Dave Felzke wrote: > Below is what little I have on a Lanson "Lonson" BROOKS > b. 1796 in VT. He may have somehow been an acquaintance of, > cousin, or even a brother to my Reuben BROOKS, or none of the > above. the fact shown below that he was a resident of Berlin > Twp., Erie County, OH in 1850 along with two sons of my Reuben, > Absalom and William, and the fact that he was born six years > after Reuben, and in VT, with prior CT roots gives me some > small element of hope... [snip] Ebenezer Bunnell Brooks doesn't appear on the Tributaries site because I've only uploaded the first four gens of the Cheshire line to date. His parents, David/4 Brooks and Sarah Bunnell, are there. Looking at the data you included, there are two point sources. The first, which establishes the parentage and multiple baptisms at Cheshire on 24 Jul 1796, is Jacobus, "Ancient Families of New Haven," 2:338, who provides exactly the same information you did. Neither Jacobus nor I have anything further, but at least Jacobus is a far more reliable source than the Ancestral File. Your second source is the 1850 census. That you can follow up on by looking at the Tributaries site's census index for earlier decennial years, looking for pairings of Lanson with any of the sibling names, or for a widowed Mehitabel Brooks as a head of household in proximity to Lanson. That census index is notorious for misread/mistyped names, so you'll want to look for any given name even resembling Lanson. (i.e., two syllables, ending in n.) Where there's an Absalom, an unusual Brooks given name, there's always hope. :-) Perhaps he's the uncle of the sons named (Reuben's brother). Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.org ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||