Ebenezer Ober

Ebenezer Ober is listed as one of the first settlers of Brookline, Vermont "on the meadows of Timothy M. Albee". Marriage: 6 July 1742, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts

About Brookline, VT

Others who located in the vicinity were: Timothy Welllman, Johnathan Boynton, William Skinner, Daniel Bixby, and Richard Whitney and Francis Drake who settled on Bemis Hill. In the south part of town Abijah Moore, Wm. P. Stebbins, Wm. Robbins, Daniel and Peter Benson, and Jacob Bush. Also, Luke Osgood, Benj. Flint, Jame Walden, Charles A. Cutler, Rosebrook Crawford. All are supposed to have settled the valley before 1780. Later came Ephraim and Eldridge Mason, Luke Atherton, Samuel Churchill, Holbrook Benson, Lot Holland, Elisha Flint, Christopher Osgood, Luke Bentley.

Walter S. Bennett had the first hotel, and Isaac Taft the first tavern. The first doctor was Dr. William Perry. In 1836, the town voted to join with the Baptist society and build a meeting house which was erected the same year; the Union church was built by Universalists and Methodists. In 1795 school was taught in homes, Lucy Stebbins being the first school teacher. The Round Schoolhouse was built in 1822.

Marriage to Ebenezer Ober July 6, 1742 in Beverly, Massachusetts. Witnesses: Richard Ober, grooms Mother listed as Priscilla Woodbury Ober.' Grooms Father listed as Richard Ober.

"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHQL-FJ4 : accessed 8 March 2016), Ebenezer Ober and Hannah Fiske, 1742.

"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZZ5-TXL : 4 December 2014), Ebenezer Ober, 15 May 1722; citing BEVERLY,ESSEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0962871 IT 2.

Ebenezer's father Richard Ober seems to have died around 1725 (see notation and attached documents) and he is still a minor child.

From the birth records of the family of Richard Ober and Priscilla Woodbury Ober the following children are:

Peter b. May 25, 1707 m. Lydia Foster

Priscilla b. September 3, 1710 m. #1 Benjamin Lovett (?) 1729, m. #2 Gideon Baker Feb. 7, 1730

Martha b. March 11, 1712 m. Johnathan Kimbell, Jr. 1731/1732 possibly Wenham

Edith b. March 31, 1714 m. James Friend (?)

Richard b. Nov. 6, 1716

Josiah b. June 26, 1719 m. Sarah Kimbell, in Wenham 1742

Sarah b. March 20, 1721 m. Nathaniel Cressy

Ebenezer b. May 16, 1722 m. Hannah Fiske, Wenham 1742

Rebecca b. August 3, 1723

Benjamin b. Feb. 21, 1725 m. Sarah Ellis May 28, 1746

Notation: Feb. 14, 1740 John Herrick of Wenham, yeoman, guardian of Sarah, minor child of Richard Ober, receipts to Peter Ober and .......... for her share in her father's estate and the .......John as guardian of Ebenezer Ober, a minor, receipts for his share of his father's estate and Richard Ober of B. .............receipts to his guardian Peter Ober for his share (name) Benjamin and Mary Foster ~ same date Gideon Baker and his wife Priscilla; Johnathan Kimbell, Jr. cordwainer of Wenham and wife Martha and Edith Ober also releases to brother Peter Ober _ Feb. 23, 1740. John Lampson Jr. settles ..........

Pioneer of Newfane, Vermont.

"Those who settled on the borders of West river were: Benjamin Flint, on the farm of Oscar C. Merrifield, the beautiful meadows in the forks of Grassy brook and West river ; Ebenezer Ober on the meadows of Timothy M. Albee ; Christopher Osgood on land of Luther Osgood, northeast of his meadow; Luke B. Osgood on land of George E. Ware, and James Walden upon the farm of Charles A. Cutler; all of whom are supposed to have come to this valley prior to 1780."

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vtwindha/vhg5/brookline.htm

"The original charter of the town was granted in 1753, by Benning Wentworth, gov­ernor of New Hampshire, to Abner Sawyer and others, by the name of Fane. There was a current tradi­tion, seventy years ago, that it was called Fane after Thomas Fane, one of the "men of Kent," who was en­gaged in an insurrectionary move­ment under Sir Thomas Wyat, in 1554, during the reign of Queen Mary, for the purpose of elevating Lady Jane Grey to the throne, in consequence of the odious Spanish match which Mary had formed with Philip 2d. Abner Sawyer and sixty-five others were the original grantees of Fane."

Birth: May 16 1722 - Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Death: Townshend, Windham, Vermont, United States

Parents: Richard Ober, Priscilla Woodbury

Siblings: Abigail Ober, Peter Ober, Priscilla Ober, Martha Ober, Richard Ober, Josiah Ober, Sarah Ober, Rebecca Ober, Benjamin Ober

Wife: Hannah Ober (born Fisk)

Children: Hannah Bigelow (born Ober), Sarah Ober, Asa Ober, Ebenezer Ober, Mary Ober, Persilah Ober, Anne Ober, Rebecca Ober, Ezra Ober

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