Though a majority of the family now spell their names "Philbrick", for 200 years or more, many of them have spelled their names "Philbrook", as it has been generally pronounced. I endeavor to follow the forms I find in the records sent me. In the Province Rate of Hampton in 1680, I find the names of James and Samuel spelled "Philbrick", but of Thomas and Jonathan, "Philbrook". A rate in 1682-3 spells all the names "Philbricke", another in 1682 spells all of them "Philbrook". In 1693 Thomas, selectman, writes his name "Philbrick". On 2 March, 1693-4 in "a copie of a bond &c", Samuel, Thomas and Jonathan all spell their names "Philbrook". In 1682, Thomas, testifying to the settlement of his brother John's estate, signs his name "Philbrook"; but at some other times he signs it "Philbrick". It seems evident that the name was usually pronounced "Philbrook"; and quite a number of the grand children of the Emigrant, Thomas, an original proprietor and settler of Kingstown, usually spelled their names "Philbrick", but in 1720 Jedediah, one of the ablest and most intelligent of the family signed his name "Philbrook".

There was a Robert Philbrick in Ipswich in 1639. "Robert Filbrick had 8 acres granted him for services as soldier against the Pequot Indians". 1643 Dec. 4. "It is agreed that each soldier, for their services to the Indians shall be allowed 12d. a day (allowing for the Lord's day) in respect of the extremity of the weather, and the officers double. Robert Philbrick received three shillings". He subscribed, in 1648, to Col. Dennison's compensation. We find in 1658, April 13, John Philbrick, dec'd and inventory taken by William Fivefield and Moses Cox." - Hammett Papers, No. III. p. 109.

I can find no account of his origin or of his posterity, and suppose he has no descendants.

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"A Genealogy of the Philbrick and Philbrook Families, descended from the emigrant, Thomas Philbrick, 1583-1667" by Rev. Jacob Chapman of Exeter, N.H. 1886