Once more, from today's NEHGS e-newsletter. ============================== North Country Digital History Project The North Country Digital History is a pilot project giving access to digital collections that are housed in a number of repositories located throughout Northern New York. The collections include photographs, oral histories, postcards, scrapbooks, pamphlets, musical scores, newsletters, yearbooks and other materials that have been �selected to tell about the region�s people and events in an historical context.� The collections are organized by theme on the North Country Digital History homepage. Click on the links beneath the thumbnail of the representative photograph to browse the holdings. The collections can be searched using the simple or advanced search functions. You can also set preferences for view, sort order, and number of items per page for your search results and, as well, create lists of favorites. Researchers can also browse the collections of each repository by selecting an institution from the ten institutions that have contributed items to this collection by using the dropdown list at the top of the homepage. The default view for search results is a list showing a thumbnail image, title, subject and a brief description of the item. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge it. Visit http://www.nnyln.org/.

Also copied from today's NEHGS e-newsletter. I took a brief look at the NY Newspapers archive mentioned, put "Brooks" in the search engine for the oldest of the newspapers, which began publishing at Plattsburgh in 1811, and got 31 hits. Chris =========================== Northern New York Historical Newspapers This is an online collection containing more than 267,000 pages from eighteen newspapers from NNYLN�s service area: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, and St. Lawrence counties. New newspapers are being added to the collection on a regular basis. To search a particular newspaper, click on the title link. A new window will open, from which you can run a basic or advanced search of the online newspaper collection. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the page images. New users are advised to read the guide on How to Search. There is also a list of Frequently Asked Questions that provide useful information to individuals using the collection. This collection is a great resource for anyone with ancestors who lived in these counties, as records are scarce in this area. Many families from this part of Clinton County made their way to the Nashua area in the latter part of the nineteenth century. My great-great-grandparents, Lewis and Jane (Monty) Leazotte, and several of their 13 children moved from West Chazy, New York to Nashua, New Hampshire in 1873. Two of their older sons had moved there prior to 1870. Lewis Leazotte died in Nashua in 1884. His obituary in the Nashua Telegraph mentioned an only brother, Joseph, who had died �recently.� To no avail I searched through the Telegraph for an obituary or death notice for the man I believed to have been my great-great-grandfather�s brother, who had died in Nashua in 1882. It became clear that I needed to next search for a death notice in Clinton County newspapers, since Joseph Leazotte had been living in Altona, New York, as late as 1880. I happened upon a link to the NNYLN web site while searching for Clinton County newspapers in SUNY Plattsburgh�s library catalog. When I searched the newspaper database, the results included an obituary for Joseph Leazotte with the following: his �only brother, Lewis A. Leazotte, aged 60 years, resides in Nashua, N.H.� Also noted in the obituary was the fact that he had resided in Altona �until about year ago, when he removed to Nashua.� I now have confirmation that Lewis and Joseph were brothers. The obituary also names their father. I have moved one step closer to being able to prove that my great-great-grandfather, Lewis A. Leazotte, was the grandson of two Revolutionary soldiers (Lewis Lisot and Julian Belanger) and great-grandson of another (Lt. Francis Monty), all whom served in Moses Hazen�s 2nd Canadian Regiment.

Reprinted from today's NEHGS e-newsletter. ============================ Free Non-Member Access to the Register Online March 20-22 As a way to introduce potential members to the wealth of information available to members, NEHGS is pleased to offer free access to one of the thousands of databases on NewEnglandAncestors.org, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Normally available only to NEHGS members, the Register database will be accessible to all from Monday, March 20 through Wednesday, March 22, 2006. Published quarterly since 1847, the Register is the flagship journal of American genealogy and the oldest journal in the field. The database includes issues from 1847 to 1994. For more information visit www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/register/reg_info.a sp. Non-members will be asked to provide contact information, which will not be shared, but will be used to send information about membership to visitors. Visitors will be taken automatically to the Register database after submitting their information. PLEASE NOTE: Only the extensive Register database will be open for public use. The remainder of the databases continue to be accessible to members only.

I well remember the "case of the Levis." About half a dozen of us figured that one out in the face of many DAR and LDS submissions that had conflated a Levi from the Glastonbury line with a Levi from the Concord line. Both were Revolutionary soldiers, and they were born a year apart, so without a careful look they could be confused, and frequently had been. The other day, we saw a similar situation with Vernon Aldrich's Archibald, who had a "twin" with the same name born a year or two later. Last night I commented on a posting about a Daniel Brooks, and pointed out that there were 15 men of that name in New England in the 1810 census. Someday when we have managed to identify a majority of the hundreds of Johns and Williams, I expect many more conflations will need disentangling. There's a reminder lesson here for all of us. You can't grab the first Charles, Harry or Ezra that comes along, no matter what the surname, and assume he's "yours," without proper investigation and documentation. Sometimes/often that means eliminating rivals of the same name by researching them as well. In Vern Aldrich's case, his ancestral Archibald is not the Archibald who died in the Civil War, unmarried � but we only know this because we've identified both Archibalds. Working in an informational vacuum is dangerous to the integrity of family history. (We pause while I climb down from the soapbox �) I haven't got evidence of the Glastonbury Levi's Revolutionary service beyond his gravestone (which I personally accept as sufficient). If his service was in a CT unit, that would explain his omission from MA Soldiers and Sailors. Is there a CT counterpart to MA Soldiers and Sailors? (There is a VT Soldiers and Sailors.) The Massachusetts Levi, on the other hand, did serve in a Massachusetts unit, does have an available pension file, and is included in MA Soldiers and Sailors. This 24-volume set was produced by the Secretary of State, and if you examine it, you'll find transcriptions of every scrap of paper pertaining to Revolutionary military forces which the state government could find to include � muster rolls, furlough permissions, commissary ration draws, and so on. The Brookses live in v. 2, of this set, two to three dozen in number as I recollect. Doubtless there were other Brooks men who say served a single 10-day enlistment in a militia unit whose records are lost. The more enlistments and longer the service, the better the odds that records survive for publication. While no set of records of that era is 100% complete, if I were researching the DAR's Joseph Brooks, I'd consult Soldiers and Sailors first. If he wasn't in there, that wouldn't constitute a prohibition, but would mean that the claim must be documented in some other way. As we may hope it was, to the satisfaction of the "new" ("not your mother's"?) DAR. Thanks for writing, Don and Vernon. Don, your great aunt Ella wasn't Ella Augusta, was she? Whose ancestor "Lord John Brooks of Chisne" came over from England to live (anonymously, apparently) in rural Worcester County, MA? Carol Pullen-Reynolds had a copy of just such a family history from the NEHGS manuscript collection. If this is the same Ella, Don, I'd love to hear from you offlist. If so, be prepared for teasing. :-) Chris

Aaron Brooks and Hannah Brooks, presumably husband and wife, were founding members of the Congregational church organized at Dummerston (not Dummer), VT, 18 Aug 1779. [Windham County Gazeteer, history of Dummerston, 169-183] The 1790 census reported an Aaron "Jr." at Dummerston with a household of two males over 16, four males under 16, and three females. I don't know who this Aaron is. I haven't got an Aaron, son of Aaron, who fits. You also have to remember that "Jr." in that era was not strictly limited to a son-of-father relationship. If there are two men in town named John Brooks, quite unrelated, the younger may be called "Jr." to differentiate him from the elder. Also at Dummerston was a "Dan" (as he's named) Brooks, who with (brother?) Ebenezer Brooks of Dummerston was a Revolutionary soldier under Capt. Duncan, 1782. [VT Soldiers & Sailors of the Revolution, 73] In the 1790 census, Dan is not to be found in Vermont. Ebenezer, meanwhile, was at Johnson's Gore. Ebenezer seems to have stuck around the area, as he is buried in Dummerston. So Aaron, Dan and Ebenezer, the three Brooks males at Dummerston in this period, are therefore probably related. Regarding the children's names, I've seen the name Jehiel in three other instances, and all of them belonged to the Woburn line of Henry/1 Brooks. I think your Bartemus may turn out to be the more usual Artemas or Artemus. Polly is of course the nickname for Mary. You don't say *how* you know that Daniel was born in Massachusetts. That context might be useful in pinpointing a region of the state as Daniel's point of origin. Massachusetts has the best records in New England, although they were much less carefully kept in the western part of the state which was the migration corridor for Connecticut families heading to Vermont. The 1810 census shows 16 Daniels, 15 of them in New England. Only one was in CT, and that was Daniel Jr. at Haddam. Why do you think he's your guy? If you know, from a family bible or some similar bulletproof evidence, that your guy was in both Dummerston and Haddam, fine. Tell us so, and I will put my foot back in my mouth. :-) But in my mind, Haddam, which is on the Connecticut River and was a hub for coaster shipping, doesn't connect migration--wise with Windham County in VT, which is farm and woodland. The census prior to 1850 is dicey to rely on for identification purposes because no one in the household is named. Long story short, with 15 Daniels to choose from in 1810, I would think the odds that the Dummerston and Haddam men are the same to be about 1 in 15. There were always migrants who left and came back, but they're a small minority. The migration path most commonly would be CT to VT, and not vice-versa, the motivation most often being cheap undeveloped land in a newly formed township. Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.us |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Patricia Brooks-Folkvord wrote: > My ancestors are Brooks also, Daniel we know was born in > Mass., and eventually settled in Dummer Vermont (or > Guilford). Aaron deeded him 12 acres after he married > his second wife, Polly Presson, daughter of Samuel > Presson. She was from New Hampshire. We know there were > a number of sons by Daniel's first wife, name is under > contention, but some believe it was either Roxanne or > Rosanne. Daniel Jr. George, James maybe more, with Polly > there was Bartemus, Jehiel, and Polly or Mary. Daniel > Sr. fought in the F and I war, was with Ethan Allen (we > had a set of pistols however a former husband absconded > with them when his wife passed away), and also fought in > the Revolution. Daniel Jr. also fought with the Green > Mtn boys, but was captured and taken to Canada (the > prison was a cave). > > At this point we don't know what the relationship to > Aaron is. I believe they migrated to Connecticut, Daniel > and the older boys are listed in the 1810 census for > Haddem Ct. That would be about the end of Dan Sr. life > time.

Vernon Aldrich wrote: > I sent for the war service record for Archibald Brooks > who I suspect to be the first husband of my great- > grandmother, Louisa Mollet. > The information was disappointing as it appears to be a > different Archibald Brooks as "mine" was from Green > County (son of Roswell Brooks and Catherine Morrison) > Perhaps the information will be useful to someone > sometime, so I'll post it: <snip> Thanks, Vernon. There is indeed a close resemblance between the two Archibalds, but since the soldier died in 1862, he's clearly not your guy. I've entered him in my database. Chris

Hi Carol, I am dilatory in responding. Perhaps you've heard from someone offlist in response to your query. While the focus of this list is a specific set of Brooks families originating in New England, you're more than welcome here. Ron Hughes and other listreaders are also researching post-Great Migration emigrants from England, and there's ample evidence of cross-border migration between New England and Canada. I will make one comment in terms of list protocol. If anyone has information on George, I'd like them to share it with the list as a group. (Reply All rather than an individual reply to the sender.) If a lengthy thread should develop, and it had no relationship to our target population, then it's possible I might ask the participants to take it offline. But I'd rather err on the side of latitude than miss something which might connect to one of "ours." Thanks, Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ============================================ BROOKS-NE-L (Brooks Families of New England) at RootsWeb.com ============================================ Carol Rooksby Weidlich wrote: > I've searching for any information on my 3rd great > grandfather, George M. BROOKS who I believe was dropped > from a space ship into New York State. > > Funnies aside, what I have been able to learn about > George is that he was born 24 Dec 1796 in Yorkshire, > England. My first census find is the 1851 Canadian > Census - Fredericksburgh Township - District One where he > is shown as a Farmer, living with his wife, Nancy (McKee) > and children: Richard, Harriet, Hannah and George. <snip> > > If anyone has any information on George please contact me. <snip>

Jean MKee wrote: > For whatever it is worth, in the D.A.R "New Ancestors" of > the Jan/Feb 2006 issue is BROOK:BROOKES, Joseph: b. 7-20- > 1750 MA d 12--1816 NH m (1) Abigail X Sol NH > > Not sure whether to put this on the NE-Brooks as not our > spelling, but did not find him in the list of Brooks on > tributaries.us New Ancestors? Does that mean that a new member has joined on the basis of this guy's Revolutionary service? If so, and he served in a Massachusetts unit, he ought to be in Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution, which is the 24-volume bible for Revolutionary participants. My copies of the Brooks pages (v. 2) are inaccessible, and I can't look for a Joseph right now. The information fits the Joseph/Abigail Brooks who were among the earliest settlers of Jaffrey, Cheshire, NH. Their three children, and four generations of descendants, are sketched out in the History of Dublin, NH. None of these are up on the web site as I can't connect them ancestrally. I have 52,000+ people in my database, including 10,629 people with the surname Brooks. Of the larger number, only a fraction, about 1,600, are online. Joseph of Jaffrey, in turn, *could be* the same man as Joseph/5a, b. 20 Jul 1750 at Acton, MA (a setoff of Concord), in the Concord line of Capt. Thomas Brooks. One discrepancy is that a Joseph is recorded at both Jaffrey and Acton in 1790, and the household compositions vary: 1-1-3 and 1-1-6. Another discrepancy is that the Acton man died there in 1824, with the correct g.s. age to establish him as the same man who was born there. The DAR member, on the other hand, reports a death in 1816, NH. "Hist. Dublin" doesn't report a death for its Joseph, but he was living there in the 1800 census. I know that today's DAR is much more exacting in the documentation it requires of new members, but how much reliance to put on this lady's identification, I don't know. Joseph's not nearly as bad as John or William in terms of frequency as a Brooks given name, but it's still pretty common, especially in this time period. I wouldn't worry about the spelling discrepancy. Thanks for forwarding this, Jean. Chris

I'd like to know when, how and why he came to America and to NY. Carol -----Original Message----- From: Kathy Chiappetta [mailto:kathygc@ntplx.net] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 9:11 PM To: Carol Rooksby Weidlich; BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BNE] George M. BROOKS Hi, Carol You know where and when George Brooks was born, what his occupation was, who he married, the names of his children, where he lived and where he died. If I've missed something, forgive me. But, what additional information are you seeking? Kathy (CT) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Rooksby Weidlich" <crw020551@earthlink.net> To: <BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 6:30 PM Subject: [BNE] George M. BROOKS > I've searching for any information on my 3rd great grandfather, > George M. BROOKS who I believe was dropped from a space ship into > New York State. > > Funnies aside, what I have been able to learn about George is > that he was born 24 Dec 1796 in Yorkshire, England. My first > census find is the 1851 Canadian Census - Fredericksburgh > Township - District One where he is shown as a Farmer, living > with his wife, Nancy (McKee) and children: Richard, Harriet, > Hannah and George. > > I believe he was married to widow, Nancy McKee Fraser in > Ellisburg, Jefferson County, NY on 12 Aug 1823 according to the > William Harley Brooks Family Bible. Nancy had a daughter, Jane > who took the Brooks name. > > George and Nancy's children, Anson McClellan, Richard Harrison, > Emma and Harriet Elizabeth were all born in Ellisburgh. Their > last three children Mary Caroline, Hanna A. and George M. were > born in Fredericksburgh Township, Ontario, Canada. > > George died 24 Jul 1862 in Madoc, Hastings County, > Northumberland, Ontario, Canada. > > If anyone has any information on George please contact me. > > Thank you, > > Carol Rooksby Weidlich > North Fort Myers, Florida > > > ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== > To search previous posts by subject line: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/BROOKS-NE-L/ > The address is case-sensitive.

Hi, Carol You know where and when George Brooks was born, what his occupation was, who he married, the names of his children, where he lived and where he died. If I've missed something, forgive me. But, what additional information are you seeking? Kathy (CT) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Rooksby Weidlich" <crw020551@earthlink.net> To: <BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 6:30 PM Subject: [BNE] George M. BROOKS > I've searching for any information on my 3rd great grandfather, > George M. BROOKS who I believe was dropped from a space ship into > New York State. > > Funnies aside, what I have been able to learn about George is > that he was born 24 Dec 1796 in Yorkshire, England. My first > census find is the 1851 Canadian Census - Fredericksburgh > Township - District One where he is shown as a Farmer, living > with his wife, Nancy (McKee) and children: Richard, Harriet, > Hannah and George. > > I believe he was married to widow, Nancy McKee Fraser in > Ellisburg, Jefferson County, NY on 12 Aug 1823 according to the > William Harley Brooks Family Bible. Nancy had a daughter, Jane > who took the Brooks name. > > George and Nancy's children, Anson McClellan, Richard Harrison, > Emma and Harriet Elizabeth were all born in Ellisburgh. Their > last three children Mary Caroline, Hanna A. and George M. were > born in Fredericksburgh Township, Ontario, Canada. > > George died 24 Jul 1862 in Madoc, Hastings County, > Northumberland, Ontario, Canada. > > If anyone has any information on George please contact me. > > Thank you, > > Carol Rooksby Weidlich > North Fort Myers, Florida > > > ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== > To search previous posts by subject line: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/BROOKS-NE-L/ > The address is case-sensitive.

I've searching for any information on my 3rd great grandfather, George M. BROOKS who I believe was dropped from a space ship into New York State. Funnies aside, what I have been able to learn about George is that he was born 24 Dec 1796 in Yorkshire, England. My first census find is the 1851 Canadian Census - Fredericksburgh Township - District One where he is shown as a Farmer, living with his wife, Nancy (McKee) and children: Richard, Harriet, Hannah and George. I believe he was married to widow, Nancy McKee Fraser in Ellisburg, Jefferson County, NY on 12 Aug 1823 according to the William Harley Brooks Family Bible. Nancy had a daughter, Jane who took the Brooks name. George and Nancy's children, Anson McClellan, Richard Harrison, Emma and Harriet Elizabeth were all born in Ellisburgh. Their last three children Mary Caroline, Hanna A. and George M. were born in Fredericksburgh Township, Ontario, Canada. George died 24 Jul 1862 in Madoc, Hastings County, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada. If anyone has any information on George please contact me. Thank you, Carol Rooksby Weidlich North Fort Myers, Florida

My ancestors are Brooks also, Daniel we know was born in Mass., and eventually settled in Dummer Vermont (or Guilford). Aaron deeded him 12 acres after he married his second wife, Polly Presson, daughter of Samuel Presson. She was from New Hampshire. We know there were a number of sons by Daniel's first wife, name is under contention, but some believe it was either Roxanne or Rosanne. Daniel Jr. George, James maybe more, with Polly there was Bartemus, Jehiel, and Polly or Mary. Daniel Sr. fought in the F and I war, was with Ethan Allen (we had a set of pistols however a former husband absconded with them when his wife passed away), and also fought in the Revolution. Daniel Jr. also fought with the Green Mtn boys, but was captured and taken to Canada (the prison was a cave). At this point we don't know what the relationship to Aaron is. I believe they migrated to Connecticut, Daniel and the older boys are listed in the 1810 census for Haddem Ct. That would be about the end of Dan Sr. life time. Help would be appreciated. Sincerely, Patricia Brooks-Folkvord pfolk2@hotmail.com

I sent for the war service record for Archibald Brooks who I suspect to be the first husband of my great-grandmother, Louisa Mollet. The information was disappointing as it appears to be a different Archibald Brooks as "mine" was from Green County (son of Roswell Brooks and Catherine Morrison) Perhaps the information will be useful to someone sometime, so I'll post it: Enlisted: age 21, 11 August 1862 in Corinth, NY for3 years Mustered in: 19 August 1862, Pvt, Company F, Reg't 115 (Infantry) Died: 22 December 1862, Pvt, at hospital, Chicago, IL of fever Born: Edinburgh, NY; Age: 21; Occupation Farmer, 15 Cong. Dist. Eyes Blue, Hair Dark, Complexion Dark, 5 ft, 5 in. high. Full name at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nysarato/twnclidx.html - Archibald Fayette Brooks Vernon C. Aldrich Surnames: Aldrich, Kimball, Preston, Burness, Mollet, Hammond, Nott, Summerhayse, Robinson ***************** The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. Num. 6:24-26 ----------------------------------------- Get free email at http://mail.destin.com

For those who enjoy thousands of hits, with endless browsing and no end or horizon in sight, try entering Brooks at this link: http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/index.jsp It's an index of library and institutional collection catalogs.It doesn't offer any instant gratification in the form of scanned documents or things like that, but it will tell you where all sorts of Brooks papers and ephemera are kept. Free access through May 31, after which time they presumably charge a subscription fee. A couple of samples related to Jonas Hapgood Brooks (my ancestral cousin) and Gen. Micah Brooks (Jean McKee's) 6. Jonas Hapgood Brooks, 1848-1937 papers, 1872-1901. Jonas Hapgood Brooks, 1848-1937. Contact information: Albany Institute of History and Art Correspondence about mineral speculation, the Whitney scandal, parole efforts on behalf of Thomas Ballard, and Republican politics, 1872-1901; among his correspondents are Thurlow Weed Barnes and ... ... Ballard Thomas Brooks Jonas Hapgood Albany New York ... ... Hapgood Brooks 1848-1937 Jonas Hapgood Brooks ... ... scandal parole efforts on behalf of Thomas Ballard ... ... 19821201 Jonas Hapgood Brooks 1848-1937 papers ... 7. War of 1812 collection, 1806-1818. Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site (Newburgh, N.Y.) Contact information: Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site Logbook of the private armed hermaphrodite brig SARATOGA, Thomas Aderton, captain, 1813-1814; journal of Major Gen. Micah Brooks kept while serving on the Canadian frontier, July to October 1812; ... ... instructions muster rolls Aderton Thomas Brooks Micah ... ... hermaphrodite brig SARATOGA Thomas Aderton captain 1813-1814; journal of Major Gen Micah Brooks kept while ... : As an experiment, I tried a more focused search for unusual names that I know are already on the web in a museum page context. Ammi Brooks was a chairmaker whose work is profiled on a Maine museum's website. Hervey Brooks of Goshen CT just came up last week as a potter who's been beatified by Old Sturbridge Village. But while they're both on the web, entering their names in quotation marks in ArchiveGrid came up empty. Chris

I don't know if I was clear in my previous message. I agree that Uri/4 of Hadley is probably the man who died in Louisiana. It's a very uncommon given name in these Brooks lines, and each time one like it comes up on the list, I basically hit the books and census for every mention of it I can find, to try and sort out the candidates. Having done this, I've only found half a dozen men named Uri/Uriah Brooks. Of these, the Hadley man is the only one who fits the profile and chronology (in addition to having a wife Hannah). Sorry that doesn't fill in any blanks. Chris

Uri/4 Brooks, s/o Joseph/3 Brooks and Miriam Wright, was born 8 Jul 1759 at Hadley, Hampshire, MA. He married, perhaps at Wilbraham, 29 Mar 1783, Hannah Sikes. Uri is in the Springfield line of William/1 Brooks, and this information and my sources are available at the Tributaries website, and you're welcome to them. I haven't found anything further on Uri/Hannah in Massachusetts records. They clearly left the Springfield area and migrated. So it's progress to find a hypothetical migration path. I'll have to defer to others on the best research methods for New York state. If researcher had a reported age at death for Uri that correlates with his DOB, then you'd have another piece of circumstantial evidence for his identity. Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.us |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Nancy Federico wrote: > I am attempting to link Hannah Brooks to Uri and Hannah > (Sikes) Brooks. I know she was born in NY about 1799 > based on the East Baton Rouge Parish census of 1850. She > fits the age of several daughters listed to Uri Brooks of > Bridgewater, Oneida, NY 1800 census. Her family lived > very close to Berry Lively, the man she married, in East > Baton Rouge parish. > > I have Uri's death from a Brooks researcher as 25 Aug > 1822 in Baton Rouge, LA. > > I don't think she was formerly baptized in a church in > NY. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to acquire a > birth record of Hannah?

Stephany Smith wrote: > James Wesley Clelland was killed during the Civil War on > 7 Dec 1862 at the Battle of Prairie Grove in Arkansas. Was he in the CSA forces? Do you have unit details by any chance? Thanks, Chris

I have e-mailed Trudy Fielding the following response: Gilman Brooks is buried in Vining cemetery in Washington County, Kansas beside his wife Mary Elizabeth Scrivner Brooks. Their gravestones read: Brooks M E Aug 3, 1878-34 years Brooks G D April 15, 1879-46 years This information can be found on the Family History of Alvin Brooks website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heathsmith/brooks/index.htm There is also a website on James Wesley Clelland who Trudy also references. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heathsmith/cleland/index.htm James Wesley Clelland was killed during the Civil War on 7 Dec 1862 at the Battle of Prairie Grove in Arkansas. James Wesley Clelland is related to Gilman Brooks through the marriage of his two sons to two of Gilman's daughters. Hiram Webster Cleland married Emma Brooks and John William Cleland married Clara Belle Brooks -----Original Message----- From: Trudy Fielding [mailto:trcharly@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 8:17 PM To: BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BNE] FW: Alvin Brooks autobiography This Alvin Brooks is the father of my Great great Grand Father Gillman Drew Brooks. The correct name for my Great great Grand Mother is Mary Elizabeth Scrivner another old American family. It's our family belief that we descend from Deacon Doans of the Mayflower. Google Deacon Doans. I still have to prove a couple of things but I reasonably certain of this history to go on this forum and make the statement. I believe that Gillman Drew Brooks moved to LA sometime after my Great Grand Mother Viola was about 3. I think he changed his name to David G Brooks. He joined a group of LDS followers and may have married again. I have that he hooked up with a cousin named James Wesley Clelland, whose history can be found online by googling that name. This genealogy was done by another cousin Stephany Smith of the Healthsmiths. My family was one of the 1st to go to Kansas and another cousin was the last white man (a kid of 10) killed by "wild" Indians in Kansas. I have that article too. Trudy Fielding ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== To Search previous posts by keyword(s): http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=BROOKS-NE The address is case-sensitive.

The web site A Family History of Alvin Brooks is now online at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heathsmith/brooks/index.htm The information contains information on Alvin Brooks and his three wives (1) Sallie Carr (2) Dorcus Barney (3) Pheba Freer and their descendents. It also contains information on Alvin's ancestors, most of which can be credited to Christopher Brooks, the moderator of this list. Christopher also has a website http://www.tributaries.us/ with Brooks family information.

If you go to google.com and put in Bridgewater, NY, the town has a nice website including the Historical Society as well as the town offices. I have traveled through that area doing research and you are best going right to the towns as the state is less likely to have anything. I suggest contacting the Town Clerk, who is listed, about any records he/she might have as to births. Even the deeds of property records can turn up information. The Historical Society may have some records as well thanks to others who have been researching that line. Cheshire Jean