John Brown

Generation 11 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 ← John Brown

In brief

Born 1628. He married October 18, 1659. He died July 27, 1714.

Family

Spouse

Elizabeth Osgood

m. 1659

Spouse

Sarah Barsham

m. 1681

Children

With Elizabeth Osgood

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

With Sarah Barsham

John Brown · in this line
b. December 2, 1682, in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
m. Lydia
d. April 12, 1768, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
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

Life story

A Disowned Son

John Brown was born in 1628 and settled in Reading, Massachusetts, marrying twice, in 1659 and again in 1681. In his May 1709 will, John left his own son John just five shillings, describing him as “a stubborn, disobedient, and rebellious son.” John died July 27, 1714.

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.
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1:108-111; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158318-00182 : accessed 20 August 2026).