Rev. Timothy Brooks, Jr.

Biography

https://www.tributaries.info/p734.htm#i7332

Rev. Timothy/3w Brooks Jr., 2nd so-named, born 9 Oct 1661 at Woburn, Massachusetts,1,2, followed his father first to Swansea, Massachusetts,4, where he married, 10 Nov 1685, Hannah/3 Bowen of Swansea, daughter of Obadiah/2 Bowen and Mary Clifton.5,6 They lived at Swansea for perhaps five years after marriage.

About 1690 they followed Timothy's father to Salem County, West Jersey. According to Robert Peacock Brooks, they landed at the mouth of the Cohansey River, then Salem and today Cumberland County.

Children with Hannah/3 Bowen:

1. Timothy/4w Brooks+19 b. 23 Apr 1687, d. before 5 Jun 1730
2. Seth/4w Brooks+20 b. 19 Jan 1688/89, d. 1738
3. Zebulon/4w Brooks+10,17 b. 1690, d. after 7 Mar 1744/45
4. Zerviah/4w Brooks21,17 b. say 1692
5. Hannah/4w Brooks22,17 b. say 1696
6. Keziah/4w Brooks+17,23 b. say 1698, d. 1 May 1749
7. Patience/4w Brooks+24,17 b. 7 Apr 1698, d. after 1739

Will

Timothy Brooks, gentleman, of Chohanze, made his will 26 Jan 1715/16, proved 10 Feb following. It mentions his wife Hannah, children Seath (Seth), Timothy, Zebelon, Hannah, Patience, Kesiah, Zeruiah, and disposes of real and personal estate, including 20 acres "bo't of bro. John Brooks" in New England [perhaps representing John's share of the paternal estate of their father Timothy]. Named as executors were his wife and Enoch Shepheard of Cohansey. Witnesses were Job Shepheard, Nicholas Johnson, and Caleb Ayars, perhaps he who would become Timothy's son-in-law, or perhaps his uncle of the same name. Though he described himself as "gentleman," Timothy's estate was inventoried 6 Feb at a modest £157.1.3, including books and papers valued at £4.17.9. The inventory also included "Legace [Legacy] reported in his will wch is in New England we cannot certify any sum."15,16

• "At his funeral, more than a hundred of his descendants followed to the grave, which is most likely to be in the Sheppard's Mills burying-ground. His grave is unmarked."17
• See Griffiths, Historical Sketch of Seventh Day Baptists of New Jersey, 518-524.18

Exhibit(s).

• • Will of Rev. Timothy Brooks.
• • Inventory of Rev. Timothy Brooks.

Source Citations/Notes:

1. [S210] Edward P. Johnson, Woburn Records, 1:27, Timothy Brooks b.
2. [S298] Cutter & Loring, Brooks Family of Woburn, 7, Timothy (3.10.ii.) Brooks.
3. [S1650] Robert Peacock Brooks, "Henry Brooks," 46.
4. [S1650] Robert Peacock Brooks, "Henry Brooks," 44.
5. [S192] Costello, Fiske and Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts, to 1850, 25, Timothy Brookes Junier/Hanah Bowen m.
6. [S1081] Alverdo Hayward Mason, ed., Swansea Records, 125-7, Timothy Brookes Junier/Hanah Bowen m.
7. [S1650] Robert Peacock Brooks, "Henry Brooks," 43-44.
8. [S1650] Robert Peacock Brooks, "Henry Brooks," 44–45.
9. [S2342] NJ State Archives, v. 23, Calendar of Wills, 1670-1730, Salem Wills III:42, Ralfe Horsley.
10. [S216] H. Stanley Craig, New Jersey Colonial Documents, Calendar of Wills, 62, Timothy Brooks.
11. [S141] Black, "After 12 Generations," 19.
12. [S1455] Ann Kessler, citing Morgan Edwards, History of New Jersey's Baptists, 1680-1890.
13. [S132] Robert Peacock Brooks, Timothy Brooks, 13, Timothy (4.) Brooks, footnote.
14. [S692] H.L. Peter Rounds, Abstracts of Bristol County, 3:95, Obadiah Bowen.
15. [S216] Craig, NJ Colonial Documents, Calendar of Wills, 62, Timothy Broocks.
16. [S2342] NJ State Archives, v. 23, Calendar of Wills, 1670-1730, Timothy Broocks.
17. [S1650] Robert Peacock Brooks, "Henry Brooks," 45.
18. [S2281] Thomas S. Griffiths, A History of Baptists in New Jersey, 518-524.
19. [S1081] Mason, Swansea Records, 63-18, Timothy Brooks b.
20. [S1081] Mason, Swansea Records, 60-28, Seth Brooks b.
21. [S132] Robert Peacock Brooks, Timothy Brooks, 14, Timothy (5.) Brooks, Zermiah (iv.).
22. [S132] Robert Peacock Brooks, Timothy Brooks, 14, Timothy (5.) Brooks, Hannah (vi.).
23. [S132] Robert Peacock Brooks, Timothy Brooks, 13, Timothy (4.) Brooks.
24. [S132] Robert Peacock Brooks, Timothy Brooks, 14, Timothy (5.) Brooks, Patience (v.).