Source: Mary Moore (MaryM6@aol.com) Source: Walter A. Davis, City Clerk, "The Early Records of the Town of Lunenburg, MA, Including that Part Which is Now Fitchburg 1719-1764" (1896); Sentinel Printing Company, Fitchburg Source: Saunderson & the Bellows Genealogy Also handwritten notes written by genealogist James Davie Butler, who was commissioned by my ggrandmother Julia Billings to research the Wetherbe family. The originals are at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Walter A. Davie wrote: (1888) " The French fort at Louisburg was destroying the New England fishery. Hence the New Englanders engaged in an expedition - which was counted foolhardy - against that stronghold; sailed March 24, took it 17 June 1745. But dispairing of speedy success, and knowing that a large force would be needed to hold the conquest, Massachusetts was still calling for troops. In the Ninth Regiment under Col. Joseph Dwight, Ephraim (Wetherbe) was commissioned as the 7th captain [see Register 25:265]. This was two weeks before the fall of Louisburg and a month before the news reached Boston. Capt Wetherbe reached the scene on 24 July 1745. He died in Boston 7 Nov 1745, leaving seven children under thirteen years of age and a widow who outlived him by 17 years. An elaborate manuscript concerning one branch of the Wetherbes was drawn up in 1853 by John A. Boutelle. In this work it is stated that Ephraim Wetherbe having a summons to fight the enemies of his country at Capr Breton, made his will a short time before his death. This statement must be erroneous. Diligent search in the probate office at Worcester has failed to find any will, but has brought to light the report made by the administrator odf the estate, 8 Feb 1748. The administrator was Joseph Wood, who had married Ephraim�s oldest daughter Ruth. There is a payment of �24-15 to Ephraim Kimball who in 1747 had married his daughter Mary; and a payment of �98-1-10 to John Pierce who seems to have been connected to his son Paul. Part of the home-place in Lunenburg was sold for �240, and 3 rights of land at #4 on the east side of the Connecticut River for �270. In 1753 the administrator appeared before the governor of New Hampshire and showed that, the title to the No 4 lots being defective, he had been obliged to repurchase them and owing to the depreciation of the currency had to pay back �500 for the land he had sold for �270. The case seemed so pitiful that the governor granted a new and clear title to Ephraim Wetherbe�s sons. [NH Town Papers Vol. XI p. 282]. It may have been owing to his father�s land falling back to him that Samuel Wetherbe was led to fix his residence at Charlestown. Regarding Ephraim Wetherb's burial place, Butler says this: The Wetherbe burials were originally where Samuel first settled, which was on a hillside between the Pike Cemetery and the Corners, and southwest of the latter. Their remains however were soon removed to the Pike Burial Ground. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submitted by Mary Moore