Then he had married, and had established his home upon the frontier, where he remained battling against the grim desolation of the wilderness and of the winter, and against all the obstacles of soil and climate, with the same hardy bravery with which he had faced the Indians.

After ten years of this life, in 1774, his wife died and within a twelvemonth he married again.
Soon after this second marriage the alarm of war with England sounded, and among the first to respond was the old ranger and Indian fighter, Ebenezer Webster.

In the town which had grown up near his once solitary dwelling he raised a company of two hundred men, and marched at their head, a splendid looking leader, dark, massive, and tall, to join the forces at Boston.

We get occasional glimpses of this vigorous figure during the war.

At Dorchester, Washington consulted him about the state of feeling in New Hampshire.