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Ebenezer Wadsworth

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Ebenezer Wadsworth

Birth
Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
1 Aug 1717 (aged 57)
Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Parents: Samuel Wadsworth & Abigail Lindall
Wife: Mary [last name unknown]

Ebenezer Wadsworth spent his entire life at Milton. He was 16 years of age at the time his father was killed at Sudbury. Of the day Ebenezer died, there is an entry in the diary of the Rev. William Holmes of Chilmark, "I am informed that July 31, one Deacon Wadsworth of Milton, brother of Revd Ben Wadsworth, Pastor of the Old Church in Boston, went out that morning with a design to rake together some hay, and that some time after he was found lying upon his back with the rake across his breast, stone dead. This man was esteemed truly pious."

Parents: Samuel Wadsworth & Abigail Lindall
Wife: Mary [last name unknown]

Ebenezer Wadsworth spent his entire life at Milton. He was 16 years of age at the time his father was killed at Sudbury. Of the day Ebenezer died, there is an entry in the diary of the Rev. William Holmes of Chilmark, "I am informed that July 31, one Deacon Wadsworth of Milton, brother of Revd Ben Wadsworth, Pastor of the Old Church in Boston, went out that morning with a design to rake together some hay, and that some time after he was found lying upon his back with the rake across his breast, stone dead. This man was esteemed truly pious."



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