Elaine Sunde <elaine1sunde@cox.net> wrote: >1662 2.26 Writ. John Glasier & Wife vs. Timothy Brooks for >suspecion &c. Witnesses summoned [the last names included Farrar, >Carter, Knight...have NO idea what "suspecion &c" involved!] This references the sexual assault charge already mentioned. >1666 1 m 28. Test: John Hamelton ae abt thirty (30) years taken >befor Commissioners of concord, signed Timothy Wheeler, Thos >Brooks, mark & Robert Meriam. [This is one of several in which >Thomas Brooks appears to sign with Mark] Thomas was clearly literate, as he was one of the committee appointed by the townsmen of Concord to prepare a new book of deeds. As constable he would also have been required to read the various writs the office required him to carry through. Since the court date is less than 18 months before his death, perhaps he had suffered a stroke or was physically incpacitated from signing in some other fashion. Timothy Wheeler, Thomas's son-in-law and real estate partner in the Medford estate, and Robert Meriam, Thomas's neighbor, are both profiled on the website. >1668 1 m 16. Summons to Henry Sumers Witnesses Isaac Brooks >William Whitburne Samuel fox Israel Read, y wife of Ralph Read the >Maid Servant of Henry Brooks senr Samuel and Joseph Richardson. >1667/8 1 m 21. Wit agst Henry Sumers suit of Timothy Brooks >Slander Was never a maid in Woburn except Elizabeth Ted. [I have >NO idea what that means.] >1668 2.8. Bill of Costs Sumers case. Find for Plff Brooks vs. >Sumers. Sumers guilty 6. Sounds like more of the Glazier business. Timothy apparently sued Henry Summers for slander, and won. Timothy was also prosecuted by the court as a Baptist, which I have begun to document with small pices of evidence added to the website as I dig them out. Some of the court references may involve witness fees or other legalities in the ongoing prosecution of the Woburn and Billerica Baptists. Timothy remained a target of these efforts until his removal to Swansea. >1668 4 m 17. Timothy Broockes Ae Therti Three (33). Test: Thom >Broockes Ae 46 (forty six) yrs & Isaack Broockes Ae 26 (twenty six) >years. Bill of Charges Isaack, Jno & Tim Brooks & Israel Read Saml >walker James Fowle Jno Glazer. Test: Michael Bacon Ae abt sixty >60) yrs concerning a former Case... All Woburn names. Isaac was Timothy's younger brother. I don't know who a Thomas born in 1622 (i.e., a. 46 in 1668) would be. Capt. Thomas of Concord had children by the early 1630s, so it's not him. I have hypothesized that Thomas of Haddam might be a son of Henry/1 of Woburn. Without my database at hand I'm pretty fuzzy on the facts, but there are some connections between Henry of Woburn's children and Connecticut. Timothy had property interests in the Saybrook/New London area, for one thing, and his sister Hannah lived at New London. Such hints may account for the fact that Shattuck (the historian of Concord) and other early writers regularly tried to connect Thomas the Haddam founder with the Woburn or Concord lines. Tantalizing, yes, but entirely unproven and undocumented. Chris