--=======46061091======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5BDB7487; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Eve Grogan wrote: >I am wondering if during research of NYS Brooks lines, anyone has traced a >Brooks back to a >Dutch BROEKS or Ten Broeks? (or something similar) >My Brooks family married almost exclusively Dutch spouses and were >baptized in Dutch Reformed >churches in Columbia, Greene and Rensselaer counties. >The earliest record in my line so far is the following, sent to me by >another Brooks researcher, bless >her heart. > >Joshua (Brooks) married Geertje Jans BONT, daughter of Jan Hendrikse >Lendertsz BONT and Jannetje SCHERP, on 14 Jan 1729 in Linlithgo Reformed >Church, Kinderhook, Albany County (now Columbia), NY. Geertje was >christened1 on 18 Jan 1708 in Claverack, NY. > >The origins of Joshua arent' known to me. >The later generations of this family lived in both Greene county and >Schodack, Rensselaer county. >If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. >Alternate spellings in church records are Broeks, Broocks, Broecks, and >one Bruks. Valentine Van Zee (sp? capitalization?) inquired about this line perhaps a year or more ago, and there were several replies. A couple of months ago there was another query -- perhaps yours? -- and Anne Brooks Willis replied with some Dutch snippets and suggestions. Have you looked at the list archive? This ought to provide you with additional researcher names, and with Val's address, if she wasn't the recent source you allude to. Obviously this line is of Dutch extraction, and first settled in the Hudson River Valley of New York. I haven't seen anything from Valentine since her original questions -- but whatever you find, it would be kind to share it with the list, so that we won't have to shrug and respond "Huh?" when the next Dutch query comes along. There was talk a year ago of looking into the Beekman Patent, and similar esoterica, but we as a list have received no followup information. Chris --=======46061091======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5BDB7487 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.309 / Virus Database: 170 - Release Date: 12/17/01 --=======46061091=======--