Ipswich Massachusetts ancestor

Happy birthday to ancestor...a 5th great grandfather

Ebenezer Pulsifer

Birth 4 NOV 1744 • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
Son of David and Hannah Brown Pulsipher (Pulsifer)

At age 28 he married Mrs. Sarah Perkins. When records say Mrs. Sarah, it is assumed she had already been married. But the maiden name of Perkins has also been carried through the records, so perhaps she hadn't been married to a man named Perkins, but was the daughter of Nathaniel and Anna Harris Perkins, as most of the Ancestor records say.

They had 4 sons, and Captain Ebenezer is the one that I found the most information about.

I also searched through some Ancestry documents to figure out which of the cousins/uncles/sons was David Pulsifer who died in the Battle of Bunker Hill. (See this post for my search and a probable answer.)

What is most interesting about this grandfather is his possible death during the Revolutionary War. I have no idea where this information originated, but some 4 other ancestry trees have said he died at age 36, about in 1780. And there's a note that says "Died on Prison Ship in New York Harbor." There is one record saying he died in 1795 at age 51...also in New York.

Since he and his family lived in Ipswich, MA, I don't know why he died in New York. And since I don't have the death date or place of his wife, nor of 2 of his 4 sons, I don't know if the family relocated there.

But I'm glad to give honor and respect to a man and thanks for his passing on his blood in my veins.