> Subject: Re: NYBROOME-D Digest V00 #68 > Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 18:44:10 -0700 > From: Ruby White <dinosaur@whidbey.com> > There are many Brooks in "The History of Tioga County,NY" Listed among them is > REV.ASA BROOKS in the town of Nichols who was paster in the year 1867 in which at > time purchased the bell for new Methodist church. Asa also changed the hours of > worship from afternoon to mornings. Cheryl Switzer Deuel > > My great grandparents, William Harrison Gibson and Laura Howland, were married > January 22, 1837 at Berkshire > by a Methodist minister named Brooks. It could have been > either Bethuel or his son, Asa. The latter is unlikely, as he was not ordained at > that time. > The Wyoming conference was unable to help me. > Is there someone out there who has an idea where I might find these records? > Also, were the Methodist and the Episcopal churches in the Broome county area in > some way associated with one another in the early eighteen hundreds? > Ruby Gibson White > Point Roberts, Washington >