Colonel Ebenezer Folsom, NSDAR, Valdosta, GA

Colonel Ebenezer Folsom, NSDAR, Valdosta, GA The largest non-profit, non-political volunteer women's service organization in the world They were parents of five sons.

Colonel Ebenezer Folsom Chapter was chartered in December 2001 and was named in honor of Ebenezer Folsom who was born May 16, 1730, at Ashford, CT, and at an early age moved to North Carolina where he married his second wife, Elizabeth Daniel, about 1754 in Beaufort Co, NC. He participated in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge where the Whigs routed the Tories in one of the early battles of the Am

erican Revolution. On May 7th, 1776, the Provincial Congress and the State Council of Safety, "Resolved that Ebenezer Folsom be allowed 10-pounds for his vigilance and important services rendered for his country in the late insurrection." Not as a reward, but as a mark of his country's confidence and approbation. On the same day he was appointed Colonel of the Cumberland County Militia. He was ordered to take 200-300 men and to range Cumberland County and impress Tories to cease murdering and robbing Patriots and "on receiving said Declaration call a general meeting of the people of Cumberland County and read the Declaration of Independence to them so they may be informed thereof, and that it be read to the regiment stationed at Cross Creek."

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Colonel Ebenezer Folsom Chapter was chartered in December 2001 and was named in honor of Ebenezer Folsom who was born May 16, 1730, at Ashford, CT, and at an early age moved to North Carolina where he married his second wife, Elizabeth Daniel, about 1754 in Beaufort Co, NC. They were parents of five sons.

He participated in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge where the Whigs routed the Tories in one of the early battles of the American Revolution. On May 7th, 1776, the Provincial Congress and the State Council of Safety, "Resolved that Ebenezer Folsom be allowed 10- pounds for his vigilance and important services rendered for his country in the late insurrection." Not as a reward, but as a mark of his country's confidence and approbation. On the same day he was appointed Colonel of the Cumberland County Militia. He was ordered to take 200-300 men and to range Cumberland County and impress Tories to cease murdering and robbing Patriots and "on receiving said Declaration call a general meeting of the people of Cumberland County and read the Declaration of Independence to them so they may be informed thereof, and that it be read to the regiment stationed at Cross Creek."