[1] On July 4, 1764, Brooks was ordained as the minister of the Meetinghouse under the Ledge in what was then North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay.
[2] Around three years into his stint in North Yarmouth, "theological differences" between Brooks and his congregation began to surface.
[1] Brooks married Abigail Brown on September 23, 1764, two months into his ministerial role in North Yarmouth.
A Son of Liberty, Peter Chardon Brooks documented his father's exploits during the American Revolutionary War: He went to Lexington "on horseback, with his gun on his shoulder and in his full-bottomed wig.
[1] He is interred in Oak Grove Cemetery in Medford, alongside his wife, who survived him by nineteen years.