Very Interesting! Thanks Cindy and Chris. Wonder if they sold any of their axes to Lizzie B of Fall River. Along a similar morbid line of thought, I know the person who rented the wood chipper to the "Wood chipper Murderer" (fairly recent CT case). Kathy At 02:30 PM 4/6/02 -0500, you wrote: >Another extract kindly provided by Cindy Walcott. > >Chris > >================================ > >Farnsworth, Harold. New Haven in Vermont 1761 - 1983. New Haven, >VT: Town of New Haven, 1984 > >p. 283 Public Service > >Brooks, Bezaleel (perhaps Barzillai) 1785 - 1849,wife Phillis Cook >1790-1817, dau of Jeremiah; wife Polly Crane 1788-1849 dua of Martin. >Hayward 1811, 1819; tithingman 1813-14, grand juror 1816, school >officer, district 8, 1844, Congregational Prudential Comm 1814, >Collector 1816, meeting house subscriber 1816 > >Brooks, Daniel 1789-1848, wife Sarah Cook 1792-1816 dau of Jeremiah; >wife Mary _____ 1790-1874 late wife of James Noble, Highway surveyor >1817, 1819, 1827; hayward 1819, 1825, grand juror 1822, 1824-5; >tithingman 1826, meeting house subscr 1816 > >Brooks, Jonathan Edwards 1820-1858 son of Bezaleel, wife Rebecca D. >Snooks 1820-1900, Partner in Edge Tool Co., School officer, dist. 8, >1849-50 > >Brooks, Luther M. 1828-1892, son of Bezaleel, wife Cleora J. Ward >1832-1919, dau of Ira. Lister 1856, School officer, dist 8, 1861-62; >postmater at Brooksville 1868-69; Temperence Cocity Vice-pres >1860-62. > >Brooks, Milton 1822-1883 son of Bezaleel, wife Mariah S. Hawley >1827-1905, Partner in Edge Tool Co., School officer, dist. 8, >1851-56; Freeman 1846, JP 1857-76; 2nd constable 1848, postmaster >Brooksville 1862-67 > >Brooks Norman C. 1824-1900, son of Bezaleel, wife Emily Atwood >1827-1908 dau of Isaac. Partner in Edge Tool Co., School officer, >dist. 8, 1856-63; JP 1873-76 > >Brooks, Samuel wife Anna Mills. Freeman 1818, hayward 1824, >tithingman 1825; Congregational Society collector 1825 > >Brooks, Thomas McDonough 1814-1875, son of Bezaleel, wife Lucinda >_____ >1813-1905; Partner Edge Tool Co, school officer dists 8 1850-54; >Congregational Prudential comm 1851-52, 1857 > >Brooks, William E. son of J. Edwards, wife Jessie F. Smith dau of >Ezra C. Postmaster Brooksville 1877-87, JP 1877-82. > >p. 239 School District No. 8 (Brooksville) > >Brooksville was near a small falls on the New Haven River. Bezaleel >Brooks and his five sons moved to the area from New Haven Mills. The >three eldest sons took over a triphammer shop on the site and formed >the Brooks Brothers Co, later Brooks Edge Tool Co., which flourished >for nearly half a century. For a short time in the 1850's they also >made chairs, but the woodworking was less successful. They soon >turned to axes as their specialty, and sold them nationwide. > >* * * * * * > > > >==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== >NO ATTACHMENTS or HMTL to the list, please. >