Pane-Joyce Genealogy

2443. Henry Brooks. Born ca 1592 in England. Henry died in Woburn, MA on 12 Apr 1683.124 Occupation: farmer & clothier.

The mother of Henry’s children is unknown. His children were born close enough to each other so that they could easily all have the same mother, but perhaps the older ones were the children one of Henry’s wives, and the the younger ones by a later wife. In any case Henry married Susannah, widow of Ezekiel Richardson, by 1651, and he married Anne (Jordan) Jaquith, widow of Abraham Jaquith, in 1682. (Grace Wheeler is sometimes listed erroniously as Henry’s wife. She what the wife of Thomas Brooks, not Henry Brooks.)

Henry was in Concord by 14 Mar 1639, when he was admitted freeman. Later he moved to Woburn where he was selectman in 1669, 1671, and 1672.

For more information on the descendants of Henry Brooks, see The Brooks Family of Woburn, by William Richard Cutter & Arthur G. Loring, Boston: Clapp & sons, 1904.
https://archive.org/details/brooksfamilyofwo00cutt

From The Brooks Family, pages 3–4:167
William Brackenbury, of Charlestown, conveyed to Henry Brooks six parcels of land in Woburn (178 acres) at a place commonly called Horn Pond, together with a house frame, Dec. 20, 1650. The homestead estate of Henry Brooks is described in the Woburn Records, in 1678. The buildings were then located on what was called South Street (present lower Main Street). In 1798 this homestead was owned by Capt. Nathaniel Brooks, son of Nathaniel.
In a suit, Dec, 1658, Henry Brooks testified he was then aged “about 66” years.
In his will, dated July 18, 1682 (six days after his last marriage), he names wife Annes; son-in-law, John Mousall; sons, John, Timothy and Isaac; and daughters. Sarah and Lestor [that would be Hannah (Brooks) (Fox) Lester]; also grandchildren, Isaac and Henry, sons of his son Isaac, and Miriam, their sister.
An abstract of the will of Henry Brooks is published in the Hon. Edward F. Johnsons Abstracts of Early Woburn Deeds, p. 31. He described himself in the will as a clothier, and as “stricken in years,”— his age being then about ninety-one years.
The will of Henry Brooks describes his lands with some particularity; to his daughter, Lester, or Lestor, he gives and bequeaths 5 shillings, and no more, because “she hath received her portion already”; to his “Rev. pastors, Mr. Thomas Carter and Mr. Jabez Fox,” he gives 20 shillings, apiece. Isaac, his son, was his sole executor, aud his trusted friend. Lieut. William Johnson, he desired should be overseer, anil he gave him 20 shillings. He made his executor his residuary legatee, and desired that his two grandchildren should not alienate any of the land he gave them during their father’s life.
The inventory discloses about 20 acres of upland on the east side of the highway; 7 acres of meadow, adjoining to said laud; 8 acres of meadow in Forty Pound Meadow, given to the children of Isaac Brooks; about 80 acres of upland on west side of the highway on both sides of the river, given to the two sons of Isaac Brooks; the great lot in Woburn Common (meaning not the present Woburn Common, now a square in Woburn Centre, but lots in Woburn common lands or land, as is shown a little further on in the paragraph), given to Miriam, daughter of Isaac Brooks, 42 acres; 3 small lots in Woburn Common, amounting to about 15 acres; for a division of woodland in Woburn Common land, the half given to the two sons of Isaac Brooks; 6 acres of meadow land in Shred Pine Meadow; for the town privilege in herbage, the half given to the two sons of Isaac Brooks; 54 acres of swamp bottom; and 15 acres of land by Mount Discovery.
These lands can be traced by deeds for three generations. (See Early Woburn Deeds, by Hon. Edward F. Johnson.)

Children:

6042i.

Hannah Brooks (say 1622-1692)

6043ii.

John Brooks (ca 1623-29 Sep 1691)

6044iii.

Sarah Brooks (ca 1633-bef 1706)

6045iv.

Capt. Timothy Brooks (ca 1635-7 Oct 1712)

6046v.

Joseph Brooks (12 Apr 1641-bef 16 Jul 1682)

6047vi.

Isaac Brooks (ca 1643-8 Sep 1686)

Bef 27 Mar 1651 Henry second married Susannah in Woburn, MA. Susannah died in Woburn, MA on 15 Sep 1681.124

Susannah first married Ezekiel Richardson, second Henry Brooks. Susannah’s surname is sometimes given as Bradford, but there seems to be no reason ever mentioned why it should be Bradford.

On 12 Jul 1682 Henry third married Anne Jordan (2752) , daughter of James Jordan (1207) (ca 1592-Apr/May 1655) & [____], in Woburn, MA.124 Born ca 1622. Religion: admitted to the First Church of Charlestown 13 Feb 1642/3.

Anne, also called Annis, first married Abraham Jaquith, second Henry Brooks as his third wife.

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