Deming
♂Ebenezer Deming
Born about 1659, Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. Died 1705, Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
Ebenezer Deming (about 1659 – 1705) was a man of the Connecticut Colony and the last of the five sons named in his father’s will of 1690, which left him “my best coat & my best Hatt”. He was the seventh great-grand-uncle of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), probably the brother of Mercy Deming (1651–1714), Roger’s seventh great-grandmother.
Life in Wethersfield
A compiled genealogy gives his birth at Wethersfield about 1659, to John Deming (1615–1705) and Honor Treat (1616–1690). When his father made his will on 26 June 1690, Ebenezer received his best coat and his best hat. Jonathan received a fifty-acre lot, Samuel the house and home lot, David the materials and tools of the shop, and John the great Bible, a feather bed and the great kettle. His father also named him, with Captain Samuel Talcott, an overseer of the will, whose executor was his brother Samuel. The same compiled genealogy names him constable of Wethersfield.
He also appears in the affairs of the Curtis family. On 6 March 1683/84 the Hartford court named Sergeant John Deming, Ebenezer Deming and John Curtis overseers to assist Mercy Curtis, the widow of Joseph Curtis, with her husband’s estate, and an Ebenezer Deming signed the division of Joseph’s land among his children on 27 April 1699, as “Ebenezer Deming Sen”. Later genealogies make Mercy his sister. The “Sen” suggests this Ebenezer, since his eldest son had the same name.
A compiled genealogy gives his death at Wethersfield on 2 May 1705, some months before his father’s will was proved at Hartford on 21 November that year.
Notes
The link to Mercy Deming
Mercy Deming’s place as a daughter of John Deming and Honor Treat rests on later genealogies. John Deming’s will names five sons, and its daughters only by their married surnames; it does not name Mercy.
Two men of the name
A “Mr. Ebenezer Deming, Sen.” was named one of two executors in the 1734 will of Thomas Curtiss, a Wethersfield mariner, as printed in Manwaring’s digest of Hartford probate records (vol. 3, p. 253). The printed abstract does not say which Ebenezer he was.
Family time line
No marriage or children recorded.
Recorded events
| Event | When | Where | Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth compiled (Mackenzie, Colonial Families vol. 6 p.179) - no record seen |
abt 1659 | Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America | from a compiled source |
| Death compiled (Mackenzie, Colonial Families vol. 6 p.179) - no record seen |
2 May 1705 | Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America | from a compiled source |
Sources
- Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 — Birth, Death, about this person
- Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 — about this person
Borders as they stood about 1650 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.
Line of descent
- John Deming abt 1615–bef 1705
- Unknown Deming 1570–
- not yet known
- Honor Treat 1616–bef 1690
- Richard Treat 1584–1669/1670
- Robert Trott –1599
- Richard Trott –1570
- John Trott 1445–1503
- John Trott 1415–1475
- Unknown (surname unknown) 1430–
- Martha Susana Ryse 1484–1577
- John Trott 1445–1503
- Joanna (surname unknown)
- Richard Trott –1570
- Honora (surname unknown) –1627
- Robert Trott –1599
- Alice Gaylard 1594–1669
- Hugh Gaylard –1614
- Nicholas Gaylord 1500–1546
- Joan Sevenoak 1500–1572
- John Sevenoak 1460–1520
- not yet known
- Alice (surname unknown) 1555–1594
- Hugh Gaylard –1614
- Richard Treat 1584–1669/1670