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