Ebenezer Peter and Hannah (MALTBIE) BULKLEY
Her Parents - Jonathon and Sarah (POTTER) MALTBIE
Spouse Parents -
Kids - Ebenezer , Hannah , Maltbie , Sarah , Mary , John , Abigail and George
CHf. Hannah MALTBIE, b. Oct. 5, 1741 (Jonathan 2, Wm. 1). m. Dec. 11, 1765, Ebenezer Peter BULKLEY, of Fairfield, Conn., son of Joseph and Esther (Hill) BULKLEY. He was b. at Fairfield, Dec. 5, 1731. (Ref. Bulkley Gen. and Fairfield Records). In 1897 their residence in Fairfield was still standing. The compiler has a news- paper picture of their house, printed in the "Bridgeport Daily Stan- dard, March 11, 1916." Beneath the picture it states: "This house, which ante dates the Revolution, was the home of Peter Ebenezer Bulkley, when the British landed in Fairfield in 1779, it was one of the first houses to be encounted by them on their march up Beach lane, and was set on fire, but saved. The family had fled up the hills in an ox cart at the approach of the British. It is a well preserved example of the old salt-box type. Valuables buried in the garden during the Revolution are in possession of descendants today."
A sub-heading in the long article is "Fired On by the British." "Peter Ebenezer, a brother of Nathan Bulkley, lived in the house at the time the British sailed up the Sound to make an attack on Fairfield. The view of this house presents the side open to the fire of the British guns. It is said that one of the old shing- les on the house at that time, is preserved as a relic by a Bridge- port family and shows the bullet hole. . . .Mr. Bulkley's wife, Hannah, a daughter of Major Maltbie, hurried the eldest son Eben, 12 years of age, out to the yard for the oxen, hitched out front. The cart was hastily leaded with a few of the most necessary house- hold effects and the five children were bundled on top, the house abandoned, and the family set out for a place of safety back in the country. They had trundled along for five miles, up towards Platts- ville before a place of refuge was found with some hospitable far- mers by the name of Wilson". . . .Some of the possessions they had taken to bury, anticipating an attack were:--"Some of the lovely old blue China, brought by the trading vessels from the famous pott- eries of China and other far eastern parts, was hidden in a hole in the garden. Some delicate crystal bearing an ornamental tracing in delicate lines, was also carefully buried. The simple pewter plates and platters, beautiful in shape, were among the treasures consigned to the hiding place in the ground.". . . ."Some of these relics are
now in possession of Mrs. F. W. Bolande, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Beach and also a great-great granddaughter of Maltbie Buckley, who was born in 1776, and was one of the children to make his escape on the family oxcart. . . .The little family who had fled, had left the wash tubs filled with water in their haste, a scout dumped the water on the flames and quickly had them extinguished."
"The red salt-box house on Beach lane, was like all houses of its type and has been altered but little within or without, except for modern conveniences and a dome window in the back of the low slanting roof. A porch is part way across the front, which was not there in the earlier days and the quaint little panes of glass in the window frames have been replaced by more modern ones. The big chimney remains and the fireplaces have been retained. . . .
"The motto of the Bulkley family, translated, means: 'Neither rashly or timidly,' and the records of the little red salt-box house during the troublesome times of the Revolution showed that the motto was a fitting one." (Article by Helen Harrison).
After the death of her husband, Hannah mar. (2) Seth Morehouse (5), b. Fairfield, Conn. July 8, 1734; died at Fairfield, in March, 1799. Hannah died Oct. 3, 1820.
Seth Morehouse by his first wife, Ruth Sherwood, probably widow of Daniel Sherwood, and dau. of Daniel Summers, had a daughter, Parthenia Morehouse, who married Maltbie Buckley, son of Peter Ebe- nezer and Hannah (Maltbie) Buckley.
The Bulkley family lineage has been traced back to Robert Bulk- eley, lord of Buclough, Co. Pheshire, A.D. 1200. Maternal ances- tral lines include Davenport, (the family of Rev. John Davenport of New Haven) Bird (family of Dorothy (Bird) Lord) of Hartford, Cres- sonor, Ilsby of Lincolnshire, and many others. The Bulkleys are en- titled to a coat-of-arms.
Bulkley Arms.
Arms: Sable, a chevron argent, between three bull's heads, or, affronte.
Crest: out of a ducal coronet or, a bull's head and neck, argent, on profile (Ref. Hall Genealogy, p. 122).
Children of Hannah Maltbie and Peter Ebenezer Bulkley.
CHf-A. Ebenezer Bulkley, b. Nov. 19, 1766.
CHf-b. Hannah " b. Oct. 14, 1768.
CHf-C. Maltbie " b. Dec. 3, 1770.
CHf-d. Sarah " b. May 2, 1773.
CHf-e. Mary " b. May 14, 1775.
CHf-F. John " b. Oct. 28, 1778; d. 1782.
CHf-g. Abigail " b. Mch. 16, 1781; d. April 7, 1788.
CHf-H. George " b. Aug. 2, 1784; m. Ruth Barnes;
he died in 1864 in Ohio.
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Ebenezer