Thomas Brooke Jr.

Thomas was born in 1660 near Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland, in Calvert (after 1696 Prince George's) Co., Maryland. He was commissioned Major of the Militia and promoted to Colonel.

Career

Charles Calvert, 3rd Lord Baltimore

Thomas was one of the Justices for Calvert County. Thomas was a justice of the peace for Calvert County in 1679-1681; 1685-1689. Thomas was a vestryman of St. Paul's Parish, Calvert County. He was removed from his justiceship probably due to his opposition to the revolution Protestant Associators in 1689. He was nominated by Charles Calvert (1637–1715), 3rd Lord Baltimore to become a member of the first royal Council, commonly known as the Upper House, on August 26, 1691. He was probably appointed in an effort to mollify the proprietor after his loss of the colony. Thomas served as a member of the Council of Maryland from 1692 to 1707. He took the oath of office as a justice of the Provincial Court on May 1, 1694. He was appointed Deputy Secretary of Maryland the following year, and in 1699 was Commissary General of the Province.

Thomas was dismissed from all offices by the Governor of Maryland, John Seymour, (1649–1709), in 1708 as a result of close Roman Catholic ties - his brothers were Jesuits and Col. Henry Darnall (1645–1711) was his stepfather-and for poor Council attendance, although his attendance had been very regular prior to Seymour's governorship. Brooke was reappointed to the same position after the colony reverted to proprietary control, and served from 1715-1722.

In about 1679 he married Anne Addison. He had by her four children,[3] and she died in about 1684.

Dent family coat of arms

Thomas married as his second wife, Barbara Dent (1676–1754). Barbara was born in 1676 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland, and died June 26, 1754, in Calvert Co., Maryland.

Barbara was the daughter of Col. Thomas Dent Sr., Gent. (1630–1676) and Rebecca Wilkinson (1633–1726).

By first wife Mary Baker:

• Baker Brooke 1680
• Benjamin Brooke Sr. (1680–1727), who married Eleanor Bowie (1709–1790), who married secondly, Mr. Skinner. Eleanor was the daughter of John Bowie Sr., Gent. (c. 1688 – 1752) and Mary Mullikin
• Eleanor Brooke (1683–1756), who 1st married John Seawall, son of Colonel Thomas Seawall (b. 1712-d.1790) and Mary Rebbeca Hansford. 2) Charles Seawall (1735–1742) son of Major Nicholas Lowe Seawall (1712–1790) and Susanna Burgess (1713–1790)
• Elizabeth Brooke (1683–1748), who married Col. George Beale (1695–1780), son of Col. Ninian Beale Sr. (1625–1717) and Ruth Moore (d. c. 1717).
• Jane Brooke (1685–1779), who married Alexander Contee (1693–1740), son of Dr. Peter Contee (1714) and his first wife, Catherine.
• John Brooke (1687–1727)
• Lucy Brooke (1687), who married Thomas Hodgkin. He was a planter in Prince George Co. Md.

(b. 1687)

• Mary Brooke (1689–1758), who married Dr. Patrick Sim (d. 1740).
• Nathaniel Brooke (1689–1780)
• Priscilla Brooke (1690–1760), who married Hon. Thomas Gantt Jr., Gent. (d. 1763), son of Edward Gantt and Ann Baker.
• Rebecca Brooke (1692–1768), who married Capt. John Howard (c. 1691 – 1741), son of Edmond Howard (1659–1712) and Margaret Dent (1662–1712).
• Col. William Dent Sr., Gent. (1660–1705), and wife Barbara Dent
• Sarah Brooke (1694–1732)1 married Capt. Philip Lee Sr., Hon., Esq. (1681–1744), son of Col. Richard Lee II, Esq. (1647–1715) and Laetitia Corbin (c. 1657 – 1706).
• Thomas Brooke III (1696–1744/45), who married Lucy Smith (1688–1770), daughter of Col. Walter Smith Sr. (1676–1711) and Rachel Hall (1671–1730).
• Thomas Brooke (1717–1768), unmarried. <Maryland Genealogies, Vol. 1, Pg.100>

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Henry Darnall (1645-1711) of "Woodyard"

Thomas Brooke Jr., was the son of Paternal Grandfather Maj. Thomas Brooke Sr., Esq. (1632–1676), and he was the son of Paternal Great-Grandfather Gov. Robert Brooke Sr., Esq. (1602–1655) and his first wife, Paternal Great-Grandmother Mary Baker (1602–1634), and she was the daughter of Thomas Baker II and Mary Engham.

and his second wife Paternal Grandmother Eleanor Hatton (1642–1725), and she was the daughter of Maternal Grandfather Capt. Richard Hatton (1605-1648) and he was the son of

Maternal Great-Grandfather John Hatton and Maternal Great-Grandmother Margaret Austin

Grandmother Margaret Banks, and she was daughter of Maternal Grandfather Capt. Richard Banks Sr. (c. 1612 – 1667). After the death of Maj. Thomas Brooke Sr., Esq. (1632–1676), Eleanor married Col. Henry Darnall (1645–1711) of "Woodyard" and "Darnall's Delight", making Col. Thomas Brooke Jr. (1660–1730), the stepson of Col. Darnall and the half brother of Henry Darnall II, Esq. (d. 1737).

Robert Brooke Sr., was the son of Judge Thomas Brooke (1561–1612) and Susan Foster (c. 1570 – 1612).

Susan was the daughter of Sir Thomas Foster V (1548–1612) of "Etherstone", Hertford, England, and his wife, Susan Foster (1548–1625), co-heiress with her sister Constance.

Thomas (1561–1612)| was the son of Richard Brooke Sr., Gent., Esq. (1519–1594) and Elizabeth Twyne (1523–1599). Richard was the son of Robert Brooke (d. 1593), and he was the son of Thomas Brooke son Gent, & esquire Richard Brooke Sr. (1519-1599) Elizabeth Twyne (1523-1599|}

and he married Margaret Grosner

Thomas Brooke and Mary Baker were married 4 Jan 1680,

Baker (b. 12 Jan. 1680), and Benjamin Brooke Sr. (1680-1727) Eleanor Brooke (b.1680-d1742), Elizabeth Brooke (b. 1683- d.1748)

John Brooke Nathaniel Brooke, Priscilla Brooke and after the birth of Sarah

• List of colonial governors of Maryland

• Brook Family Genealogy
• Maryland State Archives: St. Mary's City Men's Career Files MSA SC 5094 Brooke Thomas (1659-1731)