Ebenezer Hoag

Yes, Ebenezer "Eben" Hoag (Emery) is a woman.

NOTE - Sometime after the 1982 Revised Emery Genealogy went to press I found a manuscript on the Hoags located in the state Library & possibly another - both copies were to fragile and copying was not allowed they had to be had copied - I hired a certified genealogist and after several hundred dollars and about a years time using group sheets the manuscript was transcribed in full for the supplemental material for the 1982 Emery Book

7 EBENEZER EMERY m. 21 Apr. 1669 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts JOHN HOAG b. 4 Jan. 1643 England or Wales bp. 21 Jan. 1646 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 1728 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts s/o Richard and Joan Hoag and came to America with his father's family when 7 years old. The rest of the family returned to Wales or England as it is said considerable property fell to them but to get it they were obligated to England; but John being bound out at the age of 7 as an apprentice to a leather dresser, was obligated to remain.

Ebenezer's birth is recorded: "Ebenezer a daughter born 16 Sep. 1648 being Monday morning two hours before day. Ebenezer hitherto hath the Lord helped us."

Evidently this daughter was named from hearts overflowing with thankfulness. Though Miss Ebenezer might not have fancied her Christian name, I doubt not it gave her a puritan sire the keenest satisfaction.

Another account of her name is;

Like many Puritans, the Emerys looked to Holy Scripture in naming their children, and so out of a sense of thankfulness they named her Ebenezer meaning “the Lord has helped us” (1 Samuel 7:12). John and Alice were obviously thankful to God that they had survived the first few years in the New World, years that must have been full of hardship, want and danger. John’s wife, Alice, died a few months after giving birth to Ebenezer.

John was opposed to the Salem witchcraft. After the children were all grown up all the family became Quakers. He d. 1728 aet 85. and Ebenezer d. 28 Apr. 1694.

• Children b. Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts:
• 48 JOHN HOAG b. 20 Feb. 1669/70;; d. 1703 unm. Said to have went to England to recover the old family estate and never returned
• 49 JONATHAN HOAG b. 28 Oct. 1671
• 50 dau [EMERY HOAG] b. 7 Oct. 1674; bur. 16 Jan. 1676/7
• *51 JOSEPH HOAG b. 10 Jan. 1676 [16 Jan. 1677]
• 52 dau [MARY HOAG] b. 4 Dec. 1678; d. young
• 53 BENJAMIN HOAG b. 1680
• __ Esther Emery Birth: Jan 3 1682 Death: 1679
• 54 HANNAH HOAG b. 3 Jan. 1683
• __ SAMUEL HOAG b. 1684 [Re. Genealogy of Francis Weeks pg. 556 compiled by Dr. Frank Edgar Weeks (1938) LDS FILM #1429817]
• __ NATHAN HOAG
• 55 JUDITH HOAG Hoag b. 20 Feb. 1687
• 56 MARY HOAG b. Apr. 1689; m. STEPHEN HOAG

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Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery of Newbury, Mass. 1590 - 1890, The;1890, The Salem Press and Publishing Co. The Salem Press, 1891;Rev. Rufus Emery

pg. 1-2 1 john Emery, sen, son of John and Agness Emery of Romsey...He married , first, in ENgland, Mary --, who died in Newbury, April, 1849. He married, second, Mrs. mary Webster 9nee Shatswell0 widow of John Wbester of Ipswich, oct. 29, 1650...

children;
4 iii Ebenezer, daughter, b. in newbury, sept 16, 1648

pg. 3

Ebenezer emery (John, daughter of John EMery, sen., and his first wife, married John Hoag, April 21, 1669. john Hoag was born in England, or Wales, in 1643, and came to America whith his father's family when about seven years old. The rest of the family returned, but John being bound out as an apprentice, was obligated to remain. He was opposed to the Salem witchcraft. After the children were grown up all the family became Quakers. john hoag died 1728, aged 85.

Children born in Newbury: 29 i John b. feb. 20, 1670. 30 ii Jonathan b. oct. 28, 1671; m. martha Goodwin. 31 iii Jospeh b. Jan. 10, 1683 32 iv Hannah b. Jan. 3, 1683. 33 v. judith, b. April 20 1687.

Evidently this daughter was named from hearts overflowing with thankfulness. The name "Ebenezer" means "stone of help." It was a memorial stone erected by Samuel to mark the place, north of Jerusalem, where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines. To "raise an Ebenezer" means to mark a place of victory.

I wonder how she felt about her name as it was given most often to boys.

alumni.media.mit.edu/~kristin/fambly/Emery/JohnEmery3. html (no longer available)

Ebenezer was born on 14 September 1648 in Newbury, Essex co., MA. A duplicate record gives the date as 16 September. On 21 April 1669 when Ebenezer was 20, she married John HOAG, in Newbury, Essex co., MA as "Emery, Ebenezer, and John Hoog". Yes, she is a daughter and not a son.

Ebenezer was the first child of John Emery's second marriage to Mary Shatswell Webster, the widow of John Webster. She was born 16 September, 1648 in Newbury, Massachusetts. Her birth was recorded thus: "Ebenezer a daughter born 16 Sep. 1648 being Monday morning two hours before day. Ebenezer hitherto hath the Lord helped us."