Ebenezer Battle
American politician
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Captain Ebenezer Battle, also known as Ebenezer Battelle, represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.[1] He was a childhood friend of Fisher Ames[2] and also a Dedham selectman in 1779.[3]
Battle marched towards Boston "upon the alarm of the Bunker Hill fight"[2] and fought the retreating British soldiers following the battles of Lexington and Concord.[4] One of his men, Elias Haven, died at Menotomy[4] in the vicinity of the Jason Russell House. After the fighting ended, his men walked the entire length of the battlefield, collecting weapons and burying the dead.[4]
He had one son, Ebenezer Battelle.[5] He was described as "one of the industrious honest yeomanry of the good old bay state who duly appreciated the value of learning."[5]