Fifth Generation507. Deacon Joshua PHILBROOK was born on 10 October 1727 in Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire. He died on 27 May 1821 at the age of 93 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine. He was buried at Maple Grove Cemetery in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.70 From "History of Bath and Environs, Sagadahoc County, Maine. 1607-1894" "Joshua Philbrook was born in Greenland, N.H., October 10, 1727. He married, June 15, 1750, Miss Elizabeth Alexander, who was born in Georgetown, September 8, 1729. Her father was shot in Topsham by an Indian and the widow married Mr. Bryant Robinson of Long Reach. Joshua Philbrook in his minority was employed in furnishing game, mostly water fowl that were very numerous in creeks and coves of the Sagadahoc. Joshua related that he one day went in his float to Whizgig Creek and firing into a dense flock of teal, killed twenty-four at one shot. On spring Mr. Philbrook was up in the wilderness, as was his custom two months at a time, with traps, a bag of meal, and a blanket strapped on a very light hunter's sled, a pair of snow-shoes, a Bible that he carried in his pocket with his pocket compass. He spoke of these later as his important guides. As the spring advanced, he made preparations for returning home by felling a birch tree to make a canoe. He arrived home safely, coming in contact with no Indians. It was a very dangerous but profitable business; he paid for his farm by means of his traps and disposing of his pelts. Mr. Philbrook and wife would go to Boston in one of their sloops with their pelts and buy whatever articles they were in need of for the next year; some years having an overplus of a stocking full of silver dollars. They often shipped to Boston a load of white oak rift staves, the first kind of lumber that was shipped and sold in Boston. Rift shingles and clapboards were the next articles shipped to Boston from Long Reach before the time of saw-mills. In 1761-62, Mr. Joshua Philbrook had a commission and warrant from Governor Shirley of Massachusetts, under George III of England, authorizing him to collect tax from the tax payers of the second parish of Georgetown, the money to be appropriated to paying for the building of the meeting-house in the present West Bath, which duty he performed. Joshua worked with his father at building vessels and farming. When he married he bought a lot of one hundred and fifty acres of Mr. Donnell, of York, extending from the Kennebec River to the diving line between Bath and West Bath, one-third of which later belonged to the City of Bath, extending from the east line of the old cemetery to the west by Sewall's Mill Pond. The first house Joshua built was of logs. In 1790 he build a log house near the country road, about three rods northwest of Mrs. Elisha Higgin' house. He build the latter house with his son Daniel.. Deacon Joshua PHILBROOK and Elizabeth ALEXANDER were married on 15 June 1750 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.134 Elizabeth ALEXANDER, daughter of George ALEXANDER and Jane , was born on 8 September 1729 in Georgetown (Bath), Sagadahoc, Maine. She died on 21 November 1815 at the age of 86. She was buried at Maple Grove Cemetery in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.385 Deacon Joshua PHILBROOK-3600 and Elizabeth ALEXANDER-3610 had the following children:
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