Ebenezer Kingsbury1

ID #16222, (1762-)
Ebenezer Kingsbury|b. 30 Aug 1762|p16222.htm|Ebenezer Kingsbury|b. 11 Feb 1716/17\nd. 6 Sep 1800|p3948.htm|Priscilla Kingsbury|b. 22 Mar 1720\nd. 31 Jan 1805|p3960.htm|Joseph Kingsbury|b. 22 Jun 1682\nd. 1 Dec 1757|p3394.htm|Ruth Denison|b. 7 Jun 1686\nd. 6 May 1779|p3395.htm|Nathaniel Kingsbury|b. 23 Aug 1684\nd. 18 Sep 1763|p3982.htm|Hannah Denison|b. 1689|p3987.htm|
FatherEbenezer Kingsbury1 b. 11 Feb 1716/17, d. 6 Sep 1800
MotherPriscilla Kingsbury1 b. 22 Mar 1720, d. 31 Jan 1805
Relationship1st cousin 6 times removed of Linda Sargent.
     Ebenezer Kingsbury was born on 30 August 1762.1 He graduated from Yale College in New Haven, CT, in 1783 He studied theology with Dr charles Backus of Somers.2 Between 1791 and 1808 Ebenezer lived at Jerico, VT, as a missionary from the Connecticut Home Missionary Society. In 1799 he was the only settled minister north of Cornwall, VT.2 He married Mary Reynolds on Saturday, 11 February 1792.2 Ebenezer Kingsbury married Hannah Williston on Saturday, 8 February 1794.3 August 1810 he was installed as a home missionary at Harford, Susquehanna County, PA and worked there for seventeen years. He traveled ovear a large part of the counties of Susquehanna, Bradford, and Wayne on horseback, by marked trees and bridle paths, preaching in log cabins, barns, and schoolhouses, and assisted in the formation of narly all the churches in that region.2 Ebenezer and Hannah had nine children.3

Sources of Information

  1. Frederick John Kingsbury, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass., Hartford Press, 1905 digitized by Google, printed by Paige M Gutenborg at the Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA, p 215.
  2. Frederick John Kingsbury, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass., Hartford Press, 1905 digitized by Google, printed by Paige M Gutenborg at the Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA, p 247.
  3. Frederick John Kingsbury, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass., Hartford Press, 1905 digitized by Google, printed by Paige M Gutenborg at the Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA, p 248.

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