Ebenezer Hitchcock
Capt. Ebenezer Hitchcock of Springfield, Massachusetts, a soldier in the French wars, commissioned lieutenant at Louisburg in 1745 and selectman of Springfield in 1747. Born there in 1694, probably a son of Capt. Luke Hitchcock, he married in 1716 Mary Sheldon, mother of his fourteen children, and after her death the widow Mary Morgan. Father of Anna (Hitchcock) Chapin and of Rev. Gad Hitchcock; he died in 1776.
Life
- 1694BornAug 1694, Springfield, Massachusetts
The Hitchcock genealogy lists him as "b. Aug. 20, 1694" and describes him as born "Aug. 24, 1694, at Springfield"; WikiTree has 9 Aug 1694.
- 1716
- 1776Died18 Jan 1776
"The Rev. Gad Hitchcock records 'My Hond. Father died Jan. 18, 1776.'" WikiTree places his death at Springfield.
Family
- Father
- Luke Hitchcock
Capt. Luke Hitchcock of Springfield (1655-1727, WikiTree), son of Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield and Elizabeth Gibbons. Not researched further.
compiledprobableSources
- Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Who Are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn. (Amherst, 1894)
- WikiTree profiles: the Chapin, Munn, Hitchcock, Sheldon, Whiting, Pynchon, Cummings, Kendall and Converse ancestors of Ella (Chapin) Browne
- Mother
- Sarah Dorchester
The Hitchcock genealogy has "Capt. Luke and Sarah (Dorchester) Hitchcock"; WikiTree has Sarah Burt (1656-1746), daughter of Jonathan Burt. Not researched further.
- Spouse 1
1 child
- Spouse 2
- Mary Morgan
"the Widow Mary Morgan of Brimfield, Mass., who outlived him. She died April 25, 1785." Married after Mary Sheldon's death in 1760.
Pedigree
Notes
Father of Anna (Hitchcock) Chapin. A son of Capt. Luke Hitchcock of Springfield, he “was a soldier in the French wars and was in the Louisburg expedition in Col. Dwight’s regiment. He received his commission as lieutenant from Governor Shirley at ‘Louisburg, June 28, 1745, just after the fall of that famous fortress.’ In 1747 he was selectman of Springfield” (source). His grandmother was the sister of William Gibbons, the steward Gov. George Wyllys sent ahead to Hartford to build his house, and his wife was the governor’s great-great-granddaughter.
He married Mary Sheldon on 14 Feb 1716, “who was the mother of his fourteen children,” from Anna (b. 9 July 1717) to Daniel (b. 1739/40); among them was the Rev. Gad Hitchcock (b. 1718/9), who kept the family record of his parents’ deaths. Through Mary came money from the Pynchons: “Ebenezer Hitchcock received from the Pynchon estate three hundred and seventy-nine pounds, being the rest of his wife’s fortune from that source” (the genealogy dates this 1785, after his death). After Mary died in 1760 he married the widow Mary Morgan of Brimfield.
His will gave his wife £6; Gad £3; Ebenezer five shillings; “to his daughter Ann wife of Jonathan Chapin, Mary, wife of Hezekiah Warriner and Silence, wife of Samuel Bliss, £10 each”; Sarah £14; the four children of his late daughter Dinah Sykes fifty shillings each; land in Springfield to Abner, Joseph and Seth; and the rest to Phineas and Stephen, “they not having already received their portion.” Gad recorded: “My Hond. Father died Jan. 18, 1776.”
Research: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.