Col. Ebenezer Zane and Elizabeth McCulloch

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Husband Col. Ebenezer Zane ¹

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           Born: 7 Oct 1747 - Berkeley Co, VA 1
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           Died: 19 Nov 1812 - Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV 1
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Wife Elizabeth McCulloch ²

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         Father: [Father] McCulloch (      -      )
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Children

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1 F Rebecca Zane ²

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           Born:  - Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV
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         Spouse: John Clarke (      -      ) 2
           Marr: Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Ebenezer Zane

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Colonel Zane was a great-grandson of Robert Zane, of Ireland. In the "Pennsylvania Magazine of Biography and History", vol. xii, p. 124, may be found the following copy of an old paper:
"Robert Zane came from Ireland in the year (date torn off) and landed in Elsinbarra near Salem, West Jersey, and stayed there about four years, in which time he built a canoe and went in search of a settlement and paddled along the side of the river and up the creek till at last he chose a place up Newton Creek in Gloucester county, which place is called Newtown; here he settled, having only one child whose name was Nathaniel, and was about two years old when he landed". (From another paper). "Robert Zane of Newtown, came to America in the year 1673, he was three times married, his last wife was Henry Willis's daughter by whom he had five children, namely: Robert, Nathan, Elnathan, Hester and Rachel. Nathaniel Zane, of Newtown, was by his first wife, who she was and from where there is no account; he died the last day of the 12th month of 1728 or 29, aged fifty-five years, and left eight children, namely: Margaret, Abigail, Joseph, Hannah, Jonathan, Ebenezer, Isaac and William, who were all living when the youngest (William) was thirty-four years old". * * * "After the death of the above Nathaniel Zane, Grace, his widow, who was a daughter of William Rakestraw, married David Price. * * * Colonel Ebenezer was a son (in all probability) of Ebenezer, above mentioned, and a grandson of Nathaniel and not a son. Ebenezer (above) was born in 1708, which would make him entirely too old a man to bear the part in pioneer fighting life that Colonel Ebenezer did."

He was a noted Indian fighter, and was in Port Henry (Wheeling, Virginia) during five different attacks by Indians and the last time the fort was attacked by British and Indians Colonel Zane commanded the defenders. The Zanes were pioneer settlers of Wheeling, and the Ohio Valley, and endured all the dangers and privations of Indian warfare. Two of the family were taken prisoners and held for a long time, eventually marrying squaws. Betty Zane of "Powder" fame was a sister or sister-in-law of the Colonel John McCulloch, who took the "flying leap" over Wheeling Hill to escape the Indians. He was a brother of the Colonel's wife Elizabeth McCulloch.

The "History of the Ohio Valley" says "Ebenezer, Jonathan and Silas Zane came from the South Fork of the Potomac to Wheeling in 1760, immediately after the treaty of Colonel Boquet". The first town lot was sold by Ebenezer Zane in 1793. Colonel Zane's house was built on the corner of Eleventh and Main streets, and Fort Henry was built on the opposite corner. He was a soldier stationed at Fort Henry, Wheeling, Virginia, September 1, 1777, and was one of the defenders of the fort, when it was attacked by British and Indians on that date. This was the first battle on the frontier, during the Revolution, with the English and Indians allied. The fort was attacked on five different dates, the last one on September 11, 1782, by the same allied forces. The defence lasted three days and was under the command of Colonel Zane. The fort was not taken. Colonel Zane was a surveyor and located Zane's Trail, later the Maysville turnpike, across Ohio from Wheeling to Maysville, Kentucky. The town sites of Zanesville, Lancaster and Chillicothe all lie along the line of Zane's Trail. He received large grants of land from the government for surveying and locating Zane's Trail and it is on this land that the sites of the towns mentioned are located. Zanesville, Ohio, was named after the Colonel.

One of Ebenezer Zane's daughters, Sarah Zane McIntyre Young, lived in Zanesville, Ohio, and left her fortune to build two Methodist churches and to establish a fund for the education of the poor children of Zanesville; that fund now [1911] amounts to about one million of dollars.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 965.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 966.