Captain Ebenezer Bancroft

Children of THOMAS I BANCROFT and ELIZABETH METCALF

x EBENEZER2 BANCROFT, born 26 Apr 1667 in Reading, MA; died 6 Jun 1717 in Wakefield, MA. He married on 10 May 1692 in Reading, MA, ABIGAIL EATON

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Capt Ebenezer Bancroft
Birth 26 Apr 1667
Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death 6 Jun 1717 (aged 50)
Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Old Burying Ground
Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Memorial ID 28609336 ·

Capt. Ebenezer Bancroft, of Lynn and Lynnfield, Massachusetts. the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Metcalf) Bancroft, born in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts 26 April 1667. He married 19 May 1692 Abigail Eaton, she was born ca. 1676, died March 24, 1716. He was a weaver and husbandman, and he lived in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts. He owned a grist mill on Bates Brook, which he purchased in 1713. He inherited the family homestead from his father, (Thomas 1), but sold it and removed to Lynnfield, Essex, Massachusetts.

He was the tenth man who commanded the Reading Infantry Company.

Source: New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Vol. 94 Pages 222-223

Source: Death Record: Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts Vital Records Page 259
Inscription

Here Lyes ye Body
of
Capt. Ebenezer Bancroft
Who Deceased June ye 6 1717
About Ye 50th year of his Age