Abraham enlisted in Captain Van Allen's Company of the 3rd(late 4th) Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers 20 August 1782. He served under Thomas Ward in the Loyal Refugee Volunteers. He was dscharchared from the New Jersey Volunteers on 3 September 1783 at New York City. Source: Todd Braisted. The On Line Institute for Advanced Loyalst Studies.
According to the "Bergen County New Jersey Deeds from 1689-1801" as compiled by John Davis, Heritage Books states that an Abraham Brooks of Bergen Co. New Jersey received 20 acres from George Dooremus in his will 25 March 1733.
Source: Rootsweb Weymouth, Nova Scotia. This Abraham Brooks could be a Father or Uncle.
Abraham Brooks is my Fourth Great Grandfather and lived under a Crown Grant with his wife and eight children in Weymouth, Nova Scotia from 1784-1835. It might be probable that Dooremus family asnd Abraham Brooksay found in the Brooks Huge Compilations and Doremus Huge compilations answers may foundt therein through research in the Passic County Historical Society that has such and I am joing in September 2010 in this most document research of any coumty.
