Person:Ebenezer Warner (5)

The Descendants of Andrew Warner Compiled by Lucien C. Warner, M.D., LL.D/ Mrs. Josephine Genung Nichols The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Co. New Haven, Conn. 1919 Page 66 EBENEZER WARNER, son of Lieut. Daniel and Martha (Boltwood) Warner, born November 5, 1681, in Hatfield, Mass.; died August 25, 1749. He removed from Hatfield to Belchertown probably among the early settlers of that place and was on a list of valuations there as early as 1743, with lands valued at L30, housing, L4, and personal estate, L12, s15. The territory now known as Belchertown was first called "Equivalent lands," because of their having been given by Massachusetts to Connecticut in exchange for Suffield and Enfield, which had been at first controlled by Connecticut. At that time these "Equivalent Lands" were not settled. They were later, in 1727, sold in six divisions to parties from Boston, who induced three families from Northampton and two from Hatfield to locate there in 1731. The settlement was called Cold Spring until 1761 when the name was changed to Belchertown in honor of one of the Boston owners. Ebenezer Warner married (1) December 15, 1709, Ruth Ely, born in Springfield, Mass., about 1688, died in Belchertown, Mass., about 1747. She was the youngest of the sixteen children of Samuel and Mary (Day) Ely and was a granddaughter of Nathaniel Ely and Robert Day, the emigrants. Ebenezer Warner of Cold Spring married (2) July 5, 1748, Mrs. Mary Bellows of Hadley (Descendants of Nathaniel Ely, p. 14), or Sarah Bellows (Hadley Town records).