The following is transcribed from the book "A genealogy of the Philbrick and Philbrook familes. . ." by Jacob Chapman.
"John who m. Ann [Palmer]? by whom he had 7 ch. In 1636 he was a proprietor in Watertown, but in the summer of 1639 he settled in hampton and received a land grant there. A house lot of five acres was granted to him in 1640. On the 20th, 8th Mo., 1657, he was drowned with his wife and daughter Sarah, and five others. They were in a little sloop, on a shopping excursion to Boston by the easiest rout.
Hampton records say: "The sad hand of God upon eight person, going in a vessel by sea, from Hampton to Boston, who were all swallowed up in the Osian, soon after they went out the harbour." Among the names recorded are "John Philbrick and Ann his wife, and Sarah their daughter- - all drowned, 20th 8th Mo., 1657" ( pgs. 8-9)
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