Dekalb-Cobb-Walker County GaArchives Biographies.....Brooks, Jacob Reed May 10, 1787 - March 22, 1872 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cynthia Ford http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004142 October 21, 2005, 4:02 pm Author: The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Forde JACOB REED5 BROOKS was born 10 May 1787 in Wilkes County, Georgia,to STEPHEN BROOKS and RACHEL MARTIN. Jacob's grandfather was John Brooks and Lydia of Wilkes, GA; his great grandfather was JACOB BROOKS, SR. (WILLIAM1) born 21 Nov 1702 in Middlesex County, Virginia, and died Abt. 1774 in Craven County, Newberry, South Carolina. He married ELIZABETH WARREN Bet. 1724 - 1728 in Virginia, daughter of THOMAS WARREN and MARY HACKLY. She was born Abt. 1704 in [Old] Rappahannock, Virginia, and died Abt. 1759 in Frederick County, Virginia. Jacob REED BROOKS and died 22 Mar 1872 in Walker County, Georgia. He married SARAH C. GADDIS 19 Nov 1819 in Gwinnett County, Georgia. She died in Walker County, Georgia. TIMELINE - JACOB REED BROOKS 1787 Wilkes, Georgia -- 1872 Walker, Georgia MAY 10, 1787 – Birth, Jacob Reed BROOKS, Wilkes County, Georgia November 19, 1819 – m. Sarah C. Gaddis MILITARY: 1812 – War of 1812 – Jacob Reed BROOKS, Wm. Chivers Co., 8th US Infantry Georgia Pensioners BROOKS, Jacob R.: War of 1812 Pension Application S.O.#12993, S.C.#8194. B.L.W.#6499-160-12. He served in Captain William Chisolm's Company, 8th Regiment, U.S. Infantry from 18 September 1812 to 23 August 1815. Resided 1840- 1871 in Walker County. POST 1814, Following the Creek Wars of 1812-1814, the United States and the State of Georgia began pressuring the entire Cherokee Nation to move to Arkansas where a tract had been set aside for them freeing up land in Georgia for white settlement. However, the majority of the Native American group refused to leave their lands. Cherokee leaders maintained that they were the original inhabitants of America, an independent nation not bound by U. S. law and protected by treaties made with the Federal government. ) Lexicon of the Cherokee Tongue Prepared by Jacob R. BROOKS for Colonel W. W. Hassard, n.d. MS 93 Jacob R. BROOKS Paper Reference: http://www.georgiahistory.com/nineteen.htm FIRST SEMINOLE INDIAN WAR - BROOKS, Jacob R. Sgt Maj served in Lewis' 2nd Regt. of GA Cavalry in the Seminole War of 1817-18 1 November 1815 JOHN HINES Wife: Rachel ("bounty land coming to me from the U.S. for my services") Exec: Friend,Jacob R. Brooks; Wit: Johnson Hicks; Isiah Beison, Jonathan Moore 1820 – U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS - Gwinnett, GA, Jacob R. BROOKS, enumerated with wife and one child (Ancestry.com). A Jacob BROOKS sold land to Lemuel Roberts in the 6th Land District (formerly Gwinnett), which is now in the NE part of DeKalb, near the Gwinnett line. 1821 Jacob R. BROOKS, Commissioner for County Academies (Source: Virginia Crilley –emailed to CF, 10/10/2005) Vol. 2 -- Page: 125 Sequential Number: 124 Type: AN ACT Full Title: To appoint Commissioners for the County Academies of Walton, Gwinnett, Hall, Habersham, Rabun, [Illegible Text] and Pulaski, and to incorporate the same. § 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of [Illegible Text] in General Assembly [Illegible Text] and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the [Illegible Text] of this act, Elisha Betts, Vincent Haralson, William Johnston, [Illegible Text] C Woods, and Wilson Whatley, are hereby declared commissioners for the county Academy of Walton; William Towers, [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] William [Illegible Text] Thomas Worthey, and Jacob R. BROOKS, for the county Academy of Gwinnett 1824 – Jacob started a ferry over the Chattahootchee River, sold by 3 December 1832, according to a letter by the current owner in 1832, Elisha Betts; the letter was written to Governor Lumpkin protesting long-standing Indian issues and Indian claims over that ferry and requesting assistance (Wayfarers of Walton, Anita B. Sams, reprinted 2000, Walton Graphic Media, Monroe, Georgia, p. 407) 1826-1827 - Jacob R. BROOKS served a two year term in the Special House Session to the Georgia General Assembly for DeKalb County, GA DeKalb Representatives to the Georgia General Assembly, 1823-1860 http://www.pkgraham.com/img/leer.gif (Special House Session) 1826 Jacob R. BROOKS 1830 U.S. Federal Census -DeKalb Jacob is enumerated with 2 males under five and 2 males between five and ten. a daughter under five, a wife and an older woman who may have been his mother (Ancestry.com) SECOND SEMINOLE WAR - 1827 - 1838 - Jacob R. BROOKS, Indian Agent, involved in the removal of the Cherokee Indians (see Cherokee Website: Removal of Indians) 1830 - Jacob R. BROOKS, Letter to Governor George R. Gilmer, 12 November 1830; original records, Record Group 4-2-46, Box 17, File II Names: Georgia Archives, Morrow, Georgia. Photocopy from Barbara Smallwood Stock: Report October 18, 2005 “De Kalb County Gao. 12th November 1830 To his Exellency George R. Gilmer Sir, I have Just learned from unquestionable authority, that on Friday morning the 5th. Inst, Just before day, John, A. Craddock, his two sons and William Young, being on their return from the Cherokee Country to Carroll County, Was overtaken and fired on by Johnston Lee, and Sam Scott, and Jim Lee, When William Young fell desperately Wounded, a pursuit then ensued, but no further damage done, on their return Young not being yet dead, sam Scott, Stamp’d him in the face and breast, until he Expir’d, - said Scott and Lee’s being Cherokees. I have Just learned from Moses Paris a Respectable half Breed of the Cherokee Tribe, that a most Horrid Murder Was Perpetrated the other day near the town of Sa, loo, co, eh, on the Body of a White man Who is as yet unknown. The Indians having nearly Burnt up the man and destroy’d his Papers, Jack Martin, Tried to gather and make out some of the Contents of the Papers, and was only able to ascertain that his name Was John and Was an Honest Respectable man, It seemd to be a letter of Recommendation, the rest of his papers burnt. Also on Tuesday night the 19th, Inst, at the House of an Indian by the name of Walking Stick (U, tau, luh, nous, teh,) Henry Curtis, the Sheriff of Carrol County, being in that part of the Nation Attach’d to said County, on lawful business to wit to Levy an Execution on some property, having as a Guard Majr. Jiles, S. Boges, & Thomas York, Were in the night surrounded by upwards of Twenty Indians, taken and tied and on Tuesday morning the 10th Inst, they were brought and delivered to William Thompson Missionary at E,tow, ah, Station, and by him and his Indian Guard, delivered in Strings to Lieut., Fowler, of the United States Army, and by him sent under a Guard of Mercenary Ruffians to head Quarters at Scudder’s, as the inclosed affidavit will more fully explain, ---- Then you excellency Will perceive that a Crisis has arrive, Whom Georgia must act efficiently or Submit, The excitement on this frontier is very Great. I am with Great Respect Your Excellences Obt, Servant Jacob R. Brooks (see signature .jpg) P.S. While making this communication it is The Wish of my neighbours that I should bring to your Excellency’s Recollection, several unprovoked murders that have been perpetrated on the Citizens of this State by the Cherokees. One by Ellis Buffington, several years since at the house of John Lane in Jackson County name not recollected, said Buffington now lives on Etowah River. Also a Wilful murder Committed on the Body of a Mr. May, on the Waters of sweet Water, by an Indian by the name of Uk, ki, a, le, (or the old) about Three years since. __ Also a most aggravated and Wilful murder Committed on the body of Joh Raper, Sen. Of Carroll County, By George Blackwood all of which are unaton’d for. If my recollection serves me, the Cherokees are Bound by Treaty to Deliver up murderers or Forfeit their Lands, - I hope your Excellency will excuse the length of this communication, but to have said lefs would not have met the views of myself and neighbors I am with great Respect & J. R. B. Addressed Decatur, GA November 14th To His Excellency George R. Gilmer, Milledgeville (Geo) (Endorsed) Letter Jacob R. Brooks & Affidavit of John W. Thompson Filed 20 November 1830 Cherokee Indian Depredations.” 1831 - January 8 Jacob R. BROOKS of DeKalb County enlists as 1st Sgt. in the Georgia Guard under Sanford specially called to stop the looting of the gold mines. A copy of the original list of the Georgia Guard which includes the signatures of the 38 of the proposed members of the Guard is in an official letter book of the commander Colonel John W.A. Sanford. The letter book was given to the Ina Dillard Russell Memorial Library at Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA. A Microfilm is available at Georgia Archives (Reel 21 / 53). The signature of Jacob R. BROOKS matches the signature of Jacob R. BROOKS, Indian Agent, who wrote to Governor Gilmer in 1830- per Barbara Smallwood Stock, certified genealogist GA. http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/military/indian/sandfordjwa.txt Page: [2] [ djvu image | jpg image] No. [Number] 15 Document: TCC802 [Receipt] of Jacob R. BROOKS for examining improvements, 1832 Jan. 2, [Georgia] date: January 2, 1832 extent: 2p summary: This is a receipt dated January 2, 1832 for Jacob R. BROOKS's services in examining the improvements on unspecified former Indian lands that had been abandoned by Indians emigrating to the west in 1831 . The payment of fourteen dollars was disbursed by Colonel J.W.A. Sanford, commander of the Georgia Guard. repository: Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries collection: Telamon Cuyler box: 62 folder: 10 document: 01 (See Jacob R. Brooks signature .jpg) “The Georgia Guard, established in 1831 by the Legislature to bring order in the Cherokee Territory, was composed of 40 to 60 men. The Guard was commanded by J.W.A. Sanford whose title was “General Agent in the Cherokee Country and Commander of the Georgia Guards County Indian Agent, Cobb: Jacob R. Brooks (see letter from Nancy Still 3-8-1835” (Whites Among the Cherokees, Georgia 1828-1838, 1987, Mary Bondurant Warren, Heritage Papers, Athens, GA30606). *** (See below) August 1831, Letter to Governor Gilmore (sic) written by a group of Cherokee Women, “We the undersigned Cherokee women do remonstrate against the occupancy of a ferry on the Etowah River n the Cherokee Nation by Messers Jesse Day and John Dosson (Dawson),….”we have twice complained to Sergeant Jacob R. Brooks, who is frequently through our Country executing the laws, his reply last time was that he had forgot to name my complaint to Colo. Santford (Col. J.W.A. Sanford) the Georgia agent...” Betti Philips, Sally Hughes” (Whites Among the Cherokees, op.cit., p. 109)” 2 January 1832 Jacob R. BROOKS received fourteen dollars from Colonel John A. Sanford for inspecting the gold mines. **** (see Jacob R. Brooks signature .jpg) 18 December 1832, Jacob R. Brooks (Salacoe Settlement near Salacoe Town, Cherokee County, signed a petition by white settlers to Gov. Wilson Lumpkin for a troop of 100 men to be sent immediately to “awe the Indians of the Salacoe Settlement into submission.” The petition was in response to the Bowman Family Massacre (Dec.15, 1832, James L. Bowman , his wife, daughter and her mother, were butchered and their home was burned. Bowman was about 21, his wife 18, her mother was very old and blind” (Whites Among the Cherokees, p.110, op.cit.) 1833 - Jacob R. BROOKS, appointed Indian Agent in Cobb County by the Governor 1833 - Jacob R. BROOKS helped to establish the Union Academy, and Oakchumpna Academy, in the county of Upson (see GenWeb submission by Virginia Crilley: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson/history/academy2.txt 1833- Cobb County formation -The first officals for Cobb County were: Tandy Martin, Sheriff; William Morris, Clerk of Superior Court; R.B. Harris, Clerk of Inferior Court; E.R. Mills, County Surveyor; Henry Quiton, County Coroner; James B. Waller, Representative; and Jacob Brooks, Senator. Senator Brooks had lived in Cobb County on the Chattahoochee River since 1819 and was a representative from Dekalb before settling in Cobb. (Cobb County did not exist until 1832) 1833 – Census Act of 1833 – received at the Executive Department 22 March, 1834, Page four, Jacob R. Brooks, $ signifies Cobb County, 9 people in the family. The census was compared with the 1830 U.S. Federal Census Georgia (Whites Among the Cherokees, p. 155, op.cit.). 1834 – Governor Lumpkin appointed Jacob R. Brooks Indian Agent for Cobb County 1840 U.S. Federal Census - Walker, Georgia; Jacob Reed BROOKS has moved to Walker County, Georgia (Lookout) 1850 U.S. Federal Census Lookout Valley, Walker, Georgia, family #34 Residence of Geo W. Harp (25) Martha A. 25 John M Jacob R. Brooks 63 School Teacher Sally Brooks 50 Dewet C 16 Cosiusio 14 Enius 12 Roxana 9 Tamarlane 5 1860 U.S. Federal Census Pond Springs District, Walker, Georgia, family 1004; 20 July Residence of L.W. Brooks, 35, farmer Mahala 32 Sara E 15 Mary 13 Wm. 10 George 9 Martha 5 J.R. Brooks 73 (A Brooks family is living at 1005 – next door) 1870 U.S. Federal Census Subdivision 128, Walker County, Georgia , Fricks Post Office, 14 June 1870. Residence: Brooks, Levi W. 46 Mary 21 Wm T. 20 Geo 10 Frances 14 Enos 9 Jacob R. Brooks 83 years old March 22, 1872 – Death – Walker County, Georgia Southern Christian Advocate Obituaries, 1867-78 DEATH AND OBITUARY NOTICES FROM THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1867-1878 Issue of MAY 1, 1872 Mr. Jacob R. BROOKS was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, May 10th 1787, and died March 22nd 1872, at the residence of his son, W. L.BROOKS in Walker County, Georgia from the infirmities of old age. He was a regular soldier in the U. S. Army five years, in the war of 1812. He represented DeKalb and Cobb counties, in the Georgia Legislature. He raised seven sons and five daughters, seven of whom and a wife, went to the grave before him. *** "A Cherokee was arrested by the military, charged with digging for gold in his own native country, but strictly prohibited by the State, and delivered over to the civil authority. After a long confinement in the jail of Walton county, he was brought before his honor A. S. Clayton for trial, Judge of the superior court for the western district, and was liberated; the court deciding the law unconstitutional; that the Cherokees were the rightful owners of the soil and all the minerals to be found; and that, until a fair extinguishment of their title, by treaty, they had the unquestionable right to use their lands as they pleased. The Governor was immediately notified of the proceedings of the court, who, it would seem, was determined that the Cherokees should realize no benefit from the judiciary whatever; and forthwith issued an order to J. W. Sanford, the military commander, charging him to arrest every Cherokee to be found at the mines, and not to be governed by the decision made by one of the highest courts in the State, inasmuch as he (the Governor) believed the State had the right to prevent the working of those mines! Shortly after this, a detachment was ordered out for the purpose of "scouring the upper gold mines," under the command of a certain Jacob R. BROOKS. During their absence, they discovered a Cherokee, who, upon their approach, attempted escape by flight. The officer, supposing he had been digging, ordered a charge, and then to fire upon him; which was promptly obeyed, and the unfortunate Indian brought to the ground badly wounded by a shot through the thigh! Subsequently, others were arrested, females not escaping the sad effects of military despotism, and thrown into jail. Document: PAM009 Cherokee Indians : memorial of a delegation of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, January 9, 1832, read and laid upon the table author: Cherokee Nation publication place: [Washington, D.C.] date: January 5, 1832 extent: 5p http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/homepage.cgi? link=zlna&id=tcc802&style=&_id=442a34bd-1208761962-4558 Children of Jacob BROOKS and Sarah Gaddis : i. LAWRENCE MANNING6 BROOKS. ii. LEVI WELLBORN BROOKS. iii. CINCINNATUS NEY BROOKS. iv. SARAH JANE BROOKS. v. GEORGE MCINTOSH BROOKS. vi. LOUISA BLACK BROOKS. vii. DEWITT CLINTON BROOKS. viii. ATLANTA GEORGIANNA BROOKS. ix. KOSCIUSCO BYRON BROOKS. x. AENEAS LEONIDAS BROOKS. xi. ROXANNA MELINDA BROOKS. xii. TAMERLANE BROOKS. **** See .jpg: 1.) Painting of Jacob Reed Brooks Jacob Reed BROOKS, born in 1787, the great great great grandfather of ................. http://www.quotationsbook.com/subjects/214/Comparisons 2.) Signature of Jacob R. Brooks from Letter to Gov. Gilmer 3.) Signature of Jacob R. Brooks from enlistment in the Georgia Guard 4.) Signature of Jacob R. Brooks from the receipt of 14$ for inspecting the gold mines Additional Comments: Jacob Reed Brooks was often confused with Jacob Rutledge Brooks b. 1806 (Warren and Walton). The research timeline was created to separate the confusion between the two men with similar names in NE Georgia Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/dekalb/photos/bios/brooks328bs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/dekalb/bios/brooks328bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 17.9 Kb