Individual Details
Ebenezer Davis
(1754 - 17 Nov 1799)
Events
Families
Spouse | Mehitable Griffin (1767 - 1823) |
Child | Charles Stewart Davis (1788 - 1865) |
Spouse | Priscilla Griffin (1764 - 1786) |
Notes
Military
His service on page 482 – serves 8 years – goes from private to lieutenanthttps://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62337/images/7726-volume4-0483?treeid=&personid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=NCN24095&_phstart=successSource&pId=124649
Letter from Ebenezer to George Washington
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-07-02-0244
Ebenezer Davis served from Bradford, Massachusetts for eight years during the Revolution. He was a private in the Minute Men company of Capt. Nathaniel Gage, Col. James Frye’s regiment that marched at the alarm on 19 April 1775 with service of seven days. He was enrolled in the same company through 1775 and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was Sergeant in the company of Capt. Samuel Carr, Col. James Wesson’s regiment in 1777 and was promoted to Ensign 2 March 1779. Ebenezer continued in Col. Wesson’s regiment through the end of 1780. In 1782, he was later in the 3rd regiment of Lieut. Col. William Hull. Ebenezer received commission as Lieutenant on 17 June 1782.1
Following the war, Ebenezer settled in Portland, Maine and was an officer in the militia. Ebenezer wrote the following letter to President George Washington on 23 February 1791 from Portland, District of Maine. “Sir, Will you permit me for one moment to request your notice of my desire to serve in the District of Maine as Inspector of the Militia should such an Officer be appointed. It will perhaps be in vain to attempt to make myself known to the President of the United States but I had the honor of serving under your Command during the whole of the Late War and more then once had the happiness of meeting with your approbation. In special by the notice you was pleased to take of my Conduct at Delaney’s Bridge in January 1781. soon after I was Detached with a Corps of Light Infantry Commanded by the Marquis De la Fayette into Virginia But I cannot flatter myself that such minutia can still occupy a place in your memory. I have but to say I served with pleasure till the army was disbanded and still love the profession of Arms. Permit me with Sincere affection and the greatest respect to Subscribe your most obedient & very humble Servant – Ebenezer Davis.”2
1 Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Volume 4, p 482
2 “To George Washington from Ebenezer Davis, 23 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-07-02-0244. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 7, 1 December 1790 – 21 March 1791, ed. Jack D. Warren, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 421.]
Biography
One mention of Ebenezer Davishttps://archive.org/details/journalsofrevtho00lcsmit/page/366/mode/2up?q=%22ebenezer+davis%22
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013).
2. Ancestry.com, Maine, U.S., Marriage Records, 1713-1922 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll Number: 27.
3. Ancestry.com, Maine, U.S., Marriage Index, 1670-1921 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016).
4. Ancestry.com, 1790 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; First Census of the United States, 1790.; Year: 1790; Census Place: Portland, Cumberland, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 203; Family History Library Film: 0568142.
5. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013).
6. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2021), Wright & Potter Printing Co.; Boston, MA, USA; Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War; Volume: Volume 04.