Richard Brooke was born about 1732, Essex County, Virginia, a son of Robert and Phoebe Brooke. Around 1747, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Richard married Anne Hay Taliaferro, daughter of Francis Taliaferro and Elizabeth (Hay) Taliaferro. Richard and Anne became the parents of five children, before she died around 1770. After Anne's death, Richard married secondly, Sarah Taliaferro, daughter of William Taliaferro. [1]
Richard is remembered by his brother, Humphrey in his Will, probated in 1763, in Culpeper county, Virginia. [2]
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