Have information on Lanson Brooks Vt. 1796-OH -Geauga Co,(Lake Co after 1840) Madison township. He is also listed in census at times as Alanson. His father was David Brooks b. Vt. about 1772 d. Madison Lake Co OH 1854. I have a copy of his will/ probate with children listed. David Brooks was my third great grandfather through his dau. Laura Brooks Isham, B. VT about 1802. The area was Bennington Co--Manchester. Will e-mail Dave with more info , when I get my file out. I've been looking for a long time to put David's family together. He was probably married three times--first wife unknown--who probably died in Bennington Co. Vt.--but have never found a cemetery record for her. Try Lake Co OH genweb. They have all cemetery records for Fairview Cemetery, Madison, Lake Co. David Brooks and seconwie Rhoda buried there as well as Lanson and his family. Dave, will send you more later today. Mary --Stillwater, OK.

That doesn't appear to be the same Lanson. Dave's target was the son of Ebenezer Bunnell Brooks of the Cheshire line and Mehitabel Smith. The source was Jacobus, who cites in turn Wallingford vital records ("WV"). I've got two Davids born in 1772, both in Connecticut, one at Ashford (6th generation, Woburn line) and one at Stafford (5th generation, Fairfield County line). The Stratford man married Dorothy Birdseye (there's that name again!) at Stratford in Nov 1796, so is unlikely to have fathered a child born in Vermont the same year. I have nothing on the Ashford man, son of John/5 Brooks (b. 1719, Pomfret, CT) and Abial Wright (m. 15 Feb 1748/49, Ashford), beyond his birth. Please send me a copy of your file as well, as I'm the one to whom many of these queries are addressed. :-) When I checked my database for events with you as a source, Mary Alice, I find a David, b. 1796 at Jamaica, VT, son of David/Rebecca. There's a marriage recorded at Putney, VT, 20 Mar 1823, between Sylvia Metcalf and a David Brooks, whom I had tentatively pegged as the man born in Jamaica. My database has three men named Alanson Brooks, none born before 1800. Sorry, I should have spotted "Lanson" as a diminutive of Alanson. Chalk that one up to a brain cramp, I guess. Chris > Have information on Lanson Brooks Vt. 1796-OH -Geauga > Co,(Lake Co after 1840) Madison township. He is also listed in > census at times as Alanson. > His father was David Brooks b. Vt. about 1772 d. Madison > Lake Co OH 1854. I have a copy of his will/ probate with > children listed. David Brooks was my third great grandfather > through his dau. Laura Brooks Isham, B. VT about 1802. The > area was Bennington Co--Manchester. > Will e-mail Dave with more info , when I get my file out.[snip]