Good morning, I regained internet access at home this morning, and one of my first activities was to check the list archive for unanswered queries. Elaine Sunde posted one on June 20th which I can answer. Timothy/4 in the Woburn line married (1), 19 Jan 1725 at Woburn, Abigail/3 WYMAN of Woburn (Seth/2, John/1). She was born at Woburn 6 Feb 1699 (VR, 1:286). The marriage is recorded in Johnson's "Woburn Records" (which I simplify as "Woburn VR"), 3:33. Woburn records record the subsequent births of two children there: Timothy, 3 Nov 1726 (1:28) Abigail, 5 Oct 1729 (1:28) If there were other children, they aren't recorded at Woburn, as I have catalogued every Brooks mention in the records there and found no additional children mentioned. Abigail Brooks, "wife of Capt. Timothy," died at Woburn 16 Mar 1780 (2:21). Timothy married (2) (and I haven't found a marriage record at either Reading or Woburn) Sarah EVANS. She was born 20 Oct 1707 at Reading, Middlesex, MA to Nathaniel and Abigail Evans. She married (1), 1732, Josiah Converse of Woburn (Woburn VR, 3:33), and was his widow when she married (2) Timothy Brooks. The proof is her death record at Woburn, 22 Feb 1789 (2:21), which reads, as Johnson indexes it, "Sarah, relict of Capt. Timothy, formerly Widow Sarah Converse, Feb. 22, 1789; 81 y." Judging from the ages of Timothy and Sarah, one doubts there were children of this 2d marriage, and Woburn records don't mention any. The first (1875) Cutter article was written by the father. The 1904 article, which is introduced as containing numerous revisions, was written by his son. The individuals you mention, born 24 Oct 1751 and 18 Jun 1756, are Timothy/4's grandchildren Timothy (who m. Abigail Mason) and Abigail (who m. Asahel Porter and Ephraim Peirce). Their parents were Timothy/5 Jr. and Ruth/4 Wyman. Chris Elaine Sunde wrote: >I'm looking at two articles from the New England Historical and >Genealogical Register: the first by Dr. Benjamin Cutter, vol 29, >1875; the second by William R. Cutter, vol 58, 1904. The >information for Timothy Brooks (John, John, Henry) is radically >different in the two. A few examples: >Both say he married secondly Sarah Converse >Both say he died 13 Oct 1786 at c 88 >However: >One says married first Ruth Wyman; the other says he married >first Abigail Wyman. One gives ten children by first wife; one >gives two children by first wife. One gives birthdate of dter >Abigail as 18 June 1756; one says 5 Oct 1729. One gives >birthdate of son Timothy as 24 Oct 1751; one says 3 Nov 1726 >Has anyone sorted out this information???