Person:Nathaniel Brooks (2)

Nathaniel purchased lands in 1717 from Michael Wanton, the Quaker teacher, half a mile west of Hoop-pole hill, and built upon them the house still standing on Main Street, Norwell in 1936.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Foster, F. Apthorp. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909)
   1:52, 2:359.

   52 Nathanael Brooks, s. Nathanael, [born] Aug ___, 1693
   359 Nathaniel Brooks, [died] Jan. 14, 1764, in 71st y. G.R.14

2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ Samuel Deane. History of Scituate, Massachusetts, From Its First Settlement to 1831. (Scituate, MA: Reprinted by the Scituate Historical Society, 1975)
   p. 350-351.
4.   Briggs, Lloyd Vernon. History and genealogy of the Briggs family, 1254-1937. (Boston)
   3:851-852.