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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
143.
Noah Broks Husband to Dorothy his Wife Died February. 1st : 1738/9 in ye 83rd year of his age.
[Age 82, so born 1656-7.]
- ↑ Threfall, John Brooks. "Thomas Brooks of Watertown and Concord", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
53:96.
Noah Brooks, s/o Joshua, b. Concord abt. 1656, d. Lincoln 1 Feb 1738/9, m. Dorothy Potter. "The marriage is proved by the will of Luke Potter in which he bequeathed to his daughter Dorothy Brooks." Buried in the old Hill Cemetery.
- That Noah's wife's name was Dorothy is known from the birth records of their children, as well as the death record cited on this page. There is a long list of sources that erroneously match Noah Brooks with Dorothy Wright, instead of Dorothy Potter (e.g., Savage, p. 1:261, Bond, p. 721, Cutter, p. 4:2598, etc.) This is disproved by deeds selling the holdings of Edward Wright, that identify Dorothy, wife of Benjamin Moore, as one of his daughters, and the will of Luke Potter of Concord, which names his daughter Dorothy Brooks. (See, for example, Source:Ferris, Mary Walton. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, p. 1:686, and Source:Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Publication(S) (Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts), Issue 6, p. 108, among other sources for more details.)
Nevertheless, Source:Merrick, George Byron. Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family of Massachusetts, 1636-1902, p. 431, says that "Potter's statement, in his "Old Families of Concord", that she [Noah Brook's wife] was Dorothy Potter is absurd, and an utterly baseless conjecture." Unfortunately Merrick does not give the detailed basis for his statement, only indicating that the name Dorothy Wright is based on the reading (or, one wonders, possible mis-reading?) of two land conveyances.
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