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From 1900 to 1908 Mr. Avery was a mem-
Thomas Estabrook, born in Enfield,
County Middlesex, England, came to
America in 1660 and died January 28,
1720-21. He lived at Swanzey, Massachusetts,
and was a selectman in 1681. He
married Sarah Temple, of Concord, Massachusetts,
and among their children was
Thomas.
Thomas (2) Estabrook, son of Thomas
(i) and Sarah (Temple) Estabrook, was
born August 6, 1685. He married, December
18, 1707, Mrs. Elizabeth Parker,
and among their children was Thomas.
Thomas (3) Estabrook, son of Thomas
(2) and Elizabeth (Parker) Estabrook,
was born April 2, 1713. He married, about
1743, Prudence, surname unknown, and
among their children was Joel.
Joel Estabrook, son of Thomas (3) and
Prudence Estabrook, was born in Westford,
Massachusetts, March 3, 1748-49. He
was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
He married, at Chelmsford, Massachusetts,
February 4, 1778, Abigail Under-
wood, of Chelmsford. Issue : Abigail U.,
born 1779; Sophia, born 1781 ; Polly, born
1782; Susanna, born 1784; Joel, of whom
further; Sarah, born 1790.
Joel (2) Estabrook, son of Joel (i) and
Abigail (Underwood) Estabrook, was
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born in Westford, Massachusetts, April
ber of Council No. 8, Senior Order of I, 1778. Among his children was Maria.
United American Mechanics, and with Maria Estabrook, daughter of Joel
his wife is a member of the Congrega- Estabrook, married Robert Avery (see
tional Church.
Avery line).
Edward C. Avery married Mabel Ferris,
daughter of Oscar and Charlotte MAZZOTTA, Salvatore,
(Avery) Ferris, her mother a daughter of
Samuel Avery, brother of Joel E. Avery.
liarge Bnilder.
They were the parents of: Edward, born In the career of this subject is illustra-
March 7, 1910; Myrtle Florine, born April
25, 191 ; 1 Harold Raymond, born March
2, 1916.
ted again the principle of American boast,
namely that one can make something of
himself, physically, mentally and morally,
if he have the necessary ambition, de-
(The Estabrook Line).
termination and stamina. With these
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qualities comes always success in material
things.
Salvatore Mazzotta was born February
12, 1879, in Melilli, province of Syracusa,
Italy, Island of Sicily, a region swept by
the warm Mediterranean breezes. His
father Carmelo Mazzotta, was a mason
builder all his life in Melilli, where he died
in 1903, at the age of seventy years. His
wife, Emanuella, born in the same town,
was a daughter of Vincenzo and Mariana
Nocera. Vincenzo Nocera was a mason
all his life and died in Melilli. Emanuella
Mazzotta died in 1910, aged seventy-one
years. Salvatore Mazzotta was privileged
to attend school until nine years of age,
when he began to learn the mason's trade
under instruction of his father. Very
early in life he began to cherish visions
of escape from his environment, ever his
eyes were turned longingly toward
America, the land of opportunity, and he
persevered in his ambition to strike out
in the world. At the age of eighteen years
he began to realize his desire to improve
himself by travel. An older brother was
then in Bulgaria, and thither Salvatore
turned his steps. For a period of two
years he worked as a mason in railroad
construction near Sofia and then returned