Dorothy Brooke

1642 -

• Name	Dorothy Brooke
  Born	1642	St. Mary's County, Maryland
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I029956	Tree1
  Last Modified	27 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	Henry Brooke,   b. Abt 1614, England ,   d. 3 Feb 1662/63, Westmoreland County, Virginia - Probate  (Age ~ 49 years)
  Mother	Jane Saxton,   d. 1642, St. Mary's County, Maryland
  Married	1639	St. Mary's County, Maryland
  Family ID	F15680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Wroe, William Clarke; The Wroe and Chancellor Families; Edgewater MD, 1992 === Wills of Westmoreland County, Virginia , Page 6 BROOKS, HENRY, shipwright, 21 June 1662; 3 February 1662/3. My wife Joane to be exx.; dau. Dorothy Brooks; grandchild Lidia dau. of Lawrence Abbington; Henry Saxton my godson and his father Nicholas Saxton; dau. Jane Higden; dau. Lidia Abbington; Richard Cole to be overseer. === Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 5; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 449 DOROTHY BROOKES alias Butler, 650 acs. W'moreland Co., 23 Mar. 1664, p. 172, (55). Upon S.W. side of Appamattox Cr. & Potomack Riv. running &c. to small gutt dividing this & part of pattent layd out for Major Washington, thence to Bigwood Sw., extend. to head of same thence with trees which divides this & land now in possession of Higden & Lawrence Abington, & N. Wly. to land taken up by Richard Griffin & Major. Washington. Said land given by will from Henry Brookes to sd. Dorothy; 329 acs. of which is held by patent dated 14 Oct. 1657, 321 acs. found more due for trans. of 7 pers: Jno. Smith, Jno. Wells, Jno. Evans Tho. Coles, Jno. Devenith, Jno. Jenkins, Robt. Parker. === URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=55&last=&g_p=P5&col lection=LO Patent Title Brookes[Butler], Dorothy. Publication 23 March 1664. Gen. note Brookes, Dorothy (alias Butler) (mm: orginally Henry Brooks} Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41. Note Location: Westmoreland County. Description: 650 acres on the south side of Appamattox Creek and Potomack River. Source: Land Office Patents No. 5, 1661-1666 (v.1 & 2 p.1-369), p. 55 (Reel 5).