Peter Chardon Brooks
Peter Chardon Brooks was a wealthy Massachusetts merchant born in North Yarmouth, Maine. His father, the Rev. Edward Brooks, moved to Medford, Massachusetts, his native town, in 1769, and here the boyhood of young Brooks was passed in farm work. After his fathers death, in 1781, he was apprenticed to a trade in Boston, walking to the city, a distance of seven miles, every day.
Brooks died January 1, 1849, in Boston, Massachusetts, bequeathing what was believed to be the largest estate in Boston, about two million dollars, to his seven surviving children four sonsEdward, Peter Chardon, Gorham, and Sydney three daughtersCharlotte, married to Edward Everett Ann, married to Nathaniel Frothingham, minister of the First Church and Abigail Brown, born April 25, 1808, married September 3, 1829, to Charles Francis Adams, a year older than herself. He was originally buried at the Salem Street Burying Ground in Medford, Massachusetts, but was later relocated to a family plot in Oak Grove Cemetery, near the Brooks Estate in Medford.
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