On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. — Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical adding machine.

     You've found this site's raison d'etre: annotated genealogies of the emigrant progenitors who founded the first Brooks families of New England. Of the men in the table of founders below, 13 came by 1660 — the end of the "Great Migration" era — and the remaining two before 1700. With the exception of three pair of brothers and one pair of cousins labeled below as Related, no wider or prior relationships between them are known.
     An alpha-numeric ID suffix (i.e., Thomas/2c, Daniel/3s) denotes the generation of descent (where /1 is always the emigrant progenitor in New England) and the line of descent of each founder. Dual letters (/aw) indicate that two lines have intermarried.
     Data for the 15 individuals below is carried at a minimum through the 4th generation in New England. Several lines of lesser population are carried beyond the 4th generation. (See the FAQ for specifics.) I follow and include daughter lines. While one can always go farther with daughter lines and spousal ancestry — I do so as I find time — and additional illustrations and documents remain to scan and upload — this phase is essentially complete.
     See the FAQ link below the table. At a minimum, please read #8, Conditions of Use.

Brooks Founders in New England prior to 1700
 Settled   Founder Line Dates Location(s) Line Name Related Issue
 MASSACHUSETTS  Thomas A 1595–1667 Watertown & Concord CONCORD Cousins •
  Henry W c1592—1683 Concord & Woburn WOBURN Cousins •
  William S d. 1688 Springfield & Deerfield SPRINGFIELD   •
  William P c1615—c1683 Marshfield & Scituate SCITUATE Siblings •
  Gilbert P c1621—1695 Marshfield/Scituate/Rehoboth SCITUATE Siblings •
 CONNECTICUT John G d. 1682 Windsor & Simsbury GLASTONBURY   •
  Henry C d. 1713 New Haven/Wallingford/Cheshire CHESHIRE Siblings •
  John C d. a. 1704 New Haven/Wallingford/Cheshire CHESHIRE Siblings •
  Thomas H d. 1668 New London & Haddam HADDAM   •
  John F d. b. Mar 1695 Stratford (Fairfield County) FAIRFIELD   •
 RHODE ISLAND Thomas R   Newport, Portsmouth/1644 NEWPORT   •
 MAINE John K d. bef. 1712 Kittery KITTERY   •
 OTHER Richard E c1611–1687 Lynn/1635, East Hampton/1650 EASTHAMPTON Siblings •
  Thomas E b. c1617 Lynn/1635, to Long Island? EASTHAMPTON Siblings ?
  William M d. 1684 Milford, CT MILFORD   ?

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