Ebenezer Dorr (1739-1809)
Philadelphia, 1800
Inscription on plate "Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philada:"
No 271
NPG (D. 203): "Eb: Door. 1800.)
CGA (folio 15): "Eb. Door." Added after "Eb" in another hand: "en"
BN" "Door"
Source of identification: Inscriptions; descendants.
In 1775 Ebenezer Dorr, like Paul Revere (q.v.), rode from Boston to warn residents of Massachesetts about the advancing British army. After the Revolution, Dorr became a merchant in the China trade.
Ref: Esther Forbes, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (rev.ed.; New York, 1983) p. 475
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