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Last name Zane
First name Ebenezer
Display name Ebenezer Zane
Birth date 1747
Death date 1811
Birth place virgi
Gender m
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Bio notes American pioneer, road builder, and land speculator. Established the settlement known as Fort Henry in Wheeling, Virginia on the Ohio river. Famous for blazing the trail known as Zane's Trace. Lived at Wheeling (1796).

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Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815