Congratulations, Cole, on working this out. I know how long you've been at it � Your grandmother is smiling right now. :-) I've sent you a file on Silas privately, but here's your Brooks line, in hopes of smoking some cousins out of our population of list lurkers: 7. Silas (1788-1815), b. Sterling, d. Winchendon. (Winchendon, MA and Fitzwilliam , NH abut each other on the state line.) 6. Ammi (1765-1815) + Lucy (no dates), of Sterling & Winchendon. 5. John Jr. (b. 1734) + Katherine DUNSMORE, of Chocksett parish, West Lancaster (which became Sterling). 4. John (b. 1709+ + Hannah CUTTER (1715-1742), of Lancaster. 3. Jabez (1673-1747) + 2w Hepsibah CUTTER (1671-1746), of Woburn. 2. John (d. 1691) + Eunice MOUSALL (d. 1684), of Woburn. 1. Henry (d. 1683) + unnamed 1st wife, of Concord and Woburn. I find only one Augusta Fisk on my CD of Worcester County VR, and she a bridesmaid in 1848, but had better luck searching for John Whitney, and will send you privately the notes I received from Allan Green of the Whitney Research Group. We have at least half a dozen subscribers descending from Jabez/3 of Woburn. I hope you'll hear from some of them whose Brooks branches are not too distant from your own. Chris Cole Waite wrote: > I have asked before about my 5Grandpa Stillman Born 1814 > and he was a farmer in springfield MA. This was my brick wall. > It finally sunk in that a family note I've had for 30 > years gave me the clue. > In my Gmother, Emma Brooks', notes was a short line that > she had copied from a letter her sister Maude had received from > from a second cousin Lulu Waterman Devereaux in a letter dated > Aug 9 - 1936 stating that; > Stillman's mother remarried - Whitney & removed to > Fredonia NY Stillman buried there. Candace was in Chicopee with > her mother Sarah Lee Waterman & Charles was born there - > Charles is Emma's father. > From this little bit it finally occured to me to work back from > Whitney in Fredonia. John Whitney is there in the Whitney > genealogy. He Married Agusta Fisk Brooks in 1816 in Troy NH. > She was the widow of Silas Brooks married in Fitzwilliam NH and > born in Sterling MA. > > Stillman's father was Silas from Sterling, Worcester, MA. There > are several Brooks families in that area in 1790 when he was > born. This is beyond the scope of the present Tributaries > posting, BUT do you have anything on the Sterling, MA family? > > We have been working on this brick wall for over 70 years, > Grandmother and I.