Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Boyle County. The Methodist Episcopal Church. Page 448. STEPHEN BROOKS was admitted on trial in 1789, and appointed to the Lexington circuit with James Haw and Wilson Lee, and the next year on the Danville circuit, laboring with zeal and energy. In 1792 he was appointed to Sevier circuit, East Tennessee; and in 1793 located in East Tennessee. In 1796 he was a member of the convention that framed the Consistution of the State of Tennessee. As a gentleman, he is represented as courteous and affiable; as a Christian, a perfect model; as a minister of Christ, of the first order of talents. Of him a gentleman once said: "If he had to hear but one sermon before dying, he would chose Stephen Brooks to preach it." Brooks Haw Lee = TN Lexington-Fayette-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/boyle/brooks.s.txt