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Felch Ebenezer
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  • Birth  20 Jul 1701  Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  16 AUG 2009 08:50:18 GMT-5 
    Died  1779  Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID  I4425  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Felch John,   b. 26 Feb 1659/60, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 09 Apr 1746, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts or Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Gowing Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1660,   d. 10 Apr 1746, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F1799  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Bacon Mary,   b. 28 Mar 1708, Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  15 May 1728  [1, 2, 4] 
    Children 
     1. Felch Stephen,   b. 10 Sep 1731,   d. 12 Jun 1823
     2. Felch John,   d. 28 Oct 1776, White Plains, Westchester, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Felch Daniel,   b. 08 Dec 1734,   d. Abt 1783
     4. Felch Mary,   d. 06 Aug 1813
    Family ID  F1804  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • (IV) Ebenezer Felch, son of John Felch (3), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, July 20, 1701. When a young child his family removed to Weston, adjoining Natick, Massachusetts. In 1723, before his marriage, he located in Natick which was then and for many years afterward an Indian town, and he was the fourth white settler. Tradition tells us that he came as an assistant superintendent of the Indians who were not entirely self-governing at that time. In 1731-32 he was the teacher of the public school; in June, 1746, he was elected town clerk, an office he held for fifteen years. He also held other town offices from time to time. He was deacon of the Natick church under the ministry of Rev. Oliver Pea- body, who was installed in 1741. His home was in the northern part of the town known as North Natick. The homestead, or a considerable part of it, still remains in the possession of his descendants. He was a farmer, a useful and prominent citizen, one of the foremost of his day and locality. He married, May 15, 1728, Mary Bacon, of Needham, Massachusetts. Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Stephen, born September 10, 1731, removed to Walpole, Massachusetts; was of peculiar characteristics, fond of mathematics and casting horoscopes; had five daughters, Hannah, Olive, Abi, Polly and Rebecca. 3. Daniel, born December 8, 1734, married, April 9, 1763, Annie Bent, of Sudbury; he went to Annapolis, Port Royal, in 1746, with other Natick soldiers. 4. Mary, died unmarried August 6, 1813.

      Ebenezer Felch. 1701-1779. Son of John. Born at Reading July 20, 1701. Married May 15, 1728, Mary, daughter of Stephen Bacon. He went to Natick in 1723, being the fourth white settler there. It is said that he went there as assistant superintendent of Indians. Natick—the "place of hills"—was established by John Eliot, the "apostle to the Indians," in 1650. There he gathered his converts together and founded, in 1660, the first church of Christian Indians in America. Natick was an Indian village for nearly a century. The first records of the settlement were kept in the Indian language. Ebenezer Felch was the first white deacon of John Eliot's Indian church, being elected to that office by the Indians April 29, 1731. The John Eliot church is still at Natick, and there still stands the apostle's famous oak tree, but the red men are all gone. Civilization and Christianity did not agree with them. There were, it is said, five of the Natick Indians living in 1792 and one last Indian as lateas 1855.

      Ebenezer Felch was teacher of the public school at Natick and was also surveyor, assessor, the first selectman, moderator of town meetings and the first town clerk. He held this latter office for fifteen years or up to the time of his departure for Nova Scotia. His son, John, succeeded him as town clerk at Natick and in most of his other offices. Henry Evans, Ebenezer Felch and David Bent constituted a deputation sent in 1759, from the Massachusetts Bay province to the province of Nova Scotia, to confer with Governor Lawrence in reference to a grant of land. He became one of the grantees of the township of Annapolis, N. S., in 1759. This was known as the Felch-Evans grant. He was one of the company which sailed from Boston for Annapolis May 17, 1760, by the "Charming Molly." There were 45emigrant-passengers by this vessel and a considerable number of horses and cattle. Both before and after his emigration to Nova Scotia he transferred various parcels of land in Natick to his sons John and Daniel. Daniel Felch settled in Nova Scotia, with his father. Each settler had apportioned to him a lot of 500 acres of " forest primeval" in addition to a portion of the cultivated marsh and upland which had been previously the property of the French inhabitants—the unfortunate Acadians of the land of Longfellow's " Evangeline." In 1770 Eb- enezer Felch was entered in census returns of township of Annapolis as holding 748 acres of land, and his son Daniel 642 acres. He died in Annapolis county in 1779. His children were:

      John. b. April 6, 1729. m. April 28, 1757, Mary Bacon. He was of Natick, innholder. He was Captain in militia and was on the Crown Point and other Colonial military expeditions. He was a Revolutionary soldier and was killed at the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. Left 6 children. His widow, Mary, died at Natick, Aug. 26, 1813, aa. 76.

      Stephen, b. Sept. 10, 1731. m. 1754, Hannah Fisher. Settled at Walpole. d. June 12, 1823. Left 5 daughters. He served for 8 months, as sergeant in Col. Ebenezer Nichols' regiment in the campaign of 1758 against the French.

      Daniel, b. Dec. 8, 1734. m. April 9, 1763, Anne Bent. Settled in Nova Scotia. Had 8 children, d. about 1783. Widow m. Anthony Van Blarcom in 1785 and died the same year.

      Mary.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S230] Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, (Name: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908;), 410 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S253] Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an Effort to Trace the American Progenitors of One Individual Living in America in 1903, Gilbert Oliver Bent, Gilbert Oscar Bent, (Name: Printed for private distribution, 1903;), 22 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S253] Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an Effort to Trace the American Progenitors of One Individual Living in America in 1903, Gilbert Oliver Bent, Gilbert Oscar Bent, (Name: Printed for private distribution, 1903;), 23 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S253] Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an Effort to Trace the American Progenitors of One Individual Living in America in 1903, Gilbert Oliver Bent, Gilbert Oscar Bent, (Name: Printed for private distribution, 1903;), 26 (Reliability: 3).

  

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