Thomas Brown^[1]

1651 - 1718  (67 years)

• Name	Thomas Brown  [2]
  Birth	1651	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Fact 1	Soldier in King Phillip's War
  Fact 2	Wounded in fight at Narrangansett Fort.
  Fact 3	Town Clerk in Concord, Massachusetts.
  Death	4 Apr 1718	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [3, 4, 5]
  Burial	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [5]
  Person ID	I1127	Master
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas Brown,   b. 10 Jan 1605, Lavenham, Suffolk, England d. 3 Nov 1688, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Bridget Bateman,   b. 1609, Hawkedon, Suffolk, England d. 5 Mar 1681, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1636	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F55	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruth Vinton Wheeler,   b. 25 Apr 1650, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 9 Feb 1740, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	12 Nov 1677	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [4, 6]
  Children	1. Ruth Brown,   b. 8 Feb 1678, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 22 Mar 1764, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 86 years)  [Father: natural]   2. Mary Brown,   b. 18 Nov 1681, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 14 Jul 1750, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]   3. Rebecca Brown,   b. 5 Mar 1684, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 2 Nov 1751, Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 67 years)  [Father: natural]   4. Thomas Brown(e),   b. 28 Aug 1686, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 13 Mar 1717, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 30 years)  [Father: natural]   5. Ephraim Brown(e),   b. 21 Apr 1689, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 6 Feb 1749, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 59 years)  [Father: natural]   6. Elizabeth Brown,   b. 8 Mar 1691, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 28 Dec 1717 (Age 26 years)  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F7402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Feb 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1651 - Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 12 Nov 1677 - Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 4 Apr 1718 - Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Burial - - Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Wounded in King Philip's War, Naragansett Great Swamp fight, he was a in Middlesex County, taking part in the Naragansett Campaign of King Phillip's War. He was in the famous swamp fight, attack on an indian Fort in Kingston, Rhode Island, 19 Dec 1675. He was one of eleven men who marched from Concord. In this battle which took the lives of eighty white men and three hundred Indians, he was one of the wounded. Thomas Brown was the emigrant ancestor of Josiah Brown, of Worcester, of the late Alzirus Brown, and many other Worcester families. He came from England and settled at Sudbury, where the general court granted him two hundred acres of land October 7, 1640, for the adventure of Mrs. Anne Harvyes. He was in Sudbury in 1640, but the records of his family are at Concord. After 1650 he removed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was admitted to the church there, May 18, 1666. He married (first) Bridget, by whom he had his first five children at Concord. Before 1658 he had married Martha, widow of Thomas Oldham, by whom he had four or more children at Cambridge. He died in November or December, 1690. His will was made November 23, 1690, and proved January, 1691. He bequeathed to his wife Martha, to his daughters Mehitabel and Martha, and to his sons, Ebenezer and Ichabod. The inventory shows house and land at Cambridge, and three hundred acres at Worcester. Children of Thomas Brown were: I. Boaz, born at Concord, February 14, 1641-2; died April 7, 1724; married November 8. 1664, Mary Winship, daughter of Edward and Jane Winship ; and had : Boaz, Jr., who settled in Stow ; Thomas, Mary, and Edward. 2. Thomas, born about 1644, died April 4, 1718; married November 12, 1677, Ruth (Vinton) Jones. 3. Mary, born at Concord, March 26, 1646; married June 21, 1669, William Woodward. 4. Eleazer, born at Concord July 6, 1649, married February 9, 1674-5. Dinah Spaulding. 5. Jabez, born at Concord: died 1692; married Deborah. 6. (see Pope's Pioneers) Mehitabel, baptized June 2. 1661. ?. ( ?) 7. Mary, born in Cambridge, baptized March 8, 1663. 8. Ebenezer, born in Cambridge, baptized July 23. 1665. 9. Ichabod. baptized at Cambridge, September 9. 1666. (II) Thomas Brown, son of Thomas Brown (i). born at Concord about 1644; died at Concord April 4, 1718, aged, Shattuck says, sixty-seven years. He settled in Concord where his seven children were bom. He was town clerk of Concord. He married Ruth (Vinton) Jones, November 12, 1677. Children were: i. Ruth, born at Concord, February 8. 1678-9; died March 22, 1764; married. November 10, 1698, Samuel Jones. 2. Mary, born at Concord November 18, 1681 : died July 14, 1750; married John Hunt, who died 1765. son of Nehemiah and Mary (Tool) Hunt. 3. Rebecca, born at Concord, March 5. 1683-4; married September 26. 1704, Jonathan Hubbard. 4. Thomas (see forward). 5. Ephraim. born at Concord, April 21, 1689; died February 6, 1749-50; married, August 28. 1719, Hannah Wilson (died 1768) daughter of William Wilson. 6. Elizabeth, born at Concord, March 8, 1691-2; died December 28. 1717; married, September 22, 1713, Jonathan Hartwell. (III) Thomas Brown, son of Thomas Brown (2). born at Concord, Massachusetts, August 28, 1686; died at Concord. March 13, 1717-8, leaving a widow and four young children. He married Hannah Potter November 22. 1709. Their children were: I. Ephraim (see forward). 2. Timothy, born at Concord, August 17, 1712; married Rebecca Farrar. 3. Luke, born at Concord November 3, 1714. 4. Hannah, born at Concord December 6, 1716. (IV) Deacon Ephraim Brown, son of Thomas and Hannah Brown (3), born at Concord, Massachusetts November 7, 1710, died at Concord, October 9, 1788, married Abigail Wheeler, of one of the old Concord families. June 20, 1732. He was deacon in the church at Concord, and a man of importance in his day. His children were: i. Abigail, born at Concord, April 9. 1733; married November 1, 1753, Thomas Hubbard. 2. Ephraim. born at Concord, April 7, 1735; died February 6, 1736-7. 3. Edward, born at Concord. February 15. 1736-7 died 1781; married (first), January 15, 1761, Mary Brown, born 1740: died 1778 and married (second), 1780. Beulah Hosmer. 4. Thankful, born at Concord, December 16, 1740; died September 9, 1776; married July 6, 1758, Edward Wright. 5. Ephraim 2d, born December 20, 1742; died January 18, 1812. 6. Hannah, born April i, 1745, died June 8, 1745. 7. Sarah, born September 25, 1746. 8. Samuel ^see forward). (V) Lieutenant Samuel Brown, son of Deacon Ephraim Brown (4), born at Concord, February 18, 1752; died October 29, 1819; married Elizabeth Brown, a distant cousin. (See 3024 Potter's Concord Families). He was a lieutenant in the revolutionary army. He settled in Concord. His children were: i. Lucy, born at Concord, July 2, 1773; died February 18, 1786. 2. Thomas, born at Concord, March 9, 1775; died February n, 1834. 3. Samuel, born at Concord, March 7, 1777; died May 29, 1843: married June 5, 1800, Betty Turtle, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Baker) Tuttle. 4. Elizabeth, born at Concord, February 29, 1779; died April 6. 1863: married June 7, 1798, Samuel Potter Prescott. 5. Hannah, born at Concord, June 2, 1781 : died October 16. 1845. 6. Abigail Wheeler, born March 29. 1783: died March 9, 1806. 7. Edward, born March 25. 1785, died March 11, 1813. 8. Joshua, born June 20. 1787; died December II, 1855; married (first). October II, 1807, Sally Potter; married (second), January 27, 1811, Rebecca Dery, who died 1816. 9. Ephraim, born January 10. 1792: died February 28. 1852; married (first), July 2, 1820, Clarissa Harmon; married (second), Olive S. Green. 11. Joel (see forward).

  
  

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