Gene: I have no idea which battles he was in, but it would be worth checking with the National Archives. If he filed a Revolutionary War pension application, that is where the original document(s) would be found. He would have had to provide some recounting, preferably with proof, of his military service in order to get a pension. Philip C. Brooks (retired National Archives staffer) On Aug 21, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Gene Hutson wrote: > Thanx for this Lynn, > > Does anyone know which battles Maj Thomas Brooks 1761 - 1822 > may have been involved with?? > > Thanx, > > Gene Hutson > Norfolk, Nebraska > > > Genealogy; > "a stirring of the memories" > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lynn E. Brooks" <lynn@ivycreekfarm.com> > To: <brooks-ne@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 5:07 PM > Subject: Re: [BNE] Pvt. John Brooks of the 151st N.Y.S.V., July 9 1864 > > >> >> Fighting for Time* by Glenn H. Worthington, which describes this >> battle. >> The battle was relatively small, but was critical in saving >> Washington, >> D.C., from Confederate capture. The Union general opposing knew he >> would >> lose, but also knew he must delay Early to allow reinforcements time >> to >> get into Washington. The Union general was General Lew Wallace, who >> later >> wrote Ben Hur. >> >> Eearly was pardoned and retired to practice law and die in Lynchburg, >> Virginia, where he is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery. >> >> Lynn Brooks >> Lynchburg, VA (previously from Frederick, MD) >> >> >> >> * In the summer of 1864, General Jubal A. Early led about 15,000 >> Confederates on a daring sweep through Maryland to attack the Federal >> capital from the north. The savage battle proved to be one of the most >> decisive engagements of the Civil War. The hard-marching Confederate >> troops of General Jubal Early were embarked on a desperate gamble - an >> invasion of the North meant to take the pressure off Robert E. Lee's >> besieged forces at Petersburg. Early's goal was nothing less than the >> seat >> of the Federal Government, Washington, DC. Glenn Worthington, a >> youthful >> witness of the carnage at Monocacy, recounts in rich detail the >> see-saw >> fighting as lines of blue and gray swept across the rolling >> pastureland >> and wheatfields of central Maryland, each side knowing that their >> efforts >> would decide the fate of their cause. Replete with official reports >> of the >> engagement, and the anecdotal recollections and memoirs of >> participants, >> Fighting For Time vividly brings to life this fiercely fough! >> t soldier's battle, the Battle of Monocacy. >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: MJMCKEE1@aol.com >> To: BROOKS-NE@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 12:40 PM >> Subject: [BNE] Pvt. John Brooks of the 151st N.Y.S.V., July 9 1864 >> >> >>> From NY-OLD NEWS at Rootsweb in the event this helps anyone: >> >> Newspaper: Spirit of the Times, Batavia NY; Saturday, July 23, 1864. >> . >> List of Killed, Wounded and Missing in the 151st N.Y.S.V. in the >> Battle of Monocacy Junction, on Saturday, July 9th, 1864. >> >> The following sad list of the killed, wounded and missing of the >> 151st >> N.Y.S.V., in the recent fight at Monocacy Junction, we extract from >> the >> Baltimore >> 'American' >> .....Company F: Wounded..... Pvt. John Brooks >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BROOKS-NE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BROOKS-NE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BROOKS-NE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:05:56 -0500, Gene Hutson wrote: > Does anyone know which battles Maj Thomas Brooks 1761 - > 1822 may have been involved with?? I don't have an exact match for those exact dates, but would hope I have this guy if you could provide us more information, something with which to diffentiate him besides dates, which as we all know are often elastic when borrowed from others -- like his parentage, locale, or name of wife/children, things like that. Lotsa Thomases � I have 195 of them. Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England www.tributaries.us ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Fighting for Time* by Glenn H. Worthington, which describes this battle. The battle was relatively small, but was critical in saving Washington, D.C., from Confederate capture. The Union general opposing knew he would lose, but also knew he must delay Early to allow reinforcements time to get into Washington. The Union general was General Lew Wallace, who later wrote Ben Hur. Eearly was pardoned and retired to practice law and die in Lynchburg, Virginia, where he is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery. Lynn Brooks Lynchburg, VA (previously from Frederick, MD) * In the summer of 1864, General Jubal A. Early led about 15,000 Confederates on a daring sweep through Maryland to attack the Federal capital from the north. The savage battle proved to be one of the most decisive engagements of the Civil War. The hard-marching Confederate troops of General Jubal Early were embarked on a desperate gamble - an invasion of the North meant to take the pressure off Robert E. Lee's besieged forces at Petersburg. Early's goal was nothing less than the seat of the Federal Government, Washington, DC. Glenn Worthington, a youthful witness of the carnage at Monocacy, recounts in rich detail the see-saw fighting as lines of blue and gray swept across the rolling pastureland and wheatfields of central Maryland, each side knowing that their efforts would decide the fate of their cause. Replete with official reports of the engagement, and the anecdotal recollections and memoirs of participants, Fighting For Time vividly brings to life this fiercely fought soldier's battle, the Battle of Monocacy. ----- Original Message ----- From: MJMCKEE1@aol.com To: BROOKS-NE@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 12:40 PM Subject: [BNE] Pvt. John Brooks of the 151st N.Y.S.V., July 9 1864 >From NY-OLD NEWS at Rootsweb in the event this helps anyone: Newspaper: Spirit of the Times, Batavia NY; Saturday, July 23, 1864. . List of Killed, Wounded and Missing in the 151st N.Y.S.V. in the Battle of Monocacy Junction, on Saturday, July 9th, 1864. The following sad list of the killed, wounded and missing of the 151st N.Y.S.V., in the recent fight at Monocacy Junction, we extract from the Baltimore 'American' .....Company F: Wounded..... Pvt. John Brooks ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROOKS-NE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanx for this Lynn, Does anyone know which battles Maj Thomas Brooks 1761 - 1822 may have been involved with?? Thanx, Gene Hutson Norfolk, Nebraska Genealogy; "a stirring of the memories" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn E. Brooks" <lynn@ivycreekfarm.com> To: <brooks-ne@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [BNE] Pvt. John Brooks of the 151st N.Y.S.V., July 9 1864 > > Fighting for Time* by Glenn H. Worthington, which describes this battle. > The battle was relatively small, but was critical in saving Washington, > D.C., from Confederate capture. The Union general opposing knew he would > lose, but also knew he must delay Early to allow reinforcements time to > get into Washington. The Union general was General Lew Wallace, who later > wrote Ben Hur. > > Eearly was pardoned and retired to practice law and die in Lynchburg, > Virginia, where he is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery. > > Lynn Brooks > Lynchburg, VA (previously from Frederick, MD) > > > > * In the summer of 1864, General Jubal A. Early led about 15,000 > Confederates on a daring sweep through Maryland to attack the Federal > capital from the north. The savage battle proved to be one of the most > decisive engagements of the Civil War. The hard-marching Confederate > troops of General Jubal Early were embarked on a desperate gamble - an > invasion of the North meant to take the pressure off Robert E. Lee's > besieged forces at Petersburg. Early's goal was nothing less than the seat > of the Federal Government, Washington, DC. Glenn Worthington, a youthful > witness of the carnage at Monocacy, recounts in rich detail the see-saw > fighting as lines of blue and gray swept across the rolling pastureland > and wheatfields of central Maryland, each side knowing that their efforts > would decide the fate of their cause. Replete with official reports of the > engagement, and the anecdotal recollections and memoirs of participants, > Fighting For Time vividly brings to life this fiercely fough! > t soldier's battle, the Battle of Monocacy. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: MJMCKEE1@aol.com > To: BROOKS-NE@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 12:40 PM > Subject: [BNE] Pvt. John Brooks of the 151st N.Y.S.V., July 9 1864 > > > >From NY-OLD NEWS at Rootsweb in the event this helps anyone: > > Newspaper: Spirit of the Times, Batavia NY; Saturday, July 23, 1864. > . > List of Killed, Wounded and Missing in the 151st N.Y.S.V. in the > Battle of Monocacy Junction, on Saturday, July 9th, 1864. > > The following sad list of the killed, wounded and missing of the 151st > N.Y.S.V., in the recent fight at Monocacy Junction, we extract from the > Baltimore > 'American' > .....Company F: Wounded..... Pvt. John Brooks > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BROOKS-NE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BROOKS-NE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

>From NY-OLD NEWS at Rootsweb in the event this helps anyone: Newspaper:  Spirit of the Times, Batavia NY; Saturday, July 23, 1864. . List of Killed, Wounded and Missing in the 151st N.Y.S.V. in the Battle of Monocacy Junction, on Saturday, July 9th, 1864. The following sad list of the killed, wounded and missing of the 151st N.Y.S.V., in the recent fight at Monocacy Junction, we extract from the Baltimore 'American' .....Company F: Wounded..... Pvt. John Brooks

Passed on from the Listowners list at RootsWeb, 1:11 pm Friday: > We know that AOL is blocking and delaying mail from the > new lists9 server. The server IS whitelisted with AOL > but apparently AOL has more than one type of > whitelisting and the one they reserve for NEW unproven > servers is not working well for us right now. > Some list mail will arrive very late--up to 4 days late > (and in huge clumps at one time), others will arrive > within 12 hours, and a few will arrive timely--some > won't arrive at all. Some will be placed in your spam > folder and if you find any list mail there--you need to > click on THIS IS NOT SPAM to help train the filters that > mail from lists9 is not spam. It also won't hurt to > write to: postmaster@aol.com to complain. To put this in perspective, RootsWeb hosts something on the order of 90,000 mailing lists. To move all of these with a minimum of disruption, while maintaining each listowner's preferences, subscription lists, reject lists, accept lists, etc., is akin to Moses parting the Red Sea. So the problems lie at AOL's end.

Chris: The test worked. Migration seems successful. Good luck! Phil Brooks On Aug 18, 2006, at 12:46 AM, Christopher Brooks wrote: > The list has now been moved to the Mailman system (powered by > Python). This is a one-time test of the new address system (minus > the "L"). > > Chris > > Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: > ======================================== > BROOKS-NE (Brooks Families of New England) Mail > List at RootsWeb.com > ======================================== > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BROOKS-NE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Kathy Chiappetta wrote: > Works here, Chris! Thanks for all your hard work! Kathy Kudos in turn to all our subscribers for being "the best." Chris

Works here, Chris! Thanks for all your hard work! Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Brooks" <trib@tributaries.us> To: "Brooks-NEW ENGLAND List" <brooks-ne@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 12:46 AM Subject: [BROOKS-NE] List migration complete > The list has now been moved to the Mailman system (powered by > Python). This is a one-time test of the new address system (minus > the "L"). > > Chris > > Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: > ======================================== > BROOKS-NE (Brooks Families of New England) Mail > List at RootsWeb.com > ======================================== > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BROOKS-NE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

The list has now been moved to the Mailman system (powered by Python). This is a one-time test of the new address system (minus the "L"). Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ======================================== BROOKS-NE (Brooks Families of New England) Mail List at RootsWeb.com ========================================

I'm passing this on from Listowners-L with respect to the impending to the new list management system. AOL users, be forewarned. > List admins might want to make note of the following when > their lists migrate to the new system. Tell AOL > subscribers and AOL users to take note: > After your lists are migrated it is imperative for AOL > users to check their spam folders and if they find list > mail there they need to be sure to CLICK THE *THIS IS > NOT SPAM* link to send the list mail to the inbox. It is > VERY important to help train the filters and let AOL know > that this new server can be trusted. Perhaps more info (I haven't personally checked) at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/RootsWeb_Support/AOLers-Roo tsWeb.html Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ============================================ BROOKS-NE-L (Brooks Families of New England) at RootsWeb.com ============================================

I did e m and it bounced. Marion Brooks >> >> My cousin’s husband in northern Vermont has been busy >> documenting cemeteries in his area. Including the >> Brooks cemetery on Route 36 at St Albans Point. He has a >> plot plan of the cemetery and has a photo of each stone >> on CD. Just sent me a copy. He has also done one of the >> cemeteries in Swanton which contains a few Brooks. For >> more information contact Clint, e-mail: clint >> 100@juno.com. > > > ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== > To unsub, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to > BROOKS-NE-L-request@rootsweb.com > or BROOKS-NE-D-request@rootsweb.com >

Good morning, RootsWeb's changing its list management software, as I passed on several days ago. I dutifully subscribed to the listowners' list to stay informed and have been appalled at how much panic and misinformation I see posted there from other listowners. We listowners have a 22-page online tutorial which answers every question, and the proper reply to most of these cries of panic is RTFM (Read the flaming manual!). FYI, we are scheduled to "be migrated" from Smartlist to Mailman tomorrow, Thursday the 17th. This may or may not happen on schedule. (My bet is it will be at least a day late.) The official plan is that each subscriber to a RootsWeb list will receive a boilerplate welcome message on the day the list is moved -- "You have just subscribed," etc. Some other listowners fear that sending a welcome message (as if the recipient has newly subscribed), without an explanation of why the message is really being sent, will alarm, confuse and panic their listreaders. In contrast, I'm confident that our own list population has a more sophisticated skill set and a real-world understanding of when to simply ignore server blatherings � but just in case ... If you do receive a new welcome message, please read it, file it for future reference, and move on with your life. Please don't write me to ask why you've received it when you didn't just subscribe, or I'll have nearly 200 such missives to answer. :-( OTOH, if the process should somehow run amok and anyone finds themselves unsubbed for no reason as a side effect, by all means advise me right away and I'll resubscribe you manually. Thanks, all, for being such an easy crew to admin! Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ============================================ BROOKS-NE-L (Brooks Families of New England) at RootsWeb.com ============================================ brooks-ne-admin@rootsweb.com

The following, which has been edited for length, arrived here a few minutes ago. It describes changes in how this list will function by the end of next week. This list is tentatively scheduled to undergo surgery at RootsWeb (our host) on Tuesday the 15th. Basically, those pesky "L" and "D" letters in the list address name will become obsolete. While you can still use them, they won't be required. That's a step toward greater simplicity and thus a plus. Those of you using spam filters (in which are entered those L and D letters) need to read the announcement below. Please cooperate in order to spare your list administrator a bombardment of bounced mail and to ensure yourselves uninterrupted service. My apologies if each of you also received the same notice as a list subscriber. Better safe than sorry, says I. Thanks, Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ============================================ BROOKS-NE-L (Brooks Families of New England) at RootsWeb.com ============================================ > Dear RootsWeb mailing list subscriber, > > We are excited to announce that in the coming weeks, the > RootsWeb.com mailing lists will be moving to a new list > management system. > > Why? > The new list management system offers updated technology, > better spam control, and more efficient hosting of the > lists. > > How will it Affect You? > Digest subscribers will notice a small difference in the > layout, volume and issue numbers of the list digests. > > The "-L" is being dropped from the "official" list name. > This means the "from" address your mailing list emails > come from will be slightly different- > ListName@rootsweb.com vs. the current > ListName-L@rootsweb.com. You may have to adjust your > spam filters or put the new address on your "accept" list > to prevent it from being caught in your "junk" folder. > > - You will still be able to send messages to the list > using the "ListName-L@rootsweb.com" email address you use > today. Additionally, you can choose to drop the "-L" and > send your messages to ListName@rootsweb.com. Both > addresses will work after the list has been migrated. > > - You will still be able to subscribe and unsubscribe to > the mail or digest mode by sending your request to > ListName-L-request@rootsweb.com or ListName-D- > request@rootsweb.com as you do today. You will also be > able to unsubscribe from the mail or digest mode by > sending your "unsubscribe" message to LISTNAME- > request@rootsweb.com. > > The Rootsweb Staff

Great news, Wayne -- and thanks for the valuable lead. These burial locations (St. Albans and Swanton) are descendants of Henry/1 Brooks in the Woburn line. Grace Baker, if you're listening, these are the families you were recently interested in (Hananiah in particular). Chris Wayne Brooks@aol.com wrote: > > My cousin’s husband in northern Vermont has been busy > documenting cemeteries in his area. Including the > Brooks cemetery on Route 36 at St Albans Point. He has a > plot plan of the cemetery and has a photo of each stone > on CD. Just sent me a copy. He has also done one of the > cemeteries in Swanton which contains a few Brooks. For > more information contact Clint, e-mail: clint > 100@juno.com.

Thank you, Christopher, for the great BROOKS family website and mailing list, and for your dedication to the research of the BROOKS New England lines. And thank you, Debbye, for all you did to help a beginner help another beginner with family research. I probably will not be the one to unearth the lineage of Elisha BROOKS of Williamstown, nor to figure out what happened to his daughter, Elmina, but I now wonder if this BROOKS line may trace to New York. In addition to having heard from both of you in response to my initial posting, I also heard from a lady named Joyce. Joyce passed along the info that Anna Goodrich Brooks was born in Petersburg, NY. Thank you all! Regards, Kay Ayers

Thanks for the legwork, Debbye, and the gift of your time. It's folks like you that make this list productive and a pleasure. Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ============================================ BROOKS-NE-L (Brooks Families of New England) at RootsWeb.com ============================================ On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:29:27 -0400, Debbye Lansing wrote: > I contacted the Pittsfield Library and they have the > cemetery inscriptions for Elisha Brooks and his two wives > Annah and Olive as follows: <snip> > > My request was forwarded to the Williamstown Local > History and these are the inscriptions they sent: (a > little different) <snip> > > I drove out to the cemetery and photographed the > tombstones if anyone would like a copy. The tombstones > read as follows: (I did not find Maria's) <snip>

BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com My cousin’s husband in northern Vermont has been busy documenting cemeteries in his area. Including the Brooks cemetery on Route 36 at St Albans Point. He has a plot plan of the cemetery and has a photo of each stone on CD. Just sent me a copy. He has also done one of the cemeteries in Swanton which contains a few Brooks. For more information contact Clint, e-mail: clint 100@juno.com. Wayne Brooks

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:27:53 -0400, Debbye Lansing wrote: > I know this is a long-shot, but....there is an > Elmira/Elmina E. listed in the 1850 census, the right age > of the Elmina you're searching for, who is married to a > Thomas Hall/Hull in Williamstown. I followed the census, > and it appears Thomas died between 1856-1860; and she > then married to a Fayette Briggs and was located in Adams > MA. You could try to send a request to the MA Archives > for the marriage record of Thomas Hall (about 1843) to > see if this is indeed the Elmira you're searching for. > The cost is $3 and if they don't find the record you're > searching for, they return your check. Alas … she's listed as Elmina E. Hall in the 1850 census. But the published Williamstown VR contain the following marriage record (p. 114): HALL, Thomas and Almina Thurber, June 21, [?1842].* * Intention not recorded. Born in 1826, Elmina Brooks would seem too young to have been widowed from a Mr. Thurber in 1842. (The first child of Elmina and Thomas is recorded at Williamstown the following year.) Chris > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Katherine Ayers" <kayers2@comcast.net> > To: <BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:28 PM > Subject: [BNE] Elisha Brooks family of Williamstown/New > Ashford, MA > > > I'm trying to help someone solve a puzzle. According to > published Williamstown vital records, Elisha and his > wife, Annah, had a daughter, Elmina Elizabeth, born Sept. > 29, 1826. I'm told that Elmina married into the Ayres > family, but I have not been able to substantiate this. > On the 1850 census, Elisha Brooks and family were in New > Ashford, MA, but Elmina was not listed with them. Nor > can I find her anywhere else. Neither a marriage record > nor death record appears for her in the published vital > records of either Williamstown or New Ashford. (These > records go only to 1850.) I did find elsewhere that a > younger daughter of Elisha/Annah, Sarah, born about 1842, > married a James Gilbert Ayres of CT. Although a couple > of decendants' entries show up for Elmina's birth, there > seems to be nothing beyond that. Does anyone have any > ideas on how I can track her? Annah Brooks appears to > have died sometime between the 1850 and 1860 census > records. Where might family members have ! > been buried? I do not see that there were any cemeteries > in Williamstown. Thanks for any suggestions you can > offer. Kay

Sandy Conroy wrote: > I am a descendant of Nathan Brooks and Lucy Jones , I > have been looking for Nathan's parents and help you could > give me would be appreciated. Thank you Sandy Conroy This Nathan, who is in the Springfield line descending from William/1 Brooks of Springfield and Deerfield, MA, was born 2 Jul 1762, probably at Longmeadow (south of and abutting Springfield). He married Lucy Jones, about whom I know nothing, and the births of four subsequent children were recorded in West Springfield VR. The Brooks line is 5. Nathan (1762--) + Lucy JONES 4. Samuel (b. 1739--) + Rhoda HILL 3. Samuel (1712-1765) + Joanna WARRINER 2. Benjamin (b. 1671) + Mary BARNARD 1. William (d. 1688) + Mary/2 BURT Data and sources for the first 4 generations are available via the Genealogies link at the Tributaries website. I'll send Sandy privately a file for Nathan, including an abstract of his Revolutionary War pension application. Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England www.tributaries.us ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||