John Brown

Generation 7 back

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

Born

Abt. 1766 · Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island

Died

February 27, 1833 · Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island

Married

between 1786 and 1789

Family

Father

Isaiah Brown

Mother

Margaret “Peg” Hurley/Herlihy

Child in this line

George Ellison Brown

Children

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

Siblings

Olive Brown
b. September 15, 1761, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut · d. November 27, 1834
m. Ezekiel Hopkins
Lydia Brown
b. between 1762-1765
m. Stephen Hopkins, December 22, 1782, in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island
Patrick Brown
m. Ruth ____
Anna Brown
b. Abt. 1770 · d. June 2, 1867, in Richland, Oswego County, New York
m. Oliver Westcott in 1788
William Brown
b. Abt. 1770 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
Matilda Brown
m. Levi Brace
Isaiah Brown
d. Before 1824
Asenath Brown
m. ____ Walling
Elizabeth Brown
d. 1830
m. Emer Walling
Jerimoth Brown
b. Abt. 1784 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut · d. March 15, 1830
m. Phebe Tewgood

In brief

Born Abt in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island. He married between 1786 and 1789 and worked as yeoman. He died February 27, 1833 in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island.

Life story

A Rhode Island Farmer

John Brown was born around 1766 and settled in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island, where he worked as a yeoman and, with his brother Patrick, bought seventy acres of land in 1789. Over the following four decades John steadily traded parcels of land around Foster and briefly in Killingly, Connecticut, and in 1824 received additional land and cash from his father Isaiah's estate. John died February 27, 1833; his substantial family, including at least a dozen named heirs, divided his estate the following year.

At a glance

Work

Yeoman

Lived

Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island

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.