APPENDIX.

NOTE A. [SEE PAGE 3].

ELISHA PHILBROOK (Jere.6, Job.5, Jonth.4, Wm.3, Thos.2), 1802-1883, teacher, surveyor and genealogist, was the twelfth child of Jeremiah and his wife Sarah, b. in Vinalhaven, Waldo Co., Me., 6 Oct., 1802. His youth was spent on the farm and in the fisheries summers, and in the district school winters. At the age of 18 he entered Buckfield Academy, and at 19 commenced teaching, which became his occupation most of the time for fifty years. During the first few years, when not teaching, he devoted much time to study, .giving some attention to the study of Latin, but more to mathematics, natural philosophy, and at length he became greatly interested in phonography and the reform of spelling. In 1833 he visited the West, teaching in Ohio and in Kentucky. After nearly four years, he returned to his native place, and joined his old friends in their fishing voyages, teaching some at other seasons. Early in the winter of 1838-9, having bid farewell to the friends of his youth, he set sail for the South, intending to go via New York, but the vessel was driven to sea by a storm, and he landed at Charleston, S. C. From this place he sailed in a packet to New Orleans, whence he proceeded by steamboat to Vicksburg, Miss. In this vicinity he made. his home, teaching for 16 years, sometimes in Arkansas. During his summer vacations he visited the Northwestern States several times, and in 1855 removed to Wisconsin, where his brother William and other relatives had settled. In 1879 he was secretary of the Wisconsin Phonetic Association.

In 1873 he published "A Scheme for a Revised Spelling of the English Language" &c. In 1878 he was a member of the American Metric Bureau. Several times he was tempted to engage in other occupations, but soon turned back to his old business of teaching. From 1877 to 1879 he was a clerk of the District in Knowlton, Wis., where he owned lands. It seems he did not commence his genealogical studies till about 1850. After 15 years of labor in this field, he for a while suspended work in discouragement, but resumed it again a few years before his death. He collected records for a Genealogy of the Vaughan Family that settled in Providence, R. I., and was preserving materials for a History of Marathon Co., Wis.

In 1820, at the age of 18, he with his brother Ezekiel, joined the Methodist church in their native place. In Dec., 1857, he was a member of the Baptist Church of Oxford, Marquette Co., Wisconsin. He d. at Mosinee, Marathon Co., Wis., 1 Nov., 1883, ae. 81. Of the particulars of his last days I have not been informed. C. P.

By the persevering efforts of William S. Philbrook of Boston, a portrait of Elisha Philbrook has been obtained for this volume which will be highly valued, especially by his numerous relatives.

NOTE B. [SEE PAGE 57.]

HON. JOSEPH (son of Samuel and Phebe Sanborn) PHILBRICK, b. at Seabrook, 1772, was a man of more than ordinary ability and education, combined with sound judgment, sterling integrity and decision of character. At the age of 19 he commenced teaching in Jaffrey, N. H., and continued the business in other towns of the vicinity. Having inherited the homestead of his father in Weare, he was for years officially connected with the schools of the town where he resided. He was appointed sergeant major of the Ninth Regt., N. H. Militia, in 1801, and in 1807, adjutant, but in 1808 retired from military service. He was in 1807 justice of the peace for Hillsboro' County, and in 1818 justice of the peace and quorum, which office he held till his death. In 1820, he was commissioned associate justice of the Court of Sessions for the County and also attended to much business in the Superior and in the Probate Courts. In 1828 he was master of the "Masonic Golden Rule Lodge in Weare, N. H."

And last but not least, he was a Christian, manifesting in his

daily life the power of his faith, being an active member of the Free. Will Baptist Church, and officiating as clerk, during the last twelve years of his life. He was also for 15 years clerk of the Weare Quarterly meeting. COM.

NOTE C. [SEE PAGE 65.]

CAPT. THOMAS WELD (s. of Capt. Jonathan and Dorothy (Weld) PHILBROOK, b. at Providence, R. I., in 1760, d. in 1841, ae. 81 years. When a small child his parents removed to Maine, and he was brought up by his maternal grandfather, Rev. Habijah Weld of Attleboro', Mass. He entered Harvard college about 1775, but in 1776, the class was broken up to enlist in the army of the Revolution. He enlisted in a Connecticut regiment, and was in the campaign at Ticonderoga. In the spring of 1779, he entered on board the sloop Providence, which was one of the fleet destined for the reduction of the British Forces upon the Penobscot river. The fleet sent upon the disastrous expedition, was commanded by Commodore Dudley Saltonstall, and consisted of two continental vessels, the Warren, 32 guns, and the Providence, 12 guns, and 17 other vessels, carrying in all 324 guns, and manned by more than 2000 men. All these vessels were taken, or driven ashore or blown up. The crew of the Providence escaped to the woods and when nearly starved, some of them came out at a farm house, where the good woman pitying them, hung on the big pot with pork and beans of which she supposed she had enough to feed the company. While the beans were cooking, some one came into the room and called her Mrs. Philbrook. One of the soldiers said to her "Why there is a young man of our company, back of us, of that name, "Philbrook." She asked Is his name Tommy?" "Yes," was the answer. The mother's heart was more deeply moved, and she said to herself, "He is starving and must be delicately fed; a chicken must be killed." Immediately came the thought "These soldiers are all somebodies' sons ;" and many of her chickens were killed, and the hungry men made welcome at her table. Soon the second detachment appeared, and sure enough Tommy with them emerged from the forest upon his own father's farm. In four months he had returned to Boston, and early in 1780 he joined, as quartermaster, a Massachusetts regiment under Col. Mitchell of Norton. At one

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period of the war he was for eight months confined in the Jersey prison ship. During most of this time the prisoners' only food was "wormy bread and stinking water." He would sometimes find a dead man each side of him when waked in the light of the morning. With two others he once escaped upon the ice, through a hole cut with a jack knife, but two of them were retaken, he was put in irons that were two small for him, and the scars left by the wounds they made he carried to his grave. By the kindness of his guard he was released, taking the place of a Hartford man whose name was on a cartel for exchange of prisoners, but who died before it came.

After the war Captain Philbrook resided at Providence, R. I., and engaged as a partner in business, but lost all his property through the villainy of his partner, who absconded taking all the funds and most valuable goods. He gave up everything left to his creditors, and they released him upon the pledge of his word that if he prospered he would pay them in full. So he was not imprisoned, as he might have been, for debt, but went to Maine, having received a deed of wild land in Bath. He commenced clearing it, but the land was recalled. He then opened a school in the vicinity which gave him a living, but would not furnish funds to pay his debts. His wife, anxious to aid him and to support the children, opened a school in Providence, and he went to sea as supercargo for years, and at last succeeded in paying his creditors, principal and interest. He continued his voyages at sea hoping to secure the means to retire, and release his wife from the labors of the school, but success no longer followed him. One disaster came after another. He was shipwrecked several times, and returned at last. broken down in health and unfit for business. His wife had commenced teaching as a temporary effort to relieve her husband's pecuniary distress, but owing to his later misfortune she continued it forty-two years, till she was seventy years old. She spent the last 22 years of her life in the quiet of her family, and died at the age of 92.

NOTE D. [SEE No. 102, III, PAGE 117].

JOSEPH A. PHILBROOK of Hampton has the Old Black Letter Bible, printed in London, A. D 1583. The tradition is that "A Captain Philbrook, was with his ship captured by a French war vessel. By his skill in pilotage he afterwards saved both vessels

from shipwreck, and in return his liberty and his vessel were restored to him. While on board the man-of-war, this ancient Bible, previously captured from some English ship, was during a storm brought on deck to be cast overboard, perhaps as a Jonah. Captain Philbrick begged it for himself, and took it to London, and had it rebound, and brought it to this country. It weighs twenty-seven pounds, and still retains the worn brass knobs on which the open covers used to rest. It contains an address to Queen Elizabeth, and the following prayer ;

"O gracious God, and Most Merciful Father, which has vouchsafed us the rich and precious jewell of thy Holy Word, Assist us with thy spirit, that it may be written on our hearts, to our everlasting comfort, to reform us, to renew us, according to thine own image, to build us up and Edifie us, into the perfect building of thy Christ, sanctifying and encreasing in us all heavenly vertues. Grant this O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen." [J. W. C., Portland, 1 Dec., 1862].

This large volume, over 300 years old, was printed in London, by permission of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1583, the twenty-fifth year of her reign. In January, 1692-3, it was the property of William Bray. Of course it was more than one hundred years old when it was taken to sea, and providentially saved and preserved to continue for centuries, telling "the old old story." The type is still clear, the paper good and, though much worn at the corners, the main part of it may continue legible for five hundred years to come.

NOTE E. [SEE PAGES 18 AND 29.]

WILL OF WALTER PHILBRICK OF GREENLAND,

MADE 21 MAY, 1730, PROVED 8 AUG., 1732.

In the name of God ye 21 Day of May, 1730, I Walter Philbrick of ye parish of Greenland in ye Township of portsmth in ye province of New Hampshire in New England, Blacksmith, Being weak in body and full of paine, but of perfect mind and memory, and calling unto mind the mortality of my body, and knowing y't it is appointed for all men once to die, Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, yt is to say, principally and first of all I commit my soul into ye hands of God yt gave it, and my body I recommend to ye earth to be Decently Buried, at the Discretion of my Executrix,