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- Thomas Burling, Joiner: Family, Friends and Furniture, by Jane Thompson-Stahr, M.S.W., published in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 127, pp 24-29.
Ebenezer left a will dated September 18, 1758, proved October 13, 1758, New York County Wills 21:139.
His wife died after April 4, 1776 when she was mentioned in the will of her father. A notice in the "New York Post-Boy, November 6, 1758, "Ebenezer Burling, dec'd - house, farm and mill in Eastchester for sale by execs., Richard and Caleb Lawrence." (Kenneth Scott, "Genealogical Data From the New York Post-Boy 1743=1773", National Gen. Soc., Publication 35, 1970)
Ebenezer and Mary were placed "under dealings" by Flushing MM for "undoe familiarity before marriage" (Flushing MM, Men's Minutes, 6 October 1737, HRR), their first child being born some four months after their marriage in 1737. They made amends, as Ebenezer and his wife for fornication was accepted" (MID 3:13, #127). Their first and second children were duly reported in the Friends minutes indicating they were reinstated. Nor was Mary the only Lawrence to get into marital difficulty with the Friends for her parents, Richard and Hannah (Bowne) Lawrence were condemned for "giving so much way to the marriage of daughter Elizabeth" who apparently married "out of meeting". In a monthly meeting held at Flushing the 7th day 12th month 1739. . . Hannah Lawrence accepted her fault in what misstep she took about her daughter Elizabeth's marriage and condemned it to the satisfaction of said meeting" (Flushing MM, Woman's Meeting 12 September 1739, HRR; also, FHL 0017354).
No further children of Ebenezer and Mary are listed in Friends. Sometime between 1739 and 1746, births of Hannah and Thomas, respectively, in Flushing, it appears that Ebenezer and Mary moved from Flushing to Westchester County, New York since Thomas was born there. The next year Ebenezer purchased for 245 pounds, "seven acres of land, two acres of salt meadow, house, barn (and) grist mill," in the town of Eastchester. (Westchester Co. Deeds H:159).
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1717 - Abt 1758 (41 years)