John Brown

Generation 10 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 ← John Brown

In brief

Born December 2, 1682, in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He died April 12, 1768, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut.

Family

Father

John Brown

Mother

Sarah Barsham

Spouse

Lydia

Children

John Brown · in this line
b. Abt. 1705 in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
m. Mary
d. Before 1789 · Connecticut
Nathaniel Brown
b. September 26, 1708, in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
m. Alice Spaulding
Stephen Brown
b. 1710 in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Lydia Brown
b. Abt. November 1714 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Mary Brown
b. Abt. November 1714 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Obadiah Brown
b. Abt. September 1718 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
Josiah Brown
m. Kezia ____
d. After February 1786

Siblings

Full siblings — children of John Brown and Sarah Barsham

Mary Brown
b. September 23, 1685
Nathaniel Brown
b. April 22, 1688, in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
m. Deborah Briant
m. Hannah ____
d. Before June 1757
Stephen Brown
b. May 21, 1693
Hannah ____
m. ____ Parker
Martha ____
m. ____ Harrington

Half-siblings — children of John Brown and Elizabeth Osgood

Elizabeth Brown
b. October 5, 1660
Hannah Brown
b. August 8, 1664
d. 1668

Life story

A Disinherited Son's Own Way

John Brown was born December 2, 1682, in Reading, Massachusetts, and in 1709 was left just five shillings in his father's will, which named him a “stubborn, disobedient, and rebellious son.” John made his own way regardless, working as a wheelwright, yeoman, and husbandman, and by 1711 had moved to Killingly, Connecticut, where he began assembling a substantial landholding — buying and selling dozens of parcels over the following five decades and steadily granting land to his sons John, Stephen, and Nathaniel as they came of age. In 1745 he helped the town of Killingly purchase land to build its meeting house. John died in Killingly on April 12, 1768.

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.