EBENEZER COUCH
(son of Ebenezer and Ann Cram Couch) was
born in 1733 in that part of the Town of Fairfield
Conn., now called Redding. He was of Redding when
he married (1st, on July 29, 1761 Elizabeth McCarty,
of Fairfield (Connecticut Marriages, Book 5, page
30). The births of their children recorded in
Redding: John, born May 25, 1762, married Lois
Stone; Levi, born Aug. 25, 1763; Anne, born
Feb. 28, 1765, married Henry Whitlock;
Ebenezer, born Feb. 26, 1768, married Asenath
Grinnell; Abner, born March 24, 1770;
Aaron, born Aug. 2, 1772. He married (2nd) in
Washington, Nov. 4, 1777 (Connecticut Marriages,
Book 5, page 72, Sarah Kinney Bostwick, widow of
Joel Bostwick. The children of the second
marriage were born in Washington: Elizabeth, born
in 1779, married Benjamin Benedict; Joel Boswick,
born 1781, married Phebe Ladue; Levi, born 1783;
Caswell, born 1875; Electa born
1788; Sarah Kinney, born 1790. After the
Revolution Captain Couch removed with his family
to Ballston, Saratoga County, N. Y.
Captain Couch continued in the service, as is
shown in Connecticut Men in the Revolution, pages
224-5, 391, 492, 548 583. The following record of
his son, Ebenezer, 3rd, relates to service during
the years 1780-1.
Ebenezer Couch, 3rd, born Feb. 26, 1768, in his
application for pension Dec. 27, 1832, stated that his
father was Captain Ebenezer Couch, and having
lost his mother by death, his father took him into the
service. Later, he reenlisted at West Point.
His brother, John, born May 5, 1762, was a fifer
in his father's company in the summer of 1775 (Connecticut
Men in the Revolution, page 663.)
(Source D.A.R.
Vol. 61 No. 1. Jan. 1927) |
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