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George Ellison Brown

Generation 6 back

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

In brief

Born about 1795, in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island. He married December 12, 1816, in Madison County, New York. He died June 16, 1876, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut.

Family

Father

John Brown

Mother

Lucretia

Spouse

Apema Seamans

m. 1816

Spouse

____

m. 1835

Spouse

Catherine M. Hoyt

m. 1843

Spouse

Waity A. ____

m. 1860

Spouse

Philia Warner

m. 1870

Children

George C. Brown
b. January 8, 1821, in Brutus, Cayuga County, New York
m. Roxanna Stewart, December 25, 1845
d. Between August 19, 1906, and November 25, 1907
Edmund Brown
b. December 18, 1824
d. Abt. 1845
Thomas C. Brown
b. October 24, 1828
m. Nancy Currier
d. After July 2, 1902
Jacob Orris/Horace Brown
b. March 30, 1831
m. Iva May Moses, October 18, 1884, in Saint Paul, Howard County, Nebraska
d. January 20, 1906, at home, in Homestead, Greeley County, Nebraska miles north of Ord, Nebraska
Lucretia Ann Brown
b. June 26, 1834, in Clay, Onondaga County, New York
m. Frederick Augustus Stewart, March 30, 1854, in Pulaski, Owego County, New York
d. August 4, 1920, in Saint Paul, Howard County, Nebraska
Isaac Horace Brown · in this line
b. Richland, Oswego County, New York
m. Isabella Elizabeth Brown, December 22, 1861, in Linn, Walworth County, Wisconsin
d. April 27, 1914, at his home in Home/Joe’s Bay, Lakebay, Pierce County, Washington
Jennie Brown
m. ____ Jacobs

Siblings

Full siblings — children of John Brown and Lucretia

Huldah Brown
b. Abt. 1790
m. Elisha Tucker, October 8, 1815, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
d. July 8, 1856
Pardon A. Brown
b. Abt. 1792
m. Phebe Cooke, May 7, 1815
d. December 3, 1869
Hosanna Brown
b. Abt. 1794
m. Clarissa ____
d. May 2, 1868
Anna Brown
b. Abt. 1798
m. Silas Smith, December 12, 1846, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
d. November 8, 1861
Mary Brown
b. Abt. 1800
m. Solomon/Salmon Seamans between 1816-1818
d. February 18, 1825
Phila H. Brown
b. Abt. 1805
d. January 5, 1880
Thomas C. Brown
b. Abt. 1806
m. Abby Field Hopkins
d. February 5, 1885
Lucretia Brown
b. Abt. 1811
d. August 1, 1860

Half-siblings — children of John Brown and Mary

Isaiah Brown
b. 1817
m. Phebe Williams, September 5, 1839
d. January 29, 1897
Andrew Brown
b. Abt. 1819
m. Maritta Hopkins
d. January 15, 1891
Joseph W. Brown
b. Abt. 1824
d. 1852
John Pray Brown
b. January 2, 1826, in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island
m. Mary Cornell Hopkins, January 28, 1858, in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
d. January 6, 1899

Life story

From Forgery Conviction to Country Doctor

George Ellison Brown was born around 1795 in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island, and led an unusually varied life: convicted of forgery in Cayuga County, New York, in June 1819, he was released from prison the following year for good behavior. He went on to marry five times across four decades — in Madison County, New York, in 1816; sometime in the late 1830s; in Woonsocket Falls, Rhode Island, in 1843; again before 1860; and finally in Killingly, Connecticut, in 1870 — and worked variously as a laborer, a shoemaker, and, by the 1840s and 1860s, a practicing physician, known to family as “Papy.” He bought and sold small parcels of land around Foster, Rhode Island, repeatedly through the 1830s and 1840s, including shares inherited from his father's and sister's estates. George died in Killingly, Connecticut, on June 16, 1876, at around eighty-one.

Sources (2)

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.
Dorinda Partsch, “Descendants of George E. Brown,” 9 July 2013; received via email from Dorinda Partsch to a living relative on 23 September 2019.