John Brooks and Sarah Pardon

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Husband John Brooks ¹

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           Born: 1727 - near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 Dec 1803 - Elizabethtown, Lancaster Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA

       Marriage: Jan 1767 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2

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Wife Sarah Pardon ²

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Apr 1789 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Thomas Pardon (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Rebecca Brooks ²

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           Born: 17 Jan 1768 - Newburyport, Essex Co, MA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Jul 1793 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

         Spouse: James Brooks (      -      ) 2

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2 F Elizabeth [1] Brooks ³

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           Born: 20 Apr 1770 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Oct 1772 - Newburyport, Essex Co, MA 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Elizabeth [2] Brooks ³

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           Born: 2 Jun 1775 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Thomas Blocher (      -      ) 3

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4 M John Brooks ^{4 5}

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           Born: 18 Mar 1778 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 6 Dec 1845 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Catharine Greenawalt (1790-1859) 4 5

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5 M Thomas Brooks ³

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           Born: 6 Aug 1780 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 Dec 1807 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Martha Ramsey (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - John Brooks

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His parents were descendants of what was known in Ireland as "Cromwellians," a people who have ever proved the most loyal subjects of England, and the history of British arms is their patrimony. At the age of twenty-seven years we find him in His Majesty's service in the Enniskillen regiment of foot, as sergeant, served with that command in North America; disabled by a wound in the left hand, June 8, 1767, and honorably discharged therefor. Left Montreal and went to Newburyport, in the Massachusetts colony, where he resided until the breaking out of the Revolutionary war. In 1775 he removed to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and on the 9th of January, 1776, he was commissioned second lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Line. During the occupancy of York by Congress in 1778, he was appointed, by General Gates, town major with rank of captain, and acting commissary of supplies. At the close of the war he was at Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he remained a brief period, subsequently returning to Carlisle. About 1784, he removed to Paxtang near Harris' Ferry, where he purchased land, and where he lived the remainder of his days. The Oracle of Dauphin, alluding to his death, says: "On Thursday his remains were brought to this place, and deposited by the side of his late consort, a daughter, and three grandchildren; Major Brooks was an old Revolutionary character, and for many years a peaceful and respectable inhabitant of this borough, as well as a distinguished member of the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of this place." He was made a Mason in the year 1755, in Lodge 213, Registry of Ireland, was Master of Lodge 205, in the Enniskillen regiment, and, at the home of his adoption, of lodge 21, at Harrisburg.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 307.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 308.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 309.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 241.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 305.