Col Ebenezer FOLSOM^[1]

Abt 1728 - 1788  (~ 60 years)

• Name	Ebenezer FOLSOM
  Prefix	Col
  Born	Abt 1728	Ashford, Windham, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	31 Mar 1728	Ashford, Windham, Connecticut
  Military Event	American Revolution - NC: Lt Col  [2]
  Served American Revolution?	Y
  Military Flag	Y
  Died	18 Aug 1788	N Carolina
  Person ID	I11077	Main
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Samuel FOLSOM,   b. Abt 1716, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. Abt 1800, Ohio  (Age ~ 84 years)
  Mother	Ann BINGHAM,   d. ?
  Family ID	F3752	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edith,   d. ?
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F10709	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1728 - Ashford, Windham, Connecticut Baptism - 31 Mar 1728 - Ashford, Windham, Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Settled in North Carolina, near Cape Fear river, Fayetteville, Cumberland county. His descendants are today settled over the southern states. ----- I Ebenezer Folsom of Cumberland County and State of North Carolina, being weak of body but of perfect mind and memory do make and ordain this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and utterly annuling all and every other testament and will by me made ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. After payment of all my just debts and funeral charges I will and bequeath unto my beloved wife Edith, one negro fellow Faw, and also one wench Filles at her own disposal but the first child that Filles has I give to Andy Bryan, and also I give to my wife one third of all my pewter and one chair and two pots and five cows and calves, also two beds and furniture and likewise five hundred weight of meat, and twenty barrels of corn, and twenty bushels of wheat and I likewise give her one bay mare Janus and I lend to her during her natural life three hundred acres of land in Johnson County joining William Bryans, and after her death I give it to Needham Bryan his son, and I lend her negro boy called Will during her natural life and after her death to be equally divided as my other estate and my (???) to build a house on said land twenty by sixteen frame and plank floor and clear ten acres of land on the (???), and build a smoke house and milk house and is not to move from the Manner plantation until it is completed, and I give and bequeath unto my son Israel one negro fellow Simon and forty pounds, and I give to my son Nathaniel one negro fellow Guep and fifty pounds. I give to my son Ebenezer forty pounds, to my sons George and Thomas I give fifty pounds each for their schooling, and the remaining part of my real and personal estate I leave and give to my seven children to be equally divided by my executor at there (???) and according to there (???), and lastly I hereby constitute make and appoint and ordain my three sons Israel, Nathaniel and William my executors of this my last will and testament whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the seveenth (seventeenth) day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight. Signed and delivered in the presence of John Bohammont X his mark Ebenezer Folsom (Seal) Henry Stephenson Stephen Smith I hereby certify that I am satisfied and contented with the contents of within will. Edith, Her X mark, Folsom

  
  

• Sources

  [S21] FOLSOM. A Genealogy of the Folsom family : John Folsom and his descendants, 1615-1882, Chapman, Jacob, AM, (Republican Press Association, Concord, NH. 1882). [S24] Daughters of the American Revolution.