Career
Ebenezer Stevens was a participant in what became known as the Boston Tea Party. His later recollections to his family debunked the myth that the participants had dressed up as Native Americans. Not long after the Boston Tea Party he moved to Rhode Island and there, upon receiving news of the Battle of Lexington, volunteered for the Continental Army.
He was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Company of Rhode Island Artillery in May 1775, and fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill under Major General Nathanael Greene.
He was promoted to major of the Independent Battalion of Artillery on November 9, 1776. Ebenezer was selected by George Washington to raise battalions against Quebec, Canada.
Ebenezer was present at the surrender of the British General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York, on October 17, 1777. He served under the French general the Marquis de Lafayette in Virginia with distinction.
On November 24, 1778 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in Lamb"s Continental Artillery Regiment (later the 2nd Continental Artillery Regiment) to rank from April 30, 1778.
In 1781 he was one of the artillery commanders at the Siege of Yorktown. He was discharged from the Army in June 1783. Although it is stated in several sources that Stevens was a major general in the United States Army, there is no official documentation to support this notion.
He lived as a merchant in New York City.
