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Notes for Caleb BROOKS, III

Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army, p.123

Brooks, Caleb (Mass). 1st Lieutenant of Woodbridge's Massachusets
Regiment, May to December, 1775; served subsequently as Major
Massachusets Militia.

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution., p.570

Brooks, Caleb, Medford.
Lieutenant, Capt. Isaac Hall's co., Col. Thomas Gardner's (Middlesex Co.) regt., which assembled April 19, 1775; service, 5 days;
also, list of officers; commissioned June 2, 1775;
also, (late) Capt. Hall's co., Lieut. Col. William Bond's (late Gardner's) 37th regt.;
company return dated Prospect Hill, Oct. 6, 1775;
also, Captain, 8th (Medford) co., 1st Middlesex Co. regt.;
list of officers as returned by Col. Samuel Thatcher dated Cambridge;
commissioned June 18 (also given June 17 and Sept. 27), 1776; also,
return of officers who marched to camp to join Col. Nicholas Dike's
regt.; marched Aug. 22, 1776; roll dated Dorchester; also, Col. Dike's
regt.; return dated Dorchester, Sept. 21, 1776; company reported raised
for defence of Boston; also, pay abstract for mileage, etc., dated
Boston, Nov. 27, 1776; also, same regt.; list of men who guarded stores
at Boston for 3 months from Dec., 1776, to Feb., 1777; also, list of
officers stationed at Dorchester Heights until March 1, 1777;
commissioned Dec. 1, 1776; also, Col. Brooks's regt.; pay rolls for
service with guards at Cambridge made up from Nov. 3, 1777, to April 3,
1778.
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