Note 134 — Chapter XXIX

The two preachers were in all probability Rev. Theodore S. Harding and Rev. Joseph Crandall. See Dr. Bill’s History of the Baptists, page 698. The people referred to as “Brooksites” by Sheriff Bates were the founders of the Baptist denomination in Waterborough and Canning, Queens county, N. B., over whom Rev. Elijah Estabrooks presided as teaching elder, with Joseph E. Brooks (or Estabrooks) as deacon, and Zebulon Estey as clerk. An interesting account of the origin of this church is to be found in Dr. Bill’s Hist. of the Baptists pp. 594–602. Another reference to the “Hammonites” and “Brooksites” will be found in the Winslow Papers, page 392.