Ebenezer MOULTON
Biography

The following account of Ebenezer Moulton, given on page 466, Volume II., of the History of Baptists in New England, seems to be substantiated by record : "The first Baptist church in the county of Hampshire was formed in Brimfield, 4th of November, 1736, and Mr. Ebenezer Moulton was ordained their pastor, 4th of November, 1741. His father and a majority of the church opposed the work that was then going on in the land, while he and a minor part were alive in it ; and they had much controversy about it for seven years, and then about fifteen of them told their experi ences to each other's satisfaction and signed new articles and a covenant, and Mr. Moulton took them as his church and would not allow any others to commune with them without coming in at this door. Elder Moulton was often called to other places to preach and baptize in and after 1749. He was called more than eighty miles that year and baptized ten at Bridgewater and three in Raynham. But as his people had been trained up with prejudices against hireling ministers they did very little for the support of their own minister; therefore he took to mechandising when there were scarcely any mer chants in that part of the country; and he seemed to prosper for a number of years and was a leader in building them a new meeting house. But towards the close of the war, which ended in 1763, money was plenty and merchants multiplied, and Mr. Moulton found himself involved in debt and his cred itors ready to devour him and he fled to Nova Scotia where he preached in several places. About 1779 Mr. Moulton ob tained letters of license from his creditors to come home and he was esteemed among his old people until he died there in 1783"

Title Moulton Annals
Author Henry William Moulton
Editor Claribel Moulton
Publisher Edward A. Claypool, 1906




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