Lieutenant Ephraim Dana

Lieutenant Ephraim Dana (1744 - 1792) of English heritage, was 31 years old when he marched on Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. He later served under Major Hezekiah Broad in Natick’s Fifth Company. Dana was a blacksmith and operated his shop at the corner of Leach’s Lane in South Natick. 

Shortly after his first wife died in 1777, Dana married Tabitha Jones. They raised eight children in their home at 3 Eliot Street, built by David Morse in 1759, and purchased by Lieutenant Dana on April 27, 1779. The home was in the family’s possession for more than 100 years until Dana’s daughter, Tabitha Dana Leach, died in 1869.  It still stands proudly today.

He is buried in the South Natick Burial Ground, shown on the 1750 Livermore Map.