Rev Ebenezer ROSSITER

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Lived in Stonington, Conn. Yale College 1718, ordained 1722.

Rev. Ebenezer Rossiter, b. Feb. 4, 1699, was the first of the name that came to Stonington, Conn. he was the seventeenth and youngest child of Josiah and Sarah (Sherman) Rossiter, and grandson of Dr. Benjamin and Elizabeth Rossiter, and great-grandson of Edward Rossiter of Plymouth, Eng., from which he came to this country in 1630, with the Rev. John Warham and others, and settled in Dorchester, Mass. Rev. Ebenezer Rossiter was a graduate of Yale College in 1718. he was the second minister of the First Congregational Church, Stonington, and was ordined Dec. 19, 1722, which relation he sustained until his death, Oct. 11, 1762. He was a devoted, earnest and successful minister of the gospel. He m. hannah White Oct. 7, 1723, daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer White of Long Island.

Ebenezer married Hannah WHITE on 7 Oct 1723. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Thomas PALMER, Jr. on 23 Mar 1767 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. Thomas (son of Thomas PALMER and Priscilla CHESEBROUGH) was born on 24 Jan 1737/8 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Phebe PALMER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Samuel STANTON on 20 Feb 1788 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. Samuel (son of Phineas STANTON and Elizabeth Chesebrough STANTON) was born on 16 Apr 1760 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 04 Feb 1838 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Capt William TERRETT before 30 Apr 1799 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. William was born on 17 May 1772 in New York City, New York; died on 14 Jan 1847 in Granville, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In early spring 1823, less than five months after his marriage, George W. Terrett of Granville bought his uncle John Terrett's half interest in a 130-acre farm in Colebrook, Connecticut, which the uncle had owned in common with his brother Charles; other purchases there followed. About April 1826, George returned to Granville, where he remained. A Hampden County history depicts him thus:

GEOGE W. TERRETT, late a prosperous farmer and prominent citizen of Granville...sent his boyhood days in Stonington. His first attempt at earning a livelihood was in his father's store, but the removal of the family to the farm at Granville caused a change in his occupation. At that time, he took up farming and, finding himself adapted to it, adopted it as a life vocation. He was one of the most successful farmers in this part of the town and added to the old farm so that at one time he owned 460 acres. Mr. Terrett was a loyal republican and was selectman of Granville for some time and also held minor offices. he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he was an ardent worker and to whose support he liberally contributed. He died...while on a visit in Pittsfield at his daughter's home.

George married Prudence Chesebrough DENISON on 3 Dec 1822 in Halifax, Vermont. Prudence (daughter of Benadam DENISON and Rhoda RANDALL) was born on 15 Dec 1799 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut; died on 1 May 1884 in West Granville, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]