. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. anor of PatroonVan Rensselaer. On October 9, 1665, John West-brook was at Portsmouth, N. H., and in 1689-90the names of Job and John appeared on the 1721, Col. Thomas Westbrook, said to have comefrom Stroudwater, Gloucestershire, England, wasa shipbuilder and large landowner in the State ofMaine, and the town of Westbrook, Maine, wasnamed in h
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. anor of PatroonVan Rensselaer. On October 9, 1665, John West-brook was at Portsmouth, N. H., and in 1689-90the names of Job and John appeared on the 1721, Col. Thomas Westbrook, said to have comefrom Stroudwater, Gloucestershire, England, wasa shipbuilder and large landowner in the State ofMaine, and the town of Westbrook, Maine, wasnamed in his honor. In that year he commandedthe expedition against Norridgewock, which brokeup the settlement of the famous Jesuit priest, FatherRalle, and captured his papers. In 1723 he wasappointed by Gov. Dunmore as the chief in com-mand of the Eastern frontier. I. Anthony Westbrook, the first ancestor con-cerning whom we have any definite information,removed from Guilford, Ulster Co., N. about1737, and located in Montague township, SussexCo., N. J., where be became the owner of a largetract of land along the Delaware river and on Mini-sink Island. He was prominent among the settlersthere, holding the office of justice of the peace, and.
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