Captain Ebenezer Battle, also known as Ebenezer Battelle, represented

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in the

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. He was also a selectman in 1779. Battle fought the retreating British soldiers following the

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. One of his men, Elias Haven, died at

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. After the fighting ended, his men walked the entire length of the battlefield, collecting weapons and burying the dead. He had one son,

Ebenezer Battelle 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. Life in Dedham Battelle was born in 1754 in Dedham, Massachusetts, to Eb ...

. He was described as "one of the industrious honest yeomanry of the good old bay state who duly appreciated the value of learning."

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