Thank you so much for this information! I knew nothing about John and now, because of you, I know at least something. I hope other Brooks descendants may have some knowledge of John and Eleanor Frye and perhaps can share who their children married (I've never seen other children listed except for Elizabeth) so I can use Google to start hunting for associations. I greatly appreciate your efforts on my behalf!! Best wishes. Jan Saremi -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Brooks <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, March 29, 2002 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [BNE] BROOKS/FRYE/FELLOWS MARRIAGE >Jan Saremi wrote: > >:On Rootsweb and other message boards, I see that JOHN BROOKS, born >:abt. 1668 in or near York, ME married ELEANOR FRYE (born abt. 1668 >:in Kittery, York, ME). [snip] >:No parents were listed for John BROOKS. [snip] > >Most of what I've seen of John Brooks comes from the Genealogical >Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, a well-regarded work compiled >from the original manuscript records, which includes transcriptions >of many of the original lists and records relied upon -- as scanty as >they often are. Page 112: > >============================= > > "JOHN, ±28 in 1696, had Kit. gr. 1694, sold 1696. Lists 290, 298. He >m. by 1692 Eleanor Frye (1), who was gr. adm. 26 Nov. 1712. She m. 2d >8 Jan. 1712-3 John Bishop and by 1716 had removed to Kingston. Ch: >ELIZABETH, b. 24 Jan. 1695, m. Ebenezer Fellows (1)." [The table >continues with the other children Robert, Sarah, Hester and John.] > >List 290, for which only a note reporting an error in Stackpole, >Families of Old Kittery, is included, was titled Sufferers from the >Indians in the Second War. > >List 298, comprising six pages of fine print, is titled Land Grants >in Kittery, and to Whom Laid Out. The authors explain, "This list is >abridged from a ledger account made for the Proprietors in 1764. >Locations are generally omitted, also almost all grants after 1699; >and where a man had several grants laid out to himself, some of them >are usually omitted." > On p. 34 is found > 1694. John Brooks; 1696, self; 1718, Wm. Godsoe. > > On p. 35 is found > 1682. To same, 20; 1699, John Brooks; 1709, self. > >Source: Davis, Walter Goodwin, Charles Thornton Libby and Sybil >Noyes, "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire". >Portland, ME: 19281939; repr. Genealogical Publishing Co., >Baltimore, 1996. > >============================= > >I haven't found the BROOKS surname in the York area before John's >appearance. (I haven't worked a lot on this line, though, and I hope >someone will correct me if such evidence does exist.) I've got him >tentatively identified as an emigrant and the founder of the Kittery >line. He doesn't match any of the sons named John sired by the 9 >other founders known to have come over by 1660. He's also the only >one of all the founders to name a son Robert, a Norman rather than a >biblical or an English name, which sets him off in my mind as an >emigrant (and perhaps an Anglican). > >Do we have other Kittery line descendants subscribed here? > >Chris > > >==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== >Archives of previous posts are located at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/BROOKS-NE-L/ >The address is case-sensitive. >
I have sent the information from Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire about Eleanor Frye, her parents and siblings privately. An interesting tid-bit.....regarding her parents "Their poster. were largely Friends". This strongly suggests the possibility John Brooks and Eleanor Frye's children might be found in the Monthly Meeting records. Mariana Mariana Bean Ruggles [email protected] http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mariana/ http://www.pieces-n-time.com Listmanager Essex County, Massachusetts Mail List Listowner Essex-Roots Mail List Listmanager Grafton County, New Hampshire Mail List Listmanager Ordway Mail List
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:28:49 -0500, Mariana wrote: :I have sent the information from Genealogical Dictionary of Maine :and New Hampshire about Eleanor Frye, her parents and siblings :privately. :An interesting tid-bit.....regarding her parents "Their poster. :were largely Friends". :This strongly suggests the possibility John Brooks and Eleanor :Frye's children might be found in the Monthly Meeting records. A Quaker connection might also explain giving a son the decidedly un-Congregational name Robert. :-) Good catch! I didn't think to look under FRYE in there. :-( Chris
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Jan Saremi wrote: :I hope other :Brooks descendants may have some knowledge of John and Eleanor :Frye and perhaps can share who their children married (I've never :seen other children listed except for Elizabeth) :so I can use Google to start hunting for associations. Here's the remainder of the family writeup from the same source, p. 112. Simply insert this text after ELIZABETH in yesterday's transcription. ROBERT, b. 1 Nov. 1698, Scarb. 1724, Biddeford 1734, Buxton. M. Sarah Sawyer, d. of John and Rebecca (Stanford). Wid. in 1760, of Biddeford, 1773 of Cape Eliz., 4 or more ch. incl. John, Hannah, Sarah and Isaiah. SARAH, b. 11 Oct. 1689. HESTER, b. 22 Nov. 1702. (Int. Biddeford 14 Oct. 1731 Saml. Cole, Esther Brooks.) JOHN, b. 27 Feb. 1703-4, of Kingston 1725, of Biddeford in 1726, sold out in Kingston in 1729. Living in Kit. in 1786, ag. 82. He m., presum. 2d, by Aug. 1740, Eleanor (Meader) Libby of Bid., who in 1748 was a wit. at Kit. Point. Chris