Knowing that such speculation, combined with Congressional grants of land sections to veterans of the Revolution, could result in a lucrative opportunity, Ebenezer Zane in 1796 petitioned the US Congress to grant him a contract to blaze a trail through Ohio, from Wheeling, West Virginia, to Limestone, Kentucky, ( near modern Maysville, Kentucky ) a distance of.

Her brother, Ebenezer Zane, who cut Zane's Trace from Wheeling to Maysville, Kentucky, opening the west for settlement, is also buried in Walnut Grove Pioneer Cemetery, along with Absalom and Ebenezer Martin and other important early settlers.

In 1796, Col. Ebenezer Zane received funds to blaze a road suitable for travel by horse through the Ohio wilderness from a point on the Ohio River opposite Wheeling, Virginia ( now Wheeling, West Virginia ) to another point opposite Maysville, Kentucky.

He was the youngest brother of Ebenezer Zane, for whom Zanesville, Ohio, is named.

The village was laid out in 1819 by Alexander Long and Ebenezer Zane.

During the fall of 1769, Ebenezer Zane explored the Wheeling area and established claim to the land via " tomahawk rights.

In 1793, Ebenezer Zane divided the town into lots, and Wheeling was officially established as a town in 1795 by legislative enactment.

He grew up in Zanesville, a city founded by his maternal great-grandfather Ebenezer Zane, an American Revolutionary War patriot ; from an early age, the boy was intrigued by history.

Ebenezer Zane, afterwards a famed “ Indian fighter ” and guide, was engaged at the same time and in the same way with a small party of men on lands which he had taken up at or near the mouth of Sandy Creek.

Ebenezer Zane and John Caldwell began the fort, which was completed with the help of Captain William Crawford, Colonel Angus McDonald and 400 militia and regulars from Fort Pitt.

* Zane's Tracts or Zane's Grant or Ebenezer Zane Tract ( see Zane's Trace )

Ebenezer Zane was one of six children born to William Andrew Zane and his wife, Nancy Ann Nolan.

Ebenezer Zane married Elizabeth McColloch ( October 30, 1748 – 1814 ).

Ebenezer Zane began his military career under British rule.

Ebenezer Zane died of jaundice in 1811.

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** Ebenezer Zane ( 1747 – 1811 ), American pioneer

** Betty Zane ( 1759 – 1823 ), sister of Ebenezer

The Particular ( Ebenezer ) Baptists moved to a new chapel on Cross Leech Street on 28 October 1828.

** Ebenezer Huntington ( F ), from October 11, 1810

In October 1939, delegates from Duck River, Mount Zion, Union, Mount Pleasant, Liberty, New Liberty and Ebenezer Associations, and the Pleasant Hill church of Kentucky, met at Garrison Fork Church, Bedford County, Tennessee, and organized the The General Association of The Baptists.

Sir Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs ( 19 October 1919 – 11 March 1995 ) was the first Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.

In an October 16 loss to the Denver Broncos, Mankins was ejected after striking Broncos defensive lineman Ebenezer Ekuban below the belt after a missed field goal.

Ebenezer Elmer ( August 23, 1752 – October 18, 1843 ) was an American physician from Bridgeton, New Jersey.

Ebenezer Emmons ( May 16, 1799 – October 1, 1863 ), was a pioneering American geologist whose work includes the naming of the Adirondack Mountains in New York as well as a first ascent of Mount Marcy.

It was a great personal loss when his wife died from pneumonia in 1949, though he kept on their Hampstead house with the aid of a housekeeper, until 1967 when he moved to Cambridge after marrying ( on 11 January ) Margaret Theodosia ( 1896 / 7 – 1975 ), widow of Laurence Beddome Turner, reader emeritus in engineering, Cambridge, and second daughter of George Frederick Ebenezer Scott, architect, and Mrs Bernard Turner, of Godstowe School, High Wycombe.

North of the former Highway 7, the road passes to the east of the community of Ebenezer and then west of the Canadian Pacific Railway Vaughan Intermodal Facility, a large rail yard.

On April 7, 1788, Ebenezer Sproat and a group of American pioneers to the Northwest Territory, led by Rufus Putnam, arrived at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers to establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.

Joseph Ebenezer " Joe " Shaw ( May 7, 1883 – September 1963 ) was an English football player and coach.

* Ebenezer M. Chamberlain ( 1805 – 1861 )

* 1858 – Ebenezer Sumner Draper, American politician, 44th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1914 )

* 1680 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister ( d. 1754 )

* 1781 – Ebenezer Elliott, British poet ( d. 1849 )

* June 2 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter ( b. 1680 )

* June 22 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter ( d. 1754 )

* December 24 – Actor Lionel Barrymore begins what will become an annual tradition of the Golden Age of Radio – playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in dramatizations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

* Ebenezer Allen – militia member ( lieutenant ) ( Ethan's cousin )

* Ebenezer Stoddard ( 1785 – 1847 ), a United States Representative from Connecticut and Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, was born in Union.

* Ebenezer Butterick ( 29 May 1826 – 31 March 1903 ), inventor of tissue paper dress patterns, which revolutionized home sewing.

Tuckerton is a Borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, named for founder Ebenezer Tucker ( 1758 – 1845 ), and was a port of entry, but not the third Port of Entry as commonly believed, in the United States As of the 2000 United States Census, the borough population was 3, 517.

Sir Ebenezer Howard ( 29 January 1850 – May 1, 1928 ) is known for his publication Garden Cities of To-morrow ( 1898 ), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature.

* Ebenezer Seaver ( 1763 – 1844 ), U. S. representative.

* Ebenezer Stevens ( 1751 – 1823 ), American Revolution activist, officer

Defending the cards, Mallory gathers his brothers and Ebenezer Fraser – a secret police officer – to fight the revolutionary Captain Swing who leads a London riot during " the Stink ", a major episode of pollution in which London swelters under an inversion layer ( comparable to the London Smog of December 1952 ).

* Ebenezer Huntington ( 1754 – 1834 ), member of the United States House of Representatives from 1817-1819.

* Walden Cliffs – A lakeside hamlet in the southwest corner of the town named after Ebenezer Walden, a prominent WNY citizen and once Mayor of Buffalo, NY.

Ebenezer Learned ( April 18, 1728 – April 1, 1801 ) was a brigadier general in the American Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

* A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar – also by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

* Ebenezer Syme ( 1826 – 1860 ), a Scottish-Australian journalist, proprietor and manager of The Age

Ebenezer Erskine ( 22 June 1680 – 2 June 1754 ) was a Scottish minister whose actions led to the establishment of the Secession Church ( formed of dissenters from the Church of Scotland ).

* Ebenezer Parkes ( 1848 – 1919 ), English L: iberal Unionist politician

* Ebenezer Denny ( 1761 – 1822 ), first mayor of Pittsburgh, American Revolutionary War veteran