Ebenezer Wilson

{{Short description|American politician}}{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Ebenezer Wilson

|image =

|imagesize =

|smallimage =

|caption =

|order = 29th Mayor of New York City

|term_start = 1707

|term_end = 1710

|governor =

|predecessor = William Peartree

|successor = Jacobus Van Cortlandt

|term_start2 =

|term_end2 =

|governor2 =

|predecessor2 =

|successor2 =

|birth_date=

|birth_place= ~1650

|death_date=

|death_place=

|residence=

|alma_mater=

|party=

|profession=

|spouse=

}}{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2012}}

Ebenezer Wilson was a merchant and the 29th Mayor of New York City from 1707 to 1709.{{Cite book |last=Booth |first=Mary L. (Mary Louise) |url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFK3929.0001.001 |title=History of the city of New York. |date=2005}} He had originally served as Sheriff of New York from June 1702 to March 1707. He was elected to a two-year mayoral term on 10 October 1707.{{Cite journal |last=Hershkowitz |first=Leo |date=1966 |title=Wills of Early New York Jews (1704–1740) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23875622 |journal=American Jewish Historical Quarterly |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=319–363 |jstor=23875622 |issn=0002-9068}} Under Wilson's administration, Water Street was extended from Old Slip to John Street and Broadway was paved from Trinity Church to Bowling Green.