Person:Ebenezer Hayden (4)

Waterfield incorrectly gives Ebenezer's birth date as 7 December 1645; all other sources say 12 September 1645, which agrees with the date on his gravestone.

    He resided in Milton, Boston, and Braintree.  Ebenezer Hayden was admitted freeman May 15,1690. He was a staymaker as land records show, a slaymaker as the division of estate gives it.
    In December 1675 Ebenezer served in King Philip's war with his brother Samuel, with Suffolk troops.  Freeman 1690.
    William, Anna & Ruth, children of Ebenezer & Hannah Hayden bapt. Nov.3,1689 at Old South Ch., Boston.
    He is buried in Hancock Cemetery, Quincy.  The gravestone reads: Here lyes ye Body of / Mr Ebenezer HAYDEN, / aged 73, Years, Died Feb ye 13, 1717. 
    On 7 April 1718, Anna Hayden of Braintree and William Hayden of Boston administrators of Ebenezer Hayden late of Milton.  He owned a house & land at Boston, at S. end fronting on Long Lane westerly & 2 1/2a. salt in Braintree.  Samuel Bass was appointed guardian to his daughter Ann, aged 7, who was to receive a legacy from her grandfather Ebenezer Hayden.
    Division of the estate was made 6 October 1720 to widow Anna; only son William; only surviving daughter Anna; daughter Ruth Bass, deceased, and her daughter Ann Bass, the front end of dwelling house in Boston; William to have rear end. Widow to have 1/3 of all income from real estate & 1/3 of personal estate.
    On 16 December 1745, William Hayden of Braintree, weaver, & Joseph Hayden of Boston, house carpenter, to Josiah Torrey of Boston, quit claim to all our right in front end of house, and land in Long Lane, one half late estate of Anna Hayden, spinster, deceased, & all our right that was assigned to William Hayden in the land adjoining.

1. ↑ Marjorie Waterfield. Hayden Family Group Sheets 1630-1900. Descendants of John Hayden who arrives on the ship 'John and Mary' in 1630. (1987)
   p. 1.
2. ↑ James Savage. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. (Originally published 1860-1862. Reprint published Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994)
   2:386-387.
3. ↑ Hayden Family
   5:1:16 (1922); 1:1:8-9 (Jan 1929).
4. ↑ Ruth Hayden Freeman. My Branch of the Descendants of John Hayden of Braintree and Quincy Massachusetts. (Middlebury VT: 1984)
   p. 1.
5. ↑ Waldo Chamberlain Sprague. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA 1640-1850. (Frank E. Dyer)
   pp. 2210-2212.