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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2] |
Captain Thomas Brooks |
| Gender |
Male |
| Christening[4][5] |
2 Mar 1594/95 |
Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Marriage |
Bef 1628 |
Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Grace Unknown |
| Emigration[1] |
Bef Jul 1636 |
Based on grant of land at Watertown July 1636. |
| Residence[1] |
Jul 1636 |
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[1][2] |
7 Dec 1636 |
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay. |
| Residence[1][2] |
1638 |
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Death[1][2][3] |
21 May 1667 |
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Probate[1][2] |
16 Jun 1667 |
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| Estate Settlement[1][2] |
17 Jun 1667 |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Threlfall, John Brooks. Thomas Brooks of Watertown and Concord. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr 1977)
53:94. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Bond, Henry, M.D., and Horatio Gates Jones. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston (1860): To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps and Notes. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860)
2:719.
Thomas Brooks. Neither the date of his arrival, nor the place of his embarkation has been ascertained; but there is reason to suppose that he came from London. He first settled in Watertown, and was one of the "townsmen then inhabiting," to whom the Beaver Brook plowlands were granted in 1636. He was adm. freeman, Dec. 7, 1636, while he resided in Watertown. It is evident that he could not be the Thomas Brooke who embarked in May, 1635, then aged twenty, in company with Rev. Peter Bulkley. The second son, perhaps the third child, of Capt. Thomas Brooks, of Concord, was born 1632, when the other Thomas was only 17 years old. He moved very soon from Watertown to Concord, of which he was captain, and he received various other appointments of honour and trust. The General Court appointed him constable of Concord, Dec. 8, 1638, and he was representative in 1642, '43, '44, and four years after 1650. In 1640, he was apprizer of horses, cattle, &c, for the purpose of taxation, and appointed to prevent drunkenness among the Indians. In 1657, he purchased of the commissioners of the General Court, for £5, the right of carrying on the fur trade in Concord. In 1660,he and his son-in-law, Timothy Wheeler, jointly purchased of Edward Collins, 400 acres in Medford for £404, two-thirds for himself, and one-third for Wheeler. His wife Grace d. May 12, 1664, and the next Oct. 22, he sold his house-lot in Concord; but he remained in Concord, and died there May 21, 1667, intestate. His inventory, by Dea. Merriam, Dea. Potter, and George Wheeler, amounted to £448 3s., and his debts to £26 55. 2d. His three sons and son-in-law presented the Inventory for probate, June 16, 1667, and the next day signed [an] agreement [for the division of his estate].
- ↑ Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
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Thomas Brooks husband to grace his wife died 21 . may . 1667.
- ↑ John Brooks Threlfall, English Origin of GRACE CUNLIFFE, WIFE OF THOMAS BROOKS OF CONCORD, MASSACHUSETT, in Massachusetts Society of Genealogists. Massog. (Ashland, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, 1977-)
p 73.
Thomas Brooks was baptized at Manchester Cathedral on 2 March 1594/5, the son of Thomas Brooks. He died at Concord, Massachusetts, on 21 May 1667. Thomas and his wife Grace were most probably the Thomas Brooks and GRACE CUNDELYVE/CUNDLIFFE, who were married on 2 Feb 1617/18 in Manchester Cathedral. She too was baptized at Manchester Cathedral 14 October 1593, the daughter of William Cundcliffe and died at Concord on 12 May 1664.
- ↑ England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast).
Thomas Brooke, son of Thomas, chr. 2 Mar 1595 Manchester Cathedral
| Founders of Watertown, MA
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| Located along the Charles River, Watertown was one of the first settlements in Massachusetts Bay Colony. After a brief stay by Roger Clapp and others who then went on to settle Dorchester. In late July 1630, Sir Richard Saltonstall led a group of about 115 households to settle at Watertown, which at the time included parts of present-day Cambridge and much of the surrounding area; the population approached Boston's in the mid 17th century. In 1632 the residents of Watertown protested against being compelled to pay a tax for the erection of a stockade fort at Cambridge; leading to the establishment of representative government in the colony.
Full list of original heads of households
See also: History of Watertown - Wikipedia entry - Richard Saltonstall on Wikipedia
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Current Location: Middlesex County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: None Daughter Towns: Cambridge, Weston, Waltham, Belmont, Lincoln
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