Ebenezer Battelle

Ebenezer Battelle (1754–1815) was an American Revolutionary War veteran, a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts, and a settler of Marietta, Ohio, in the late 18th century.

Battelle was born in 1754 in Dedham, Massachusetts, to Ebenezer Battle (d.1776) and Prudence Draper.

[1][2] He attended Harvard College (class of 1775); schoolmates included Fisher Ames[3] and Benjamin Bourne.

[7] He was one of three, along with Nathaniel Ames and Abijah Draper who erected the Pillar of Liberty in Dedham in 1766 to commemorate the repeal of the Stamp Act.

[11][12] In addition to books imported from London, he stocked American publications such as Isaiah Thomas' Almanack[13] and Noah Webster's Grammatical Institutes.