Ancestry of
Matthew Modine

TV and Movie Actor

David Brooks

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Matthew Modine — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 82 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Brooks 
  • Mother:
  • Submit Poulter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Mar 1749 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Sep 1840 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodlawn Cemetery, Princeton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Patience White
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  • Child:

  Polly Brooks (Ahnentafel No:41 )

• Sources for David Brooks

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/13/2025).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Woburn, Vol. 1, p. 29, Birth record for David Brooks.
  • ³ Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Familly in America, 1633-1897, Boston: American Printing and Engraving Company (1897), 393.
  • ⁴ Fairbanks, Lynn and Katie, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family of the West, 1839-1965, Salt Lake City, Utah: L. and K. Fairbanks (1971), 1.
  • ⁵ White, Almira Larkin, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1638-1900, Vol. 2, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Chase Brothers, Printers (1900), 290.