Ebenezer Cheney

DAR Ancestor #: A021319

In company with his uncle, John Jones, he enlisted in April, 1775, at Mendon, Mass., as "Minute Man" in Captain Geninson's Company, third Reg't of Worcester County, Mass., Col. Tyler commanding.

Both continued in service until the end of the war and were with Washington's army during the various engagements in the vicinity of New York, spent the winter of intense suffering at Valley Forge, and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis. The father of the subject of this notice was also named Ebenezer Cheney, born 1741, served as a soldier in the Colonial army under Gen. Wolf, was at the battle of the Plains of Abraham and the taking of Quebec, and his father was a soldier in the old King Philip war at Mendon in 1666.

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