1829 Will of James Brooks
NOTE: This
document mentions a John Brooks as witness to the will. This is the point at which confusion set in
for me
this John can NOT be the same John Brooks who signed over his part of
the fishery to James. That John Brooks
(b.1758) is now moved off to TN. This
John Brooks has to be son of William Brooks II.
Further corroborating this is that another witness was Elizabeth Brooks. "Coffee John" Brooks b.2 Mar 1802
(son of William Brooks II) married Patsey Elizabeth Cuthbertson on
James' widow, Temperance Jane Tucker Brooks then
marries Alfred T. Ledbetter in 1830.
Another John Brooks,
John Henry "Rabbit John" Brooks, born 1828 (son of
James Brooks) lived with Alfred and Temperance Brooks Ledbetter and works on
the farm. His two brothers and sister
all marry and move to
