Thomas Brooks

Thomas Brooks

BROOKS, THOMAS Ancestor #: A015101
Service: VIRGINIA
Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 1760 in FAUQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Death: 4-15-1800 in MAYSVILLE MASON COUNTY, KENTUCKY
Service Source: HARDING, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK & HIS MEN, P 160
Service Description: 1) LT JOHN SMITH, MILITIA

Find A Grave Memorial ID # 13826185

Thomas Brooks, was a well-known scout and Indian fighter. His family was from Fauquier County, Virginia. He went to Kentucky in the early days of its settlement, and with Daniel Boone, Jacob Boone and others laid out the town of Limestone* (now Maysville), where he lived until his death. He served three years as a private in the Virginia Continental Line, for which he received a grant of land, (e) In Mason County, Kentucky. are records of land transfers signed by Thomas Brooks and Sarah Boone Brooks in 1791.

Thomas Brooks / Sarah Boone children:

• Kezia b 7 January 1783
• Boaz b 29 December 1784
• Demarcus b 19 February 1787
• Mason b 31 May 1789
• Alphonzo b 18 March 1791
• Adolphus b 30 January 1793
• Elizabeth b 11 December 1794

The Boone Family by Jesse Procter Crump 1922 pg. 498-499 [e] Year Book of Kentucky Society of the Sons of the American Revolution 1913, pg. 197

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Spouse: Sarah Boone Brooks Montgomery (1763 - 1848)*

Burial: Pioneer Graveyard Maysville Mason County Kentucky, USA

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