The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Ebenezer Eames was born on 26 April 1756, in Framingham, Massachusetts, and died on 19 August 1832, in Bethel, Oxford, Maine. He married Elizabeth Coolidge on April 16, 1778. They had eleven children.
According to the Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution: Ebenezer Eames was on a list of men serving on picket guard duty under Major Loammi Baldwin dated 11 May 1775. He was also on a list of men serving on picket guard duty under Major Baldwin on 23 May 1775. He was then detailed under Captain Jonas Hubbard. On a petition dated June 5, 1775, at Camp at Cambridge addressed to General Ward, Ebenezer, and others of Captain Drury’s Company stated that they had enlisted to serve in Colonel Nixon’s Regiment, but had been shifted to Colonel Gardner’s Regiment, and requested that they be continued in Colonel Nixon.
On a muster roll dated 1 August 1775, Ebenezer is shown as enlisting on 4 May 1775 for service of three months and five days. A company return dated Winter Hill on 30 September 1775, he is in the company of Captain Micajah Gleason commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Nixon of the 4th Regiment Regimental.
During the period that Ebenezer served in the Battles of Bunker Hill and Breeds Hill as well as the Siege of Boston. Many of the officers listed above participated in many of the events during this time, as well as at Lexington and Concord. So it is possible Ebenezer participated in or observed many of the events that unfolded during the period from May 1775 to Aug 1775. During this time, the British were unable to leave Boston and they assaulted Breeds Hill. In the History of the Siege of Boston and the battles of Lexington and Concord by Frothingham: “...Colonel Swett states 300 were led onto the field by Colonel Nixon on June 16. Colonel Nixon behaved with great gallantry. He was badly wounded and carried off the hill”.
General Washington road in front of the men at Cambridge. He drew his sword on 3 July 1775 and took command of the Continental Army. So it is possible that Ebenezer witnessed this event too.
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