Ebenezer (Col.) HINSDALE

Son of Lt. Mehuman Hinsdale & Mary Rider Hinsdale (Hinsdell) Beal. Ebenezer and his wife, Abigail Williams (daughter of Rev John Williams), had a daughter but she died young, so they never had descendents. Hinsdale, New Hampshire (from wikipedia website): Located in the southwestern corner of the state, Hinsdale was chartered in 1753. It was named for Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale, member of a prominent Deerfield, Massachusetts family, whose mother had been taken captive in the famed Deerfield Massacre of 1704. Graduated from Harvard College, Hinsdale ordained to become a missionary for Indians of the Connecticut River Valley. Instead, he would serve as chaplain at Fort Dummer, an important trading post on the Connecticut River, later enlisting as an officer in the army. Then, in 1742, he established Fort Hinsdale, including a trading post and gristmill, reportedly at his own expense. The town's earliest history recounts Indian assaults, raids and captivities. ===================================== Gazetteer of Cheshire County, N.H., 1736-1885 by Hamilton Child, Syracuse, N.Y.: H. Child, 1885, 882 pgs. Hinsdale, Illinois, is believed to be named after Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and thus indirectly named after Ebenezer Hinsdale. History of Hinsdale, New Hampshire pg.181 Upon a slab over the grave of Col. Hinsdale is engraved the following inscription-- "Underneath Deposited is the Body of Col. Ebenezer Hinsdale who for his superior natural endowments, extensive learning and usefulness not only in private life but in various important public offices he sustained, was far known and admired. After a long illness he died, Jan. 6th, 1763 in the 57th year of this age. Here also lies buried the body of Mrs. Mary Beal, the mother of Col. Ebenezer Hinsdale, who was born on her return from captivity in Canada, and with whom she lived a widow at the time of his death, which is thought to have been brought on her in the morning after, when she died Anno Etatis 83. Her husbands were Lieut. Hinsdale and Mr. George Beal. By the first she had two sons, Colonel Ebenezer and John. After this whose only child Miss Abigail Hinsdale, died at Hinsdale Aug. ye 10th, 1739 Anno Etatis --, was buried at Deerfield. His still surviving partner, Mrs. Abigail Hinsdale, daughter of Rev. John Williams, of Deerfield, a worthy relect of Col. Ebenezer Hinsdale now mourning the absence of those dear deceased relatives, has caused their names and virtues to be thus recorded together. June 2nd 1864." BURIAL Hooker Cemetery Hinsdale, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA MEMORIAL ID 29237238

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