Eyres, Ephraim

From: Biography Of Ephraim Eyres by Marilyn Sapienza
- Ephraim was born 13 June 1733 to Edward Ayres of North Brookfield, MA and his wife, Jemima Davis.
- Ephraim was on the payroll for the Ware River Parish expedition in 1757 to serve under Lord Loudon at age 24 with his brothers Jedediah and Stephen. (French-Indian War period) (war records)
- Ephraim was on the payroll of Capt. Thomas Cowden or Loudin between Mar – Dec 1762 at age 29, serving for a second time with his brother, Stephen Eyres. (French-Indian war records)
- Ephraim was a resident tenant of Skenesboro, N.Y. With wife, Mary; Ephraim was 39. First census of VT 1772.
- At age 42, Ephraim was in John Steven’s Co., Col. Benedict Arnold’s Regiment of Massachusetts against Ticonderoga, Crown Point, etc. in 1775. Ephraim served as a Corporal and enlisted May 1, 1775.
- Ephraim joined Jessup’s Rangers between December 1775 and August 1777, when he was captured.
- Ephraim was captured in 1777 and taken to Albany jail at age 44. He was on a scouting mission at the time of his capture. (Vermont Archives) Ephraim spent 6 days in Bennington before transport. (6 years in Albany)
- Wife, Mary, allowed to leave Bennington, VT with possessions she could prove were hers and to go forward to Ticonderoga (VT Archives)
- Ephraim escaped from the Albany jail in 1782 at age 49, and was in Canada after 1782. Ephraim deceased at Elizabethtown in 1802 at age 69, probably from smallpox. His “home lot” was in Elizabethtown.
- Peter Drummond certified that, “Ephraim Eyers was a resident in the Province of Upper Canada in the year…1796…and continued to reside there until the time of his death which was sometime in the year 1802…that he was a private in my company in the Royal Canadian Volunteers when he died…18 Feb. 1807 at Edwardsburgh in the District of Johnstown.
Proven United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=2661
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