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)

Read in the archive.org full text for the Hatten research (research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md, October 2026).

• Ebenezer, son of Capt. Luke and Sarah (Dorchester) Hitchcock, is listed as “b. Aug. 20, 1694” (p. 409) and described as born “Aug. 24, 1694, at Springfield” (p. 410): “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. He married Feb. 14, 1716, Mary Sheldon who was the mother of his fourteen children.”
• Of Mary: “A record in the handwriting of her son, the Rev. Gad Hitchcock, reads ‘My Hond. Mother, Mary Hitchcock, died at Springfield, January ye 8th, 1760.’ She was the daughter of Joseph Sheldon of Sheffield [Suffield], who was a representative to the general court in 1708, and a direct descendant of Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon of Canterbury, England [unsupported; not used]. The mother of Mary Sheldon was Mary, daughter of Capt. Joseph Whiting, treasurer of Connecticut for thirty-nine years, having succeeded his father, William Whiting, who had held the office for thirty-seven years … The wife of Joseph Whiting was Mary, daughter of the Hon. John Pynchon of Springfield. In 1785 [sic], 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 wife of John Pynchon of Springfield, Mass., was Amy, daughter of George Wyllys, the second governor of Connecticut, a man of wealth and a Puritan of the Puritans. In 1638, he sent his steward, William Gibbons with twenty men to prepare a home for him and a year later took possession of the Wyllys estate in Hartford on which stood the tree to become the famous Charter Oak of a later generation. The sister of William Gibbons married Luke Hitchcock, the ancestor of Ebenezer Hitchcock” (p. 411).
• “Ebenezer Hitchcock married for his second wife, the Widow Mary Morgan of Brimfield, Mass., who outlived him. She died April 25, 1785. The Rev. Gad Hitchcock records ‘My Hond. Father died Jan. 18, 1776.’” His will left £10 “to his daughter Ann wife of Jonathan Chapin” (p. 411).
• Children (pp. 411-412): “Anna, b. July 9, 1717; m. Dec. 10, 1736, Jonathan Chapin of the Elbows,” then Gad (1718/9), Ebenezer, Abner, Mary, Dinah, Silence, Joseph, William, Sarah, Seth, Phineas, Stephen and Daniel.

This corrects The Chapin Book, which calls Anna “dau. Ebenezer & Mary (Morgan) Hitchcock”: Mary Morgan was her stepmother.