Ebenezer Rhodes

Brief Life History of Ebenezer

Revolutionary War veteran. Service: New Hampshire Rank: Patriotic Service

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Family Time Line

Ebenezer Rhodes
1745–1825
Sarah Page
1745–1821
Marriage: 12 March 1767
Ebenezer Rhoades II
1768–1830
Sarah Rhoads
1770–1776
Deliverance or Delia Rhodes
1772–1856
Thomas Rhoads
1773–1790
Lois Rhodes
1775–1856
Sally Rhodes
1776–1777
Eben Rhoads
1778–1778
Anna Rhodes
1779–1844
Libbeus Rhoads
1781–1864
Silas Rhodes
1782–1859
Stephen Rhoads
1784–1846
Justus Addison Rhoads
1787–1828
Cloa or Chloe Rhodes
1790–1862

Sources (38)

  • Ebenr Rodes, "United States Census, 1800"
  • Ebenezer Roads Or Roades, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
  • Ebenezer Rhodes, "New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947"

World Events (6)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776

New Hampshire is 9th state.

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

Name Meaning

English:

either a topographic name for someone who lived by ‘(the) woodland clearings’, plural form of Middle English rode (Old English rod, rodu), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place so named, principally Rhodes in Bury (Lancashire) or possibly from one of the many minor places in Yorkshire similarly named, or Rhodes Minnis (Kent). The Yorkshire name sometimes alternates with the singular form (see Rhode and Rode ). The Rh- spelling was introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries by clerks with a classical education, who associated the name with the Greek island of Rhodes, famous in ancient history and mythology. There is also no connection with modern English road (Old English rād ‘riding’), which was not used to denote a thoroughfare until the 16th century. The surname is particularly common in Yorkshire and Lancashire but occurs with various spellings in smaller numbers widely across England.

variant of Rhode , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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