Boaz Brookins (abt. 1737 - aft. 1800)

Born about 1737 in Marlborough, Mass.

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Died after 1800 after about age 63 in Rutland, Vermont

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Biography

Boaz was born about 1737 and passed away after 1800. In 1766, a petition to the King of England from residents of Shaftsbury, Bennington and Pownal Vermont includes the names of Boaz and Phillip Brookins. From this petition it can be deduced that the petitioners identified themselves as purchasers of Vermont Grants from the New hampshire Governor, Benning Wentworth, for which the New York Governor was also demanding a prohibitive fee. As many of the residents of early Poultney had come from Pownal, it is likely the Brookins family was in Pownal at this earlier date. Ithamar Brookins (brother of Boaz) married Judith Morgan, whose family resided in Pownal. Adams-21565

Sources

New Hampshire State Papers By A. S. Batchellor [1895], Vol 26. Petition to King by purchasers of land from Benning Wentworth regarding New York controversy, 1766. As found on Pownal.Org/PHS/index.html

"United States Census, 1790", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2M-PDY : 29 May 2015), Boaz Brookings, 1790.

http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bahr/swee/roots.htm

http://pagenweb.org/~elk/winslowgenealogy/mywinslowburkeancestors.htm

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/t/h/o/Gary-E-Thompson/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0102.html

Novy-Garwood family record and connections, Mennonite Family History, 1990 - 412 pages [1]

Joseph Joslin, Barnes Frisbie and Frederick Ruggles, A history of the town of Poultney, Vermont: from its settlement to the year 1875, with family and biographical sketches and incidents (Google eBook), 1875, 41: 4 Oct 1781 tax list, Poultney.

This person was created through the import of Middletown families minus.ged on 10 February 2011.