Chittenden County

AMBLER, Ebenezer

Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, p 824

Ebenezer AMBLER was born 26 April 1756 in West Chester County, New York, son 
of John AMBLER. Besides being first selectman of the first board chosen at 
the original organization of the town [of Huntington, Chittenden County, 
Vermont], he was for several years one of the justices of the peace in the 
town. He was in the American service in the Revolution, and was at one time 
taken prisoner by the Hessians.

Ebenezer AMBLER married Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Charles BREWSTER, in 
Tinmouth [Rutland County], Vermont, and removed from thence to Huntington in 
1787. They had only two children, a son named John, born 29 October 1784, 
and a daughter named Elizabeth, commonly called Betsey, born 29 May 1794, 
both of whom are [1867] living. Ebenezer AMBLER died 26 April 1826, aged 
seventy years.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly