Ebenezer STEPHENS

Ebenezer Stevens (Ebenezer, Richard, Henry) was probably born in Canaan,Connecticut. He married Rhoda Johnson, and settled in Hancock,Massachusetts. He became a clergyman. "Ebenezer Stevens commenced his itinerant labor on the PittsfieldCircuit, Massachusetts, the present year, as colleague of Cyrus Stebbins.The following two years he spent on the Litchfield and MiddletownCircuit, Connecticut. He traveled four years more, two on the Cambridge,New York Circuit, and two on the Brandon Circuit, Vermont. In 1804 and1805 he is returned as supernumary and in 1806 as located. He was achoice man, habitually buoyant in spirit, bland in manners and vivaciousin conversation, and of course he could not but be universally popular.He was exceedingly fertile in comparisons and figures, rendering hisdiscourse at once interesting and comprehesible to the popularunderstanding. In New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont, he isaffectionately remembered by many. He died in the faith." (Memorials ofMethodism, by Reverand Abel Stevens: Preachers of 1797). *The above information was obtained from the "Stephens/Stevens Genealogy"by Plowdon Stevens (1909). -----William Lackey Stephens;http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/e/William-Lackey--Stephens/index.html

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