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Note: Last night I was searching some of the VT books and I found this. I have been saying for a long time that Ebenezer and Thomas probably died from either scarlet fever ("canker rash") or typhoid pneumonia (spotted fever). From this it appears my suspicion was correct.
I quote: "In the winter of 1795-96 the canker rash or ulcerous sore throat, (scarlet fever) was very prevalent and malignant in the township and in the vicinity. During the winter of 1812-1813 there were cases of spotted fever in the town; and in the latter part of February 1813, theses were followed by typhoid pneumonia, or lung fever, which became a prevailing and frightful epidemic. Its principal ravages were in the months of March and April and there were no new cases after the middle of May following. There were about 60 deaths from this disease in less than three months."
It looks to me like they died from typhoid. Info supplied by Joyce Grady
Gs:Cong'l Cemetery; DAR Application Paper #47283 of Louise Northrop Robinson
In 1768 Ebenezer purchased from Amos Bird of Salisbury Connecticut, land in Castleton, Vermont, although he apparently did not move there until about 1786. Ebenezer and his brother Abraham signed the "Association" in June or July 1775 at Northeast, New York, as reported by Uriah Lawrence, Esquire, committee. He was a sergeant in Capt. Abraham Hartwell's co., Col. James Vanderburgh's Regiment, as shown by a payroll dated Clinton, NY, 25 September 1778; service 20 days, and his name also appears on the list of "Land Bounty Rights" (DAR Application Paper 47283). He is listed on the 1790 Census as the head of a household in Castleton, VT, with three males over 16 years (prob. himself, Ebenezer and John), five males under 16 (prob. James, Coleman, Ira, Thomas and Oramel), and five females (prob. wife Hannah and daughters Asenath, Roxana, Sarah and Hannah).
In his will, dated 1 April 1813, and allowed 7 April 1813 (Fair Haven, VT Probates, Book 8:532), Ebenezer named beloved wife Hannah, and gave the following bequests: to sons Peter and James $4 each; to sons Ebenezer, John and Thomas $50 each; to daughters Sina Gill and Roxy Castle $10 each; to daughter Salla Porter $2; sons Coleman, Ira, Oramel and daughter Hannah Hartwell received the residue of the estate. Son Hiram is also mentioned, but son Horace is not. However, Fair Haven deeds show that Horace sold his share of Ebenezer's estate to Coleman Hartwell on 12 April 1816 (Fair Haven Deeds 5:100), leading to speculation that perhaps Horace's name was misread as Hiram when the will was transcribed into the Fair Haven probate book. Assuming that Ebenezer named his children in chronological order (which may not be the case), the listing in his will differs somewhat from the listing given in the 1962 Supplement to HOA, which revised and corrected the listing in the 1956 edition, copied verbatim from Densmore's 1887 work on the Hartwell family. This list is evidently based on copies of Bible records obtained by Isabel (Treadwell) Towne, who did a great deal of genealogical research on her lines during the 1920s and 1930s, and to whom much of the information on Ebenezer and Hannah (Bangs) Hartwell, their ancestry and descendants, should be credited. Isabel searched long and hard for the original Bible, which was carried to Oregon by Harriet Sophia (Hartwell) (Deane) Segerdahl, but she was unsuccessful in finding it. Isabel's files contain several copies of transcriptions of these records in different handwritings, but all have the same dates. Curiously, there is less than a 9-month span between the births of three sets of the children: Ebenezer/John, Thomas/Roxada" and Oramel/Sarah. Correspondence from Helen (Mrs. Wilfred) Lewis in 1980 provided a date of January rather than HOA's July 1784 for Thomas Hartwell, thus solving one of the problems. Also, John's birth date might be explained by the fact that the recorder "forgot" that a new year had started, but this explanation does not apply to Oramel/Sarah. Ebenezer's gravestone is inscribed: "Here lies my kind companion dear / A moldering back to clay / For death on him hath laid his hand / But thru the goodness of the Lord /I trust He's won the prize / Let Angels guard his sleeping dust / Till Jesus bids its rise."
Information provided by Joy Hartwell Peach, United States
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