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?