Ninth Generation

278. Sergeant Elijah* ESTABROOKS II^{1130,1144,1145,1146,1147,1148} was born in 1728 in Enfield, Middlesex Co., MA. He served in the military in 1758/59 in , , NY.¹¹⁴⁸ In Capt. Israel Herrick's Co., Col Jedediah Prebble's Reg. in 1758, stationed at Lake Champlain. Fought at Ticonderoga, NY. Discharged 7 Nov 1758. Re-enlisted 6 Apr 1759, sent to Halifax, NS until 25 Nov 1760. Sergeant. He served in the military in 1759/60 in Halifax, , NS.¹¹⁴⁸ He was buried in 1796 in Canning, Queens Co., NB. Garrison Graveyard, Cambridge Parish He had his estate probated about 1796 in , Middlesex Co., MA.¹¹⁴⁹ Died intestate. Estate given to his widow Sarah. He died in Aug 1796 in Swan Cr., Sunbury Co., NB. Elijah Estabrooks II is said to have remained hale and hearty to the last. He spent his latter years with his son John at Swan Creek on the west side of the Saint John near Upper Gagetown. It is said there were two things he used to pray for. One was that he should never be sick and the other that he should die at his work. He used to pound grain for the chickens in a mortar. One summer afternoon in 1796 after working for a while he lay back in his chair and covered his face with his hat. His grandchildren, who were playing around, thought he was asleep but when they went to waken him for supper they found that he was dead. Died in Swan Creek, Burton Parish. He was buried in the Garrison graveyard at Jenseg, N.B. Apparently lived in East Haverhill from 1750 to 1757 for the baptisms of their first three children are recorded there in the Fourth Congregational Church. They probably moved to Boxford, Mass., about 1757 where the baptisms of two children are recorded in the Second Congregational Church. He kept a Journal of his time in the army, from 21 May 1758 to 25 Nov 1760. His family remained in Boxford, MA. Returned to Boxford 15 Dec 1760. He removed his family to Halifax and then Cornwallis, NS. Went up the St John River in 1763 to find his lot. On 18 Oct 1765 he was employed by Simonds, Hazen and White who operated a fur trading post and fishery at Portland Point, St John, NB. in 1773 he settled in Conway Township at the mouth of the river (St John now) on 250 acres of land. By 1 Aug 1775 he had cleared and improved 7 acres and built a log house. on lot 5 next to the ship building plant. Lot 6 was owned by Zebedee Ring, his son in law. He removed from St. John to Gagetown in Queens Co later during the American Revolution, in which his son was a patriot for a time. On 30 Jun 1783 a survey party sent up the river recorded that he had a wife and 8 children, a log house with 2 rooms and 12 acres cleared. Moved from Gagetown in 1787 across the river to Cambridge Parish in Queens Co., near Jemseg where he was granted lot 32 on Jemseg River of 58 acres. Granted lot 25 of, 61.5 acres on 13 Jan 1787.
Sergeant Elijah* ESTABROOKS II and Mary* HACKETT were married on 14 Nov 1750 in Concord, Middlesex Co., MA.¹¹⁵⁰

279. Mary* HACKETT¹¹⁵¹ was born on 1 Aug 1728 in Salisbury, Essex Co., MA. She died in 1778 in Canning, Queens Co., NB.¹¹⁵² Children were:

139	i.	Hannah* Hackett ESTABROOKS.
	ii.	Mary 'Mollie' ESTABROOKS1153 was born on 9 Mar 1753 in Haverhill, , MA.1154 She died in 1792.1155
	iii.	Sarah ESTABROOKS1153 was born on 25 May 1755 in Haverhill, , MA.1154
	iv.	Reverend Elijah ESTABROOKS942,950,1156,1157 was born on 16 May 1756 in Haverhill, MA.1157,1158 He died on 26 Sep 1825 in Upper Gagetown, Queens Co., NB. He was buried in Upper Gagetown, Queens Co., NB. He was Baptist. In Conway, Sunbury Co.l NS in 1775. He joined the Cumberland party in Oct 1776 to help the Revolution by laying seige to Fort Cumberland with Jonathan Eddy. This failed between 13 and 27 Nov 1776. The rebel army was routed on 27-29 Nov 1776 effectively ending the attempt to join the 13 colonies. He was probably the Elijah Esterbrooks who was granted 138 acres with Ebenezer Esterbrooks (lot 25) in the Parish of Waterborough, Queens Co., NB on 30 Jan 1787 by King George III. Cleared and improved about 7 acres of land and had built a log house but it fell into decay when he moved up river to Township of Conway on account of the danger of his earlier position on land from Hazen and Simmons. He was in the 1783 Studholm Report : "9. Elijah Easterbrooke went also against Cumberland."
	v.	Samuel ESTABROOKS1153 was born on 6 Dec 1757.
	vi.	Ebenezer ESTABROOKS942,1156,1159 was born on 28 Aug 1759 in Boxford, Essex Co., MA.1160 Probably the Ebenezer Esterbrooks who was granted 138 acres with Elijah Esterbrooks (lot 25) in the Parish of Waterborough, Queens Co., NB on 30 Jan 1787 by George III. Settled at Gagetown, N.B., and was dispossed by the Loyalists in 1785. He then lived for a time on his grant, half of Lot 25, in the Parish of Cambridge,Queens County, and in 1796 was living at Lakeville in the Parish of Sheffield, Sunbury County. He was one of those who signed the covenant on the ocassion of forming the Baptist church at Waterborough Oct. 20, 1800. He moved to Lincoln, Sunbury Co., about 1808, and that year received land on Little River. On Dec. 25, 1813, he and several others asked to be dismissed from the church at Waterborough to join in forming a Baptist church in Fredericton. This was the beginning of the Brunswick Street Baptist Church. In 1816 he took up 300 acres of land, Lot 7 in the fourth tier back of Waterville, Carleton County, where he died about 1851.
70	vii.	Joseph* ESTABROOKS.
	viii.	Sarah ESTABROOKS377 was born on 10 Oct 1764 in Halifax, , NS.1154 She died on 2 Jan 1844.
	ix.	Abigail ESTABROOKS377 was born on 28 Dec 1766 in Halifax, , NS.1154
	x.	John ESTABROOKS377 was born on 22 Jan 1769. He died on 2 Feb 1861 in Lincoln, Sunbury Co., NB.
	xi.	Deborah ESTABROOKS377 was born on 14 Aug 1772 in St. John, , NB.1154