Ebenezer Way

first name
Ebenezer
last name
Way
gender
male
birth, death year
1770 , --
first, last year in records
--, --
confidence level
confirmed identity
freed status (year freed)
unknown
enslaver(s)
location(s)
Hadley, MA   Northampton, MA  
place of origin
Hadley, MA

Bio

Ebenezer was born on August 31, 1770 to Ralph Way, Jr. and his second wife, Magaret Gregory, both of Hadley, Massachusetts. He married a woman named Chlorilla and their daughter Lois was born in 1794. By 1800, Ebenezer was living in Palmer, Massachusetts with his second wife, Louise. (1800 federal census) They had a son, Morris, born in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1824.

Sources Consulted

History of Hadley, Massachusetts, Sylvester Judd, 1905, p. 150

Black Families in Hampden County, MA 1650-1865, Joseph Carvalho III, 2011, pp. 92, 252