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Descendants of James Le Broke

Generation No. 1

1. JAMES² LE BROKE (LE BROKE¹) was born Abt. 1762 in Paris, France, and died 13 Apr 1812 in Paris, Oxford Co., Maine. He married SARAH GARDNER 12 Aug 1784 in New Gloucester, Shepardsfield, Maine, daughter of NATHANIEL GARDNER and SARAH RANDALL. She was born 22 Jan 1753 in Pembroke, Plymouth Co., Mass., and died 1852 in Greenwood, Maine.

Notes for JAMES LE BROKE:
      James Le Broke a skilled tailor and variously referred to as Le Brook, Le Brock, La Broque, Brock, Brook, and Brooks, came to America from France as a young man with General Lafayette on the French fleet that assisted the colonists in their struggle for independence. James was born in Paris, France, but there is contradictory data on his Parisian birth date. In 1781 James enlisted and served for one year in the Sixth-Massachusetts Regiment during the American Revolutionary War, later settling in Pembroke, Mass. His record appears on pg. 622, Vol. 9," Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution". In 1784 he moved to Hebron, Maine and from there to Paris, Maine; and was among the pioneer settlers of " Old Shepardsfield" in the district of Maine. That same year he married Sarah Garnett (Gardner) in Shepardsfield, Maine, (marriage certificate is under the name of James Brock), they had three sons and a daughter. His wife stated in 1838 that James wrote his name as Brock and Broke indifferently and during the later part of his life he was called Le Broke, and so wrote his name. He spent the last years of his life in Paris, Maine, falling to his death from a house-top roof in 1812. Many of the history books of Paris, Maine and his obituary, record his death as 1812. His obituary in the "Eastern Argus Newspaper" in Portland, Maine states he was 50 years old at his death in Paris on 13 April 1812 and left a wife and four children. When Sarah applied for his pension in the state of Maine, County of Oxford, on October 16, 1838, she stated his death as 1813.

* direct quotes from the following books, Picataquis Biography & Fragments, Old Foxcroft, History, Old Foxcroft Maine, Sprague's Journal of Maine History, History of Paris Maine, Historical Sketch Foxcroft Maine

More About JAMES LE BROKE:
Books: History of Paris, pg 660
Burial: 1812, Paris, Maine
Cause of death: 13 Apr 1812, fell off roof
Cause of death (Facts Pg): 13 Apr 1812, Obituary, Portland Maine newsclip, 30apr1812Eastern Argus 1803-1820, Calvin Day & Nathaniel Willis, lists age as 50 yr
Census: 1790 census Maine, Cumberland Co., Shepardsfield
DAR,lodges, etc.: DAR file#581251
Emigration: With Lafayette's fleet from Paris
Internet: internet, rootsweb.com, Foxcroft History
Land record: 15 Oct 1789, Lot 14 in the second range, Hebron from Israel Whittemore
Military records: 18 Feb 1781, Rev War,Massa reg.,Priv. in Capt Japhet Daniel's Co.Lt. Col. Calvin Smith's Reg.
Occupation: tailor

Notes for SARAH GARDNER:
      The Gardner sisters, sometimes referred to as Garnett, were of the well known Gardner family of Massachusetts and Maine. One of the Gardner's was Governor of the Commonweath of Massachusettes. Sarah lacked only four months of her one hundredth birthday when she died.

More About SARAH GARDNER:
Books: Old Foxcroft Maine by Mary Lowell, MD, pg 43
Christening: 07 Sep 1755, Pembroke, Plymouth Co., Mass.
Internet: States marriage date from MSA as 12 Jun 1784, New Gloucester

More About JAMES LE BROKE and SARAH GARDNER:
Marriage: 12 Aug 1784, New Gloucester, Shepardsfield, Maine
Marriage license: 05 Jul 1784, Records at Maine State Archives,under name James Brock & Sarah Garnett

Children of JAMES LE BROKE and SARAH GARDNER are:

2.	i.		JAMES³ LE BROKE, JR., b. 1784, Paris,Oxford Co., Maine; d. 1867, Greenwood, Maine.
	ii.		SARAH LE BROKE, b. 1787, Hebron, Oxford Co., Maine; d. Unknown, Foxcroft, Maine.

Notes for SARAH LE BROKE:
Miss Sarah Le Broke, a single woman, had for many years been a valued school teacher in Oxford County, but when her brother Jacob decided to make a home in far-away Foxcroft, she came with him. Jacob's family increased rapidly and Miss Sarah was a much needed and esteemed member. She was the children's first teacher. In the summer of 1825, Miss Sarah taught the second school to be held in District #5, or Foxcroft Center, as it was soon to be known. The school was in a barn near the house of Charles Harmon.

More About SARAH LE BROKE:
Books: Old Foxcroft Maine by Mary Lowell, MD, pg 43,44.45
Census: 1850, 1850 Census, Portland, ME, living with Harmon family
Deed: 18 Dec 1825, A deed of lot#5, 7th range, passed from Amos Morse to Sarah Lebroke & Martha Lebroke wife of Jacob
Occupation: School teacher

3.	iii.		JACOB LE BROKE, b. 03 Jun 1789, Heborn, Oxford Co., Maine; d. 15 Mar 1867, Foxcroft, Maine.
4.	iv.		NICHOLAS LE BROKE, b. 1791, Heborn, Oxford Co., Maine; d. 1853.

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