Ebenezer Learned
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Ebenezer Learned | |
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| Born | April 18, 1728 |
| Died | April 1, 1801 (aged 72) |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch | Continental Army Massachusetts Militia |
| Service years | 1756–1763,[1] 1775–1776,[1] 1777–1778[1][2] |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
| Commands |
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| Conflicts | French and Indian War American Revolutionary War |
| Spouses | 1. Jerusha Baker[5]
2. Eliphal Putnam[5] |
| Other work | Judge of Common Pleas, Worcester County Member, Massachusetts General Court Chairman, Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1779) |
Ebenezer Learned (April 18, 1728[1] – April 1, 1801)[1] was a brigadier general in the American Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
He was the son of Ebenezer and Deborah Haynes Learned, and was born at Oxford, Massachusetts.[1] On October 5, 1749, he married Jerusha Baker.[5] They had ten children. When his grandfather died in 1750, he inherited 200 acres (0.8 km2) known as Prospect Hill, and built his home there.[1] Following Jerusha's death, Learned remarried on May 23, 1800, to Eliphal Putnam of Worcester.[5]
Learned was an active member of the local militia, and raised and drilled a company at Oxford during the French and Indian War.[4] In the summer of 1756 he led his company to Fort Edward at Lake George.[1] He fell ill with smallpox in 1757,[1] an event that conferred immunity and would be critical to his later Revolutionary War service.
After that war, he remained at home for several years, farming his land.[1] He was prominent in both church and community, and served as a town selectman for 25 of the years between 1758 and 1794.[1] He also served as "town moderator, assessor and justice of the peace".[4]