Reuben Brooks

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of SAILOR. DAR Ancestor # A015064

References

1. The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families An attempt to trace, in both the male and female …. “Descendants of Moses Cleveland.” Page 361. < AncestrySharing >

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Reuben Brooks, youngest but one of the seven children of Nathaniel and Submit ( Poulter ) Brooks, born January 8, 1744, died in a British prison in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1776. He was one of the crew of the privateer " Yankee Hero, " which sailed from Sandy Bay ( see History of Rockport ), and engaged in battle with a British ship which at first was supposed to be insufficiently defended, but which in fact proved to be a formidable war vessel. In the battle Reuben Brooks was wounded in the head and was taken prisoner with his comrades. He was held in prison in Halifax until his death from the effects of his wound combined with an attack of small pox. On December 25, 1768, Reuben Brooks married Abigail Cleaveland, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer Cleaveland, first pastor of the parish church at Sandy Bay, Gloucester, and Abigail ( Stevens ) Cleaveland, his wife.