1. Joseph A. Estabrook, Born abt 1608 in Devonshire, England. Died in Enfield, England. Married Anna Brainard, Born, 1610, London, England.
2. Joseph Estabrook II, The Reverend Joseph Estabrook [2], my gateway ancestor, was born in Enfield, co. Middlesex, England. After receiving his preparatory education in England, he immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, and continued his studies at Harvard College, graduating in 1664. Shortly thereafter, he became an assistant to the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, settling in Concord, Massachusetts (a town founded in 1635 by a group of colonists under the Rev. Bulkeley). Here he was ordained in 1667. Upon the Rev. Bulkeley's death in 1696, the Rev. Joseph Estabrook became pastor of the church, a position he held until his death on 16 Sep 1711 at the age of 71. [Dale W. Mower, 185 Norfolk Street, Bangor ME 04401-3466]
3. Joseph Estabrook III, Son of the above. Born in Concord, Mass in 1669. In 1689 he married Millicent Woodis of Cambridge Farms, Mass. She died in 1692 and in 1693 he married Hannah Leavitt of Loring and moved to Lexington where he bought 200 acres of land. He was a Deacon in the church, commanded a military company, and was Town Clerk, Treasurer, Assessor, Selectman, and representative to the General Court. He died in 1733.
4. John Estabrook, Born in Lexington in 1664. Married Prudence Harrington. He was the Town Constable from 1737-1738. He died in 1742.
5. Nehemiah Estabrook, Born in Lexington, Mass. In 1735. He was a soldier in the French and Indian War. He moved to Lunenburg, Mass. In 1777 the later to Arlington, Mass. He married Elizabeth Winship and died in 1812.
6. Nehemiah Estabrook II, Son of above. Born in Lunenburg, Mass. In 1762. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was at Valley Forge. He married Lucy Davis of Shirly, Mass. In1785. At some point he moved to Lexington, Mass where he died in 1802.
7. John Estabrook, Born in Lexington in 1799. He had only a limited education. With two friends, he decided to go west and left Lexington in 1816. They went to Pittsburgh, bought a flat boat and floated down the river to St. Louis, then a small French village. In 1818 he went to Madison County, Ill. where he bought some land. In 1820, in Greenville, Ill, he married Nancy White of Charlotte, North Carolina. They moved to Edwardsville, Ill, where he bought several acres of land, built a log hut, a log schoolhouse, and a log meetinghouse. Due to the increase in value to his land, he became quite wealthy and at the time of the Civil War he was a banker and loaned the government a considerable amount of money. He raised a family with nine children and died in 1881.
8. Edward Estabrook, Born in Edwardsville, Ill in 1822.As a young man he went to Platteville, Wisconsin where in 1846 he married Margaret Mitchell who was born in Clinton, New York in 1826. They had seven children. In 1847 he joined the Gold Rush to California but only remained there a short time before returning to Platteville. In 1863 his wife died and the following year he married Ellen K. Shaw of (Exeter?), Maine in 1835. In 1867 they moved to Marshalltown, Iowa and later to a farm in Grundy County, Iowa. In 1872 their daughter, Mary Francis Estabrook was born. In 1873 they moved to Eldora, Iowa where they lived until 1900 when they moved to California where he died in 1903 and she in 1911.