Ebenezer (Broadbrooks) Brooks Esq (1750 - 1828)

Born 19 Dec 1750 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

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Died 4 Feb 1828 at age 77 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Ebenezer was born in 1750. ^[1]He was the son of Ebenezer Broadbrooks and Lydia Small.

Ebenezer married Tamesin Hall in Harwich on 2 Feb 1775.^[2]

Ebenezer's surname was legally changed to Brooks in 1806 along with his son Obed and six minor children. ^[3]

He died in 1828. Ebenezer was mentioned on a memorial in First Congregational Church Cemetery, Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States with a death date of 4 Feb 1828.^[4]

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1. ↑ Birth: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook)
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 2495 #46711355 (accessed 5 August 2022)
   Ebenezer Broadbrooks Esquire born on 19 Dec 1750 in Harwich, Massachusetts.
2. ↑ Marriage: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook)
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 2495 #46711355 (accessed 5 August 2022)
   
3. ↑ [https://archive.org/details/listpersonswhos01courgoog List of persons whose names have been changed in Massachusetts, 1780-1883. Collated and published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, under authority of the Acts of the year 1884. Boston : Wright & Potter, 1885.
4. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #41238792 (accessed 5 August 2022)
   Memorial page for Ebenezer Brooks (19 Dec 1750-4 Feb 1828), citing First Congregational Church Cemetery, Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by ditdit (contributor 47012745).

Notes

"He filled a large space in society. He was in the legislature 4 yrs.; selectman 20 yrs.; justice of the peace, 1784-1828; postmaster, 1803 to 1821, and a large land-holder"[Hist. Cape Cod, II, p 529].

Winslow Memorial Genealogy.com p.75

Ebenezar Broadbrooks, the son of Ebenezar and Lydia Broadbrooks, born in 1750, was a man of prominence. He was selectman of the town twenty years, representative six years, justice of peace twenty-five years, postmaster sixteen years, and parish clerk and treasurer many years. He married Tamesin Hall, daughter of Seth and Elizabeth Hall, February 2, 1775. He first resided on the south side of the road where his father died; but building a house on the opposite side of the road, upon the farm he purchased of Samuel Ellis in 1798, he there resided until his death, which took place February 4, 1828. His wife, Tamesin, died January 1, 1828. Mr. Broadbrooks and family took the name of Brooks by legislative enactment in 1806. He was the principal merchant in town for many years before 1800. His children by wife Tamesin, were: Naomi, who married Calvin Gifford; Ruth, who married John Hall; Obed; Roxana, who married Ebenezar Weekes, jr.; Asenath, who married Levi Snow; Tamesin, who died unmarried in 1807; Lucy, who married Enoch E. Harding; Ebenezar; Seth; and Sabra, who married Benjamin K. Hall.

Harwich is the central village and the oldest in the town. It is situated upon high land, many feet above the level of the sea, and above the chain of ponds that border the northerly line of the town. Where the Exchange building stands. the land is twenty-nine feet above the level of Long pond. On what is now Main street, sixty years ago, from the house of the late E. E. Hardings to the house occupied by the late Isaac Smith, there were only ten dwelling houses, and of these eight are yet standing, together with the old school house, in which many of the old residents of the village and neighborhood received the rudiments of their education.

The first to open a store in this place was Ebenezer Brooks, Esq., which was before 1789. In 1802 his son, Obed Brooks, became associated with him in trade, and they erected in 1807 the store which was removed in 1880 from the old corner across the street, and is now occupied as a dwelling house. After the death of the father, Mr. Brooks continued in trade until about 1833, when he became associated with his son, Obed Brooks, jr., who had been in business in Boston under the firm of Rand & Brooks. Mr. Brooks at this date enlarged the store, and put in a good stock of goods, such as was usually kept in a country store, making it the store of the town. Mr. Brooks, in 1856, becoming cashier of the bank just established in the village, gave up the business, and Mr. Obed Nickerson of South Harwich, who had for some time been engaged in the store, took charge and carried on the business for several years, when in 1876 Mr. Cyrenus S. Hunt, a young man, who had received his business training under Mr Nickerson, took charge of the old stand, and remained in business there until the erection of Brooks' block, in 1879, when he removed his stock into the room he now occupies. Mr. Hunt has, with the exception of a short period at his place of residence in trade, occupied this store. History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts; Edited by Simeon L. Deyo.; 1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.; CHAPTER XXV. Pages 825-890