Ebenezer GILBERT

- 1736

• Name	Ebenezer GILBERT  [1, 2]
  	After his mother's death in 1700, he settled in Kensington, probably because of a gift of 300 acres of land there, from his father in his will, dated Sept. 10, 1674. This land the elder Gilbert had acquired from Massecup, an Indian, who with other Indians, had sold land to Samuel Wyllys, John Talcott and others. (Early Conn. Probate Records, 1, p. 07.) Before 1717 he had built himself a house on Christian Lane with bricks made fro clay taken from his own land; the house is still standing and has always been in the possession of a gilbert in direct succession from Ebenezer. (N.E. Reg. 60, p. 314.) That Ebenezer was a man of standing in the community is shown from the fact that with the exception of Mr. Burnham, he was the only man in the community entitled to the prefix "Mr." (Andrews' New Britain, p. 34.) There are several references to him in the Kensington Church Records. He was seated in the first "pue" next the pulpit. "At a meeting of the church Jan. 7, 1716-1717, Insign Isaac Norton was appointed to take care for the obtaining a fashionable and decent 'cushing' for the desk of our Meeting-house upon the Society's charge"; apparently he was not successful for at the Annual Meeting, Dec. 1, 1718 "Mr. Ebenezer Gilbird was appointed to provide a convenient cushen", etc, (Andrew's New Britain, p. 29.) he was considered a very rich man; at his death his estate amounted to L4242, 5 sh. 0 d.; included in the inventory were a negro L100, woman L45, boy L100, child L30 total L275. North's History of Berlin, pp. 11, 12. [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Aug 1736  [1]
  Person ID	I24983	Main Tree
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Jonathan GILBERT,   b. Abt 1618   d. 10 Dec 1682, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary WELLS,   b. Abt 1626, Evesham, England d. 03 Jul 1700, Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	1650	Hartford, Hartford County,Connecticut   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F04832	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Esther/Hester ALLYN,   b. 29 Jan 1676/7   d. 4 Oct 1750 (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F33800	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2016

  
  

• Sources

  [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking. [S01670] Amos Richardson of Boston and Stonington by Rosell L. Richardson. [S3167] Clayton H. and Margaret D. Wells, Descendants of Thomas & Frances Albright Wells 1595 to 2000.