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From Pearl Ghormley, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; a Genealogy of the Foreman, Hays, Ghormley, Williams and Brockett Families.[San Antonio] Printed by Naylor Co. [1966]

1John Brockett, b. 1609 England, tradition maintains, was the oldest child of Sir John Brockett, of Brockett Hall, Herfordshire, England, disinherited for religious beliefs. Came to America with Rev. John Davenport. He came to America in 1637. He laid out the town square of New Haven, Connecticut and lived on Church Street more than thirty years (Ghormley, p. 212-13). John Brockett m. a Puritan lady named Mary [Unknown]. They had:

    2John Brockett (1John Brockett), physician, b. 1642 New Haven, Connecticut, d. Nov 1720 m. Elizabeth Doolittle
        3Mary Brockett, b. 6 May 1673, d. 1673
        3Mary Brockett, b. 18 Feb 1674, m. Lawrence Clinton
        3John Brockett, b. 23 Oct 1676, d. 29 Nov 1676
        3Elizabeth Brockett, b. 26 Nov 1677, m. John Grannis 12 Oct 1710 at Wallingford, Connecticut
        3Benjamin Brockett, b. 1679, d. 1679
        3Moses Brockett, b. 23 Apr 1680, m/1 Ann Grannis on 8 Jan 1706 and had two children. He m/2 in 1712 Lydia Humiston, b. 1 Apr 1689, [See Humiston] and had:
      3Abigail Brockett, b. 31 Mar 1683, d. 2 Aug 1752, m. John Pardee on 9 Jul 1712
        3John Brockett, b. 13 Sept 1686, d. 17 Nov 1709
        3Samuel Brockett, b. 8 Nov 1691, m. Mehitable Hill, daughter of John HIll, on 5 Aug 1712

    2Benjamin Brockett, a twin, b. 23 Feb 1645, d. 1645
    2Be Fruitful Brockett, a twin, b. 23 Feb 1645, d. 1645
    2Mary Brockett, b. 25 Sept 1646, m. Ephraim Pennington
    2Silence Brockett, b. 4 Jan 1648, m. 25 Oct 1667 at Milford, Connecticut, Joseph Bradley
    2Benjamin Brockett, Dec 1648, m. Elizabeth Barnes
    2Abigail Brockett, b. 10 Mar 1650, m. John Payne 22 Jan 1673. She d. 4 Jul 1729
    2Samuel Brockett, b. 14 Jan 1652, m. Sarah Bradley
    2Jabez Brockett, b. 24 Oct 1654, d. 1654
    2Jabez Brockett, b. 24 Oct 1656, m. Dorothy Lyman

3Moses Brockett (2John Brockett, 1John Brockett) m/1 Ann Grannis and had:
    4Anne Brockett, b. 27 Sept 1707, m. Daniel Barnes on 25 Mar 1728, d. 1759
    4Silence Brockett, b. 3 Nov 1709, m. Mr. Frisbie

    Moses Brockett m/2 Lydia Humiston and had:
    4Lydia Brockett, b. 28 Aug 1712, m. Henry Barnes on 29 Nov 1744
    4Moses Brockett, b. 17 Jan 1714, m. Priscilla Grannis on 14 Jun 1739 and d. 1758. Priscilla d. in 1755.
    4Samuel Brockett, b. Mar 1715
    4Benjamin Brockett, b. Dec 1716
    4Elizabeth Brockett, b. 9 May 1718, m. Jared Robinson on 14 Jul 1747
    4Mary Brockett, b. 26 Jun 1719, m. John Jacobs on 18 Jul 1749
    4Abraham Brockett, a twin, b. 19 May 1721, d. 7 Apr 1774
    4Abigail Brockett, a twin, b. 19 May 1721, m. Mr. Barnes
    4John Brockett, b. 31 Dec 1722 m/1 Thankful Frost; m/2 M. Cooper
    4Ebenezer Brockett, b. July 1724, m. Esther Hoadley
    4Abel Brockett, b. 11 Aug 1725, m. Hannah Pierpont, 24 Jul 1755
    4Richard Brockett, b. 11 Sept 1727, m. Mary Pierpont on 13 Mar 1756
    4Stephen Brockett, b. 20 Mar 1729, m. Mabel M. Barnes on 27 Mar 1771
    4Sarah Brockett, b. 29 May 1731, m. Stephen Hitchcock on 16 Sept 1771

4Abel Brockett (3Moses Brockett, 2John Brockett, 1John Brockett), m. Hannah Pierpont [See Pierpont] and had:
    5Hannah Brockett, b. 18 Apr 1756, d. 10 Jan 1766
    5Abel Brockett, b. 10 Apr 1758, d. 4 Dec. 1788
    5Silence Brockett, b. 29 Jul 1760, m. Jared Barnes
    5Lucy Brockett, b. 19 Jan 1763, d. unmarried 11 May 1847
    5Jeremiah [Jared?] Brockett, b. 19 Apr 1765
    5Timothy Brockett, b. 9 Nov 1766, m. Olive Root
    5Hezekiah Brockett, b. 17 Jul 1769, m. Mehitable Candee
    5Peter Brockett, b. 15 Nov 1771, d. Aug 1845
    5Hannah Brockett, b. 25 Mar 1774, m. Jared Chittenden
    5Chauncey Brockett, b. 22 Jan 1777, m. Anne Redway
    5Lyman Brockett, b. 25 Jul 1780, m. Hannah Goodsell

5Chauncey Brockett, b. 22 Jan 1777 in Oswego, New York m/1 Anne Redway and had:
    6Lodeemy Brockett, b. 4 Oct 1800, m. Aaron Drake
    6Alanson Brockett, b. 7 Feb 1802, m. Anna M. Moffat
    6Sophronia Brockett, b. 29 Jul 1808, m. Zelotus Moffat
    6Harvey Brockett, b. 13 Apr 1809, m. Mary McCreary
    6Chauncey Brockett, a twin, b. 29 Jul 1813, d. 13 Jan 1838
    6Ansell R. Brockett, a twin, b. 29 Jul 1813, m. Lucy B. Tooley in Bartholomew Co., Indiana on 3 Apr 1836

Chauncey Brockett m/2 Anna Balch had:
    6Nancy Brockett, b. 4 Nov 1814, m. Nelson Hopkins
    6Hosea Brockett, b. 19 Dec 1818, m. Orilla Nutt
    6Lucy Ann Brockett, b. 13 Aug 1824, m. Lafayette Crofford
    6John Brockett, b. 26 Jan 1826, d. 7 Mar 1826
    6Matilda Brockett, b. 19 Mar 1830, m/1 Edwward Logan; m/2 Dudley Brown

6Ansell R. Brockett, a twin, b. 29 Jul 1813, m/1 Lucy B. Tooley in Bartholomew Co., Indiana on 3 Apr 1836 and had:
    7Nancy Jane Brockett, b. 30 Oct 1837, m. John Dillivan Dayton in Apr 1855. [See Dayton] She d. in Dec. 1887.
    7Barbara Elizabeth Brockett, b. 26 May 1839, m. A.T. Ireland
    7Fanny Sophronia Brockett, b. 7 May 1841, m. S.H. Norton
    7Eliza Lodeema Brockett, b. 21 Nov 1842, m. Charles cole. She d. 9 Jun 1864
    7George Gideon Brockett, b. 12 May 1844, d. 17 Sept 1862 in battle of Antietam. Served as a Standard Bearer
    7Lucy Ann Brockett, b. 19 May 1846, m. George Foreman, she d. 12 May 1886
    7Salem Ansell Brockett, b. 30 Apr 1848, d. 20 Jun 1864. Served in Union Army and d. of typhoid fever
    7Sarah Anna Brockett, b. 17 Apr 1850, m. William Taylor.

7Nancy Jane Brockett, b. 30 Oct 1837, m. John Dillivan Dayton in 8 May 1855. [See Dayton] She d. in Dec. 1887.

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