
THIS FILE IS FOR GENEALOGICAL PURPOSES ONLY
- BIRTH:
- DEATH: JUN 1757, Matinicus Island, Knox Co., ME
Family 1:
Mary BROOM
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INDEX
Notes
[NI0722]
Updated April 2, 2000. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com)
from the following source(s):
(1) Listed in Daughters of the American Revolution membership record
157305 (issued 1920).
(2) "New England Captives Carried to Canada; Between 1677 and 1760 During
the French and Indian Wars" by Emma Lewis Coleman, originally printed
1925, reprinted 1989 by Heritage Books, Inc. Vol. II, pg. 278-281.
Ebenezer and his family inhabited Matinicus Island (now part of Maine),
which belonged by treaty to the Penobscot Indians. He ignoring repeated
warnings both by the Penobscots and Massachusetts government to
relinquish control. In June 1757, the Indians attacked the home and
killed Ebenezer after a ten-day siege. His wife Mary and their four
children were carried away from the island.
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