Ebenezer Stevens, born on August 11, 1751 in Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America, was a merchant and general and has eleven children with Rebecca Hodgden.
He married his first wife, Rebecca Hodgden (sometimes spelled Hodgdon), in Providence, Rhode Island, on October 11, 1774. Together, Ebenezer and Rebecca were the parents of: Elizabeth Stevens (17751777), who died young. Horatio Gates Stevens (17781873), who married Eliza Lucille Rhinelander (17891873), a daughter of William Rhinelander. He was also a major general in the New York state militia. Rebecca Hodgden Stevens (17801815), who married John Peter Schermerhorn, a brother of Abraham Schermerhorn (both sons of Peter Schermerhorn). George Alexander Stevens (17821807), who died unmarried, lost at sea. 
