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Notes

The author's proximate family tree on his mother's side is listed on this book page and clarified here.

• The author's grandfather Peter Chardon Brooks, died on January 1, 1849, when the author was about ten years old.
• Peter C Brooks's estate was vast, perhaps two million dollars
• The estate went to his seven surviving children, who had many notable connections:
  • Edward Brooks
  • Peter Chardon Brooks, Jr
  • Gorham (third son)
  • Sydney (fourth son)
  • Charlotte, married to Edward Everett
  • Ann, married to Nathaniel Frothingham, minister of the First Church
  • Abigail Brown Brooks, born April 25, 1808, married Sept. 3, 1829, to Charles Francis Adams

This last one, Abigail Brown, was the author's mother. (It is not written clearly.) Her first four children were:

• Louisa Catherine, born in 1830, a daughter named after her Johnson grandmother
• John Quincy, a son after his President grandfather
• Charles Francis Adams Jr, named after his father
• Henry Brooks Adams, the author of this book, named after his mother's favorite brother Henry Brooks who had just died

Abigail Brown Brooks Adams had more children, not listed here.