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From: STEYP-MT Materiel Test Dir <>
Subject: Tuttle-Brooks, CT-NY
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 88 06:50:49 MDT


KEYWORDS: Brooks, Tuttle, New Haven CT, St Lawrence NY

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Greetings Gentlepeople,

I need help in determining:
1) Date and place of marriage of Cooper BROOKS and Sophia TUTTLE.
2) Date, parents, and place of birth of Sophia TUTTLE.

[References not included for brevity; available on request]

Cooper BROOKS [16], the son of Joel (Henry, Thomas, Henry) and Mariam
(MOSS) BROOKS [Yale:356] was born 8 February 1787 in Cheshire, New Haven,
348].
Cooper married (1) Sophia TUTTLE [17][Armstrong: 6; Evans; 255; Tuttle:
527].
Both Tuttle and Armstrong show Sophia as being the daughter of Moses and
Damaris (HITCHCOCK) TUTTLE. Jacobus[:1905] does not show the children of Moses
and Damaris; neither Tuttle nor Armstrong cite sources for their claim. The
latter both show Ransom TUTTLE, who married Cooper's sister Sally, as the
brother of Sophia. There appears to be more evidence that Ransom was the son
of Moses and Damaris, although Armstrong's treatment [op.cit.] of Ransom is
confused (among other items, he gives Sally's birth date as Ransom and Sally's
wedding date).
Tuttle and Armstrong both give exact birth dates for all of Moses and
Damaris's children except for Sophia. Tuttle [op.cit.] shows Sophia as being
born "c[irca] 1780's, Cheshire, CT." An extract of the Brick Chapel cemetery
(St. Lawrence county, NY)[corr-Smallman] shows Sophia, "wife of Cooper," died
21 July 1834 at the age of 44. If correct, Sophia would have been born about
1780, in the position given by Tuttle and Armstrong in the sequence of children
of Moses and Damaris.
According to family tradition [Evans:225], Cooper and Sophia moved from
Cheshire and settled at an "early day" in St. Lawrence county. the principal
regional history of St. Lawrence county by Hough states the first permanent
settlement of Canton began in 1800 with major increases beginning in 1802
[:279].

Wahner Brooks

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