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John Adams Morgan

1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist

Peter Chardon Brooks

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• • 6th Generation — 3rd Great-grandfather of John Adams Morgan
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 50 
  • Father:
  • Edward Brooks   
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Brown   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jan 1767 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jan 1849 
  • Death Location:
  • Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann Gorham
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1792 
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  • Child:
  • Abigail Brown Brooks 
  • Notes: 

  • Peter Chardon Brooks is said to have been Massachusetts's first millionaire.

• Sources for Peter Chardon Brooks

  • ¹ Find A Grave, (accessed 12/28/2018).
  • ² Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Datebase), New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001-2008), Medford, Vol. 1, p. 348, Death record for Peter Chardon Brooks.
  • ³ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #49658, Membership application for Leverett Saltonstall, Ancestry.com (Online Database).
  • ⁴ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, editors, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 04, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1889), 76.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 192.
  • ⁶ Woodbury, Charles Levi, Genealogical Sketches of the Woodbury Family: Its Intermarriages and Connections, Manchester, New Hampshire: The John B. Clarke Company (1904), 63, Google Books (Digital Library).