Captain Ebenezer Bowditch

Ebenezer was a shipmaster, known as Captain Bowditch. His ship the armed galley "Mary" was shipwrecked in a hurricane at Port Royal, Jamaica, on October 22, 1726. He is listed as a proprietor at New Salem in 1742. He seems to have inherited his grandfathers faculty of being unfortunate in money matters, for it is stated that in addition to losing his own fortune, he borrowed and lost the savings of his son Habakkuk.

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RESIDENCE: Salem - (now 209 Essex St)

OCCUPATION: Shipmaster, Merchant

BURIAL-TOMBSTONE: Charter Street Burying-Ground, Salem - REF: NER Apr 1849 "Here lies buried the body of Mr. Ebenezer Bowditch, who departed this Life Febry ye 2d, 1768, in ye 65th year of his age.

CHILDREN: Ebenezer; John; Thomas; William; Habakkuk; Mary

NOTE: Only male issue Bowditch this line - his grandson was an astronomer.