until at the battle of Monmouth he was acting adjutant-general. As a confidant and friend of Washington he attained a high place in the councils of the nation. After the Revolution he practised his profession as a physician, keeping in touch meanwhile with public life. He was Governor of Massachusetts for seven years, and died in 1825.

He

Through Samuel Brooks, the halfbrother of Ebenezer, came the direct line of descent to John Cotton Brooks. married Sarah Boylston, a sister of Abigail, and their son Samuel had a son of the same name, who had four sons and one daughter. It fell to Edward Brooks, the second son, to be the first representative of his family in the ministry. He settled at North Yarmouth, Maine, where differences between him and his parishioners arose, as to his theological doctrines.

He was more liberal than his congregation, and his anti-Calvinistic tendencies were to them a sore grievance. After giving them his blessing, and expressing the hope that "they may get another pastor who shall feed them with spiritual knowledge and understanding," he resigned his charge and returned to Medford. Although out of health when the call to arms came in 1775, but “with a competent share of courage," he hurried away from Medford to engage in the Concord fight. Afterwards, as chaplain of the frigate "Hancock," he was captured by the British and carried to Halifax, where he had the smallpox. He returned to Medford and died soon after, in 1781.

Abigail Brown, his wife, the daughter of Joanna Cotton of Haverhill, was the great-granddaughter of Rev. John Cotton, the first minister of Boston, and also

the great-grandmother of John Cotton Brooks. Their son, Cotton Brown Brooks, the grandfather of John Cotton Brooks, settled in Portland, Maine, where he became an honored citizen and a prosperous business man. His son, William Gray Brooks, at the age of nineteen came to Boston to seek his fortunes. His father's brother, Peter Chardon Brooks, lived at Medford, and to his

went as a frequent visitor.

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Brooks was said to be the richest man in Boston at the time of his death in 1849.

The members of the Brooks family were thus typical New Englanders. In early days they were tillers of the soil, and were prosperous. As time went on they came to the cities and were successful in business life. In the words of the family record, "Of the Brooks family who came to Medford from the time of the

first Caleb, they were worthy men in comfortable circumstances, rather rich for farmers, men of influence in town affairs. None except the Governor were men of distinction as magistrates, except that some of them were Justices of the Peace, and representatives to the General Court." When we turn to the Phillips family, we find them graduates of Harvard, ministers of great influence, men eminent in various offices of State, founders of institutions of learning, and men who showed by their acts a reverence for the past, and a deep responsibility as to the future. In Church, and State, and in social life they were conspicuous.

The Rev. George Phillips, who sailed with Governor Winthrop for New England in 1630, had been ordained in the Church of England. He cast his lot with the Puritans and came across the seas to

aid in establishing a new form of worship, for fourteen years ministering to the little settlement at Watertown. He died in 1644. Winthrop speaks well of him in his journal, as a scholar of ability and a good preacher. He was a lover of liberty, both political and religious, and guarded with a jealous eye any encroachments upon his own church rights by other churches or by the civil authorities. He believed in independent church government, and later his views were formulated into Congregationalism. As to political liberty, he remonstrated when the Governor levied a tax without the consent of the people, and before the next tax was levied two representatives were appointed from each plantation to consider the question he had raised.

The Rev. Samuel Phillips, his son, was graduated from Harvard College in 1650.