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John I. Brooks
Birth: 1774
Death: 8-7-1852
Biography
..."Vincent Matthews was an early patron of this church, and after him Jonathan Brooks greatly aided it. John I. Brooks, of Blooming-Grove, in later years, and Fletcher M. Brooks, of Hamptonburgh, were descendants of the last-named gentleman. This place is now acquiring the name of Lincolndale. There is not, however, much to constitute a village." -- http://www.mocavo.com/History-of-Orange-County-New-York-2/323749/1024 John I. Brooks is mentioned in SSS letters of 1831. He was part of an Anti-Masonic assembly in Orange County. His father was Jonathan Brooks (in Ancestry) and his mother was Hetty Lewis (see Ancestry). He married Eliza Denniston and then Hannah Denniston, with whom he had two children, Fletcher and Charles.
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Letter from George MacCullough Grier to William Henry Seward, August 25, 1838
Letter from Samuel Sweezey Seward to William Henry Seward, October 17, 1831
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..."Vincent Matthews was an early patron of this church, and after him Jonathan Brooks greatly aided it. John I. Brooks, of Blooming-Grove, in later years, and Fletcher M. Brooks, of Hamptonburgh, were descendants of the last-named gentleman. This place is now acquiring the name of Lincolndale. There is not, however, much to constitute a village." -- http://www.mocavo.com/History-of-Orange-County-New-York-2/323749/1024
John I. Brooks is mentioned in SSS letters of 1831. He was part of an Anti-Masonic assembly in Orange County. His father was Jonathan Brooks (in Ancestry) and his mother was Hetty Lewis (see Ancestry). He married Eliza Denniston and then Hannah Denniston, with whom he had two children, Fletcher and Charles.
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