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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

In brief

Born about 1766 in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island. He married between 1786 and 1789. He died February 27, 1833 in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island.

Family

Father
Isaiah Brown
Mother
Margaret “Peg” Hurley/Herlihy
Spouse
Lucretia
m. 1786
Spouse
Mary ____
m. 1816

Children

With 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
  • George Ellison Brown · in this line
    b. Abt. 1795, in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island
    m. December 12, 1816, in Madison County, New York
    m. between 1835-1840
    m. June 25, 1843, in Woonsocket Falls, Providence County, Rhode Island
    d. June 16, 1876, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
  • 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

With 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

Siblings

  • Olive Brown
    b. September 15, 1761, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
    m. Ezekiel Hopkins
    d. November 27, 1834
  • 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
    m. Oliver Westcott in 1788
    d. June 2, 1867, in Richland, Oswego County, New York
  • 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
    m. Emer Walling
    d. 1830
  • Jerimoth Brown
    b. Abt. 1784 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
    m. Phebe Tewgood
    d. March 15, 1830

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.

Sources (1)
  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.
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