Timothy Brooks (abt. 1635 - 1711)

Born about 1635 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Russell) Brooks — married 21 Dec 1659 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Mehitable (Mowry) Brooks — married 1680 in Swansea, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 1711 at about age 76 in New Jersey, (now Cohansy, Salem, New Jersey, USA)

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Biography

Timothy Brooks immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Timothy Brooks was a member of the first Baptist community in Massachusetts under the leadership of John Myles 1665-67.

Timothy Brooks and a number of Welsh Baptists came from Swansea, Mass., about 1687, to which place Rev. John Miles and his church came about 1642 from Swansea, Wales. Among Brook's company were Samuel and Dan Bowen, Claeb Barrett, and Noah Wheaton. They were the first settlers at Bowentown and the vicinity.

The Seventh-Day Baptist Church of Shiloh - In the year 1663 a large number of Welsh Baptist emigrants, known as the "Rev. John Miles' company", settled in Massachusetts, and named their location Swansea, after their native place in Wales. Meeting with persecution, a large number of their children and grandchildren, with some Baptists from Scotland, moved to South Jersey in the year 1687, and settled at Barratt's Run, Bowentwn, and Shiloh. This colony from New England was known as the "Rev. Timothy Brooks" or the Bowen company, and kept up a separate society until 1710, when they united with the Old Cohansey Baptist Church.

The best material on this family, including all of John Brooks Threlfall's material and an excellent biography of Capt. Timothy Brooks (c.1635–1712), was compiled by Christopher Hapgood Brooks and is maintained as part of his Tributaries: Genealogies of the Brooks Families of New England.

Name

Timothy Brooks^[1][2][3]

Capt. Timothy Brooks^[3]

Birth

1638 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

ABT 1635 Concord,Middlesex,Massachusetts^[3]

1634 Concord,Middlesex,Massachusetts,USA^[3]

Marriage

Wife: Mehitabel Mowry

Note: as their second marriages^[2]

Wife: Mary Russell

1659^[2]

Death

1711 Cohansey, New Jersey

1712 Salem, Salem County, New Jersey^[2]

BEF 07 OCT 1712 Cohansy, Salem, New Jersey, USA^[3]

Will

The will of Timothy Broockes, senior, of Salem County, gentleman, was dated 12 March 1708-9 and proved 7 October 1712.^[4] It names

• wife Mahittebell
• sons Josiah, John, Timothy and daughters (names not given)
• son-in-law Jonathan Kingsber (?)

Executrix was his wife. The will mentions his worldly estate including land in Swanzey in New England. "Son-in-law" Jonathan Kingsber was presumably his stepson Jonathan Kingsley.

Sources

1. ↑ Threlfall
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Eddy
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Ancestry Family Trees
4. ↑ Documents Relating Colonial History New Jersey: Vol. 23, Page 62

• Cutter, William Richard. The Brooks Family of Woburn, Mass. (Woburn, Mass., 1904) Page 6
• Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=112019&pid=-1219645377

http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=16692088&pid=1148244206

http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=15949597&pid=339779254

http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=15949597&pid=340938458

http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=16692088&pid=424822679

• Eddy, Miriam Brightman. The American Genealogist: Thomas, Henry and Hannah Brooks of Concord, Vol. 54, Pages 234–235 (1978)
• Threlfall, John Brooks. The American Genealogist: Thomas Brooks of Watertown and Concord, Vol. 53, Page: 94–100
• Jaquith, George Oakes; Walker, Georgetta Jaquith. The Jaquith Family in America (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1982)
• TIMOTHY BROOKS OF MA & HIS DESC. by R.P. Brooks 3
• HISTORY OF GLOUCESTER, SALEM, AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES, NJ by Tos, Cushing MD and Charles E. Sheppard, Esq.:
• Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey (The Daily Journal Establishment, Newark, New Jersey, 1880-1949)
• John Myles: Church Planter, Swansea First Baptist Church
• Ancestral File(R) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File Number: 229B-8V

Acknowledgements

• Brooks-176 was created through the import of 104-B.ged on 12 September 2010.
• Brooks-753 was created through the import of Bishop Family Tree.ged on 18 February 2011.