Brief Life History of Ebenezer
When Ebenezer Hale was born on 11 November 1758, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Ebenezer Hale, was 37 and his mother, Mary Turner, was 29. He married Miram Elizabeth Bunnell on 16 May 1781, in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1778. He died on 26 July 1805, in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Cheshire Village, Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Ebenezer Hale, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Ebenezer Hale, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Ebenezer Hale, "United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · British Forces Capture Fort Griswold
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. See Haugh . In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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