Sixth Generation

622. David PHILBROOK⁴¹⁰ was born about 1737 in Brentwood (now Fremont), Rockingham, New Hampshire.^70,410 He was baptized on 11 July 1742 in North Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire.⁷⁰ He was living in 1762 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire. David was living in 1771 in Tamworth, Carroll, New Hampshire. He died about 1775 at the age of 38 in Tamworth, Carroll, New Hampshire. He settled first in Exeter in 1762, then was one of the first settlers in Tamworth in 1771, where he was killed by a falling tree, leaving 6 children, of whom one daughter married a BATCHELDER of Kensington, and another married a REED of Exeter.

According to the book "Look To The Mountain" by LeGrand Cannon, Jr. (Countryman Press, Woodstock, VT, 1942)
"It was the following April that David Philbrick was killed. A white pine fell on him. There had been three of them working - that is, two besides Philbrick. They were Elkanah Danforth, who wasn't more than sixteen, and Stephen Mason, an older man. Danforth and Mason were felling the tree - not such a big one, three feet at the butt - and Philbrick, near by, was lopping the limbs off another one that was already down. He wanted the limbs off so they could roll the trunk up to burn.
Mason and Danforth - both of them - called out to him two or three times that she was about ready to come - but he must have thought he was clear, because, though he answered, he kept right on working. They thought themselves he was clear but still a little too close. they finally quit chopping; that would make him come out.
Philbrick heard them quit chopping, and he called out, "All right, just let me free this one --"
Then a gust of wind came and they heard her cracking deep in their cut, and they yelled, "David, she's comin'!"
He looked up - and he saw the top of her beginning to move, and he started out. They said he didn't look scared, and that he hung on to his ax. He came wading out through that whole mess of branches, and they thought that most probably he'd make it all right. But then he fell down. He went down sideways and rolled onto his back, and they saw him throw up both arms to try to cover his face. Danforth screamed like a woman --
And the green tree settled over him.
They got to him in no time, but they couldn't do any good. A limb of the tree had gone right clear through his chest and as much as ten inches into the ground. He was dead when they saw him. It was a limb maybe five inches through.
They got him out and they tried to make him look better before they went for his wife."

"Daniel Beede himself came over from Sandwich, and two or three with him -- Jonas Moore being one. They brought in some boards, knowing there'd be none in Tamworth.
Late that afternoon, David Philbrick was buried - at the foot of a gray, granite boulder about a quarter of a mile from his house. Beede read from the Bible. They all were agreed that he was the one who should do it, although he favored the Quakers and they thought Philbrick had not. David, his wife thought, had been more of a Baptist. But she thanked Beede for reading, and he read quite a lot."

David PHILBROOK and Mary FOLSOM were married about 1760.⁴¹¹ Mary FOLSOM, daughter of Israel FOLSOM and Sarah DURGIN, was born (date unknown).

David PHILBROOK-4289 and Mary FOLSOM-16640 had the following children: