 1761 - 1830 (68 years)
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| Photos |
 | Daniel James Brooks
Betty Howell Traver collection. Betty H. Traver notes: "These silhouettes were cut at a fair in Brooklyn when granddaughter Elizabeth Thompson was in N.Y.C. visiting her grandparents Daniel James Brooks & Hannah (Sr.) ____. Eliz's parents Wm. Thompson & Hannah Brooks Thompson were in an area with poor schools. Daughter Eliz was writing such poorly spelled and grammatically incorrect letters to them in N.Y., they had her live with them [her grandparents] for a year to get an education. When she was 16 in the 1830's they went to the fair and their silhouettes were cut by a famous silhouelletist "M. Honeywell" who was armless. The black paper was held by her toes while she operated scissors attached to a stand by her mouth." |
| Documents |
 | Silhouette notes
Handwritten notes by Betty H. Traver on the origins of the Brooks family silhouettes. |
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| Name |
Daniel James Brooks [3, 4] |
| Born |
29 May 1761 |
Virginia  [3, 4] |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
LH3H-M11 |
| Lived in |
New York, NY [3, 4] |
| Relationship |
John's Ancestor |
| Died |
13 Jan 1830 |
New York, NY [3, 4] |
| Buried |
Episcopal Churchyard, Jamaica, New York [5] |
| Person ID |
I1196 |
Main |
| Last Modified |
20 Aug 2018 |
| Family |
Sarah Berrien, b. 29 Sep 1764, d. 10 Sep 1827 (Age 62 years) |
| Married |
17 Jul 1783 |
New York [3, 5, 6, 7] |
| Notes |
Married:
- 1783. July 17. Berrian, Sarah, and Daniel James Brooks
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| Children |
| + | 1. Hannah Brooks, b. 29 May 1789, Shelburne, Nova Scotia , d. 19 May 1872, Augusta, Richmond, Georgia, USA (Age 82 years) |
| | 2. John Brooks, b. Bef 1790, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 3. James Brooks, b. Bef 1790, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 4. Sarah Brooks, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 5. Jane Brooks, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 6. William Brooks, d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
30 Sep 2009 |
| Family ID |
F473 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Betty Howell Traver notes:
"Daniel James Brooks was a cabnitmaker in N.Y.C according to the 1830? census. He made my Hitchcock style chairs (once a set of 10) for his daughter Hannah when she and Wm. Thompson left N.Y. with their slaves to new lands south. (N.Y. had passed a law banning slavery). They traveled in a covered wagon."
"Daniel James Brooks (and wife) was a Tory and refugeed to Nova Scotia when the Loyalists lost the Am. Revolution."
Huguenot Society of South Carolina Transactions, No. 73, 1968, p. 52-53 notes :
"a Tory, with whom Sarah went to Shelburne, Nova Scotia. (Sabine, "Biographical Sketches of American Revolutionary Loyalists:, p. 486). But the family returned to N.Y. about 1790. Both are buried in Grace Episcopal Ch. Cem., Jamaica, N.Y. Children b. in Nova Scotia and N.Y.C." [8]
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| Sources |
- [S725] Charles Perrin, Charles Perrin, (http://www.sneakers.pair.com/roots/index.html).
- [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com).
- [S1344] Hannah Brooks Birthday Manuscript, (On file JSHJr. electronic copy available.), see Attach "A" (Reliability: 0).
- [S1345] Huguenot Society of South Carolina, (Charleston, S.C.), Transactions p. 52-3 by Margaret K. Baumeister (Reliability: 0).
- [S1350] Dennis Berrien, Dennis Berrien, (http://www.dennisberrien.com/), http://www.dennisberrien.com/tree5.html#Sarah_PCJC (Reliability: 0).
- [S1343] New York Marriages, E. B. O'Callaghan, (http://www.fortklock.com/marriageB.htm), p.28 - "1783. July 17. Berrian, Sarah, and Daniel James Brooks " (Reliability: 0).
- [S1345] Huguenot Society of South Carolina, (Charleston, S.C.), Transactions p. 52 by Margaret K. Baumeister (Reliability: 0).
- [S1333] Betty Howell Traver, Elizabeth (Howell) Traver, notes from reverse of silhouette of Daniel James Brooks. (Reliability: 0).
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