Individual Details
Ebenezer Wyeth III
(17 Dec 1752 - 30 Dec 1836)
Burdened by increasing taxes and diminishing liberties, Ebenezer Wyeth III and two of his brothers, Jonas and Joshua, joined Colonel Henry Knox's Artillery Regiment of the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Army in Dec 1775. After their ranks suffered crushing defeats in New York state and lost New York City to British troops, American soldiers deserted by the thousands. With more due to leave 31 Dec 1776, when their enlistments ended, General George Washington was keenly aware that without an army the American Revolution would come to a humiliatingly abrupt end.
Of the period, political activist Thomas Paine wrote, "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
The three brothers did not shrink from the service of their country. Ebenezer III, Jonas and Joshua's pension applications show each one of them continued to work to expel British tyranny from the American Colonies long after their Continental Army contracts expired at the end of 1776.
In choosing to serve America, Ebenezer III, Jonas and Joshua followed the lead of their father, Ebenezer Wyeth Jr. Ebenezer Jr., his son Jonas, and several other members of his family were Cambridge, MA minutemen who fought in the first battle of the American Revolution on 19 Apr 1775. They were willing to risk everything for an abstract ideal called democracy.
Ebenezer married Elizabeth Winship Green of Norwich, New London, Connecticut in Cambridge, Mass. in May 1777 (intention published 03 May 1777). After her death in 1799, Ebenezer married Naomi (Russell) Cook in Mar 1800 in Cambridge (Intention published 01 Mar 1800).
Source: Christina Wyeth Baker, The Wyeth and Wythe Families of America (Berwyn Heights, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2019), wyeth-wythe.blogspot.com
Burial Source: Gravestone Records from the Old Yard Ashby, MA, copied and arranged 1937, Deposited by Richard Jaquith Fowle, Thetford, Vermont.
Source: Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Compiled by Thomas W. Baldwin, NEHGS, Boston, 1914.
Of the period, political activist Thomas Paine wrote, "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
The three brothers did not shrink from the service of their country. Ebenezer III, Jonas and Joshua's pension applications show each one of them continued to work to expel British tyranny from the American Colonies long after their Continental Army contracts expired at the end of 1776.
In choosing to serve America, Ebenezer III, Jonas and Joshua followed the lead of their father, Ebenezer Wyeth Jr. Ebenezer Jr., his son Jonas, and several other members of his family were Cambridge, MA minutemen who fought in the first battle of the American Revolution on 19 Apr 1775. They were willing to risk everything for an abstract ideal called democracy.
Ebenezer married Elizabeth Winship Green of Norwich, New London, Connecticut in Cambridge, Mass. in May 1777 (intention published 03 May 1777). After her death in 1799, Ebenezer married Naomi (Russell) Cook in Mar 1800 in Cambridge (Intention published 01 Mar 1800).
Source: Christina Wyeth Baker, The Wyeth and Wythe Families of America (Berwyn Heights, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2019), wyeth-wythe.blogspot.com
Burial Source: Gravestone Records from the Old Yard Ashby, MA, copied and arranged 1937, Deposited by Richard Jaquith Fowle, Thetford, Vermont.
Source: Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Compiled by Thomas W. Baldwin, NEHGS, Boston, 1914.
Events
| Birth | 17 Dec 1752 | Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 1 Mar 1800 | Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts - Naomi Russell |  |  | |
| Death | 30 Dec 1836 | Ashby, Middlesex County, Massachusetts | |||
| Burial | Ashby First Parish Burial Ground, Middlesex County, Massachusetts | | |
Families
| Spouse | Naomi Russell (1761 - 1842) |
Notes
Marriage
Cambridge intentions: COOK, Naomi and Ebenezer Wyeth, int. Mar. 1, 1800.Naomi Cook
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 1 March 1800
Event Place Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Ebenezer Wyeth
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 1 March 1800
Event Place Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Burial
Inscription:Mr. Ebenezer Wyeth, died Dec. 30, 1836, age 85, Patriot Soldier, Rest in Peace, Here thy toils and battles cease, Farewell sorrow pain & care, Burdens weary, age must bare.
(His mother was Mary Winship and his father Ebenezer Wyeth, Jr., he was married to Elizabeth Winship Green and Naomi Russell)
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