Brooks, Isaac (1757-1840)

Name:

Brooks, Isaac (1757-1840)

Title:

Clerk, Town of Woburn, MA 1793
Tax Collector, Town of Woburn, MA 1794
Justice of the Peace, Town of Amherst, NH 1803
Register of Deeds, Hillsborough County, NH 1802-1828
Member, School Board, Town of Amherst

Born:

08/16/1757

Birthplace:

Woburn, MA

Died:

12/20/1840

Death Location:

Amherst, NH

Residence:

Woburn, MA 1793, 1794
Hollis, NH 1776
Amherst, NH 1784, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1801-1840
New Boston, NH 1790
Lyndeborough, NH 1791
Merrimack, NH
Temple, NH
Wilton, NH 1794-

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

School teacher
Farmer
Store owner 1794-1801
Register of Deeds, County of Hillsborough

Father:

Brooks, Isaac

Mother:

Holden, Joanna

Relations:

Uncle of Franklin Pierce
Grandfather of Isaac Brooks Dodge (1828-1905)

Spouse:

Kendrick, Abigail (1764-1826), m. 05/28/1791

Children:

Isaac, born September 26, 1791; died July 6, 1796
Luther Dana, born July 6, 1795, Wilton, NH; died August 22, 1829, Pepperell, MA
Abigail Brooks, born September 25, 1806; died January 22,1872; married Ninian C. Dodge, June, 1828

Notes:

From exhibit label: "After serving as school teacher in several neighboring towns, Brooks settled permanently in Amherst in 1801, where he served 26 years as Register of Deeds for Hillsborough County. This chair is similar to examples made in Concord between 1806 and 1826 by Low Damon, both of whom had come to Concord from Amherst. Brooks is known to have employed Low to re-letter his office sign."

NHHS has other items marked Isaac Brooks, and has his portrait by Zedekiah Belknap.

D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. W. Lewis, 1885), 249-250.

Daniel F. Secomb, History of the Town of Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire... (Conocrd, New Hampshire: Evans, Sleeper, and Woodbury, 1883), 188, 194, 214, 326, 350, 520.

Emma P. Boylston Locke, Compiler. Colonial Amherst: The Early Customs and Homes� Milford, New Hampshire: W. B. A. B. Rotch, 1916, 80

Elizabeth R. Mankin, "Zedekiah Belknap 1781-1858 Itinerant New England Portrait Painter," Antiques, (November 1976), 1068.