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Captain Ebenezer Battle, also known as Ebenezer Battelle, represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.[1] He was also a selectman in 1779.[2] Battle fought the retreating British soldiers following the battles of Lexington and Concord.[3] One of his men, Elias Haven, died at Menotomy.[3] After the fighting ended, his men walked the entire length of the battlefield, collecting weapons and burying the dead.[3]
He had one son, Ebenezer Battelle.[4] He was described as "one of the industrious honest yeomanry of the good old bay state who duly appreciated the value of learning."[4]
References[]
- ↑ Worthington 1827, pp. 106-107.
- ↑ Worthington 1827, pp. 79-81.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hanson 1976, p. 154.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hildreth, Samuel Prescott (1852). Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio: With Narratives of Incidents and Occurrences in 1775. H. W. Derby. pp. 349–353. https://books.google.com/books?id=zB8WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA349. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
Works cited[]
- Worthington, Erastus (1827). The History of Dedham: From the Beginning of Its Settlement, in September 1635, to May 1827. Dutton and Wentworth. p. 1. https://archive.org/details/historydedhamfr00wortgoog. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
- Hanson, Robert Brand (1976). Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1890. Dedham Historical Society. https://books.google.com/books?id=4oslAQAAMAAJ.
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