[S1694] Francis Bacon Trowbridge, compiler, The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America (New Haven: privately printed, 1908), p. 133. Capt. Ebenezer Trowbridge (Ebenezer, Thomas, William, Thomas), born February 26, 1728-9, in West Haven, Conn.; died — 1767 in West Haven; married, 17 — , in West Haven, Esther Catlin, daughter of John and Jemima (Allen) Catlin, born May 24, 1733, in Deerfield, Mass.; died — 17 — , in West Haven. He is supposed to have married, second, in West Haven, Obedience Beecher, daughter of Stephen and Susannah (Hale) Beecher, born January 27, 1723-4, in West Haven; died January —, 1807, in West Haven.
Ebenezer Trowbridge was a sea captain, and died, perhaps, while making one of his voyages. His home was in his native place, the parish of West Haven, Conn. In his inventory there is mentioned his interest in the sloop Trojan.
Footnotes: "Administration on his estate was granted to his brother-in-law Levi Clinton Sept. 1. 1767." Poss. died at sea. Second marr. "prior to Aug, 17. 1762. There seems to have been no other Trowbridge in West Haven (of suitable age) who could have been the husband of Mrs. Obedience Trowbridge, as she is known in deeds and at her death."