Brooks of Jones & Paulding Counties

John Brooks was born 1728 in England, a son of John Brooks and his wife, Winifred. He died 1811 in Jones County, Georgia. He married Jane May who died 15 February 1833 in Jones County, a daughter of John May, Sr. and his wife, Jane Williams. Issue:

1. Baalam Brooks.
2. Susan Brooks.
3. Isaac Brooks.
4. John Hannah Brooks, died 1811 Jones County.
5. Joab Brooks, died 1804 Warren County.
6. James Brooks, Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, born 1748, died 1828 Jasper County.
7. Micajah Brooks, Sr., Revolutionary War Soldier, was born 1761 in Chatham County, North Carolina. His mother told him that the record of his age was burnt up with the house of his grandfather; and that he was born the same day that Dennis McSwin was born. He was fourteen years old, an orphan boy, when he was hired out to a widow woman by the name of Mrs. Locklin in North Carolina, who sent him to Ramsours Mill. While he was working at the mill, Benjamin Few came there with a company of twenty or thirty others, coming up thi him, slapping him on the head, saying:

   "My buck, dont you want to go with me and serve your country " He answered, "Gladly"" Few then asked the miller to send the horse and bag back to the widow Locklin.

   He served under General Few as a scout on the Georgia frontier, in Wilkes and Warren Counties. Brooks applied for a pension on 19 August 1850 in Paulding County, stating that he never had an education, and entered service under Capt. George Barber and Colonel Elijah Clarke as a volunteer, in Wilkes County. He was in the Battles of Kettle Creek and Little River and served in the army of General Greene on Sullivan Island until the British captured Charleston, South Carolina. Then, he returned to Wilkes County to join the company of Captain John Hill Company. The application for a pension was made by his widow on 31 May 1869 in Polk County, Georgia (Margaret T. Brooks), age 63, at which time she said that her husband died on 16 June 1862. Since his death, she had subsisted by her own labor, carding, spinning, weaving, etc. Micajah was buried in the Morgan Valley Cemetery in Polk County. His first wife was Mary Hunter, whom he married in 1785, Chatham County, North Carolina. He married 2nd, in 1820 Susan, and 3rd, Margaret T. Carter on 27 June 1839 in Paulding County.

Bsttle of Kettle Creek.

Sources:Revolutionary War Pension W27694 of Mrs. Margaret Brooks, widow of Micajah Brooks, Sr.; Paulding County Marriages; Morgan Valley Cemetery, Polk County.