Claim: Ebenezer Stevens, born on August 11, 1751 in Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America, was a merchant and general and has eleven children with Rebecca Hodgden.
Evidence: He married his first wife, Rebecca Hodgden (sometimes spelled Hodgdon), in Providence, Rhode Island, on October 11, 1774. Together, Ebenezer and Rebecca were the parents of: Elizabeth Stevens (1775–1777), who died young. Horatio Gates Stevens (1778–1873), who married Eliza Lucille Rhinelander (1789–1873), a daughter of William Rhinelander. He was also a major general in the New York state militia. Rebecca Hodgden Stevens (1780–1815), who married John Peter Schermerhorn, a brother of Abraham Schermerhorn (both sons of Peter Schermerhorn). George Alexander Stevens (1782–1807), who died unmarried, lost at sea.