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1734 August 8 Ebenezer Chubbuck was born in Wareham, Massachusetts to parents Nathaniel and Tabitha Chubbuck. [1] [2]

1754 The intention to marry of "Ebenezer Chubbuck and Mary Burge," both of Wareham, was recorded on 9 November 1754 by town clerk John Bishop [3] who also recorded the marriage on 12 December 1754 of "Ebenezer Chubbuck and Mercy Burg," both of Wareham, by the Rev. R. Thatcher. [4]

1758 "Ebenezer Chubbuck was admitted Feby. 12, 1758" to the church of Wareham, Massachusetts. [5]

1772 "Ebenezer Chubbuck (Wareham Mariner) attached Thomas Gwinn (Sherborn, Nantucket County, Blacksmith). Case, on note dated 18 December 1772 for £6.18s.8d. with interest. Default by deft. Judgement for £7.7s and £2.5s. costs." [6]

1774 "Samuel Burges (Middleborough Husbandman), 'by his Attorney,' attached Ebenezer Chubbuck, Gent. ('late of Wareham'). Continued from October court. Trespass on the Case, on account dated 5 February 1774 for £15.4s.11d., to pltf.'s damage of £20. Default by deft. Judgement for £14.4s.11d. and £2.15s.7d. costs." [7]

1775 Ebenezer Chubbuck, 2nd Lieutenant of Wareham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, marched April 19 and served for 4 days in the company of Israel Fearing in the Massachusetts Militia. [8] [9]

1779 "Ebenezer Chubbuck dismissed to the chh. in East Windsor ... Nov. 13, 1779" from the church of Wareham, Massachusetts. [10]

1790 U.S. Census,Ellington, Tolland, Connecticut. Eben Chubbuck, 2 free white males over age 16, 3 free white females. [11]

1800 U.S. Census, Ellington, Tolland, Connecticut. Ebenezer Chubbuck, age 45 and over, lived with one female, age 45 and over, and one female, age 16-25. [12]

1810 Ebenezer Chubbuck (age 45+) lived in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut with one male age 0-10, one female age 26-45, and five younger females. [13]

Research Notes:

"The family is of English descent, one branch, represented by Nathaniel, settling in Wareham, Mass., and another brother, Charles, settling farther north, whose descendants are among the citizens of Canada and northern New York. … Ebenezer, a son of the first Nathaniel, who located in Massachussetts, was the father of the Nathaniel who came to Orwell in 1818. Ebenezer was in the French war, and fought under the British flag. He was also a lieutenant in the Revolutionary war. He was for some years after the Revolution a sea-captain, and on quitting that business bought a farm in the east part of the town of Ellington, Conn., where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1810 or 1811, at the age of seventy three years, his demise being sudden and without premonition. His first wife was named Burgess, who bore two sons—Ebenezer and Nathaniel—and four daughters, all born in Wareham. His second wife was Tabitha Fowler whose feats of strength and exploits are commemorated in the British Museum, where the identical pine-knot with which one of them killed the bear, and the skin of the immense animal, are preserved and exhibited. Nathaniel was born Oct. 16, 1764, and died March 13, 1825. His wife Chloe Eaton, was born March 14, 1768, and died Oct. 11, 1832. They were married Nov. 27, 1788. They had twelve children,—ten sons and two daughters. … Ebenezer Chubbuck, a brother of Nathaniel, came to Orwell about the same time as Nathaniel … He died about 1841, and his wife, Lucina Craw, survived him some three years, both living to a ripe old age." [14]


Footnotes:

[1] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Wareham, Births, Marriages, Deaths, 23, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[2] Wareham, Massachusetts, Births, Marriages, Deaths 1738-1845 (Copy of "the old records" made by Noble Warren Everett in 1880), FHL film 482235, DGS 7009295, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord], [FHLCatalog].

[3] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Wareham, Births, Marriages, Deaths, 88, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[4] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Wareham, Births, Marriages, Deaths, 208, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] Leonard H. Smith, Jr., and Norma H. Smith, Records of the First Church of Wareham, Massachusetts, 1739-1891, Book 1 - 1739-1800, image at Ancestry.com (Clearfield Company, 1974), 3, item 109, [AncestryImage].

[6] Pilgrim Society, Plymouth Court Records, 1686-1859, Vol. 9 (Boston, MA.: CD-ROM, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002, Online database, AmericanAncestors.org., 2008), 32, [AmericanAncestors].

[7] Pilgrim Society, Plymouth Court Records, 1686-1859, Vol. 9 (Boston, MA.: CD-ROM, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002, Online database, AmericanAncestors.org., 2008), 97, [AmericanAncestors].

[8] Ebenezer Weaver Peirce, Historic sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham, and West Bridgewater (Boston, MA: 1873), 70, [HathiTrust].

[9] Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe and Donna D. Smerlas, eds., Massachusetts Militia Companies and Officers in the Lexington Alarm (Boston, MA: The New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 1976), 28, citing archive Vol. 12, no. 67, [GoogleBooks].

[10] Leonard H. Smith, Jr., and Norma H. Smith, Records of the First Church of Wareham, Massachusetts, 1739-1891, Book 1 - 1739-1800, image at Ancestry.com (Clearfield Company, 1974), 15, [AncestryImage].

[11] United States Federal Census, 1790, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[12] United States Federal Census, 1800, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[13] United States Federal Census, 1810, page 360, about 4th from bottom, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[14] David Craft, History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania; with illustrations of some of its prominent men and pioneers (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1878), 328, [HathiTrust].