Mark Brooks

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A015052

1) ROAD OVERSEER, 1777, JUROR, 1778; PAID FOR SERVICES RENDERED

Origins

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062872569&view=1up&seq=..., p. 12

John Brooks, Esq., an English gentleman, married Susan came to America and died in Chatham County, N. C., about 1766. They had issue:

• 1. Thomas Brooks, b. about 1710, d. 1796 in Chatham County, N. C., married in Virginia, Mary , probably Mary Harris.
• 2. Joab Brooks, Esq., member of the early Courts of Orange County, N. C. b. about 1712, d. 1775 in Chatham County, N. C., m. Catherine Dimmaux.
• 3. John Brooks, Jr. b. about 1715, married Jane May, daughter of John May, from Virginia to North Carolina and then to Georgia.
• 4. Mark Brooks (or Marcus) b ' about 1720, d. about 1819, m. Fannie Harris of the Granville County Harris family.
• 5. James Brooks, born about 1725, died after 1812 in Georgia, said to have married Elizabeth Smith, m. 2nd about 1765 Margaret Thomason, daughter of Simon Thomason, from Chatham County, N. C., to Pendleton District, S. C. m. 3rd Unity.
• 6. Isaac Brooks, b. about 1727, d. 1825, m. 1st Ruth Terrell, b. about 1730, d. about 1790; m. 2nd Hannah Harper, widow