Note: information that is [bracketed] was added by the transcriber.
[PAGE #1]
The origin and decent frome Grandfather Philbrick
Philbrick of Hampton my Mothers Father
whose name we will say was John [#1]
Now I have heard my Mother [#2] often tell
how her father told her on his death bed to
bring up her children in the fear of God
and then died and left sons and daughters
Whose names were John [#3] Jonathan [#4] Abner [#5]
+ Anna my mother. Now I am informed that
my uncle John Philbrick died and left sons and
daughters He had two sons and three daughters
Jonathan [#6] who came into this town and brought
up sons and daughters he married two wive[s] [#7]
and died in a good old age
his first child name was Judah [#8] who married
Epheriam Jones of Standish who brought up
children then moved down East and died there
and left sons and daughters
Son Caleb Pike Philbrick [#9] now living in Standish
with a wife and children
son [#10] of his second wife who died young and left
a wife and one child whose name is John [#11]
His second daughter [#12] married Christopher How[e] of
Berwick with a family of children brought up
My uncle John Philbrick second sons name was John [#13]
he also came into this town in his younger days
and after he was twenty one years old he
married a wife [#14] and lived in a town called Ware [Weare]
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Children
in the State of New Hampshire and brought a family of
My uncle first daughter [#15] married one John
[Partridge?] who came into this town also and brought
up children then moved off down East and is gone
The other daughters married not far from their
brother John Philbrick at ware [Weare, NH] one [#16] to a Tole [Isaac Towle] and
the other to _____________ and they also have brought up
children My uncle Jonathan Philbrick [#17]
married also and was a trader in merchandise
in the town of [Newbrey?] for some years and then
moved into the town of Hollis in the State
of New Hampshire + from thence he moved to the
town of Ware and became a farmer where for
the first time I ever saw him in the year 1779
when I [#18] came home out of the American Revolution
war and it came to pass that he numbered his
days soon afterwards and died in a good old age
and left sons and daughters to look out for them
selves I know nomore about them
My Grandfathers third sons name was Abner [#19]
and lived at Hampton Falls in Hampshire
State and was a quaker and brought up a
family of children and then died in a good
old age and left sons and daughters
His eldest son [#20] I knew not but knew his son
Joseph [#21] who lived on his fathers farm at Hampton
Falls who also was a quaker about my age 83 he also
brought up a family of children [ ? ]
December 29 1835
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The names of those men that came from
Hampton with my father to Standish
or soon afterwards in 1762
My brother Josiah Shaw [#22] with a wif[e]
Mr Daniel Cram with a family
Mr Daniel Sanborn with a family
Mr John Sanborn with a family
Mr Jonathan Sanborn with a family
Mr David Sanborn single man
Mr Jonathan Philbrick [#23] with a family
Mr Mickel Philbrick [#24] with a family
Mr John Pierce with a family
Mr Daniel Lowell with a family
Mr Moses Lowell with a family
Mr Caleb Rowe with a family
Mr Epheraim Rowe with a family
Mr Worthy Moulton with a wife
Peter Moulton with a family
Jonathan Bean with a family
then to Bethel and there hanged himself
[Transcribed by Robert W. Philbrook]
NOTES:
#1. John is actually Thomas Philbrick (1688-1747/48). Thomas was the father of Abner, John, Jane, Jonathan and Anna. Thomas did have a brother “John” who was born Oct. 13, 1689, but nothing further is known of him. As the letter says, “whose name we will say was John”
#2. Anna Philbrick-Shaw (1720/21-1804), daughter of Thomas Philbrick and Abiah.
#3. John Philbrick (1712-1747/48)
#4. Jonathan Philbrick (1718-1804)
#5. Abner Philbrick (1707/08-1790)
#6. Jonathan Philbrick (1739-1821) son of John Philbrick & Judith Sanborn.
#7. Married Sarah Pike (abt. 1739-1786) on Dec. 14, 1762; Second wife was Sarah Mussey (abt. 1749-1841).
#8. Judith Philbrick (1763-1833)
#9. Caleb Pike Philbrick (1770-1855)
#10. John Philbrick (1791-1816)
#11. John Hasty Philbrick (1815-1872)
#12. Elizabeth Philbrick (1775-Aft. 1796)
#13. John Philbrick (1747/48-1840) who was actually the 3rd son of John Philbrick (Sr.). Second son was Jeremiah Philbrick (1743-?) who may have died young.
#14. Sally Jewett (1748/49 - ?) married John Philbrick on December 6, 1770 in Hollis, N.H.
#15. Abigail Philbrick (1737-?) was John Philbrick’s second daughter and married a “Partridge.”
#16. Elisabeth Philbrick (1735-?) married Isaac Towle on Feb. 17, 1754.
#17. (See #4)
#18. Thomas Shaw (1753-1838) son of Ebenezer Shaw and Anna Philbrick. Brother of Josiah Shaw (See #____)
#19. (See #5)
#20. Samuel Philbrick (1734-1806)
#21. Joseph Philbrick (1755-1831)
#22. Josiah Shaw (1739/40-1810) who married Mary ________.
#23. (See #6)
#24. Michael Philbrick (1734-1813) son of Zechariah Philbrick & Mary Lowell.
This document was written by Thomas Shaw, son of Ebenezer Shaw and Anna Philbrick (1720/21-1804) who was the daughter of Thomas Philbrick (1688-1747/48) that the document calls "John." I found enough evidence to support that within the document and also found this at a Standish, Maine history website:
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/me/cumberland/standish/philbrick/sj6p33.txt
Michael Philbrick Son of Capt. Zachariah Philbrick
Sprague's Journal of Maine History
Vol. 6
May, June, July 1918
No. 1
page 33
Michael Philbrick Son of Capt. Zachariah Philbrick
(Contributed by Prof. Windsor P. Daggett, U. of M., Orono, Me.)
Rev. Jacob Chapman's "A Genealogy of the Philbrick and Phil-
brook Families," page 24, gives an incomplete and an incorrect
account of the descendants of Michael Philbrick. The following
record, found among the manuscripts of the late Thomas C. Shaw
of Standish, is probably a revised account which followed the pub-
lication of Chapman's book. As Shaw was a descendent of the
Philbrick family and as the Shaw household was a storehouse of
family history, this record comes from a reliable source. It is
probably published here for the first time.
"Michael Philbrick.-Seventh child of Capt. Zachariah Phil-
brick; b. in Newbury, Mass., Nov. 10, 1734. Wife, Mary -,
lived in Hampton, N. H. Then was an original settler in Parsons-
field, Me., about 1762; afterwards in Standish. In 1803, he re-
moved with his family to Thorndike, Me., Where he died in 1813,
aged about 79. His children were:-
1. William, b. in Hampton, Dec. 10, 1759; m. Martha Nick-
erson of Gorham. He died in Thorridike, 1850, aged
about 90 years.
2. Olive, b. in Hampton, Jan. 6, 1762.
3. Gideon, b. in Standish, April 21, 1764; m. May 4, 1793.
Eunice West of Raymond; d. in 1848.
4. Michael, Jr., b. June 19, 1766; m. Aug. 9, 1788, Jane Snow
of Gorham.
5. Eunice, b. Mar. 18, 1768; in. Aaron Snow of Gorham.
6.Stephen, b. Feb. 27, 1770; m. March 14, 1793, Betsey
Nowlen of Hallowell.
7. Rhoda, b. Apr. 22, 1772; m. Dec. 25, 1792, Enoch Shaw.
She died Jan. 3, 1819.,
8. Samuel, b. Mar. 15, 1777; m. Anna Simonton. Supposed
to have died at Cape Elizabeth in 1824, leaving children,
Samuel, Mary, and Ellen."
An account of Thomas C. Shaw appears in Mrs. H. F. Farwell's
"Shaw Records," page 173. These same Records, p. 156, give the
descendants of Rhoda Philbrick, wife of Enoch Shaw.
(c) 1998
Courtesy of the Androscoggin Historical Society
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~meandrhs>
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