Display Patriot - P-122020 - William BROOKS

William BROOKS

SAR Patriot #: P-122020

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A015114

Birth: 03 Feb 1752 / Fauquier / VA
Death: 24 Jan 1841 / Tazewell / VA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Private, Capt Richard Waugh's Culpeper County Militia Compnay, Colonel James Barber's VA Militia Regt, Oct 1777-Nov 1777
  2. Private, Capt James Wood's Botetourte County Militia Company, Colonel Hugh Crockett's VA Militia Regt, Feb-Mar 1781
  3. Private, Capt Thomas Hamilton's Militia Company, Colonel Charles Dabney's VA Militia Regt, Nov 1781-May 1782
  4. Private Virginia State Troops, three time periods total 8 months service under various Commanding officers
  5. Was at Battles of Alamance and Whitsall's Mill

Additional References:
  1. Pension Number SR.1259
  2. Nettie Schreiner-Yantis, Archives of the Pioneers of Tazewell County Virginia, 1973, pg 238
  3. John Newton Harman Sr, Annals of Tazewell County Virginia, 1922, pg 245
  4. Genealogical, Burial, and Service Data for Rev War Patriots Buried in Virginia (M.E. Lyman, 2016)

Spouse: Nancy Ann Locke
Children: James; John L; Richard; Margaret; Thomas; Sarah/Sally; Lovica/Levicy; William; Nancy; Virginia; Emily;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1989-11-13 NY 219332 Robert Glenn Williams (133844) Richard   
1993-06-08 OK 210673 Charles Martin McLoughlin (140903) Richard   
1993-06-08 OK 210674 Christopher Glenn McLoughlin (140904) Richard   
2002-10-10 VA 14560 Ernest Bundy Shrader (159227) James   
2005-11-09 VA 24128 Kenneth Roger Brooks (166020) John   
2005-11-09 VA 24129 Robert Earl Brooks Jr. (166021) John   
2007-11-05 WV 30049 Danford Earl Bragg Sr (159229) Richard   
2009-05-28 WV 35205 Michael Scott Brooks (174121) Richard   
2010-04-01 TX 38209 David Cowan Brooks (176592) Thomas   
2012-02-28 OH 46700 Randall Lee Groff (182700) Richard   
2012-05-16 VA 47783 Delmont Gary Stephens Jr. (181097) Richard   
2014-03-27 SC 57566 Garland Paul Steele (181071) Richard   
2014-09-04 WV 59985 Lance Carter (160235) Louisa/Levicy   
2016-06-17 VA 69754 Dallas Martin Humphreys (198991) James   
2017-04-07 MI 73901 Connor Jamison Wales (202011) Sallie   
2017-04-07 MI 73902 Stephen Henry Wales II (202012) Sallie   
2017-04-07 MI 73903 Christopher Scott Reynolds (202013) Sallie   
2017-04-07 IN 73904 Danny Joe Blackwell (202014) Sallie   
2017-04-28 VA 74423 Charles Christopher Mula (202456) Thomas   
2017-12-31 DE 78846 Dennis Lee Schrader Esq (205806) James   
2018-01-19 FL 77431 Maksim Jacob Blair (191199) Richard   
2018-03-21 WV 79998 Daniel Wilton Moye (206843) Richard   
2018-05-18 WV 79810 Ira Cook Jr. (162778) Richard   
2018-12-14 WV 84134 Jerry Lacy Bays (209908) Richard   
2020-02-14 WV 90501 Leonard Mark Church (214627) Richard   
2020-08-28 IN 92028 Jeffrey Keith Brooks (197906) William   
2021-08-13 DE 98643 Ramsey Schrader (220159) James   
2021-08-13 DE 98644 Jared Lee Schrader (220160) James   
2021-08-13 DE 98645 Andrew Combs Schrader (220161) James   
2021-08-13 DE 98646 Owen Schrader (220162) James   
Burial:
Brooks Cemetery (C-0101947)
Location:
Thompson Valley / Tazewell / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2243016
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
23447350
Marker Type:
vertical VA
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
17 Dec 2007

Comments:

photo used with permission of Craig Batten, George Washington Chapter, VASSAR



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

No GPS data for gravesite on Find-a-Grave - Jan 2021



Author: David Cowan Brooks

William Brooks, Veteran of the Revolutionary War, is the fifth great grandfather of Compatriot David Brooks a member of the San Antonio Chapter, Texas Society, SAR.

William Brooks was born in Fauquier County, Virginia February 3, 1752, and on the 25th day of September 1832 at age 80 years he appeared before the Judge of the Circuit Court for the County of Tazewell, Commonwealth of Virginia, and after being duly sworn, made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of a pension for his Revolutionary War Service under the Act of June 7, 1832.

In October of 1777 he was drafted and served as a private under Lt. Bazell Nox in Capt. Richard Waugh’s Company, of Col. James Barber’s Virginia Regiment and was sent to Chestnut Hill near Philadelphia. However, on the way to Philadelphia he became sick in Maryland and was sent to hospital where he was discharged.

His second term of service occurred when he was drafted in February 1781, and served as a private under Lt. Henry Waterson in Capt. James Wood’s Company, of Col. Hugh Crockett’s Virginia Regiment and was sent to North Carolina. While he was there he was in two small skirmishes in March with the British Army at Clapp’s Mill in Alamance County and at Wetzell’s Mill in Guilford County.

Later in the Fall of 1781 he was drafted and served as a private under Ensign Robert Buck, Lt. William Slaughter, in Capt. Thomas Hamilton’s Company, of Col. Charles Dabney’s Scott Regiment and marched to Richmond Virginia where his unit was held in reserve during the siege of Yorktown. After the surrender of General Cornwallis he was discharged and returned to Virginia.

On June 24, 1833 his pension application request number R1259 was approved at an annual amount of $26.66.

William Brooks died January 24, 1841 in Thompson Valley, Tazewell County, Virginia. He had married Nancy Ann Locke on September 5, 1769, and after he died she applied for a transfer of the pension in August of 1843, she was 94 years old at that time. She passed away on October 21, 1844.




Author: Christopher Scott Reynolds
Place of Residence: William Brooks entered the service on 1st enlistment Oct 1778 and lived in Culpepper Co., Virginia. Hhis second enlistment was Feb 1781.

Military unit in which served: William was a Private in the Virginia Militia under Captain Woods, Capt. Waugh, Capt Thomas Hamilton, Col Barber, Col Charles Dabney, Col Hugh Crockett, , Lt William Slaughter.

On 05 Sep 1769 William married Nancy Ann Locke her dob 4 Dec 1749 dod 21 Oct 1844. Her father is John Locke.

The children’s names and dates of birth written in ink in the Brooks family Bible are as follows:
John Brooks dob 11 Jun 1770
Richard Brooks dob 12 Feb 1774
Thomas Brooks dob 22 Jan 1778
Polly Brooks dob 22 Jan 1778
Nancy Brooks dob 20 Dec 1780

William Brooks dob 07 Apr 1782
Sarah Brooks dob 10 Mar 1783
Elizabeth Brooks dob 13 Feb 1785
Mary Brooks dob 19 Jul 1789
Levicy Brooks dob 02 Sep 1791.

In the “Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia” page 246 dated 1841, there is a list of William Brooks heirs including his wife, sons and the married names of his daughters.
States as follows: It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that William Brooks, deceased, was a Revolutionary pensioner, that he departed this life on the 24th day of January, 1841, leaving his widow, Anna Brooks, and the following being all his heirs and legal representatives, to wit, John Brooks, William Brooks, Richard Brooks, Thomas Brooks, James Brooks, Margaret Kirk, Elizabeth Stephenson, Nancy Clyburn, Sally Todd, Polly Brooks and Louise Asberry, it is ordered that the same be certified.

William is buried next to his wife Nancy in a small fenced in area named the Brooks Cemetery located on a private farm in Thompson Valley, Tazewell Co., VA.

Source(s) of date documenting patriot role in the Revolution: Rev War Pension R1259, Abstract Rev War grave marker located Brooks Cemetery (farm cemetery) Thompson Valley, Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA. Rev War Pension & Bounty Land Warrant Application Files: Archive Pub # 804 Archive Roll #355 49 pages dated 7 June 1832. Annals of Tazewell Co., VA. Also written in ink Bible (printed 1756) Records of William Brooks family.

Additional information about the patriot ancestor and his family and sources of these data, if known, e.g., birth date, family members, occupation/business/profession before/during/after the Revolution, elected offices held: W. Brooks - dob 3 Feb 1752 (Prince William Co.,) now Fauquier, Virginia. dod 24 Jan 1841 Tazewell, Virginia.
His father’s name was William M. Brooks.



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