Weeden, Ezra

The second mate on the Crawford packet Enterprise, he was engaged to Eliza Tillinghast who was forced to break off the engagement to marry Joseph Curwen.  Weeden determined to expose Joseph Curwen as a witch.  With the assistance of Eleazar Smith, he observed and recorded all of Curwen's movements and was the catalyst and a member of the raid on the Curwen farm in 1771.

[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - H.P.L.]