Source: Ye Antient Buriall Place
of New London, Conn.
New London Press of the Day Publishing Co. 1899
(No, I didn't misspell Ancient -- it reads
"Antient".)
The Old Burial Ground of New London "is the oldest place of interment in the eastern part of Connecticut. On the coast from Saybrook to Narragansett Bay, and far into the interior, there is no cemetery of the white race which reaches back so far as this. Unfortunately very few of the earlier graves had any inscribed headstones, and without doubt, as the hillocks became obliterated they have been covered over with fresh deposits of the dead, so that the numbers here cannot be estimated by the evidences that now remain. ... In this ancient cemetery, the graves are irregularly disposed, crowding upon each other without avenues or spaces between families, and most of the headstones are either rude in form and material, or quaint and grotesque in the workmanship and inscription. Everything shows that this was the unadorned resting place of the hardy emigrants, the first comers and beginners of the town."
The name of BROOKS found in this book:
Page 15 #254 Jonathan Brooks Tomb.
1786 (Benedict Arnold sat on horseback watching
the Massacre on Groton, Heights from this spot.)
Page 15, #221 In memory of John, son of Mr. Thaddeus & Mrs. Abigail Brooks, who died Sepr 11, 1786. Aged 18 Months & 21 Dys. Three babes who was tender and dear; There Creator thought beft for them to be here.
Page 15, #222 In memory of Robert Brooks, Son of Mr. William and Mrs. Anna Brooks, who died Sep. 29, 1786, aged 21 years.
Page 15, #223 Here lies the body of _______ Brooks. Died February the __, 173_, 64th year.
Page 36, Right of 221 In memory of Mary, Daugh of Mr. Thaddeus & Mrs. Abigail Brooks, who died Oct. 2d 1784, aged 12 mo. & 17 days Sleep lovely babe & take thy reft to call the hence. God thought it best.
Page 36, Right of 221
In memory of John, 2nd Son of Mr. Thaddeus & Mrs. Abigail
Brooks, who died April 28th, 1787, aged 3 months & 8 D.
Memory of ________ and memory of Mary, daughter of Capt. Thaddeus
& Abigail Brooks, who died Dec'r 13, 1792, aged 1 year, 3 mo.
& 6D.
Page 36, Right of 222 In memory of William Brooks _______, who died Oct. 3d, 1787, in the 24th year of his age.
New London, Connecticut
Genealogical Data from Connecticut Cemeteries
Copied by Lucius B. Barbour
Reprinted by Higginson Book Company in 1997
"SECOND BURIAL GROUND: originally located at the corner of Broad and Hempstead Streets in the city. Lot owners in Cedar Grove Cemetery were permitted to make removals, when the yard was abandoned in 1885, and this list represents the stones not taken by relatives, and are groups together in Cedar Grove.
Col. Thaddeus Brooks, d. Feb.
11, 1831, in 76th yr.
Abigail, his wife, d. Jan 7, 1813, ae. 55
Fanny, their daughter, d. Sept. 1, 1798, ae. 1 yr. 7 mos. 27 days
William Brooks, d. Jan 28, 1805, ae. 77
THIRD BURIAL GROUND was originally on Ashcraft Road, near Williams Street, in the city, and as in the case of the Second Burial Ground, removals were made from it when it was abandoned by order of the City about 1890, to family lots in Cedar Grove Cemetery."
[No Brooks' listed]
"CEDAR GROVE CEMETERY
Mary Crowninshield, wife of
Edward Brocks, b. Oct 5, 1864, d. Jan 15, 1904 (in Gardiner Green
Hammond lot)
Frances Brooks, mother of Sarah Dennis, b. July 22, 1765, d. Feb
26, 1832. (On Henry Dennis monument.)
George A. Brooks, b. Jan 31, 1819, d. Nov 1, 1894
Mary T. Steward, his wife, b. Feb 14, 1826, d. June 28, 1868. (In
Dea. Livy Steward lot)
Hubbil Brooks, d. Jan 16, 1818, ae. 41
Lydia, his relict, d. Aug 6, 1847, ae 69
Thomas H[ubbell] Brooks, d. June 3?, 1853, ae 53
Children of Thomas H. & Sarah
Brooks:
Henry C., d. Feb 11, 1876, ae. 31
Thomas Hubbill, b. Jan 2, 1848, d. July 30, 1850
Thomas Hubbill, twin, b. Feb. 6, 1845, d. Jan 9, 1848 (in
Jonathan Sizer lot)"