TWELFTH GENERATION

3240. Acting Governor Robert Brooke⁽¹⁷²⁾⁽²⁹⁹⁾⁽²⁰⁾ was born on Jun 3 1602 in London, England. He died on Jul 20 1655 in Brook Place Manor, Calvert County, Maryland. Robert Brooke matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, on Apr 28 1618. He received an A.B. degree in 1620 and an M.A. in 1624.

He lived in Battel, in Sussex, until he emigrated to Maryland on June 30 1650 with his second wife, ten children, and twenty-eight servants. He was granted 200 acres for every ten people he transported, 8000 acres in all, by the Lord Proprietary and established his seat at De la Brooke Manor about twenty miles up the Patuxent River. The house would stand until it was torn down in 1838. He later moved across the river to Brooke Place, where he built another house, a near duplicate of the first.

Brooke was issued two commissions in London, dated Sep 20 1649. One named him as commander of a new county and the second as a member of the Council of Maryland. The new county, named Charles County, was formed and Brooke named its commander on Oct 30 1650. When Maryland was brought under Parliamentary control in 1652, Brooke was named head of the provisional council, serving thus as acting governor of Maryland from Mar 29 to Jul 3 1652.

In 1654, his commissions were revoked and the act creating Charles County was nullified, Calvert County being formed in its place.

He and his second wife are buried at Brooke Place. He was married to Mary Baker on Feb 25 1627.

3241. Mary Baker ⁽³⁰⁰⁾ died in 1634 in Whickham. She was born in Battel, Sussex. Children were:

i. Baker Brooke⁽³⁰¹⁾ was born on Nov 16 1628. He died in 1679.
ii. Mary Brooke⁽³⁰²⁾ was born on Feb 19 1630. She died in England.
1620 iii. Major Thomas Brooke.
iv. Barbara Brooke⁽³⁰³⁾ was born in 1634. She died in Engalnd.

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