Brief Life History of Ebenezer
When Capt Ebenezer Kellogg was born on 31 May 1695, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Nathaniel Kellogg, was 25 and his mother, Sarah Boltwood, was 22. He married Elizabeth Ingram on 13 December 1716, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 17 August 1766, in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Ebinezer Kellogg, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Ebenezer Kellogg, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Ebenezer Kellogg, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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English (London): nickname for a pig-slaughterer, from Middle English kille + hog(ge).
History: Daniel Kellogg (1630–88), from Great Leighs, Essex, England, settled in Norwalk, CT, in 1656. His son, Edward (1790–1858), was a financial reformer and the intellectual father of Greenbackism (a movement favoring promotion of economic growth by increasing the paper money supply, regardless of the inflationary side effects).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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