Ebenezer was of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Hinsdale, New Hampshire. He served as a missionary for Indigenous peoples in the northeastern colonies with the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge in 1733, and was stationed at Fort Dummer in Vermont, where he was chaplain until 1740. He purchased land in New Hampshire and built a fort in 1743, where he founded the town of Hinsdale. He was a trader and farmer and also had a residence and business in Deerfield. Ebenezer was appointed colonel and was active in the French and Indian Wars (1754-1763). He displayed excessive intemperance, left the ministry and confessed his sins in 1750. He served Deerfield as moderator and a selectman for a number of years. Around 1730, Ebenezer married Abigail Williams. Their only child, a daughter, lived to be only 6 years of age.
Mesheck (Meseck), Jockton, and Caesar were enslaved by Hinsdale and all lived in his Deerfield home. He had inherited Mesheck when he married Abigail and when Ebenezer was at one of his stores, Mesheck would be in charge at the other.
After Ebenezer's death, Abigail took Jockton with her when she married Judge Ebenezer Silliman of Fairfield, Connecticut.
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