Ebenezer Warner1

#12531, (25 February 1676 - )
Father*Isaac Warner1 (c 1644 - )
Mother*Sarah Boltwood1 (s 1647 - 1726)

Family

Waitstill Smead b. 1679/80, d. c 1703/4
Children 1.Sarah Warner9 (1699 - c 1703/4)
 2.Waitstill Warner9 (1701 - c 1703/4)
Birth*25 February 1676He was born on 25 February 1676 at Hadley, Massachusetts; (prob.)2 
Marriage5 January 1698/99He married Waitstill Smead, daughter of William Smead Jr and Elizabeth Lawrence, on 5 January 1698/99 at Deerfield, Massachusetts.3 
29 February 1703/4He was captured in the Deerfield Raid and Massacre on 29 February 1703/4 at Massachusetts; Deerfield French and Indian raid.4,5,6,7 
May 1743Ebenezer Warner's deposition on the Deerfield Massacre presented in Court in May 1743 at MassachusettsG.8 

Citations

  1. [S1157] Lucien C. Warner and Josephine Genung Nichols, compilers, The Descendants of Andrew Warner (New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1919), 47, noting that the first four births were recorded in Hadley, others not stated; no birth year for Lydia, Thankful and Mehitabel.
  2. [S1157] Lucien C. Warner and Josephine Genung Nichols, Descendants of Andrew Warner, 47, noting that the first four births were recorded in Hadley, others not stated; no birth year for Lydia, Thankful and Mehitabel; 79, giving Hadley as probable birth place.
  3. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Deerfield Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1920), p. 230.
  4. [S1512] John Williams, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (Boston: Samuel Hall, 1795). Reprinted Springfield, Mass.: H. R. Huntting Co., 1908, pp. 171-172. Hereinafter cited as Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion.
  5. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (Greenfield, Mass.: E.A. Hall and Co., 1895), 308, 309. Has Henry Nims as age 12. He was 22.
  6. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, p. 304-05.
  7. [S1230] Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760. Two volumes (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925).
  8. [S1157] Lucien C. Warner and Josephine Genung Nichols, Descendants of Andrew Warner, 80, without additional source: "A petition to the General Court, under date of May, 1743, regarding John Smead, contains the following deposition by Ebenezer Warner:
    " 'I was in Dearfield Meadow fight . . . and I see the said Smead kill an indian, & some of the souldiers tock off this Indians scalp & secured it, & I see the said John Smead shoot at another Indian, which he gave a mortal wound & ye Indian died in a short time at the place where he received ye wound or very near the place.
    (Signed) Ebenezer Warner' (Mass. Archives.).' "
  9. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, p. 132.