Marianne ([email protected]) wrote: :I'm hoping this family looks familiar to someone: : :George Brooks b. 1780 in Vermont married Mary Clark b. 1788 in :New York, married on 9 Nov 1809 (I dont know where, but maybe New :York). [snip] Son Julius Caesar did indeed look familiar, but when I searched, all I found was your previous query about this family of 12/1/2001. Don't give up! Please keep querying at intervals, as you're doing, and eventually I'm confident we'll be able to identify him. Now your previous query identified George as George Washington, and mentioned Ohio as the place he ended up. I couldn't find a George Washington born 1780 (most of these names occur after the namesake was inaugurated president in 1788), but when I searched for any George born 1780 I found the following. "Mr. Delbert Radke, Attorney at Law in San Francisco, CA wrote a letter to the Record and Pension Office of the War Department dated December 19th, 1928 in which he states that George Brooks was born on Aug. 29, 1780. He further states that George was baptised on Oct. 29th, 1780 at the Old Dutch Reform Church in Deerpark, NY. "He removed in 1797 to Pompey, NY. In 1810 he followed his son John, who had removed the previous year, to Florence, OH. ("John Brooks, Sr., and his wife and family came in 1810. He had been wounded in the Battle of White Plains, and Monmouth. His first wife, Rachel Blizzard, the mother of his children, was probably dead. From what little information we can obtain we believe he had a second wife at that time.") George is said to have died on the Oregon Trail, 1850. -- citing Revolutionary Pension Records File #10451, Major John Brooks, Sr. -- citing "Article read at Stiles Family Reunion, Wakeman, OH, 12 Aug 1912 by Dr. F.E. Weeks" -- citing The Firelands Pioneer, v. 3, Firelands Historical Society, Cleveland, OH, c. 1862; History of the Fire Lands, Comprising Huron and Erie Counties, OH, by William W. Williams, 1879; Blockhouses & Military Posts of the Firelands, by Cherry, c. 1934, pp. 41, 6162. The source is Christopher Webber, Tacoma, WA, who I don't think is subscribed here. As of April 2000 his email address was [email protected] If any of his data looks promising, you'll want to contact him directly. The line as he has it is George, 1780 - 1850 Major John (1755 - 1846) + Rachel BLIZZARD Jonathan (say 1722) + Sarah HUBBARD Benjamin (1685) of Stratford, CT + Mary BOOTH John (say 1640) of Stratford + Sarah OSBORN, widow John PEAT Jr. See Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, 1:104, for John and Benjamin. Chris