"124. Ebenezer Frisbee4 (Ebenezer3 Benoni2, Edward1), son of Ebenezer (24) and Hannah (Page) Frisbie, born in Branford, Ct., April 14, 1705 [1704], moved to Sharon, Ct., in 1739, died in Sharon, Oct. 20, 1793. …
Ebenezer Frisbee 'was from Branford, Ct. … He came to Sharon with the first settlers, and being a surveyor, he was much employed in laying out lands in the early location of the township. He was town clerk from December, 1743 to January, 1746, and one of the deacons of the Congregational Church nearly the whole time of his residence in the town. … He died October 20, 1793, aged eighty-nine. He was buried in the Ellsworth graveyard.'—Charles Frederick Sedgwick, History of Sharon, Ct., 1842.
About 1736, the northwestern part ot Connecticut, till then unsettled, was divided into townships and sold at auction. From 1738 to 1740 settlements were made in all these towns, the land surveyed, and shares allotted to the purchasers or to their assignees. Ebenezer Frisbee appears to have been among the earliest settlers, and to have been a leading man in the affairs of the town. In the records of 1741 he is one of the commissioners who allotted the lands; his name, with others, being signed to the allotment of each of the settlers. He remained in Sharon till his death, October 20, 1793. He made no will, but gave the lands he had remaining, February 3 1776, to his son Hezekiah, to whom the deed says he had already given the same. The record of his family is found in Sharon, including the births of children in Branford.—Farman, 1892."
