This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Witter, Brooks, Freeman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZZB.2ACI/503.55.88.920.3 Message Board Post: I am a Septimus Witter descendant. He is my great (x4) grandfather through his son Henry C. I don't know much about the Brooks and especially Mary, Melona, Melora. The obituary of her daughter, Sabrina (witter) Freeman, states that she was the great grand-daughter of General and Governor John Brooks of Massachusetts and family "history" has it that her (Mary, etc)father was killed at the Battle of Lake Erie. So your family history gives this an intriguing twist.