Ebenezer Frothingham (1756-1814)
Owner of a Small Crockery Store on Marshall's Lane, Boston
He, "kept a small crockery store in Marshall's Lane, tended mainly by his brother-in-law, old Mr. Langdon, "neat as a pink" - in the errands, the future clergyman (his son, Nathaniel) used to assist. Mr. F was very proud of his boy, who distinguished himself in the public schools, and by the aid of Theophilus Parsons, Samuel Dexter, and others, he was sent to Cambridge (Harvard)".