User:RWIR/Thomas Westbrook
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Thomas Westbrook was an innkeeper, councilor, government mast agent, a land speculator, a colonial New England militia colonel and, for a time, the senior New England militia officer in the conflict known as the French and Indian War or Lovewell's War or Dummer's War. The city of Westbrook, Maine was named after him.
- One of the most energetic and useful men of New England during the first half of the [eighteenth]... century was Thomas Westbrook. Colonel Westbrook's services in the wars with the Indians, and as a leading inhabitant and business man of old Falmouth, render everything with which he was connected of interest to the present residents of the towns whose territory once formed a part of that ancient jurisdiction. He was the foremost public man of the town. His daring expedition to Norridgewock in winter, for the capture of Father Rasle and the private papers of the priest, which were brought off, has been the theme of all writers of the annals of his time. He was a native of New Hampshire and early came into public life as a councilor. ... [1]
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