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From "The Free Press" published in Halifax, 3 Sep 1824, North Carolina Deaths: "Caswell County. 12th ult Thomas Brooks, aged 28. LDS Microfiche #6046798. [This is approximately the time I first believed the senior Thomas had died from the estate records. Perhaps the above estate papers administrated by Jonathan Brookes are not for his father at all. The grandson, Thomas III, son of Thomas Jr., was approximately 4 years older than this Thomas and could not have been younger based on the year his father died. Jonathan did have a son named Thomas who could very well have been this age, if born 1796. Nowhere in the estate papers is the relationship between Jonathan and Thomas stated.]

There is an Administrators Bond, Caswell Co, dated Oct 1824, as written on the back of the Bond. Jonathan Brooks, Thomas Graves & Armistead Watling made bond for $2000 on 14 Oct 1824 for Jonathan Brooks to administrate on the estate of Thomas Brooks, dec'd. [Jonathan signed as Jonathan Brookes.] There is a list of the property of the estate of Thomas Brookes JUNR, dec'd, which includes the Negro man Ned and Negro woman Rosette, one horse & saddle, two feather beds, two cows, 15 head of hogs, one table, one trunk, one cubbard, one looking glass, plantation untisils, etc. There was a pair of spurs and a silver watch. There is no date on the Inventory, signed Jonathan Brookes.

Caswell WB I, p.17
Apr Court 1825 Inventory of property of Thomas Brooks Jr., dec'd by Jonathan Brooks.

Note: there are references in the Caswell record books in the mid 1820's that refer to three different Thomas Brooks "Junior" making a total of four men named Thomas Brookes/Brooks. One is this man, son of Jonathan. One of the Thomases, is truly Thomas Brooks, Jr. by today's definition who had been deceased for a number of years and was a son of elder Thomas Brookes, as was Jonathan. Thomas Junior, son of Thomas Senior, also had a son named Thomas, who was also referred to as Thomas Brooks "Junior" since his father, the intermediate generation, had died. In fact in one document both the deceased Thomas and his son who was signing a receipt for his inheritance were called Thomas Brooks, Junr.

Birth	1796
Death	Aug 1824	Caswell County, North Carolina

Father	Jonathan Brookes (1762 - 1834)
Mother	Ann Lewis (1763 - 1833)
Sibling	Rev. Iverson Lewis Brooks (1793 - 1865)
Sibling	George Brookes (1790 - )
Sibling	William L. Brookes ( - )
Sibling	John Lewis Brookes (1803 - 1870)