Brooks Family Query Exchange, 2:1, May 1981, Queries: Page 16: BROOKS, WHEELER, WRIGHT POTTER I am a desc of two BROOKS lines. I do not know if the earlier line are ancestors of my "Thomas BROOKS of Watertown and Concord" line or not. My descent is Thomas1, Joshua2, Noah3, Benjamin4, Persis5 b 1720 m Jonas WHEELER. I have only one difference to the line in Vol. I, Issue 2. I have Noah3 m Dorothy WRIGHT instead of Dorothy POTTER. (Ed. - Can any readers help to verify which is correct?) BROOKS, FOOTE My other line is: (1) Robert b ca 1487, bur 28 Jun 1551 in London. He m Katherine ____ b ca 1501; (2) John b 1530 Royston, Cambridgeshire, ENG, d 1588, WP 28 Jul 1599 in London; (3) Joane b 11 May 1555 Eastcheap, London, ENG, d after Feb 1608 in Shalford, ENG. She m. 18 Jun 1576 Robert FOOTE of Shalford. Does anyone have any info on this line? Mrs. Robert G. Whaley, 655 S. Auburn St., Grass Valley, CA 95945 Page 21: HOTCHKISS, HACKETT Daniel BROOKS, Jr. b 1765 CT d 1839 Lincoln, MA, m Olive SMITH b 1763/4, bur Tyner, NY. Ch: Harmon b 1802 d 1874 bur Lower Tyner, NY; William b 1806 NH?; Abigail b 1804 d 18 Nov 1875 m Alexander CUMMINGS; Nancy b 1794 d?, m Sherman HOTCHKISS b 1789; Horace b 1803 d?, m Sally HACKETT b 1808 or 1829; Sally b 1797 d?, m Charles RACE; Harvey b 1796, d 1850. I believe all ch b in NY. HOLDRIDGE, HARRISON, HAWKINS Ch of Nancy (BROOKS) and Sherman HOTCHKISS: Charles b 1818 NY; George b 1825 NY d?, m Mary E. HOLDRIDGE b 1827 NY; Julia b 1826 NY m James (or John) DRISKILL (DRISCALL), she d 1890 MI; William b 1827 d?, m Jenet __?__; Spencer b 1828, d?, m Mary HARRISON; Mary b 1830. Ch of Abigail (BROOKS) and Alexander CUMMINGS which are known to me: Jane b 1842; Olive b 1845. Daniel BROOKS, Sr. b ca 1740/5, m Abigail HAWKINS. Marjorie H. Rheney, RFD #1, Box 91A3, Harlem, GA 30814 ======================= That concludes both Issue 2:1 and all the material of New England interest. Chris