Capt. Ebenezer Thompson, Sr.

Update on wife

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr11/rr11_124.html#P53548

Shirly Robinson Pizziferri’s article “Converse Reverse? The wives of Jonathan Newhall and Ebenezer Thompson”, New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg. 146 (1992), 133–134, shows that Hannah, the wife of Ebenezer Thomas, was the daughter of Robert Converse while Hannah, the wife of Jonathan Newhall, was the daughter of Josiah Converse.

Biography

Memorial of James Thompson, of Charlestown, Mass., 1630-1642, and Woburn ... By Leander Thompson. Page 31. GoogleBooks

31. EBENEZER4 THOMPSON Jonathan,3 Jonathan, James') was born in Woburn, March 30, 1701; m. Hannah Converse, Sept. 27, 1728, and resided in Woburn. He was a man of considerable fame in his day, as a teacher and a citizen, but he was especially conspicuous as a soldier in the royal army. By a commission, said to be still in the possession of some of his descendants, he was appointed captain of the Second Foot Company of the Second Regiment, of which the distinguished Eleazer Tyng, the ancestor of a distinguished posterity, was colonel. The commission was issued by Lieut.-Gov. Phipps, commander-in-chief, July 3, 1753, in the twentysixth year of the reign of Charles II.

This Capt. Ebenezer Thompson was the man who built and first occupied the house still standing on Elm Street, North Woburn, in which his famous grandson, Benjamin, better known as Count Rumford, was born March 26, 1753. Authorities slightly differ as to the exact year of the erection of the house. The most reliable, on the whole, fixes it at 1714, making its present age (1886) about 172 years.

Capt. Ebenezer Thompson died in 1755.

Children of Capt. Ebenezer4 and Hannah (Converse) Thompson :

• 103. i. Benjamin, b. Nov. 27, 1729; m. Ruth Simonds, 1752.
• 104. iii. Ebenezer, b. Sept. 15, 1731; grad. Harvard College, 1752, and became the pastor of the church in York, Me., where he d. unm. in 1755.
• 105. iv. Hannah,5 b. Sept. 21, 1734; m. Benjamin Flagg, March 8, 1753.
• 106. v. Hiram, b. May 17, 1743; m. Bridget Snow, Feb. 3, 1767

References

• Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford by Brown, Sanborn Conner, 1913- Publication date 1979 Archive.Org