John Brown

Generation 9 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← George Ellison Brown ← John Brown ← Isaiah Brown ← John Brown

Born

Abt. 1705 in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Died

Before 1789 · Connecticut

Family

Father

Mother

Child in this line

Spouse

Children

John Brown
b. November 16, 1728, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut · d. Before 1776 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
Stephen Brown
Benajmin Brown
m. Elizabeth____

Siblings

Josiah Brown
d. After February 1786
m. Kezia ____
Nathaniel Brown
b. September 26, 1708, in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
m. Alice Spaulding
Stephen Brown
b. 1710 in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Obadiah Brown
b. Abt. September 1718 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Lydia Brown
b. Abt. November 1714 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Mary Brown
b. Abt. November 1714 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Brown
b. Abt. January 1720 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
Sarah Brown
b. Abt. June 1723 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut

In brief

Born Abt in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He worked as husbandman. He died Before 1789 in Connecticut.

Life story

A Killingly Landholder

John Brown was born around 1705 in Reading, Massachusetts, and by 1726 had settled in Killingly, Connecticut, where he worked as a husbandman and later a wheelwright. Over the following five decades he bought and sold dozens of parcels of land around Killingly, steadily building a substantial farm that he divided among his sons Benjamin and Stephen as they came of age in the 1770s. John died in Killingly before 1789.

At a glance

Work

Husbandman, Yeoman, Wheelwright

Lived

Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut

Sources (1)

Dorinda Partsch and Janet Pack, “John Brown of Reading, Six Generations,” 6 January 2020; received via email from Dorinda Partsch to Ben Weber on January 8, 2020.