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Ebenezer Battelle (1754-1815) was an American Revolutionary War veteran, a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts, and a settler of Marietta, Ohio, in the late 18th century. ==Biography== Battelle was born in 1754 in Dedham, Massachusetts, to Ebenezer Battelle (d.1776) and Prudence Draper.〔Roberts. History of the Military company of the Massachusetts, now called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. 1637-1888, Volume 2. A. Mudge & son, printers, 1897.〕 He attended Harvard College (class of 1775); schoolmates included Fisher Ames〔Letter from Fisher Ames to Rufus Putman, 1791. Memoirs of Rufus Putnam and certain official papers and correspondence. Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1903.〕 and Benjamin Bourne.〔Quinquennial catalogue of the officers and graduates of Harvard University, 1636-1915. Harvard University Press, 1915〕 He "was a volunteer at the battle of Lexington. ... (1776, he ) served nineteen days at Castle Island, Dec. 11 to Dec. 30, 1776; went on the expedition to Providence, R.I., May 8 to July 8, 1777; re-enlisted, and served from March 23 to April 5, 1778, and was commissioned captain of the Eighth Company in the Suffolk Regiment, July 2, 1778. He was promoted to be major, April 1, 1780, and became colonel of the Boston regiment in 1784." He joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts in 1786.〔 After the war Battelle sold and published books〔WorldCat. (Battelle, Ebenezer 1754-1818 )〕 from his shop in Boston on State Street (ca.1783-1785)〔Boston Evening Post, Sept. 13, 1783〕 and Marlboro Street (1785-ca.1787).〔Massachusetts Centinel, Feb. 2, 1785〕〔Massachusetts Spy, April 12, 1787〕 In addition to books imported from London, he stocked American publications such as Isaiah Thomas' ''Almanack''〔Massachusetts Spy, Nov. 6, 1783〕 and Noah Webster's ''Grammatical Institutes.'' Battelle married Anna Durant; children included Ebenezer Battelle (b.1778) and Thomas Battelle (b.1781).〔 Battelle and his family settled in Marietta, Ohio, around 1789.〔An oration, delivered at Marietta, April 7, 1789, in commemoration of the commencement of the settlement formed by the Ohio Company. By Solomon Drown, Esq. M.B. / Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 21802〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ebenezer Battelle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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