REV. EBENEZER DEVOTION

• Death Notes
  • Rev. Ebenezer Devotion. Born ca 1684 at Roxbury, MA. Baptized on 19 Oct 1684 at First Church, Roxbury.46 Ebenezer died at Suffield, CT, on 11 Apr 1741.
    
    

• General Notes
  • (EBENOZIER) IN SOME RECORDS
    Education: Harvard 1707.
    Ebenezer was 1710-1741] the third minister of Suffield, ordained 28 Jun 1710 and serving until his death in 1741. His salary was 80 per year and a dwelling house.
    Epitaph: " Here lies the body of Rev.. Ebenezer Devotion late minister of the Gospel of this town, who died April the 11th, 1741 in the 31st year of his ministry at 57. He was a man of sound judgement, great Stability of mind, singular Modesty and Humility, a True Friend and Faithful Minister, steady in his attendance upon the Alter, close and pungent in his preaching and very exemplary in his life, a Pattern of Industry and Resignation and of all Christian Graces, as while living he was greatly beloved so his death was very much lamented."
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    His WILL ON FILE in Will on File at Hartford, CT.
    
    REV. Ebenezer Devotion was for many years [1710-1741] the 3rd minister of the town of Suffield, CT. He was a graduate of Harvard College in 1707. He was ordained at Suffield June 28,1710 as town Minister with a salary of 80 Pounds per annium and a dwelling house and continued as minister until his death. He was buried at Suffield and on his Tombstone appears the following epitaph " Here lies the body of Rev.. Ebenezer Devotion late minister of the Gospel of this town, who died April the 11th, 1741 in the 31st year of his ministry at 57. He was a man of sound judgement, great Stability of mind @ singular Modesty and Humility, a True Friend and Faithful Minister, steady in his attendance upon the Alter, close and pungent in his preaching and very exemplary in his life, a Pattern of Industry and Resignation and of all Christian Graces, as while living he was greatly beloved so his death was very much lamented." He had outlived 3 wives and left behind 9 children.
    
    He left a considerable estate to be divided among his 3 children Ebenezer, Hannah and Mary.
    
    His son Ebenezer and Joseph King were executors of his will and took care of the estate for 13 years until it was settled. The inventory of the estate was taken 24 April 1741 and amounted to 5,000 Pounds. In his inventory was mentioned 2 oxen 30 Pounds and Philip the Negro man 30 Pounds. [The records show that their Negro woman Sarah died Oct. 26, 1713] The slave was invoiced among the cattle.
    
    The services of Capt. Joseph King in handling the estate seem to have been appreciated; for attached to the "Reckoning" or settlement of the estate is the following paper.
    
    " Whereas Capt. King, one of the aforesaid Executors, has spent much time and care for thirteen years past to settle the aforesaid Estate, and has omitted to take a particular and exact account of many the lesser Articles of time and charge which cannot be come at the said Devotian executor with him Judge, It Reasonable, and accordingly give my consent to abate and allow the sd Joseph King for such extraordinary Trouble 20 pounds which he owes the estate, and which has not been recorded in the above reckoning due to the estate for the improvement of the slow lot and 20 pounds out of his debt in the foregoing page, and to give a quit claim of the before named 3 acres and thirty four rod in the great common, and my right in the undivided land mentioned in the foregoing page, all amounting to near about 70 pounds dated 25 Feb. 1755 signed Eb Devotion and witnessed by Don Smith, Kezia Smith, Jemima Devotion, Ezeliel Bissell, Mary Devotion, Ruth Bissell, John Devotion. "
    
    As the pastor at that time ministered to the Town and not just one church he was the most important person in the town. In a town meeting of August 2, 1709 the record states.
    
    " Mr. Devotion having already given the inhabitants a taste of his labors and some proofs of his abilities and accomplishments for the work of the Ministry to their liking and satisfaction he be invited to stay with them," Mr. Devotion's terms were stiff for the day.
    
    A salary of eighty pounds a year for five years, one hundred pounds a year thereafter, in addition for settlement, it was voted to give Mr. Devotion" one hundred and fifty Pounds as money and 60 acres of land" With the one hundred and fifty pounds, Samuel Harmon's house lot was purchased and a house was built for Mr. Devotion. In 1726 the town voted to Mr. Devotion twenty pounds towards the purchase of his Negroes. It was the prideful habit of the ministers, magistrates and innkeepers to keep Negroes. THEY WERE SLAVES, but they were referred to rather meticulously in the colonies at the same time only as servants. It must have helped the conscience.
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    THIRD GENERATION.
    REV. EBENEZER3 DEVOTION, (John,1 Edward1), bapt. Oct. 18,
    1684; died in Suffield April 12, 1741 ; married Oct. 4, 1710, Hannah
    Breck, daughter Capt. John Breck of Dorchester, Mass. He
    graduated at Harvard College 1707. He was ordained at Suffield
    June 28, 1710, as "Town Minister," with a salary of eighty
    pounds per annum and a dwelling house, and continued as such
    minister until his death.
    

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