Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume I, Part 67

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 802

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(V) George, eighth and youngest child of Simon and Elizabeth (Thompson) Libby, was born in Scarborough, February 4, 1791, and

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died November 2, 1840. He succeeded to the ancestral homestead, and he and his brother tore down the house which had been his grandfather's and built, on the opposite side of the road, the one now standing. He mar- ried, October 3. 1824, Lydia Libby, who was born January 28, 1805, and died September 5, 1839. She was the daughter of Rufus and Charlotte (Plummer ) Libby. (See Libby VI.) The children of this union were: George Washington. John Adams, Benjamin Frank- lin, Mary Elizabeth, Esther Frances, John Adams, Simon, Esther Allen and Lydia Frances.

(VI) Mary Elizabeth, fourth child of George and Lydia (Libby) Libby, was born in Scarborough, March 22. 1830, and mar- ried May 2. 1852. John A. Tompson. ( See Tompson VIII.)

(IV) Seth, ninth son and fourteenth child of Captain John and Anna (Fogg) Libby, was born on Oak Hill. Scarborough, May 1, 1755, and died December 9, 1836. He lived and died on the farm where he was born. His house was on the post road between Portland and Boston, and in addition to carrying on his farm he kept a tavern. He married, May 12, 1779, Lydia Jordan, who was born March 22, 1763, daughter of Dominicus Jordan of Cape Elizabeth, the same known as "Old Stuff." She lived to the age of ninety-two and died October 17, 1852. Their children were: Aaron, Lois, Susannah, Lydia, Anna, Phebe, Rhoda, Hannah, Jordan, Aaron, Hannah, Eunice and John.

(\') Rhoda, seventh child of Seth and Lydia (Jordan) Libby, was born June 13, 1792, and married, September 23, 1819, Captain William Tompson. (See Tompson VII.)

(V) Captain Stephen, third son of Stephen and Margaret (Miller) Libby, born in Scar- borough, November 4, 1771, died November 20, 1859, aged eighty-eight years. He was a mariner for several years, but soon after his marriage settled on a farm on Oak Hill, where he was an industrious and prosperous farmer. He married, January 13, 1798, Agnes Hasty, who died November 5, 1858. Their children were : Harriet A., Lucinda, Benjamin Frank- lin. Margaret Agnes, Ernestine, Frances (died young ). Harriet, Sally Maynard, and Francis Libby.

(VI) Margaret Agnes, fourth child of Cap- tain Stephen and Agnes (Hasty) Libby, born on Oak Hill, November 6, 1806, married, July 17, 1832, Harrison Jewell Libby. (See Libby VII.)

The ancient name Brad- BRADBURY bury is of Saxon origin, and is composed of the two elements brad, signifying broad, and bury, town, and was probably assumed by some one who had dwelt in the town of Bradbury. The name was restricted in England to narrow limits, and at the time of the settlement of the first emigrants in New England seems to have been confined to one parish in Derbyshire. The radiating point seems to have been Oller- set in the parish of Glossop, in the northerly part of Derby. The first mention of the name is in 1433, when there were living in Ollerset Roger de Bradbury and Rodolphus de Brad- bury. Neither one of these two gentlemen is claimed as an ancestor by the American Brad- burys.

(I) Robert Bradbury, the earliest known ancestor of this line, must have been born as early as 1400. He resided at Ollerset in Der- byshire, and married a daughter of Robert Davenport (copied also Damport), of Bram- hall, county of Chester. She was buried at Stansted, Mount Fitchet, county of Essex. They had two children, William and Thomas.

(II) William, son of Robert Bradbury, was of Braughing, in Hertfordshire, patron of the church of Westmill in Hertfordshire, in 1462. He married Martha, daughter and co-heir of Geoffry Rockhill. of Wormingford, county Essex. Their children were: Robert, Thomas, George, Henry and Philippa.

(III) Robert (2), eldest child of William and Martha (Rockhill) Bradbury, named in the inquisition of his brother, Sir Thomas, then dead, supposed justice of the assize, Isle of Ely, February 4, 1486, witness to the will of George Nichall, of Littlebury, December 2, 1484, died 1489, and was buried in the church of Grey Friars, London), is said to have mar- ried Anne, daughter of Infans Wyant. They had a son William, next mentioned.

(IV) William (2), son of Robert (2) and Anne (Wyant) Bradbury, was born in 1480. He is named in the inquisition post mortem on the estate of his uncle, Sir Thomas, in 1510, then aged thirty-five years, to whose estate he succeeded, Lord of the Manor of Mancendem, acquired the manor of Catmere Hall in Little- bury, county Essex, 1543, and was buried at Littlebury, June 15, 1546. He is incorrectly said to have married Joan, daughter of Sir John Fitzwilliams, Lord of Elmyn and Spots- bury, and widow of Thomas Bendish, of Bowre Hall, in Steeple Bumstead, Esq., who died in 1477, leaving issue : Richard Bendish,

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Esq. His children were: William, Phillippa, and Matthew, whose sketch follows.

(V) Matthew, youngest of the three chil- dren of William (2) Bradbury, was Lord of the Manor of Wicken Ilall, in the parish of Wicken Bonant, which manor be acquired by purchase in 1557. He purchased the manor of Grange in Thaxted, county of Essex, and sold it the next year. He is mentioned in the wills of his brother William and nephew Robert. He died June 19, 1585, and an inquisition post mortem was held October 26, 1587. He mar- ried Margaret Rowse, of the city of Cam- bridge. Their children were: William, Thom- as and Barbara.

(VI) William (3), eldest child of Matthew and Margaret (Rowse) Bradbury, of Wicken Bonant, Esq., aged forty-one in 1585, is named in the wills of his cousin Robert and brother Thomas. His own will is dated April 19, 1622, and was proved May 6, 1623. He died November 30, 1622, and was buried at Wicken. He married Anne, daughter and heir of Richard Eden, Esq., LL. D., of Bury St. Edmunds, county of Suffolk, who died and was buried at Wicken, February 8, 1612. Their children were: Matthew, Wymond, Henry, Thomas (died young), Bridget, Anne and Alice.

(VII) Wymond, second son and child of William (3) and Anne ( Eden) Bradbury, was of Wicken Bonant, afterward of the parish of Whitechapel, county Middlesex, and died in 1650. He was baptized at Newport Pond, May 16, 1574, and was of London, October 17, 1628. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Whitgift, and sister of the wife of his brother Matthew. She died June 26, 1612, in the thirty-ninth year of her age, and was buried at Croydon, county Surrey. Her first husband was Richard Coles, of Leigh, Wor- cestershire, who died November, 1600. She married (second) Francis Gill, of London, who died in 1605; and (third) Wymond Bradbury. Their children were: William, Thomas, Jane and Anne.

(VIII) Thomas, second son and child of Wymond and Elizabeth (Whitgift) (Gill) Bradbury, was baptized at Wicken Bonant, Essex county, England, February 28, 161I, as appears by the parish register. Early in 1634, says the Bradbury memorial from which this sketch is taken, he appeared at Agamen- ticus, now York, Maine, as the agent or stew- ard of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the proprietor of the province of Maine. He was one of the original proprietors of the ancient town of Salisbury, Massachusetts, one of the earliest

settlers in that place, and was one of the fore- most citizens there for a period of more than half a century. In 1640 he was made free- man, held at various times the offices of schoolmaster of the town, town clerk, justice of the peace, deputy to the general court, county recorder, associate judge and captain of the military company , and always filled these important positions with credit to him- self and satisfaction to the public. He wrote an easy, graceful and legible hand, and had a clear and concise style of expression. In 1636 he became a grantee of Salisbury, and the fol- lowing year was appointed first clerk of the writs in that town. He was chosen deputy to the general court in 1651-52-56-57-60-61 and 1666. In 1654-56-58-59 he was a member of various committees to settle differences con- cerning lands, to fix boundaries and locate grants. As agent for Gorges, he executed some of the earliest deeds contained in the York county records. He died March 16, 1695, aged eighty-four years or more. Thomas Bradbury was married to Mary, daughter of John and Judith Perkins, of Ipswich, in 1636. When about eighty years old (1692) Mrs. Bradbury was arrested for the crime of be- witching John Carr, so that he became crazed and prematurely died. She was ably and courageously defended by Major Robert Pike, but she with four others was convicted. By some means she escaped punishment, but the others were executed. Her pastor, Rev. James Allen, testified of her as follows: "I, having lived nine years at Salisbury in the work of the ministry, and now four years in the office of pastor, to my best notice and ob- servance of Mrs. Bradbury, she hath lived ac- cording to the rules of the gospel amongst Lis ; was a constant attender upon the ministry of the word, and all the ordinances of the gos- pel ; full of works of charity and mercy to the sick and poor; neither have I seen or heard anything of her unbecoming the profession of the gospel." One hundred and eighteen of Mrs. Bradbury's acquaintances, consisting of both men and women, gave very strong testi- mony of the goodness of her character. She survived until 1700, and died December 20th of that year. The children of Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Bradbury were: Wymond, Judith, Thomas, Mary, Jane, Jacob and Will- iam.

(IX) Wymond (2), eldest child of Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Bradbury, born April I, 1637, died April 7, 1669, on the Island of Nevis, in the West Indies, as is stated on a record made by his father and now in Essex

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county archives in Salem, Massachusetts. He married, May 7, 1661, Sarah Pike, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Saunders) Pike. She married (second) John Stockman, who died December 10, 1686, and by him she had five children. The children of Wymond and Sarah Bradbury were: Sarah, Ann, and Wymond, whose sketch follows.

(X) Wymond (3), youngest child and only son of Wymond (2) and Sarah (Pike) Brad- bury, born May 13, 1669, died in York, Maine, April 17, 1734. He married Maria Cotton, born January 14, 1672, daughter of Rev. John Jr. and Joanna (Rosseter) Cotton. Her father was the son of Rev. John and Sarah (Story) Cotton, and her mother the daughter of Dr. Bryan Rosseter, of Guilford, Connecti- cut. She married (second) John Heard, of Kittery, and died in that town January 30, 1736. The children of Wymond and Maria Bradbury were: Jabez, Wymond, John, Row- land, Ann, Josiah, Theophilus, Maria and Jerusha.

(XI) Elder John, third son and child of Wymond (3) and Maria (Cotton) Bradbury, born September 9, 1697, died December 3, 1778, aged eighty-one years. He was the founder of the York family of Bradbury. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church, a man of much energy, prominent in town af- fairs, several times a member of the provin- cial legislature, ten years a member of the executive council, and also judge of the pro- bate court. He was an ardent patriot in the time of the revolution, and it is said that on one occasion he rebuked his minister in open meeting for disloyal sentiments expressed in his sermon. He married Abigail, daughter of Lieutenant Joseph and Abigail (Donnell) Young, of York. They had children : Cotton, Lucy, Bethulah, Maria, Abigail, Elizabeth, John, Joseph and Anne.

(XII) Joseph, eighth child and third son of Elder John and Abigail (Young) Brad- bury, born October 23, 1740, died in Saco, De- cember 23, 1821. Joseph Bradbury, of Pep- perellborough (now Saco), was first lieuten- ant in Captain Humphrey Pike's first (Pep- perellborough) company, Third York County Regiment, and his name is in the list of Mas- sachusetts militia officers, commissioned March 27, 1776. He was also in Captain Thomas Rumney's company of the Third York County Regiment, and his name is on the list of officers of Massachusetts militia chosen to command a battalion drafted from York coun- ty brigade, agreeable to order of court of Au- gust 9, 1777. This regiment was raised in

Biddeford, Pepperellborough, Buxton, and Little Falls to re-enforce the Northern army. He was also captain of the first company of Colonel Cutts's (Third York County) regi- ment, and his name is on the list of officers of Massachusetts militia. He was commis- sioned December 14, 1779. He was a resident of Saco fifty-three years. He married Dor- othy, daughter of Daniel Clark Esq. She was born in York in 1748, and died June 7, 1831, aged eighty-three years. Their children were : Jeremiah, Anna, Dorothy and Narcissa.

(XIII) Jeremiah, eldest child of Captain Joseph and Dorothy (Clark) Bradbury, born at Saco, October 22, 1779, died in Calais, No- vember, 1848. He read law in the office of Cyrus King Esq., of Saco, and subsequently in the office of Nicholas Emery, of Parsons- field. He was admitted to the York county bar in 1805, and began practice in Saco. He moved to Biddeford in 1810, and two years later to South Berwick. In 1813 he was ap- pointed collector of customs for the district of York, and in May, 1815, moved to York. In 1820 he was appointed by Governor King clerk of the judicial courts of York county, and then he resigned his collectorship and moved to Alfred. He was clerk twenty years, filling the position continuously until 1841, with the exception of one year. In 1841 he moved to Calais, where he continued the prac- tice of law, a part of the time as partner of George Walker Esq., until his death in No- vember, 1848. He married, October 28, 1810, Mary Langdon, born in Saco, December 5, 1789. Her father was Seth Storer, of Wells and Saco. Mrs. Bradbury's mother was Olive, daughter of Colonel Tristram Jordan, who died in Saco, August 4, 1842, aged eighty-four years. Their children were: Bion, Lucius, Mary Langdon, Ann Eliza, Emily, Frederick Storer (died young), Marcia and Frederick Storer.

(XIV) Hon. Bion, eldest child of Jeremiah and Mary Langdon (Storer) Bradbury, born in Biddeford, December 6, 1811, died in Port- land, July 1, 1887. He prepared for college in South Berwick and Gorham academies, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1830. The following year he was preceptor of Alfred Academy, and in 1832 entered upon the study of law in the office of Daniel Goodenow, of Alfred. Before the completion of his studies he went to Portland and finished them with Hon. William P. Preble, and was admitted to the York county bar in May, 1834. He began practice in Calais, and soon formed a partner- ship with Hon. Anson G. Chandler, which

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continued until Mr. Chandler's appointment to a place o nthe bench of the supreme court. Mr. Bradbury remained in the practice of law in Calais ten years, and in 1844 was ap- pointed collector of customs for Passama- quoddy district, and moved to Eastport; he was twice reappointed. Ilc was a member of the Maine legislature in 1849-50-62. The last time he was returned he had the unusual hon- or of being elected by the unanimous vote of both partics. He was a candidate for congress in 1858 and 1874, and for governor in 1863, but his party being in the minority, he was defeated. In 1856-60-80 he was a member of the National Democratic conventions. Dur- ing all thesc years Mr. Bradbury continued in the practice of law, and always with marked success. He was a good counsellor and a brilliant advocate. In 1864 he removed to Portland, and in 1885 was appointed surveyor of the port of Portland, and held that office until his death. The Portland Argus con- tained the following editorial on Mr. Brad- bury the day following his death: "The intel- ligence of the death of Bion Bradbury will be received with profound regret by men of all parties and sects. It will occasion a feeling of personal loss to more people in this state, un- related to him by kinship or political ties, than the announcement of the death of any other citizen of Maine. The public service of which he was an officer, the old party in which he was born and to which he gave the best days of his life, miss a faithful servant and a bril- liant chief. The State of Maine mourns the loss of a patriotic and devoted son. But be- yond this and deeper than this is the sense of bereavement felt by those who had no sym- pathy with his political tenets, no particular knowledge of his striking ability in the legal profession, no especial sympathy with his love for books and his thirst for knowledge. They loved him for himself; for those rare per- sonal qualities that endeared him to all whom he met and attached them to him with hooks of steel. His exquisite courtesy, his manners as polished as those of a noble of the old re- gime, his wide and democratic sympathy for his fellows of all classes, his willingness to lend a helping hand to those in need, and the entire absence of ostentation which marked his life and bearing-all these combined to make him a universal favorite. No one ever met him that was not touched by the grace of his greetings. While his memory will be honored as a statesman by men of all political parties, as a brilliant jurist by the legal pro- fession he adorned, as a man of culture by

scholars, it will be held in affection by other hundreds who care little for those things, but who will long cherish the remembrance of the kindness of Bion Bradbury and the courtly grace of his manner. No man ever conferred a favor that so well conveyed the impression that he was asking for it."

Mr. Bradbury married, October 25, 1837, Alice H., born in Waterville, Maine, Septem- ber 9, 1816, died in Portland, Maine, April 27, 1885. She was the daughter of Colonel John- son and Williams, of Brooklyn, New York, and afterward of Waterville, Maine. The children of this union were: Mary Lang- don Storer, Albert Williams, William Dow, Bion Lucius (died young), Alice Williams, Bion and Marcia Dow.

(XV) Alice Williams, fifth child and sec- ond daughter of Hon. Bion and Alice H. (Williams) Bradbury, born January 25, 1849, married, December 9, 1869, Charles F. Libby, of Portland (see Libby VIII).

PHILBROOK This namc, with its various orthography : Phil brick, Philbrook, Philbrucke, Philbrok, etc., appears in the past gencrations generally spelled Philbrick, yet for two hun- dred years many families spelled it Philbrook, as do the families of the sixth generation, the way it is generally pronounced. In the Colon- ial times the spelling is indiscriminate, and apparently taken as pronounced, using the let- ters best calculated to represent the pronun- ciation used. We can find no positive con- nection of the first of this name in New Eng- land with the families of the same name in England.

(1) Thomas Philbrick, apparently a mari- ner in England and at all events a shipbuilder, was the first of the name in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, and was born in England, the approximate date of his birth being 1583, and that of his death 1667. He came to New England from Lincolnshire with his wife Elizabeth and several children, and they ap- pear on the records of the town of Watertown as early as 1636, and it is probable that mem- bers of the family, especially his sons, came at various times between 1630 and 1636, and one or more may have been with the original party that made the first settlement in 1630. Bird, the historian of Watertown, locates the Philbrick homestead on the northwest corner of Belmont and Lexington streets as the town is now laid out. The children of Thomas and Elizabeth Philbrick, according to the early church and family records, were: 1. James,

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born in England, about 1622, married (first) Jane, and (second) Ann Roberts, sisters, and had ten children by the second marriage. He was drowned in the Hampton river, Novem- ber 16, 1674. 2. John, born in England, was a proprietor in the town of Watertown, Mas- sachusetts Bay Colony, and removed to Hamp- ton in 1639. He married Ann Palmer, and had seven children by the marriage; he was drowned at sea with his wife and daughter, November 20, 1657. 3. Thomas, see forward. 4. Elizabeth, married Thomas, son of Aquila Chase, and they had five children. 5. Han- nah, who was named in her father's will, made in March, 1664, but of whom there appears to be no other record. 6. Mary, married Ed- ward, son of Robert Tuck, of Hampton, about 1648, and he had by this marriage two chil- dren ; some time after his first wife's death he married a second time and he died in 1699. 7. Martha, born in Watertown, 1633, married John Cass, and her grandson was the Hon. Lewis Cass, the American statesman and sol- dier. Thomas Philbrick, the senior, father of these children, removed from Watertown to Hampton in 1650-51, to which place his elder sons had preceded him, and in 1661 he bought land adjoining the farms then owned by his son James and his son-in-law, John Cass, hav- ing sold his estate in Watertown to Isaac Stearns. His wife died March 19, 1663, and he made his will in March, 1664, at which time he speaks of himself as "very aged," and the veteran immigrant settler died in Hampton in 1667.

(II) Thomas (2), third son of Thomas ( I) and Elizabeth Philbrick, was born in England in 1624, settled with his father in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and in 1647 mar- ried Anne, daughter of Deacon William Knapp, who settled in Watertown in 1630, and about 1651 they settled on land in that part of Hampton now known as Seabrook, New Hampshire, and most of the estate then purchased remained in the Philbrook family, his descendants, for two hundred and forty years. He was made deacon of the church in Hampton, in November, 1669, was selectman of the town for five years, was a representa- tive in the general court and was sergeant in the militia company of Hampton, Massachu- setts, in 1693. He had four children by his wife, Anne (Knapp) Philbrick, and she died May 17, 1667. He married (second) Octo- ber 22, 1669, Hannah, widow of John White, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and daughter of Edward and Ann French, of Hampton, and by her had three children. He died in Hamp-

ton, November 24, 1700, aged seventy-six. The children of Sergeant Thomas and Anne (Knapp) Philbrick, all born in Hampton, were: I. Mary, born September II, 1651. 2. Bethia, born January 16, 1654 (there is some doubt as to this being his daughter). 3. Jona- than, born July 19, 1660, and by his wife Jane had three children, and died at Salisbury, Mas- sachusetts, April 22, 1694. 4. Elizabeth, born 1667, died an infant the same year, probably at the time of her mother's death. The chil- dren of Sergeant Thomas and Hannah (French) (White) Philbrick were: 5. Will- iam, see forward. 6. Jane, married, August 17, 1700, Joseph Cram. 7. Hannah, with no dates of birth or death given.

(III) William, eldest son of Sergeant Thomas (2) and Hannah (French) ( White) Philbrick, was born in Hampton, New Hamp- shire, July 27, 1670, was brought up on the farm of his father and continued to follow his vocation. He married, October 10, 1689, Mary, daughter of Walter Neal, of Greenland parish, town of Portsmouth, and he settled on a farm in that parish before 1694. He was made constable of the town in 1695, and with his wife joined the first church organized in Greenland in July, 1706, at the time of the establishment of the town government. They had children, namely: I. Walter, born . in Hampton, November 10, 1690, married Eliza- beth, daughter of Robert Tufton, afterward known as Mason, and had six children, and his widow married as her second husband, Rev. William Allen, of Greenland, Walter Philbrick having died in 1732. 2. Jonathan, see forward. 3. Mary, born May 20, 1702. 4. Samuel, married and lived in Greenland. 5. Olive. 6. Abigail. 7. Sarah.

(IV) Jonathan, second son of William and Mary (Neal) Philbrick, of Hampton and Greenland, was born in Greenland parish, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, about 1694. He joined the church in Greenland in 1721, was both a farmer and shipwright, and a man of remarkable enterprise. He married Elizabeth and they had seven children. In 1728 he sold his property in Greenland, New Hamp- shire, and removed to Arundel, York county, Maine, and thence to Saco, Maine. In 1743 he removed to "Long Ranch," on the Kenne- bec river, and built a garrison house which afforded shelter and protection for four neigh- boring families in the Indian wars, and he and his sons launched several ships at their yards, located where the custom house in Bath now stands. He married, probably in Maine, his second wife, Mary Springer. The

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children of Jonathan and Elizabeth Philbrick were : 1. Elinor, baptized 1722 in Greenwood, New Hampshire. 2. William, 1724. 3. Cap- tain Jonathan, died in Clinton, Maine, 1801. 4. Priscilla, baptized in Greenwood, married John Barnes, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, and had twelve children. 5. David, baptized in 1724. 6. Abigail, baptized in 1725. 7. Deacon Joshua, born October 10, 1727. 8. Job, sec forward. 9. Sarah, baptized 1731. 10. Jo- seph, born about 1733.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume I, Part 67

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe Publication date: 1909 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 802

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 802