Ebenezer Battle
Captain Ebenezer Battle, also known as Ebenezer Battelle, represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.[1] He was a childhood friend of Fisher Ames[2] and also a Dedham selectman in 1779.[3]
Battle marched towards Boston "upon the alarm of the Bunker Hill fight"[2] and fought the retreating British soldiers following the battles of Lexington and Concord.[4] One of his men, Elias Haven, died at Menotomy[4] in the vicinity of the Jason Russell House. After the fighting ended, his men walked the entire length of the battlefield, collecting weapons and burying the dead.[4]
He had one son, Ebenezer Battelle.[5] He was described as "one of the industrious honest yeomanry of the good old bay state who duly appreciated the value of learning."[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Worthington 1827, pp. 106–107.
- 1 2 Knudsen 2025, p. 45.
- ↑ Worthington 1827, pp. 79–81.
- 1 2 3 Hanson 1976, p. 154.
- 1 2 Hildreth, Samuel Prescott (1852). Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio: With Narratives of Incidents and Occurrences in 1775. H. W. Derby. pp. 349–353. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
Works cited
[edit]- Hanson, Robert Brand (1976). Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1890. Dedham Historical Society.
- Knudsen, Harold M. (2025). Fisher Ames, Christian Founding Father & Federalist. Liberty Hill Publishing.
- Worthington, Erastus (1827). The History of Dedham: From the Beginning of Its Settlement, in September 1635, to May 1827. Dutton and Wentworth. p. 1. Retrieved August 25, 2019.