Benjamin ELSBREE
1807 - 1856 (48 years)-
Name Benjamin ELSBREE Born 11 Oct 1807 Fall River, Bristol Co., MA 
[1] Gender Male Died 28 May 1856 Fall River, Bristol Co., MA [2] Person ID I00453 Sorensen-Remington Family Tree Last Modified 17 Feb 2020
Father Joshua ELSBREE, b. 6 Apr 1775, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA , d. 7 May 1839, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA (Age 64 years) Mother Rhoda BRIGHTMAN, b. 2 Jul 1774, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA , d. 24 Aug 1854, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA (Age 80 years) Married 16 Mar 1800 Freetown, Bristol Co., MA [3, 4] Notes - At the time of their marriage, Joshua & Rhoda were both of Freetown.
Family ID F07100 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Hannah BUTTS, b. Abt 1810, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA , d. 14 Sep 1845, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA (Age ~ 35 years) Married 13 May 1832 Troy, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA Children 1. Eliza Ann ELSBREE, b. 5 Nov 1832, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA , d. 4 Jan 1913, Providence, RI (Age 80 years)2. Sarah Elsbree, b. 28 Mar 1834, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA , d. 13 Apr 1856, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA (Age 22 years)3. Joseph Henry Elsbree, b. 22 Oct 1835 4. Joshua Elsbree, b. Abt 1840, MA , d. 23 May 1863, August Co., VA (Age ~ 23 years)Last Modified 7 Feb 2020 Family ID F00098 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Ruth Read, b. Abt 1813, MA , d. 1873, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA (Age ~ 60 years) Married 27 Jul 1848 Fall River, Bristol Co., RI [2] Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 Family ID F07103 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - "Benjamin Elsbree, stonecutter, house New Boston" is listed in the Fall River City Directory of 1853.
In the 1840 census, there are five Elsbra (Elsbree) family heads listed in Fall River: Hannah (female age 30-40 with two young females and a young male), Henry, Aaron, Benjamin, and Joseph.
Benjamin's household is as follows: 1 FWM<5, 1 FWM 30-39, 2 FWF 5-9, 1 FWF 20-29.
In the 1850 Federal Census, Benjamin Ellsbree is age 36 MA and his wife Ruth is age 32 MA. Their ages do not agree with their marriage record, as he was 40 and she was 35 when they married in 1848. In the household with them are the following: Emery Read 15 MA, Abel Read 15 MA, & Joshua Ellsbree 10 MA. Benjamin is a stone cutter. (In 1860 Ruth is age 44, a widow, and living with Abel Davis and family, next to Emory Davis and family, at Fall River.)
In the 1855 Massachusetts State Census, Benjamin Elsbree is age 48 and wife Ruth is 42. With them are Emery and Abel Davis, both 19, and Sarah Elsbree, 21. Benjamin is a fisherman.
Benjamin Elsbree died at age 48 y 7 m, of typhoid fever. The death record identifies his birthplace as Fall River, and his parents as Joshua & Rhoda Elsbree (Fall River Vol.102: Pg.69), as does the record of his second marriage (to Ruth [Read] Davis) in 1848. (Fall River Vol.37: Pg.78)
- "Benjamin Elsbree, stonecutter, house New Boston" is listed in the Fall River City Directory of 1853.
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Sources - [S012590] Birth date calculated from age at death.
- [S012672] Vital Records of Fall River, MA.
- [S013451] The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Leslie L. Luther, compiler, and George A. Luther, editor, (The Luther Family Association; Swansea, MA; 2001), 279.
- [S013455] Freetown, MA, Marriage Records 1686-1844, (Assonet, MA: 1934), 26.
- [S012590] Birth date calculated from age at death.