Ebenezer Larned or Learned, born at Oxford, Massachusetts, on the 18th
of April, 1728, served in the French and Indian War as the captain of
a company of rangers. At the beginning of the Revolution, he marched
to Cambridge at the head of a regiment of eight months’ militia.
Arriving after the battle of Lexington, he took part in the conflict
at Bunker Hill, and during the siege of Boston unbarred the gates with
his own hands, when the British evacuated that city, March 17, 1776.
Being wounded shortly after, he was compelled to retire from active
service for nearly a year. The 2d of April, 1777, Congress appointed
him a brigadier-general; but his health gradually failing, he sought
permission to leave the army, and retired on the 24th of March,
1778. The following year he acted as chairman of the Constitutional
Convention, and died in his native town on the 1st of April, 1801.