Rev. Joseph Estabrooks (II)
Rev. Joseph Estabrooks (II) was born 1640 in Enfield, Middlesex Co., England, and died September 16, 1711 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. He married Mary Mason May 20, 1668 in Watertown, Massachusetts, daughter of Hugh Mason and Hester Wells. She was born December 18, 1640 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, and died in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.
Children of Joseph Estabrooks and Mary Mason are:
Notes for Rev. Joseph Estabrooks I:
Joseph was the son of Joseph A. Estabrooks. He was married to Mary Mason daughter of Captain Hugh Mason and Esther Mason of Watertown.
Concord Massachusetts, the first home of the Flemish Estabrooks family, was founded in 1635 by a group of colonists under the Reverend Peter Buckeley, who came from England expressly for that purpose. They purchased six square miles of land from the Indians, with the present Monument Square at its center.
On the eastern side of Monument Square there is a hill. On the hill, the colonists built their first church, and located their burying ground. Against the side of the hill, they built their rude shelters for the first winter.
Joseph Estabrooks arrived in Boston from England in 1660. His brother Thomas may have come with him, or perhaps he came later. Their father in England may have arranged that Joseph's share of his estate should go towards his education, while Thomas should have the means to buy and equip a farm.
Joseph received a prepatory education for college in England, and entered Harvard soon after his arrival to America, graduating in 1664. he was made a freeman at Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 03, 1665. In 1667, he was ordained as colleague of Reverend Peter Buckeley, minister of the church in Concord, and on Reverend Buckeley's death, in 1696, became pastor of the church, continuing in that office until his death at age 71.
His salary at Concord was 80 pounds, of which half was to be paid in money and the remainder in grain. On 12 March 1681, the town voted "that every householder that hath a team shall carry yearly one load of wood to the minister; and every other householder or votable person shall cut wood one day for the minister; and that wood be equally divided to the ministers as the selectman shall appoint"
On his death, the Boston Letter of 18 September 1711, reported: "This day was interred in Concord the Reverend Joseph Estabrooks, minister of the gospel in said town for about 44 years (and many of them was colleague of the famous Mr. Buckeley).
He was eminent for his skill in the Hebrew language, and a most orthodox, learned and worthy devine; of excellent principles in religion, indefatigably laborious in the ministry, and of holy life and conversation.
The church in Concord in which Reverend Joseph preached was on the hill near the center of the old burying ground. It was the one first erected by the colonists. After his death, the congregation decided to build a larger, more convenient edifice; so down near the square, in 1712, they built the beautiful colonial building which was to witness some of the most stirring events of the Revolutionary War.
ESTABROOK, JOSEPH, minister of Concord, was born at Enfield, in Middlesex, England, and came to N. E. a. 1660, with two brothers, one of whom, Thomas, lived in Swanzey and Concord. He grad. at H. C 1664, was ordained a colleague with Rev. Edward Bulkley, a. 1667, and d. 16 Sept. 1711. By Mary, his wife, a daughter of Capt. Hugh Mason, he had children, 1. Joseph, b. 6 May, 1669, settled at Lexington, where he was a deacon from 1716 to his death, 24 Sept. 1733, leaving issue; 2. Benjamin, b. 24 Feb. 1671, grad. at H. C. 1690, was ordained at Lexington, 21 Oct. 1696, d. 28 July, 1697, leaving a widow, Abigail, daughter of Rev. Samuel Willard, whom he m. 29 Nov. 1693; 3. Mary, b. 28 Feb. 1672, m. Jonathan Green, of Newton; 4. Samuel, b. 7 Jan. 1674, grad. at H. C. 1696, was ordained at Canterbury, Conn. 13 Jan. 1711, d. 26 June, 1727, ‘. 53; 5. Daniel, b. 14 Feb. 1676, settled at Cambridge, and d. at Sudbury, 7 Jan. 1736; and 6. Anna, b. 30 Jan. 1677, m. Joshua Haynes, of Sudbury, 26 Jan. 1710. Rev. Joseph Estabrook, H. C. 1782, of Athol, is descended from Joseph, the eldest son of Rev. Joseph Estabrook. Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord.
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Burial: September 16, 1711, Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
Notes for Mary Mason:
Mary married in a double wedding with sister Sarah who married Andrew Gardner.
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