James Fillebrown

1786 - 1872  (85 years)

• Name	James Fillebrown
  Birth	7 Aug 1786	Arlington, Middlesex Co. MA   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	2537
  Death	5 Jul 1872	Boston, Suffolk Co. MA   [4]
  Person ID	I2537	Hilbish-Blackman Family Tree
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	Thomas FILLEBROWN,   b. 8 Jun 1749, Cambridge (Now Arlington), Middlesex Co. MA d. Nov 1834, West Cambridge, Middlesex Co. MA (Age 85 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Hannah BROWN,   b. 8 Jun 1749   d. 3 Oct 1797, Cambridge, Middlesex Co. MA (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1 Dec 1778	Cambridge, Middlesex Co. MA   [5, 6]
  Reference Number	21935
  Family ID	F826	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Weltha Piper
  Marriage	31 Dec 1818	Baltimore, Windsor Co. VT   [1]
  Reference Number	30044
  Family ID	F1095	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 7 Aug 1786 - Arlington, Middlesex Co. MA Death - 5 Jul 1872 - Boston, Suffolk Co. MA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Source: personal research of Charles Jerry Fillebrown (www.Fillebrown.com) PO Box 1010 3455 County Road 427 Anna, TX 75409 972-924-4467 "He was born in the old 'Fillebrown House,' Spring Street. James died July 5, 1872 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at 85 years of age. He died at the home of his son James Rodman Fillebrown." "Incident to the War of 1812 he had exciting experiences dodging the press gang." James resided in Baltimore, Windsor County, Vermont circa 1812. He moved to Baltimore where his sister Dorcas lived with her husband Rufus Piper. From: Fillebrown Family by C.B. Fillebrown, pg 46: James was employed at his farm as a farmer in Hawk's Mountain, Windsor County, Vermont circa 1819.(1352) "He took up a farm on the summit of Hawk's Mountain, between Baltimore and Weathersfield, and erected a strong log-cabin. Here, two miles away from their relatives at the base of the mountain, James and his Baltimore bride had their full share of thrilling experiences with the wild beasts of the forest, which not only ate up their corn, but threatened the lives of themselves and their children. One incident of this period was that the husband came near the loss of his life by cutting his foot while felling trees. When he failed to come home to dinner his wife found him, white and faint from loss of blood. Managing, with great difficulty, to get him home, she at once set off down the mountain for the doctor. Of this cabin on Hawk's Mountain, only the foundation of the chimney remained standing when it was visited by his descendants a few years ago (circa 1910)." James was employed at various places as a Brickmaker in Hawk's Mountain, Windsor County, Vermont circa 1819.(1353) "Having learned brick-making when a boy, James was accustomed, between farming seasons, to go south to work at his trade leaving his brave wife to care for the cabin and the children, who were soothed to sleep with lullabies of bears and panthers. One night, hearing strange noises, she descended the ladder from the sleeping-loft to dispatch a visiting porcupine which had worked its way under the foundation into the cabin." James resided in Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont date unknown.(1354) A bit of history.(1355) "In Cavendish James made bricks for the first meeting-house and the first store in town. Here his corn and apples ripened unmolested; but he never succeeded in reproducing the flourishing Arlington peach orchards."

  
  

• Sources

  [S166] Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown, Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin, Genealogy of the Fillebrown Family, (Name: 1910;), pg 46. #82 [S519] Baldwin, Thomas, Vital Records of Cambridge to 1850, (Name: 1914;), Vol. 1 Births; pg. 250. James Fillebrown, s. of Thomas, bp. Aug. 20, 1786 CR1 = church records, First Congregational, Unitarian [S672] Sharples, Stephen Paschall, Records of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England 1632-1830, (Name: Eben Putnam; Location: Boston; Date: 1906;), Pg. 245. James of Thomas Fillebrown baptized 20 Aug 1786 [S166] Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown, Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin, Genealogy of the Fillebrown Family, (Name: 1910;), pg 47. #82 [S166] Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown, Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin, Genealogy of the Fillebrown Family, (Name: 1910;), pg 17. #38 [S519] Baldwin, Thomas, Vital Records of Cambridge to 1850, (Name: 1914;), Vol. 2 (Marriages & Deaths), pg. 141. 1 Dec 1778 - Thomas Fillebrown & Hannah Brown