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

In brief

Born about 1705 in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He died before 1789 in Connecticut.

Family

Father

John Brown

Mother

Lydia

Spouse

Mary

Children

John Brown
b. November 16, 1728, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
d. Before 1776 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
Isaiah Brown · in this line
m. Margaret “Peg” Hurley/Herlihy, August 1761 at First Church in Killingly, Connecticut
d. Between March 15, 1816, and November 18, 1819
Stephen Brown
Benajmin Brown
m. Elizabeth____

Siblings

Josiah Brown
m. Kezia ____
d. After February 1786
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

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.

Sources (1)

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