Person Record

Metadata

Name

Walbridge, Ebenezer

Date Born

12/20/1738

Birthplace

Norwich, Connecticut

Deceased

10/03/1819

Place of Death

Bennington, Vermont

Father

Walbridge, Ebenezer

Mother

Walbridge, Mary Durkee

Spouse

Walbridge, Elizabeth Stebbins, 03/1760

Children

Walbridge, Henry (08/22/1762)
Walbridge, Gustavus (10/27/1763)
Walbridge, Rodolphus (10/27/1763)
Walbridge, Susanna (09/15/1765)
Walbridge, Adolphus (03/09/1767)
Walbridge, Sarah (12/28/1768)
Walbridge, Stebbins (08/10/1770)
Walbridge, Betsey (10/18/1773)
Walbridge, Ebenezer William (10/28/1779)

Places of Residence

Norwich, Connecticut
Bennington, Vermont

Occupation

Vermont House of Representatives, 1780, 1783-84.
Council of Censors, 1785
Member of the Council of Safety, 1789-1795.

Titles & Honors

Colonel
General

Notes

Ebenezer Walbridge married Elizabeth Stebbins in March 1760 at Northfield, Massachusetts. They settled in Bennington in 1765 in an area later known as Walbrdgeville where five of their children were born. He served as an officer in Col. Warner's regiment during the French and Indian War. In the Revolutionary War he served as Colonel and Brigadeer General (1787), and fought at the Battle of Bennington where his brother Henry was killed in 1777. In 1782 he built a grist mill and four years later built the first paper mill in Vermont with Joseph Hinsdill.