Ebenezer LOBDELL

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Name:
"Simon Lobdell and his Descendants": Ebenezer was evidently a man of property.

History says that he was one of the principal inhabitants of Ridgefield 1784. In 1743 he bought from the heirs of his father the property that was formerly the property of Simon Lobdell.

In 1751 Ridgefield court granted him license to keep public house and sell strong drinks. (Fairfield Co. court records).

Ebenezer married Rebecca BENEDICT on 28 Dec 1732. Rebecca (daughter of Thomas BENEDICT and Elizabeth HICKOCK) was born in 1713; died on 1 Aug 1798 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth LOBDELL was born on 21 Sep 1733 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 14 Aug 1816 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

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Name:
"Simon Lobdell and his Descendants": Joshua, an only son, b. at Springfield, Mass., 23 Dec 1671, m. for his first wife at Milford, Conn. 11 Aug. 1695 - Gov. Robert Treat performing the ceremony - Mary, dau. of John and Alice Burwell, early settlers of Milford. upon one of the stones of "Memorial Bridge" at Milford, is carved the name of the father of Mary. No record can be found of her death, but perhaps it occurred soon after the firth of her dau., Susannah, who was bapt. 5 March 1710, and on 9 April, 1710, Simon Lobdell, then an old man, was admitted to the First Church of Milford.......


(The following item of Joshua is contributed by Mr. Henry Lobdell of Salem Center, who is now living on part of the original farm in the manor of Cortland, Westchester Co., NY, leased by his great grandfather - Ebenezer Lobdell before the Revolution - of Stephen De Lancey, and afterward purchased by him at sheriff's sale."
"After the death of Mary, Joshua, with his children moved to the town of Ridgefield, Conn., 'in 1712, in which year on 3 March, he bought of James Brown of Norwalk, Conn., one twenty-ninth part of the town of Ridgefield. (the above James Brown was one of the original proprietors who purchased of the Indians, in1708, all that land, now called Ridgefield.) during the succeeding twenty or thirty years Joshua was continually adding to his estate by purchase from the proprietors or their grantors. The date of the death of Joshua cannot be determined from Ridgefield records but it must have occurred before 31 Oct. 1743, as on that date, Caleb agrees to assume the support of his mother, Eunice, widow of Joshua Lobdell (deceased), late of Ridgefield".

From Burt's first century of Springfield, Mass.:
"In 1743 a deed in Book S. Springfield records mentions - "Samuel Lobdell; Caleb and John Lobdell; Jabez Northrup and wife Sarah; Seaborn Burt and wife Susannah - all of Ridgefield, Conn. Samuel Plum and wife Mary, of Derby, Conn., and Joshua Lobdell of Cortlandt Manor, NY, to Ebenezer Lobdell of Ridgefield, Conn., all interest in estate of our father Joshua - and land that formerly belonged to Simon Lobdell, formerly of Springfield, Mass."

About 1713 Joshua m. for his second wife, Eunice, dau. of Lieut. John Olmstead and his wife Mary Benedict of Norwalk, Conn.

Eunice was b. about 1689, and was aunt of Rebecca St. John, who married Samuel, eldest child of Joshua and Mary (Burwell) Lobdell.

Joshua married Mary BURWELL on 11 Aug 1695 in Milford, Connecticut. Mary died after Mar 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]