NameRev. Ebenezer Burt, Jr.
Birth9 Mar 1766, Norton, Bristol Co., MA.
Death25 Nov 1861, Athol, Worcester Co., MA., @ 95 yrs 8 mos 16 days.
Misc. Notes
Sources & Information:
Ancestry.com> 1850 United States Federal Census, Town of Ware, Hampshire Co., Masssachusetts, on the 5th day of August 1850. Listing Ebenezer Burt, age 84, birth year 1766, in Massachusetts, male, home in Ware, Hampshire, Massachusetts, the household members shown along with Ebenezer Burt, age 84, includes a Cathern R. Burt, age 50 [ a question as to idenity] with Real Estate value of $4200.00. The Rev. Ebenezer Burt appears in this census @ age 84 and living in the town of Ware, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. He being listed under the name of a Cathern R. Burt who in my effort to identify could possible be Lutheria [Robinson] Burt the wife of son Ebenezer Burt, he born 19 May 1799 and who had died prior to census on 20 May 1850 for I.D.
Ebenezer Ellis family removed from Norton to Hardwick in 1796, and was pastor of the Baptist Church Society until 19 Nov. 1827. While here he resided in the S/W part of the town, at the place marked "Mr Burt" on the R. Map. He remained. to Ware and thence to Athol where he died 25 Nov. 1861. His wife Lucy d. 26 or 27 February 1828, @ age 67.
Ancestry.com, Descendants of Banfield Capron family and five other listings say Ebenezer Burt died in Hardwick, Worcester, MA.
Reference: History of Hardwick, Massachusetts, by Lucius R. Page, 1883. Fax Simile Reprint, 1994 by Heritage Books, Inc.
"Rev. Ebenezer Burt", was the first pastor of the Baptist Church "Society" in Hardwick, was ordained June 20, 1798. After a faithful and devoted ministry of nearly thirty years, he was dismissed November 19, 1827. He subsequently resided several years in Ware, and then removed to Athol, where he died November 25, 1861. Age nearly 96. He continued to preach, occasionally, until extreme old age disabled him.
Ebenezer Burt, "born March 9, 1766, was the son of Deacon Ebenezer and Abigail (Bassett), grandson of Ebenezer and Naomi (Campbell), and great grandson of Ebenezer and Lydia (Tippen) Burt, who were among the early inhabitants of Norton. When 14 yrs old he joined the old Baptist church, August 29, 1794, he was licensed to preach by the Baptist Church of Dighton, and preached in this vicinity till November 2, 1796, when he removed to Hardwick, and gathered a society in the southwest part of the town, where he was ordained as an evangelist (standing upon a great rock), June 20, 1797. A church was organized in 1806, and he was installed the pastor, which position he held till November 1846, when he preached his half-century Sermon". He may have preached such a sermon; but he certainly was dismissed long before that date, and had had at least two successors.
HISTORY OF WARE, MASSACHUSETTS, By Arthur Chase, Cambridge, The University Press, 1911, page 187, "Later Religious Societies".
At an early date a Baptist Society was established on the edge of Hardwick just north of the Ware Line and west of Muddy Brook. Baptists were mentioned in the Hardwick records as early as 1777, though the formation of this society was not effected until 1797. The Church in connection with the society was instituted in 1801, at which time a house of worship was erected. The first pastor, Rev. Ebenezer Burt, was ordained in 1798. He held the pastorate nearly thirty years, and is remembered by a few of the old residents as a venerable man, occupying a seat in the pulpit and leading in prayer long after he was too feeble to preach. He died in Athol in 1861 at the age of 96. He is remembered by some as "Old Priest Burt" and by others as "Elder Burt". A considerable number of Mr. Burt's followers lived in Ware, and in 1810 the town voted that his congregation should receive its share of the singing-master's labor. In 1811 it was voted to abate the taxes of those persons that belong to Mr. Burt's Church, thus leaving them free to support the religious organization of their choice. Certificates of membership in other than the parish church were filed with the Town Clerk, registration being necessary to gain abatement of the regular minister's tax. In 1811 twenty-three persons presented certificates as belonging to another religious society, other names being added from year to year, making a total of something over one hundred during the fifteen years that such certificates were filed.
Mr. Burt's successor was Rev. Joseph Glazier, who was installed in 1831. Rev. Nelson B. Jones followed Mr. Glazier in 1837, to be succeeded two years later by Rev. William Brown. About 1840 Mr. Glazier was recalled and continued as pastor until the society removed to Ware. The meeting-house was sold to Daniel S. Collins and converted into a barn in 1846. It may still be seen at the farm just north of the old Burying Ground.
Spouses
Birth13 Aug 1760, p n/k
Death26 Feb 1828, Hardwick, Worcester Co., MA., 67 yrs 6 mos 13 days.
Burial1828, Baptist Cemetery [see notes under Lucy Ellis Burt].
Marriage19 Nov 1789, Taunton, Bristol Co., MA.