Person:Mary Brooks (40)
Mary Brooks
chr.28 Nov 1647 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
 
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1644
  1. Hannah Brooks1645 -
  2. Nathaniel Brooks1645/46 -
  3. Mary Brooks1647 -
  4. Sarah Brooks1650 -
  5. Miriam Brooks1652 -
  6. Deborah Brooks1654/55 -
  7. Thomas Brooks1657 - 1733
  8. Joanna Brooks1659 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4] Mary Brooks
Gender Female
Christening[5] 28 Nov 1647 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesSecond Church

On 6 March 1682/1683 "six daughters" were mentioned in the will of William Brooks of Scituate; daughter Hannah and daughter Mary to receive 40s apiece more than the rest.

References
  1. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:260-263.
  2. ↑ William Brooks, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    pp. 412-415.

    Children... iii. Mary, pb. 28 Nov 1647 [NEHGR 57:83]; living at the date of her father's will, presumably unmarried, as she is bequeathed more than her married sisters. (The Torrey entry for the younger Thomas Lapham of Scituate suggests that his wife might have been this Mary Brooks, but none of the sources listed by Torrey includes any evidence relating to this suggestion.)

  3. ↑ Holman, Mary Lovering; Winifred Lovering Holman; and Helen Pendleton Winston Pillsbury. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife, Frances Helen Miller: Compiled for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1948, 1952)
    p. 485-489.
  4. ↑ Samuel Deane. History of Scituate, Massachusetts, From Its First Settlement to 1831. (Scituate, MA: Reprinted by the Scituate Historical Society, 1975)
    pp. 223-225.
  5. ↑ Foster, F. Apthorp. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909)
    1:50.

    Mary Brook, d. William, bp. Nov. 28, 1647. C.R.2

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