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Thomas Brooks (1775-1838) of Wythe County, Virginia, Wayne County, Kentucky, and Morgan County, Alabama: Chronology of Initial Land Transactions in Kentucky

Or, Subtitled: “Know all men by these presents that I John Caperton of Franklin County west Tenneſsee — do make ordain and appoint my trusty friend Thomas Brooks of Wayne County state of Kentucky”

As a previous posting notes, at some point between 19 February 1797, when their oldest child Jane was born in Virginia, and 26 March 1798, when the tax list for Wythe County, Virginia, was compiled, Thomas Brooks and Sarah Whitlock, who had married in Wythe County on 14 February 1796, moved from Virginia to Pulaski (later Wayne) County, Kentucky. A subsequent posting then tracks this family’s life in Pulaski and then Wayne Counties up to 1836, when Thomas and Sarah joined their children in Alabama in the final year of the elderly couple’s lives. (To read the continuation of this posting, please click the numeral 2 below.)

This posting fills in some significant gaps in my previous research about Thomas and Sarah Brooks’ first years in Kentucky. Last week, I spent valuable time in the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort, where the astute and very helpful archivist Jaime Phillips pulled for me the complete file of paperwork for two grants the Commonwealth of Kentucky made to Thomas Brooks in Wayne County. These grants were for two tracts of land of 200 acres each on the waters of Beaver Creek in Grassy Valley and on Otter Creek, on which Thomas and Sarah raised their family from at least 1801, and which they sold in 1836 as they prepared to move to Alabama. The paperwork (surveys, warrants, grant documents, land assignments) found in both sets of land documents provides critically important information to anyone seeking to understand Thomas Brooks’ early land transactions in Pulaski and Wayne Counties, Kentucky.

What follows is a chronology of these early land transactions, a chronology that cites, among other sources, the file of documents for each of Thomas Brooks’ 200-acre tracts in Wayne County:

In 1799, Thomas Brooks appears on the tax list in Pulaski County taxed for no property.[1]

On 18 November 1799, Thomas had a survey for 100 acres on Pitman Creek in Pulaski County.[2] In 1800 on 19 July, Thomas was taxed for this 100-acre tract in Pulaski County, with the tax list stating that the land was entered by John Kelly and surveyed for Thomas Brooks.[3]

After Wayne County was formed in 1800 from Pulaski and Cumberland Counties, Thomas Brooks began appearing on the Wayne County tax list while remaining for some years on the Pulaski County tax list for the 100-acre tract on Pitman Creek he had acquired from John Kelly/Kelley (both surname spellings appear in various documents) and for another 400-acre tract he himself had entered on Buck Creek. The 1805 tax list for Pulaski County shows Thomas taxed for both of these tracts, 100 and 400 acres, with a notation that the 400-acre tract was entered by Thomas.[4] By July 1807, the 400-acre tract was slated for sale by the county sheriff because Thomas had not paid taxes on it.[5] Thomas Brooks and wife Sarah sold the Pitman Creek tract of 100 acres on 14 August 1820 to John Williams of Pulaski County, with the deed noting that the land had been granted to Thomas as assignee of John Kelly by patent from the Commonwealth of Kentucky dated 14 December 1811.[6] The posting I’ve just linked has a digital image of this deed.

By 1802 in Wayne County, Thomas began to be taxed in Wayne County for 200 acres on waters of Beaver Creek in Grassy Valley that he had acquired from Robert Henderson, who was assigned this land by John Kelly, who entered it.[7] Thomas did not obtain the grant for this land until 2 January 1811,[8] but it appears he was living on the land by 1802 and perhaps earlier than that, and that this and another 200-acre tract I’ll discuss in a moment were his home tracts in Wayne County.

After John Kelly received a warrant for the 200 acres in Grassy Valley on 29 August 1798 under terms of the act of the Assembly to give encouragement and relief to settlers, the 200 acres, then in Pulaski County, were surveyed for John Kelly on 16 August 1799, and Kelly then assigned the land to Robert Henderson on 5 November 1799, and on 9 March 1801, Henderson assigned the 200 acres to Thomas Brooks.[9] The warrant for this land issued to John Kelly states that the land was in Grassy Valley on the waters of Beaver Creek joining Robert Henderson’s claims above and John Henderson’s claims below. The papers for this land grant held by the Kentucky Land Office also include a note written 27 August 1810 by Robert Henderson of Garrard County, Kentucky, making his trusty friend Thomas Brooks of Wayne County his power of attorney as the grant for this land was made to Thomas Brooks. See the head of this posting for a digital image of Henderson’s note.

At the same time that Thomas Brooks was taxed in Wayne County in 1802 for the 200-acre piece of land on Beaver Creek in Grassy Valley, he was also taxed for an additional 70 acres on Beaver Creek.[10] This 70-acre tract doesn’t appear on Wayne County tax listings for Thomas Brooks after 1802. Since by 1804 he was being taxed for 200 acres and 135 acres, both on Beaver Creek, I think it’s likely that the 70 acres mentioned in 1802 were part of the 135-acre piece of land for which Thomas began to be taxed in 1804, with the tax list stating that Thomas had entered this land himself.[11] Thomas had a survey for the 135 acres on 29 October 1805, with the survey stating that the land was on Beaver and Otter Creeks in Wayne County.[12]

The 1806 tax list for Wayne County shows Thomas taxed again for the 200- and 135-acre tracts on Beaver Creek, with the tax list saying that John Kelley had entered the 200-acre tract and had assigned it to R. Henderson.[13] The tax list reiterates that Thomas entered the 135-acre tract.

In 1807, Thomas Brooks begins to be taxed in Wayne County for two tracts of 200 acres each, as well as for the 135 acres on Beaver Creek.[14] The tax list places both 200-acre tracts on Otter Creek, noting that one tract had been entered by John Kelley and then assigned to R. Henderson, and the other had been entered by John Caperton.

On 27 August 1798, Samuel Gilbert was issued a warrant for the second 200-acre tract I’ve just noted under terms of an act of the Assembly for encouraging and giving relief to settlers.[15] On 24 December 1798, Gilbert assigned the land to John Caperton, who had a survey of the land on 24 July 1799 and who then assigned it to Thomas Brooks on 30 September 1809.[16] Note that the 1807 tax list suggests that Thomas Brooks had already occupied this land by 1807. The land was granted to Thomas Brooks by the Commonwealth of Kentucky on 29 December 1810.

As I stated previously, by 1802, when Thomas Brooks began to be taxed for the 200 acres John Kelley had entered and then assigned to Robert Henderson, it appears to me that Thomas Brooks and his family were living on that piece of land as their home tract. They were likely living on this land prior to March 1801 when Henderson assigned it to Thomas Brooks. By 1807, I think they had added Caperton’s 200 acres to the home tract.  

As we’ve seen in a previous posting, these two 200-acre tracts were the last pieces of their land that Thomas Brooks and wife Sarah sold in November 1836 as they prepared for their move from Kentucky to Morgan County, Alabama. When Thomas and Sarah sold 200 acres on Otter Creek to Thomas Marcum on 8 November 1836, the deed stated that the land had been surveyed on 24 July 1799, the date on which John Caperton had a survey for the 200 acres assigned to him by Samuel Gilbert, which Caperton then transferred to Thomas Brooks.[17] A digital copy of the deeds is at the posting I’ve just linked.

When Thomas and Sarah sold the 200-acre tract in Grassy Valley to Daniel Shearer two days after they made the previous deed, the deed stated that the land had been patented by John Kelly and assigned to Robert Henderson and that it was surveyed 16 August 1799, with the land bordering John Henderson.[18] See this previous posting for a digital copy of this deed.

[1] Pulaski County, Kentucky, Tax List, 1799, p. 2.

[2] Kentucky Land Grants South of Green River Bk. 10, p. 259.

[3] Pulaski County, Kentucky, Tax List, 1800, unpaginated.

[4] Ibid., 1805, unpaginated.

[5] See the Palladium (Frankfort, Kentucky) (23 July 1807), p. 5, col. 1.

[6] Pulaski County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. 4, pp. 328-9.

[7] Wayne County, Kentucky, Tax List, 1802, 13 August, unpaginated.

[8] Kentucky Land Grants South of Green River Bk. 8, pp. 473-4, grant no. 1644, certificate no. 844.

[9] See ibid. along with the documents held by the Kentucky Land Office for grant 1644 in Land Grants South of Green River, which include the original survey with notes on the back by Kelly assigning the land to Henderson and Henderson assigning the land to Brooks.

[10] Wayne County, Kentucky, Tax List, 1802.

[11] Wayne County, Kentucky, Tax List, 1804, unpaginated.

[12] Kentucky Land Grants South of Green River Bk. 7, p. 99.

[13] Wayne County, Kentucky, Tax List, 1806, unpaginated.

[14] Wayne County, Kentucky, Tax List, 1807, unpaginated.

[15] Kentucky Land Grants South of Green River Bk. 8, pp. 469, no. 670, certificate 895. The warrant is in documents held by the Kentucky Land Office for grant 670 in Land Grants South of Green River.

[16] See ibid.

[17] Wayne County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. I, pp. 391-2.

[18] Ibid., Deed Bk. G, pp. 152-3.

Alles andere als ein „klassischer“ Western. Auch wenn mit Don Siegel ein Genreveteran Regie geführt hat und mit Clint Eastwood ein kommender Superstar ganz oben auf den Plakaten stand. Es ist allein Shirley MacLaine, die diesen Film zusammenhält. Sie ist das Zentrum, der Störfaktor, das Maultier, das den Regeln des Genres nicht gehorcht. Don Siegel wusste, dass er eine Figur braucht, die Eastwoods Fassade sprengt. Und mit MacLaine bekam er genau das – eine scharfe, ironische, unberechenbare Geheimwaffe. (ARD)

Das hier ist kein historisches Porträt, sondern ein Film für die Gegenwart. Petra Kelly ist kein Relikt der Bonner Republik. Sie ist tatsächlich jemand, die wie ein politischer Geist, heute in den permanent tickernden Newsfeeds fehlt. Der Film von Doris Metz wählt für seine Erzählung keinen sanften Zugang. Er zwingt tatsächlich zu einer Auseinandersetzung. Mit der Vision dieser Frau. Mit realen Machtverhältnissen. Und mit der Frage, warum so kompromisslose Menschlichkeit heute – soviel mehr als früher – als „naiv“ und dem politischen Kampf „nicht nützlich“ gilt. (ARD, Neu)

Doris Metz – „Petra Kelly – Act Now!“ (2024)

Das hier ist kein historisches Porträt, sondern ein Film für die Gegenwart. Petra Kelly ist kein Relikt der Bonner Republik. Sie ist tatsächlich jemand, die wie ein politischer Geist, heute in den permanent tickernden Newsfeeds fehlt. Der Film von Doris Metz wählt für seine Erzählung keinen sanften Zugang. Er zwingt tatsächlich zu einer Auseinandersetzung. Mit der Vision dieser Frau. Mit realen Machtverhältnissen. Und mit der Frage, warum so kompromisslose Menschlichkeit heute – soviel mehr als früher – als „naiv“ und dem politischen Kampf „nicht nützlich“ gilt. (ARTE, TV-Premiere)

Zum Blog: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/doris-metz-petra-kelly-act-now-2024/

The Dream of Finishing One’s To-Do List | “Retirement Plan”

In John Kelly’s animated short film, nothing’s off limits when it comes to thinking about the future—particularly when there’s so much left to do.

@NewYorker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mqa4zfJdx4

#Animation #JohnKelly #TaraLawall #DomhnallGleeson #RTE #ScreenIreland #Retirement #BucketList

Filmmaker John Kelly On Creating The ‘Panic Attack’ Inspired Domhnall Gleeson Animated Short ‘Retirement Plan’; ‘I Was Prioritizing The Future At The Expense Of The Present’
#News #DomhnallGleeson #HollyShorts #IndyShortsInternationalFilmFestival #JohnKelly #SXSW #TaraLawall

https://deadline.com/2025/09/john-kelly-retirement-plan-interview-domhnall-gleeson-1236546521/

#RussVought has spoken in broad terms about undercutting #independent agencies but never spelled out sweeping plans to defund the #EPA & other #FederalAgencies.

Vought’s plans track closely w/ #Trump’s campaign rhetoric about using the military against domestic protesters or what Trump has called the “#EnemyWithin.” Trump’s desire to use the #military on US soil recently prompted his longest-serving chief of staff, ret Marine Gen #JohnKelly, to speak out….

#law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

“Trump used the terms #SuckersAndLosers to describe #soldiers who gave their lives in the defense of our country,” #JohnKelly recently told Goldberg. “There are many, many people who have heard him say these things.” Besides, #Trump has said himself that he wants to use the #military domestically, & he’s disrespected #FallenSoldiers by trying to use #ArlingtonNationalCemetery as a cheap campaign prop.

#Selfish #Fascist #Tyranny #Autocracy #Authoritarianism #illiberalism

#democracy

#Trump is attacking the messenger here because he can’t really attack the message. He denies making the remarks, but a pile of other #evidence backs up the report. Goldberg’s recent story was closely followed by a NYT story in which #JohnKelly, a retired general who served as Trump’s chief of staff, described Trump’s obsession w/personal loyalty & desire to use the #military against domestic critics. 13 other fmr Trump-admin ofcls signed a letter backing these accounts up.

#Selfish #Fascist

#Maga #Trumpfascism #harriswalz2024 #StopProject2025 #russianasset #goldstar #veterans #USMilitary #johnkelly

So, it's official, but they love their Felon more?

13 former Trump administration officials sign open letter backing up John Kelly's criticism of Trump
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/13-former-trump-administration-officials-sign-open-letter-backing-john-rcna177227
#FacistTrump #Trump #JohnKelly

During VP #KamalaHarris’ speech she painted #Trump as a child, saying that in his admin he had “people who could control him.” But she acknowledged that he is dangerous, pointing out that many of those aides, including #JohnKelly, who have come out against him & called him a “#fascist” won’t be in a second Trump presidency.

#Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Tyranny
#law #democracy #Freedom #WeAreNotGoingBack
#HarrisWalz2024

“This is a decorated soldier & Marine who served in battle. They are not, quote unquote, woke liberals. They are people who have never in the past even talked about politics because they believe that the #military should be above politics,” #Obama said of #JohnKelly & #MarkMilley.

#Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Tyranny
#law #democracy #Freedom #WeAreNotGoingBack
#HarrisWalz2024

#Obama emphasized that “#JohnKelly isn’t the only one saying this. Two of his defense secretaries—people who worked for him—said the same thing. His chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that is the top of the top brass in our military, said he is dangerous.”

“Now, I happen to know John Kelly & #MarkMilley. They served under me when I was commander in chief. These are serious people,” Obama added.

#Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Tyranny
#democracy #Freedom #WeAreNotGoingBack
#HarrisWalz2024

#Obama pointed out that “some of the people who know Donald Trump best have been saying in no uncertain terms that he should not be president again,” citing fmr #Trump #WH chief of staff #JohnKelly’s recent comments.

Kelly, a retired four-star general, told the Times that Trump meets the definition of a #fascist & that Trump had said that Adolf #Hitler “did some good things.”

#Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Tyranny
#law #democracy #Freedom #WeAreNotGoingBack
#HarrisWalz2024

At a rally in #Tempe, #Arizona, #Trump cast most #journalists as “the #enemy of the people”—a common refrain of his since 2016.

Trump has repeatedly labeled American citizens as enemies; this week he referred to Reps #NancyPelosi & #AdamSchiff, 2 California #Democrats, as enemies “from within.”

His fmr WH chief of staff, #JohnKelly, decided to speak out against Trump after he said he’d use the US #military to “handle” the “enemy from within.”

#TrumpLies #propaganda #Authoritarian
#democracy

PLUS Donald Trump motsvarar definitionen av en fascist. Det hävdar John Kelly som var Trumps närmsta medarbetare i i Vita…

Donald Trump motsvarar definitionen av en fascist. Det hävdar John Kelly som var Trumps närmsta medarbetare i i Vita huset. – Jag behöver likadana generaler som Hitler hade, ska Trump ha sagt.#johnkelly #donaldtrump #kamalaharris #presidentvaletiusa
Trumps närmaste man: Han hyllade Hitler

Alexandra Petri: If #tRump is really a fascist, then call me a fool: His former advisers only say this because they had a bad time working for him!

"Look, now two of Donald Trump’s top advisers (who had apparently been trapped in cryogenic sleep until just moments ago) have gone on the record saying that the former president is 'fascist to the core' (former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley) and 'certainly falls into the general definition of fascist' (former chief of staff John F. Kelly).

They only think this because they worked with Trump for years, apparently spending much of their time preventing him from sending troops against the American people, deflecting his multiple requests for military parades and repeatedly explaining to him that you do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Adolf Hitler."

#GiftLink #fascism #markmilley #johnkelly #2024Elections
https://wapo.st/3NzUGBE

Kamala Harris labeled Trump a fascist in a CNN town hall Wednesday, saying that he was unfit to serve a second term. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/24/world/politics/harris-trump-fascist-2024-contrast/ #worldnews #politics #johnkelly #us #2024uspresidentialelection #democrats #kamalaharris #timwalz #republicans #donaldtrump #jdvance

#Présidentielleaméricaine2024 : #DonaldTrump assimilé à un « fasciste » par le général #JohnKelly, son ancien chef de cabinet
« Il préfère très certainement l’approche dictatoriale dans la manière de gouverner », estime le militaire, qui confirme la fascination pour Hitler du candidat à la Maison Blanche. « Cela donne à voir qui est vraiment Donald Trump », a commenté sa rivale démocrate, #KamalaHarris. #LeMonde #PiotrSmolar

@KamalaHarrisWin
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/10/24/donald-trump-assimile-a-un-fasciste-par-le-general-john-kelly-son-ancien-chef-de-cabinet_6358935_3210.html

“He [Trump] is looking for obedience. This…shocks him about 🇺🇸 generals… that they swear an oath to the Constitution, not to the president…
…a wide swathe of people who worked in the nat’l security area, from John Bolton to H.R. McMaster to many others, have expressed…concern that the guardrails will be off next time and…Trump will try to do the things that he wasn't ‘allowed to do’ in the first go-around.
They're extremely worried about it…”
#JohnKelly #FascistTrump
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-john-kelly-said-about-trumps-praise-of-hitler-and-fascist-tendencies

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As Election Nears, Kelly Warns #Trump Would Rule Like a #Dictator

#JohnKelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that #DonaldTrump met the definition of a #fascist.

By Michael S. Schmidt
Oct. 22, 2024

"In response to a question about whether he thought Mr. Trump was a fascist, Mr. Kelly first read aloud a definition of fascism that he had found online.

"'Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a #FarFight #authoritarian, #ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a #dictatorial leader, centralized #autocracy, #militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,' he said."

Original article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-trump-fitness-character.html

Archived version
https://archive.ph/fSCbl

#WeDontNeedThatFascistGrooveThing #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#Fascism #DictatorOnDayOne
#Fascist #FullOnFash

#MikeSchmidt discusses his #OnTheRecord interviews w/retired General #JohnKelly about the dangers of a 2nd #Trump presidency.

#Hitler #USpol #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Tyranny #kleptocracy #fascism #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #MAGA #Republicans #SelfInterest #PersonalAggrandizement

#integrity #honor #PublicService #military #law #Freedom #democracy #WeAreNotGoingBack #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

"Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions. Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there — and no longer be there to rein him in. So the bottom line is this, we know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #JohnKelly
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https://www.lawdork.com/p/kamala-harris-v-donald-trump-unchecked-power