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Martha Brooks (Hotchkiss)

Also Known As: "Martha Hotchkins"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
Death: circa 1755 (67-76)
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Ens. Joshua Hotchkiss and Mary Hotchkiss
Wife of Lt. Thomas Brooks
Mother of Stephen Brooks; Mary Benham; Thomas Brooks; Capt. Enos Brooks; Capt. Cornelius Brooks and 6 others
Sister of Mary Hotchkiss and Stephen Hotchkiss
Half sister of Hannah Peck; Priscilla Sperry; Abraham Hotchkiss; Abigail Winston; Mary Atwater and 5 others

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About Martha Brooks

Families of Ancient New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus, pg. 336, 796



Notes for MARTHA HOTCHKISS: While pursuing a stack of unfiled papers came across a copy I made from Vol. 14, p. 225 of the deeds in Wallingford dated 23 Jan 1755. (That was before Cheshire became its own town in 1780.) AS an added source, I thought I would pass on that in the deed she refers to her children: Stephen Brooks of Farmington in Hartford County Thomas Brooks, Enos Brooks, Cornelius Brooks, Henry Brooks, Nathan Gailord (stet) and Thankful his wife of Wallingford in New Haven County, Samuel Coles (stet) and Martha his wife of Torrington in Litchfield County*, Benjamin Brooks, Edward Gailord (stet) and Mahittable (stet) his wife of Farmington and "the rights that properly belong to the heirs of my daughter Mary Benham deceased who was the wife of Joseph Benham of Farmington."

Martha quits claim "unto my said children their heirs and assigns forever all my right of dower (illegible) buildings and lands that came to me from my said husband deceased being the place where he last dwelt in said Wallingford, in New Cheshire Parish....."

  • Jacobus has the daughter Martha married to Samuel Cole of Farmington. Farmington is in Hartford County, and Torrington is in Litchfield County, so they evidently lived in Torrington.

Notes from: Jean McKee 12-8-05


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Martha Brooks's Timeline

1683
December 14, 1683
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
1703
May 28, 1703
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
1704
May 14, 1704
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
1706
February 14, 1706
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
1707
February 15, 1707
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
1711
September 10, 1711
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
1714
February 21, 1714
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
1716
April 23, 1716
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
1718
1718
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony