Elijah Estabrook Sr. (I)

Elijah Estabrooks Sr.(I)  was born August 25, 1703 in Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, and died December 01, 1740 in Sherborn, Massachusetts. He married Hannah Daniel October 01, 1724 in Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Robert Daniel and Hester. She was born April 06, 1702 in Sherborn, Massachusetts, and died in Massachusetts.

 

Children of Elijah Sr. and Hannah Daniel are:

Mary Estabrooks, born 1725.

Capt. Elijah Estabrooks Jr.(II), born Abt. 1728 in England?; died 1796 in Jemseg, New Brunswick, Canada.

Deborah Estabrooks, born 1729. She married Joseph Frost Jr. 1753 in Sherborn, Massachusetts.

Submit Estabrooks, born 1731. She married Aaron Sargent November 16, 1757 in East Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Hannah Estabrooks, born September 29, 1734.

More About Hannah Estabrooks:

Namesake: Never married

Joseph Estabrooks, born August 10, 1736.

More About Joseph Estabrooks:

Occupation: Was a store keeper in Montague, Massachusetts

Samuel Estabrooks, born November 27, 1738.

More About Samuel Estabrooks:

Military service: March 1757, Was on the muster roll of the Third Foot Company of East Haverhill, enlisted to attempt a conquest of Canada

Aaron Estabrooks, born March 20, 1739/40.

 

 

Notes for Elijah Estabrooks Sr.:

Elijah Married Hannah Daniels October 01, 1724 in Boston, Massachusetts. Thomas Prince, a Presbyterian Minister, performed the ceremony.

 

The place of residence for this family between 1724 and 1734 is unclear. There is a tradition on the Saint John River in New Brunswick that their son Elijah, was born in England about 1727, and that the father brought his family back to North America in 1730, and lived in Rhode Island.

Mrs. Elizabeth (Watson) Estabrooks, wife of Abraham, great grandson of Elijah and Hannah (Daniel) Estabrooks, "Aunt Betsy Abe' to the family, established a fruit business in Saint John, New Brunswick, and lived nearly one-hundred years, remaining alert and keen to the end. Her early married life was spent on a farm at Swan Creek, Queens Co. , New Brunswick, near upper Gagetown, property of John, her father-in-law, who was son of Elijah and Mary (Hackett) Estabrooks. Aunt Betsy Abe was full of Estabrooks tradition, and declared that she knew more about the Estabrooks than they new about themselves. She said Elijah, son of Elijah and Hannah (Daniel) Estabrooks, was born in England.

Elijah and his family possibly lived in Rhode Island from about 1730-1734, when they removed to Sherborn, Massachusetts, where his wife's family lived, and where his sister Hannah lived also. He died, intestate, in 1740, and his assets were meager. His relatives in Sherborn, and in particular his sister Hannah and her husband, Joseph Frost, looked after his family.

His widow Hannah, remarried February 09, 1743/44, to Joseph Burrell, of Newbury, Massachusetts. He owned a house and a shipbuilding business, in East Haverhill (Rocks Village), where they lived. Her children Samuel, Elijah, Submit, and possibly Hannah Estabrooks, lived there with them.

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