been found."
    [Note: There is evidence for 4 wives: besides the two named in explicit marriage records, a first wife is named in birth record of son Nathaniel, last wife is named in his will.]

  2.   Worcester Society of Antiquity (Massachusetts). Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Photocopied by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985-1986)
    13:234.

    Ebenezer Emerson of Reading might have been son of the Mendon minister, based on his widow remarrying and relocating there after the minister's death.
    [Note: he was, see deed cited below.]

  3. Suffolk County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Records of deeds, 1639-1885; indexes to deeds, 1639-1920. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969)
    Vol. 24, p. 171 reverse.

    10 Sep 1708: Peter Emerson and Ebenezer Emerson both of Reading yeomen for £26 convey to Josiah Thayer in Mendon two seventh parts of the rights of our Rever'd father Mr Joseph Emerson late of Mendon deced. Signed by Peter Emerson, Ebenezer Emerson, Anna Emerson and Bethyah E. Emerson.

  4. Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. (American Ancestors, 2014)
    Case 6947 Ebenezer Emerson 1751.

    Will of "Ebenezer Emerson of Reading ... Begin weak in Body", dated 14 Sep 1751, proved 4 Nov 1751, names wife Mary; son Nathaniel Emerson; son Ebenezer Emerson; son James Emerson; son Joseph Emerson; son Thomas Emerson; daughter Bethiah Parker; daughter Susanna Burnap. Son Ebenezer to be executor.
    Undated: Assent of heirs to proving of will: Nathanael Emerson, James Emerson, Joseph Emerson, Thomas Emerson, Isaac Burnap and widow Mary Emerson.

  5. 5.0 5.1 Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley--Being an Account of His Career, His Ancestry, the Ancestry of His Two Wives, and His Relatives in England and New England, together with a Genealogy of His Descendants through the Seventh American Generation. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1933)
    p. 128, 147.

    Ebenezer Emerson [#46], s/o Rev. Joseph Emerson and Elizabeth Bulkeley [#15], b. "(Mendon, Mass.?)" about 1677, d. Reading Oct 1751, m. (1) 1703 Susannah ---, m. (2) Reading 27 May 1707 Bethia Parker, m. (3) Reading 26 Mar 1717 Mary Boutwell.
    [Note: no fourth wife named, nor any mention of her presence in the will, but it is stated that third wife d. 1737, which implies there was one.]