Ephraim Otis, MD

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   Ephraim was surgeon at Fort William Henry in 1757, in the French and Indian War, and was one of the few who escaped the massacre upon the surrender of that fort to the French and Indians in 1756.

   He settled in Scitute, his practice being very edtensive. He built, in 1760-1770, the old Otis home, which is still standing [1924], and has always since been occupied by some of the Otis family, and in 1907 was owned and occupied by Joseph C. Otis.

   He was on the first committee appointed by the town in 1774 to act in reference to the Revolutionary war, being an uncompromising whig.

   During the war he lost most of the handsome property, which he had accumulated in the practice of his profession by loaning it to the government. His surgeon certificte in the British Army was in the hands of Joseph C. Otis of Norwell, Mass. in 1892.

In 1769 Ephraim married Sarah Harris, daughter of David Harris & Martha Jenks, in Rhode Island. Born ca 1750. Sarah died on 26 Jun 1827 in Providence, RI.154