Ebenezer HALL

Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Family 1: Mary BROOM 

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Notes

Updated October 26, 2021. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records via Ancestry.com

- Name: Ebenezer HALL
- Birth: 7 Sep 1708
- Location: Taunton, Massachusetts

(2) Find a Grave

- Name: Ebenezer W HALL
- Birth: 1708; Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
- Death: 10 Jun 1757 (aged 48–49); Matinicus, Knox County, Maine, USA
- Burial: Non-Cemetery Burial, Specifically: Buried on Matinicus Island, location no longer known
- Memorial ID: 48423866

(3) Wikipedia - Matinicus Isle, Maine

"In 1750, Ebenezer HALL became the island's first permanent settler. Accompanied by his family, he built a house, commenced fishing and farming, and claimed territorial rights to the island. He burned the grass on nearby Green Island to produce hay for his livestock, infuriating the Penobscot tribe, who still used the islands for fishing and sealing. Twice the tribe wrote letters to Royal authorities in Boston, complaining about HALL. In the second, delivered for forwarding on April 25, 1753, to Fort Richmond, they warned, 'if you don't remove him in two months, we shall be obliged to do it ourselves.' Though HALL was ordered to leave Matinicus, he continued his residence there, and the Penobscots waited not two months but a little over four years before taking action. After a multiple day siege on his house, they killed and scalped HALL on June 10, 1757."

(4) "New England Captives Carried to Canada; Between 1677 and 1760 During the French and Indian Wars" by Emma Lewis Coleman, originally printed 1925, reprinted 1989 by Heritage Books, Inc. Vol. II, pg. 278-281.

Ebenezer and his family inhabited Matinicus Island (now part of Maine), which belonged by treaty to the Penobscot Indians. He ignoring repeated warnings both by the Penobscots and Massachusetts government to relinquish control. In June 1757, the Indians attacked the home and killed Ebenezer after a ten-day siege. His wife Mary and their four children were carried away from the island.

(5) Listed in Daughters of the American Revolution membership record 157305 (issued 1920).