Ebenezer was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts. When the town was attacked in 1704 by French soldiers and their Indigenous allies, he was captured and later redeemed. In the 1740s he built Sheldon's Fort in Fall Town, (now Bernardston) Massachusetts and lived there. He was a tavernkeeper, deacon, and was active in town affairs.
Ebenezer enslaved a man named Pompey, whom he had baptized in 1741. He also employed the services of free African American and Deerfield resident, Abijah Prince.
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