Ebenezer Paine

Ebenezer Paine, Sr.

• Gender: Male
• Birth: June 17, 1692 Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
• Death: circa 1733 (36-45) At Sea off shoals of Nantuckett (lost at sea)
• Son of Samuel Paine and Patience Freeman

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Descendant of Elder William Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger and Mary Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger

"on the Nantucket shoals in spring of 1734 when the vessel of which he was master was run down and all on board were lost"

"Ebenezer-4 Paine, Bon of Samuel Paine, by wife Patience, was born in Eastham, and married Hannah Hopkins, dau. of Joshua and Mary, Dec. 13, 1721. She was the grandaughter of Giles and Catherine (Whelden) Hopkins, and great-grandaughter of Stephen who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. He was a whaleman, and tradition says he carried on the business at Billingsgate, now Wellfleet. In 1733, when pursuing the whaling business upon Nantucket Shoals, his vessel was run down in a dark night, and sank with all hands on board. He was the principal owner, having invested nearly all his means in her. He was attached to the militia and was a drum major. His estate was settled by his widow Hannah, who had letters granted for that purpose, May 2, 1734. In 1742 she married Lieut. Zachariah Smalley of Harwich, where she went to reside. By him she had a daughter Jane, who married John Long, and who hung herself in a deranged state, Nov. 5, 1778. Widow Hannah died at the house of her son Ebenezer, at Harwich, having outlived her husband, Oct. 24, 1793, aged 92 years, and was buried by the side of her second husband in the old burying ground at Harwich.

By wife Hannah, Ebenezer-4 Paine had:

1. Ebenezer-5 born Nov. 26, 1722, who for first wife married Mary, dau. of William Allen* of Yarmouth, Feb. 21, 1750-1, but she dying in travail in March, 1756, he again married Miss Thankful White, dau. of Eben. and Mary White of Yarmouth, who was grandson of Peregrine White, Sept. 2, 1756, by Rev. Grindal Rawson. He settled in Harwich, and died of cancer, April 28, 1795. His wife Thankful died of palsy, Aug. 19, 1806.
2. Elizabeth-5, born July 7, 1724.
3. Nathaniel-5 born Aug. 15, 1727. He was supposed to have been lost at sea when a young man. He was unmarried.
5. Abigail-5 born June 29, 1729.
6. Hannah-5 born in 1732, married John Allen of Harwich, by Rev. Edward Pell, June 25, 1750. She was a woman of strong mind. She died April 25, 1808, aged 76, of bilious fever.

References

• His mother https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119958274/patience-paine
• http://capecodhistory.us/genealogy/lost/i94.htm#i17175