Ebenezer Battle

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Captain Ebenezer Battle, also known as Ebenezer Battelle, represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. [1] He was a childhood friend of Fisher Ames [2] and also a Dedham selectman in 1779. [3]

Battle marched towards Boston "upon the alarm of the Bunker Hill fight" [2] and fought the retreating British soldiers following the battles of Lexington and Concord. [4] One of his men, Elias Haven, died at Menotomy [4] in the vicinity of the Jason Russell House. After the fighting ended, his men walked the entire length of the battlefield, collecting weapons and burying the dead. [4]

He had one son, Ebenezer Battelle. [5] He was described as "one of the industrious honest yeomanry of the good old bay state who duly appreciated the value of learning." [5]

References

  1. Worthington 1827, pp. 106–107.
  2. 1 2 Knudsen 2025, p. 45.
  3. Worthington 1827, pp. 79–81.
  4. 1 2 3 Hanson 1976, p. 154.
  5. 1 2 Hildreth, Samuel Prescott (1852). Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio: With Narratives of Incidents and Occurrences in 1775. H. W. Derby. pp. 349–353. Retrieved April 26, 2021.

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