William Eastabrook (1731 - 1772)

Born 29 Sep 1731 in Swansea, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, New England

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Luther) Eastabrooke — married 18 Feb 1753 in Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island

Died 12 Aug 1772 at age 40 in Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island

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Biography

William was born in 1731 at Swansea in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the son of William Easterbrooke and Patience Salisbury.^[1] He passed away in 1772 at Warren, Rhode Island.^[2]

William married Susannah Luther in 1753 at Warren.^[3] Children, recorded at Warren:^[4]

• Abial b. 14 August 1753
• Martin b. 30 October 1754
• Patience b. 8 June 1756
• Susannah b. 1 February 1758
• Roby b. 4 May 1759
• Sarah b. 9 March 1765
• William b. 2 October 1768
• Elizabeth b. 15 January 1771

Research Notes

Disambiguation

There were three men named William Eastabrooke living in Swansea and later Warren during the early to mid 1700s. It is important then to distinguish the marriage records and assign the correct families to the correct Williams. An analysis of the information to untangle their identities is on the profile of William Eastabrook born 1724.

Children

Estabrook reports two additional children:^[5]

• Nellie b. 27 April 1761
• Amos b. 4 March 1763

Sources

1. ↑ Rounds: Page 162 — "William the Son of Wm Eastabrook and Patience his wife was born September the :29:1731."
2. ↑ Arnold: Vol. 6, Warren Deaths, Page 98
3. ↑ Arnold: Vol. 6, Warren Marriages, Page 19
4. ↑ Arnold: Vol. 6, Warren Births, Page 65
5. ↑ Estabrook: Page 260

• Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co. , Providence, R.I., 1891)

• Estabrook, William Booth. Genealogy of the Estabrook Family (Andrus & Church, Ithaca, N.Y., 1891)

• Rounds, H. L. Peter. Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992)