Descendants of Stephen Hazelton Hebron, N.H.: P.A. Hazelton, 1977; Pg 68 As a boy, Alvah Hazelton was the prankster of the family, sometimes nearly breaking up the solemnity of family prayers. He started a blacksmith shop in Essex about 1826, in partnership with James Brooks. Adonijah Brooks and John Hazelton were co-signers of the $850 mortgage. The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations : being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878 : to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England New York: Priv. print., 1878; Pg 190 BETSEY GATES, b. at Ridgebury, in Ridgefield, Conn., 7 Ap. 1781; married, 9 Nov. 1802, in St. Alban's, Vt., Adonijah Brooks, a farmer and hotel-keeper, born in Pittsford, Vt., 27 Feb. 1778, son of Adonijah and Olive (Harrington) Brooks, of St. Alban's. They dwelt in St. Alban's Vt., then in Essex, Vt., and finally in Chateaugay, N.Y., where they died (she, 29 Sept. 1859; he, 10 Oct. 1865), and were buried. Pg 520-522 CHIL. OF ADONIJAH AND BETSEY (GATES) BROOKS 1. JAMES BROOKS, b. at St. Albans, Vt., 11 Jan. 1804; a farmer; married, 20 March 1828, at Essex, Vt., by Rev. Asaph Morgan, Congregational, to Mary Ann Lucas, dau. of William and Hannah (Miller) Lucas, of Essex, where she was born, 14 Oct. 1804. They settled at St. Albans in 1829; and moved, in 1870, to Georgia, Vt., where they were living in Sept. 1874. 2. HOLLOWAY TAYLOR BROOKS, b. at St. Albans, Vt., 8 Feb. 1806; died at Essex, Vt., 22 Jan. 1814, and was buried there. 3. DAVID GATES BROOKS, b. at St. Albans, Vt., 27 Feb. 1808; marrried there, 11 Dec. 1834, Eusebia Connor; and lived at Dannemora, N.Y., in May 1874. 4. SMITH ADONIJAH BROOKS, b. at St. Albans, Vt., 20 Jan. 1810; a farmer; married at South Hero, Vt., 27 March 1833, Almira Kibbe, dau. of Ebenezer and Judith (Harrington) Kibbe, of South Hero, where she was born, 7 Feb. 1807. They settled at St. Albans, and were living there in Aug. 1874. 5. BETSEY EMEROY BROOKS, b. at Essex, Vt., 10 Feb. 1812; died in Essex, 22 May 1813, and was buried there. 6. VICTORINE VOGAL BROOKS, b. at Essex, Vt., 24 Nov. 1814; married at St. Albans, Vt., 11 Jan. 1834, Harmon Nathaniel Baker, a farmer, son of Solomon and Polly (Blood) Baker, of Essex, Vt., where he was born, 11 May 1812. They dwelt in East Moriah, N.Y., from 24 Dec. 1834 till 26 March 1837; in St. Albans, Vt., till 26 Feb. 1846; in Chateaugay, N.Y., till Ap. 1865; and then moved to Spring Valley, Minnesota, where he died, 12 Nov. 1868. He was buried in Spring Valley; and she was living there in June 1874. 7. ____ BROOKS, a son, b. at Essex, Vt., 9 Oct 1817; died 16 Oct. 1817. 8. LUKE HAZLETON BROOKS, b. at Essex, Vt., 8 Feb. 1821; married in Sept. 1845, at Georgia, Vt., Eliza Washburn; and was living at Dannemora, N.Y., in July 1874. 9. ELECTA ROSANNA BROOKS, b. at Essex, Vt., 22 June 1824; married at Chateaugay, N.Y., 3 Sept. 1851, by Rev. B. F. Brown, Methodist Episcopal, to Hiram Dodge, a farmer, son of Jeremiah and Abigail (Peaslee) Dodge, of Chateaugay, formerly of New Boston, N.H., where he was born, 18 June 1820. They were living at Chateaugay, without children, in June 1874. CHIL. OF HARRINGTON AND LUCY (GATES) BROOKS. 1. RUTIA ANN BROOKS, married at Swanton, Vt., 27 Jan. 1831, Foster Bellows. 2. MIRANDA LYDIA BROOKS, married at Madrid, N.Y., 4 Dec. 1846, by Rev. William Whitfield, Free Baptist, to Charles Chamberlain.