- Note from Ray Forbes, correspondent, November 13, 2019
I am trying to verify the death date on Keziah HaskellBrooks- listed as 1805 on your site by Brenda Babineau- anyway I can get where this came from?
Response from Dick Weber, Developer of the Sprague Project,dated November 13, 2019
I have a photo of a death registration from Marlborough,Windham Co., VT which appears to show the death date a yearlater on 6 October 1806.
Comments from Brenda Babineau, correspondent, datedNovember 14, 2019
I looked back in my notes and found Keziah's death "6 Oct1805 at Marlborough, VT" with the source "unknown author,Local History of Marlborough, Vt."
Now I see Newton's History of Marlborough, VT written in1860 pg 151:
"Lemuel Brooks whose first wife died 6 Oct 1805, settled inthe southeast part of the town, about 1790. He m2 13 Feb1806 Esther Sprague.
Children: Lucinda m David Long and had 8sons and 8 daus
Aurelia
Homer M Freelove Thayer
Keziah m Rufus Corse
Virgil
Selena
He removed to Ohio 1817."
Comments from Ray Forbes, correspondent, dated November 14,2019
The town of Marlborough has 1806 as her dod; however herhusband (Lemuel Brooks) remarried an Esther Sprague, theyhad a son (Lemuel Sprague Brooks) Oct 1806. Three otherreferences including "History of Marlborough, Vermontshow her dying in 1805.
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