Ezra STRONG, II

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BIOGRAPHY: Occupation: Farmer in Hebron, Connecticut and Colchester and after 1772 at Williamsburgh Massachusetts, which was then a wilderness. In Williamsburgh he erected a two story frame house, and built a saw-mill and grist-mill. His house was burned and his mills carried off by a freshet. He was then drafted and served in the Revolutionary army in 1775. His farm was on one of the highest hills in the town and on the old homestead one generation after another of his descendants had lived and died . He married Temerance 3 days before her 15th birthday.

Ezra married Temperance PHELPS on 24 Apr 1754. Temperance (daughter of Capt. Solomon PHELPS and Temperance BARBER) was born on 27 Apr 1739 in Hebron, Toland, Connecticut; died on 26 Oct 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Temperance STRONG was born on 15 Jan 1758; and died.
2. Arsenath STRONG was born on 3 Aug 1760; died in Jan 1855.
3. Solomon STRONG was born on 19 Aug 1765; died on 18 Jul 1852.
4. William STRONG was born on 30 May 1768; died on 30 May 1780.
5. Abigail Caverly STRONG was born on 21 Feb 1773; died on 11 May 1843.
6. Hannah STRONG was born on 9 Apr 1775; died on 23 Jan 1827.