Ebenezer Metcalf

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Ebenezer Metcalf (1691 - 1751)

Ebenezer Metcalf
Born 8 Jan 1691 in Wrentham, Suffolk County, Mass. Bay Colonymap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Eleazer Metcalf and Meletiah (Fisher) Metcalf
Brother of Eleazar Metcalf, Michael Metcalf, Samuel Metcalf, Jonathan Metcalf, Melatiah (Metcalf) Cheever, Timothy Metcalf, Martha (Metcalf) Hills and Mary Metcalf
Husband of Margaret (Rockwood) Metcalf — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Samuel Metcalf
Died 9 Jun 1751 at age 60 in Rutland, Worcester County, Province of Mass. Baymap
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Biography

Ebenezer Metcalf was born on 8 January 1691, in Wrentham, Massachusetts. He was the son Eliazer Metcalf (1653-1704) and Meletiah (Fisher) Metcalf (1667-1719). [1][2]

On 11 July 1732, Ebenezer married Margaret (Rockwood) Metcalf (abt.1710-) in Wrentham, Massachusetts. [3]

Ebeneze died on 9 June 1751, at age 61, in Rutland, Worcester County, Province of Mass. Bay. [4]

Sources

↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4J9-ZJ4 : 10 November 2020), Eliazer Metcalf in entry for Ebenezer Metcalf, 8 Jan 1691; citing Birth, Wrentham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010771.
↑ Metcalfe, Howard Hurtig, Some Descendants of Rev. Leonard Metcalf of Tatterford Parish, Norfolk, England, Mostly those of his son Michael the emigrant to Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1637 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2002), p. 19
↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCDK-VYH : 24 January 2020), Ebenezer Metcalf, 1732.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-TD5Q : 10 November 2020), Ebenezer Metcalf, 9 Jun 1751; citing Death, Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934224.

See also:

Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Metcalf Genealogy. United States, Imperial Press, 1898, Page 21

• Deacon Eleazer Metcalf, Sr
• Birth: May 20, 1653 Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Death: May 14, 1704 Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Eleazer was the youngest child of Michael Metcalf Jr and Mary Fairbanks (who married Christopher Smith after Michael died).
• His father died when Eleazer was 10 months old and he was raised by his step-father, Christopher Smith.
• The time of Eleazer's move from Dedham to Wrentham Centre is unknown, but after King Philip's War in 1676, the inhabitants, who were forced to abandon their town in the wilderness for fear of the Indians, returned to a settlement that had been burned to the ground by the Indians. Among these were Eleazer Metcalf (unmarried), Samuel Fisher (his future father-in-law), and Joseph Kingsbury (a relative of Eleazer's grandson's wife).
• Eleazer was described in 1685 as one of the early planters living at "Wallomonopouge."
• He was admitted a freeman, May 15, 1690.
• Eleazer, Capt. Robert Pond & 46 others (including Eleazer's son, Michael), inhabitants of the western part of Wrentham, petitioned the general court to be set off as a separate parish and settle a minister among themselves. [This may be referring to the beginning of the first church in Wrentham in 1692.] He was an original member and the second deacon of the Wrentham church.
• Wrentham was about 20 miles SW of Dedham, about 5 miles from Rhode Island, so Eleazer was about 40 miles from Salem and was surely well aware of the witch trials which took place there in 1694 when over 200 people were arrested, and 14 were put to death.
• He married Melatiah Fisher 9th April, 1684. They had 8 children:
  • Eleazur Jr (1685-1704)
  • Michael, (1687-1754)
  • Samuel (1688/9-1737)
  • Ebenezer (1691-1751)
  • Jonathan (1693-1775)
  • Melatiah (1695-1771, married James Cheever)
  • Timothy (1697-1767)
  • Martha (1699-?, married Jabez Hills)
  • Mary (1699, twin of Martha, maybe died in infancy)
• Family links:
• Parents:
• Michael Metcalf (1620 - 1654)
• Mary Fairbanks Smith (1622 - 1684)
• Spouse:
• Meletiah Fisher Metcalf (1667 - 1719)*
• Children:
  • Michael Metcalf (1687 - 1754)*
  • Samuel Metcalf (1688 - 1737)*
  • Johnathan Metcalf (1693 - 1775)*
  • Melatiah Metcalfe Cheever (1695 - 1771)*
  • Timothy Metcalf (1697 - 1767)*
• Siblings:
• Mary Metcalf Ware (1646 - 1677)*
• Sarah Metcalf Ware (1648 - 1717)*
• Jonathan Metcalf (1650 - 1727)*
• Eleazer Metcalf (1653 - 1704)
• John Smith (1655 - 1722)**
• *Calculated relationship
• **Half-sibling
• Burial: Wrentham Center Cemetery, Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Find A Grave Memorial# 28330698
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28330698 _______________
• Deacon Nathaniel Rockwood
• Birth: Feb. 23, 1665 Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Death: Sep. 24, 1721 Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Born 23 Feb 1665 in Braintree to Nicholas Rockwood (1628 - 1680) and Margaret Holbrook (1630 - 1670). He married Joanna Ellis (born 1677) on 7 Dec 1698 in Wrentham. They had 10 known children in Wrentham:
  • I. Margaret, b. 4 September, 1699 d. 1 MAR 1787 Paxton m Ebenezer MetCalf.
  • II. Nathaniel, b. 7 September, 1700, d 28 OCT 1776 Winchester, NH m Margaret Phipps
  • III. Benjamin, b. 8 March, 1702 d OCT 1774 Franklin m 1st 19 Dec 1727 to Mehetabel Thompson m 2nd 9 Jan 1745 to Ruth Mann.
  • IV. Abigail, b. 2 January, 1703-1704. d. 8 JUN 1714
  • V. Ebenezer, b. 2 November, 1705. in 1723 chose John Rocket of Medway to be his guardian [Suff Probate] probably died young.
  • VI. Hannah, b. 9 October, 1707. m Thomas Lawrenece
  • VII. Mary, b. 17 October, 1709 d. 26 DEC 1796 m Andrew Blake (possibly also ___ Alexander of Winchester NH)
  • VIII. Thomas, b. 25th February, 1711 m Abigail McCay
  • IX. Abigail. b 8 JUNE 1714 d 27 MAR 1788 m Josiah Blake who succeeded to the inheritance of the ancient Rockwood farm and Mansion in Wrentham
  • X. ELISHA, b. 11 June, 1716 d. 5 DEC 1788 Groton m Elizabeth Adams [placed under the guardianship of his mother [suff probate 13 Nov 1723]
• NEHGS says he died in Wrentham in 1721 but I have no been able to confirm the burial location.
• Sources:
• 1. Abner Morse, A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants and History of the Towns of Sherborn and Holliston (Press of Damrell & Moore 1856) p 216
• 2. Clarance Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, April 2011) Vol 2 p 1290 ("ROCKETT, Nathaniel (1665-1721) & Joanna ELLICE/ELLIS (1677-1716+); 7 Dec 1698; Medfield/Wrentham
• 3. The American Genealogist: New England Weld Family, (New Haven, Conn.: D.L. Jacobus, 1959) Vol 35 Ancestor Table LXXX: MRS. Thomas McGee (Barbara E Bullard. p 34 link
• 4. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1933) Vol 87:391 Memoirs of Descended Members of NEHGS.
• 5. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1933) Vol 91:364 Memoirs of Descended Members of NEHGS.
• 6. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1933) Vol 4:85 Marriage of Wrentham
• 7. William Ward Wight, The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham & Medfield and of His Descendants, 1635 to 1890 (Milwaukee: Swain & Tate, 1890) p 19 link
• 8. Ezra S Stearns, History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts, from the Grant of Dorchester Canada to the Present Time, 1734 to 1886; with a Genealogical Register of Ashburnham Families (Ashburnham, Mass.: The Town, 1887) p 872 link
• 9. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1933) Vol 38:227 Wrentham Births
• Family links:
• Parents:
• Nicholas Rockwood (1628 - 1681)
• Margaret Holbrook Rockwood (1630 - 1670)
• Siblings:
• Josiah Rockwood (____ - 1727)**
• Samuel Rockwood (1651 - 1728)**
• Benjamin Rockwood (1651 - 1747)**
• Elizabeth Rockwood Partridge (1657 - 1688)*
• John Rockwood (1662 - 1746)*
• Nathaniel Rockwood (1665 - 1721)
• *Calculated relationship
• **Half-sibling
• Burial: Unknown
• Find A Grave Memorial# 160330825
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=160330825 _______________
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• FISHER, Meletiah
• b. 1 MAY 1667 Wrentham, Norfolk, Mass.
• d. 23 SEP 1719 Wrentham, Norfolk, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: FISHER, Samuel
• Mother: SNOW, Meletiah
• Family:
• Marriage: 9 APR 1684 Dedham, Norfolk, Mass.
• Spouse: METCALF, Eleazer
• b. 2 FEB 1652/3 Dedham, Norfolk, Mass.
• d. 10 MAY 1704 Wrentham, Norfolk, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: METCALF, Michael
• Mother: FAIRBANKS, Mary
• Children:
  • METCALF, Eleazer b. 30 MAY 1685 Wrentham, Norfolk, Mass. d. 14 MAY 1704 Wrentham, Norfolk, Mass.
  • METCALF, Michael
  • METCALF, Samuel
  • METCALF, Ebenezer
  • METCALF, Jonathan
  • METCALF, Meletiah
  • METCALF, Timothy
  • METCALF, Martha
  • METCALF, Mary b. 27 AUG 1699 Wrentham, Norfolk, Mass. d. 2 JUL 1770 Wrentham, Norfolk, Mass.
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_3c7.htm#48 ______________

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