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Colonel Ebenezer Francis. The recent dedication of the Bennett Delta recalls the memory of another distinguished soldier who lived at this spot: Ebenezer Francis was born here on December 22, 1743, and baptized on Christmas Day, the following Sunday, and here he lived to mamed Ebenezer, and he became a prominent merchant of Boston. Colonel Francis had three brothers who became officers in the Revolutionary ard of the regiments under Colonel Seth Warner, Colonel Hale and Colonel Francis. Hale's regiment abandoned the field precipitately, so that the whole burden of the fight devolved on Colonels Francis and Warner, who were left with a force of not more than nine hundred men. The Brirs. Forty officers and men were killed, including the gallant Colonel Francis. An account of his death from the journal of Captain Greenleaf says:— Colonel Francis first received a ball through his right arm, but still continued at the head of his troops till he received th