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DORR, Ebenezer[1, 2, 3]

Male 1712 - 1782  (70 years)


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  • Name DORR, Ebenezer 
    Birth 2 Feb 1712  Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6] 
    Gender Male 
    Possessions 6 Jan 1735/6  Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Negro girl named Flora 
    Correspondence 1757  Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9, 10] 
    Letter to Pastor Rev. Mr. Amos Adams 
    Possessions 6 Oct 1767  Boston, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Purchased of Hugh Hall for 112 Pounds, a large track of land, on the westerly side of Orange Street. 
    Military 1773  Boston, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Appointed 30 Aug 1776  Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14] 
    A committee of Correspondence 
    _COLOR 6 
    Death 8 Aug 1782  Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 15, 16] 
    Burial Abt 8 Aug 1782  Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [15, 16] 
    Person ID I16551  Puffers
    Last Modified 7 Dec 2022 

    Father DORR, Capt. Ebenezer,   b. 25 Jan 1687, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Feb 1760, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Mother BOARDMAN, Mary,   b. 6 May 1689, Cambridge, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jun 1728, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years) 
    Marriage 16 Feb 1709  Cambridge, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 17, 18, 19] 
    Family ID F10208  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family PLIMPTON, Ama,   b. 5 Mar 1714, Medfield, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Nov 1782, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years) 
    Marriage 5 Mar 1734/5  [6, 20, 21, 22] 
    Children 
     1. DORR, Moses,   b. 24 May 1737, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Sep 1801 (Age 64 years)
     2. DORR, Ebenezer,   b. 20 Mar 1738/9, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Sep 1809, Boston, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
     3. DORR, Priscilla,   b. 9 Mar 1740/1, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Aug 1742, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)
     4. DORR, Joseph,   b. 12 Feb 1742/3, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jul 1780, Boston, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years)
     5. DORR, Nathan,   b. 29 Mar 1745, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Feb 1787, Boston, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)
     6. DORR, Amey,   b. 4 Aug 1747, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Sep 1747, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     7. DORR, Jonathan Sinclair,   b. 10 Feb 1748, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1 Apr 1833, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 85 years)
     8. DORR, Amy,   b. 21 Jul 1751, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Nov 1751, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     9. DORR, William,   b. 13 Aug 1752, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Nov 1752, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     10. DORR, Anne,   b. 12 Feb 1754, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Dec 1780, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years)
     11. DORR, Sarah,   b. 30 Jan 1756, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 May 1758, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)
     12. DORR, William,   b. 13 Jul 1757, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Aug 1840, Augusta, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
     13. DORR, Elisha Bowers,   b. 12 Sep 1758, Roxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Dec 1781, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 23 years)
    Family ID F8217  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Apr 2024 

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  • Notes 
    • He lived and died in Roxbury, where he carried on the business of tanning. he was a prominent citizen of the town, and was appointed in 1772 on the Committed of Correspondence and again in 1774, one of the Committee of Fifteen to "carry into execution the agreement and association of the Continental Congress." In the losses sustained by the people of Roxbury the next year he was one of the principal sufferers.
      1 His wife was Amy Plimpton of Medfield. By her he had 13 children, 8 sons and 5 daughters. Seven of the these sons served in the continental army.
      2 The second, Ebenezer (who was the grandfather of Gov. Dorr of Rhode Island), was the one to convey the intelligence of the intended expedition of the British to Lexington on April 19, 1775. He went out over Boston Neck to Roxbury the night before, "mounted on a slow-jogging horse, with saddle-bags behind him, and a large flapped hat upon his head to resemble a countryman on a journey." The Americans obtained this news, through an individual by the name of Jasper, an Englishman, a gunsmith by trade, whose shop was in Hatter's Square; he worked for the British, but was friendly to the rebels; a Sergeant major quartered in his family and made a confident of him, telling him all their plans. Jasper repeated the same to Col Waters, who made it known to the Committee of Safety. The Colonel has often told this story, years after, to his then young friend, Joseph Curtiss, who is still living. From "Paul Revere and the World he lived in" by Esther Forbes, published 1942 - "Rev. John Elliott once wrote to another divine... In this town the most respectable triumvirate, Thomas Crafts, Paul Revere and Harbottle Dorr." The idea that Paul Revere was the only rider that night was so picturesquely implanted in the American mind that Longfellow in 1863 there was natural reaction when it was learned that he was by no means put alone (although Revere and William Dawes were sent officially) others noticed something was afoot that day.... Those were Ebenezer Dorr (and two others). All three of these men were among the 'countrymen' Revere mentioned as having been collected in the pasture before he himself was caught. " Listed in the records of Roxbury Vol. 7. "The intelligence that the British intended to go out to Lexington was conveyed over Boston Neck to Roxbury by Ebenezer Dorr of Boston, Leather Dresser or tanner, who mounted on a slow going horse with saddlebags behind him and a large, flapped hat on his head to resemble a countryman. Colonel Josiah Waters of Boston, a staunch Whig, and one who later helped build Roxbury forts, followed on foot on side paths at a short distance (behind) till he saw Dorr safely past the sentinels."

  • Sources 
    1. [S48] NEHGR, Vol VII. page 139Revolutionary Incidents.

    2. [S52] Francis S. Drake, The Town of Roxbury. Its Memorable persons and place s. Its History and antiquit, Page 29, 31, 82.

    3. [S39] Records of Lineage in the Families of Dorr, Dalton.
      1 - Drake's Town of Roxbury2 - Taken from the Records of Lineage in the Families of Dorr, Dalton, Odin, Walter, MAther, Cotton, Lynde, Bowles, Eliot and Checkley, compiled by Benjamin Dalton Dorr, Philadelphia, PA, May 1879. Although the text in the book h

    4. [S42] Abstract from Dorr family records.
      Page 11, Dorr, Ebenezer son of Edward & Elizabeth, married Mary, daughter of Aaron and Mary Boardman of Cambridge, born 6 May, 1689. They married 16 Feb., 1709/10 and owned the church covenant in Roxbury 5 Nov., 1710.Children:Edward, b. 7 Nov., 1710; Eben

    5. [S53] Vital Records of Roxbury Massachusetts, Vol I To the end of the year 1849, Vol I - Births. (Publish, Page 108.

    6. [S42] Abstract from Dorr family records.
      Page 22. Ebenezer Dorr, b. 2 Feb., 1712, d. 8 Aug., 1782, m. Amy Plimpton;Joseph Dorr, b. 22 Aug., 1714;Aaron Dorr, b. 14 April, 1716, d. 25 June, 1716, age 10 weeks;Aaron Dorr, b. 7 July, 1717;Mary Dorr, b. 25 Jan., 1719;Elizabeth Dorr, b. 15 April, 1720,

    7. [S52] Francis S. Drake, The Town of Roxbury. Its Memorable persons and place s. Its History and antiquit, Page 342 - 343.

    8. [S55] Walter Eliot Thwing, History of the First Church in Roxbury Roxbury, Mass. 1630 - 1904 (Boston W.A., Page 338.

    9. [S48] NEHGR, Vol III, 1849. page 132, 133 Letter to Rev. Amos Adams, 1737.

    10. [S66] Ancestry World Tree Viewer Dorr Surname Search.
      Massachusetts soldiers and Sailors in the Rev War. Vol 6 page 9.Vol 16, page 894.Vol 17 page 1035.Young, Thomas 1st Lieutenant, schooner "Congress" (privateer); petition dated Boston, 18 July 1778, signes by Ebenezer Dorr and Henry Bass, in behalf of thems

    11. [S42] Abstract from Dorr family records.
      Page 44. 6 Oct., 1767, Ebenezer Dorr of Boston, Leather Draper purchased of Hugh Hall for 112 Pounds, a large piece of land on the Westerly side of Orange Street. By a deed Oct. 20, 1767, Ebenezer Dorr conveyed about one half of this property, the north

    12. [S48] NEHGR, Vol XXVII page 56, 57.

    13. [S48] NEHGR, Vol XXXIV Page 251,19.

    14. [S52] Francis S. Drake, The Town of Roxbury. Its Memorable persons and place s. Its History and antiquit, Page 27. A committee of corresdondence was then chosen, consisting of Capt. William Heath, Nathaniel Patton, Nathaniel Felton, Samuel Sumner, Ebenezer Dorr, David Weld, and Capt. Ebenezer Whiting.

    15. [S47] Gravestone Inscriptions - Eliot Burying Ground Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massac, In Memory ofMr. Ebenezer Dorr, SeniorWho departed this lifeAug 8th 1782in the 70th year of hislife.

    16. [S54] Vital Records of Roxbury Massachusetts Vol II To the end of the year 1849, Vol II. - Marriages and Deaths., Page 122,.

    17. [S42] Abstract from Dorr family records.
      Page 11, Citation Children of Edward & Elizabeth DorrEbenezer Dorr and Mary Boardman, daughter of Aaron & Mary Boardman of Cambridge May 6, 1689.Joseph Graduated at Harvard University 1711. M. Mary second daughter of Rev. Grindall Rawson of Mendon, Apr. 9,

    18. [S54] Vital Records of Roxbury Massachusetts Vol II To the end of the year 1849, Vol II. - Marriages and Deaths., Page 121.

    19. [S35] Compiled by Thomas W. Baldwin, member of NEHGS, Vital Records of Cambri dge, Massachusetts. Vol 2. T, pagw 121.

    20. [S64] Cheryl Dorr Wright, Descendants of Edward Dorr First Dorr in America (11684 Channingway Blvd. The Pl, P. 10 Ebenezer married Amy Plympton 5 March, 1734/35.

    21. [S42] Abstract from Dorr family records.
      Page 33, Ebenezer Dorr, son of Capt. Ebenezer Dorr and his wife Mary Boardman, was born Feb. 2, 1712 and died August 8, 1782. In 1736 he married Amy Plimpton of Medfield, born March 5, 1714, died Nov. 21, 1782. He was styled Fellmonger, Currier, Leather

    22. [S42] Abstract from Dorr family records.
      Page 12, Mrs. Mary wife of Mr. Ebenezer Dorr died 12 June, 1728, Ebenezer Dorr died 25 Jan., 1760 Cambridge records and Gravestone in Roxbury burying ground.Children of Ebenezer and Mary (Boardman) DorrEdward m. Abigail Loring, 25 April, 1734. m. Abigail R


 

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