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Thomas Brown[1]

Male 1605 - 1688  (83 years)


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  • Name Thomas Brown  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Birth 10 Jan 1605  Lavenham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6
    Gender Male 
    Fact 1 1637  [2
    Arrived from England and was an original proprietor of Sudbury, Massachusetts. 
    Fact 2 14 Mar 1639  [2
    Resettled in Concord where he was made Freeman on March 14. 
    Fact 3 12 Nov 1660  [2
    Surveyor of Highways in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
    Fact 4 9 Nov 1663  [2
    Constable in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
    Fact 5 8 Nov 1668  [2
    Surveyor again. 
    Fact 6 1678  [2
    Hog Reeve in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
    Death 3 Nov 1688  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 6
    Person ID I127  Master
    Last Modified 28 Oct 2021 

    Father Edmund Brown,   b. 4 Nov 1576, Somerton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1640, Lavenham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Mother Anne Woder,   b. Abt 1576, Lavenham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 5 Aug 1603  Lavenham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F56  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Bridget Bateman,   b. 1609, Hawkedon, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Mar 1681, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1636  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Boaz Brown,   b. 14 Feb 1642, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Apr 1724, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    +2. Jabez Brown,   b. 14 Feb 1644, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Jul 1692, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
     3. Mary Brown,   b. 26 Mar 1646, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Sep 1700, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
    +4. Eleazer Brown,   b. 6 Jul 1649, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jan 1720, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    +5. Thomas Brown,   b. 1651, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Apr 1718, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
    Family ID F55  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Thomas Brown the immigrant ancestor was born in England in 1609 according to his deposition made in 1670 that his age was sixty one. He came to Concord in 1638 and was one of the original proprietors of Sudbury who were given authority by the general court to begin the plantation September 6 1638. He was admitted a freeman March 14 1639 and the general court October 7 1640 granted him two hundred acres of land for the twenty five pound adventure subscription of Mrs Anne Harvyes. He was a proprietor in Sudbury in 1640 but within a year was back in Concord. He bought land in Concord May 20 1655 in 1661 and in 1671 being called a resident of Concord in each deed. He removed to Cambridge however and was a town officer there in 1660 63 68 was admitted to the Cambridge church May 18 1666. He served on a committee to divide Concord property March 26 1676 and November 20 1680 in a deed of land to his son Thomas Brown Jr he calls himself late of Concord now of Cambridge. It has been proved anyhow that there was but one Thomas Brown to whom all the records refer. He married Bridget who died at Cambridge January 5 1681 he died November 3 1688. He filed May 11 1681 a list of the lands that he had given his son Boaz.

      Children of Thomas and Bridget Brown born at Cambridge
      1 Boaz born February 14 1642 married November 8 1664 Mary Winship second Abigail Wheat
      2 Jabez born in 1644 resided in Concord and Sudbury until Stow was founded
      3 Mary born March 26 1646 married first John Woodhead of Chelmsford second John Gove of Cambridge
      4 Eleazer born July 6 1649 married February 9 1674 75 Dinah Spalding
      5 Thomas born 1651

      from: Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs ..., Volume 1
    • 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).

      (VI) Joel Brown, son of Lieutenant Samuel Brown (5), born at Concord. Massachusetts, Feb- Tuary 20, 1793: died at Concord, September 22. 1851; married, December 28. 1818, Lucy Whitney, of Bolton. born in 1800: died in 1863; daughter of David and Betsey Whitney. All thcjr children were born at Concord", where they settled. They removed to Boylston, Massachusetts, where he conducted a farm at Boyls«--n Centre. They were at Bolton for a short time. Their children were: I. David Whitney (see forward). 2. Alzirus (see forward). ?. Lucy Alzura. born April 14, 1824; died April 10, 1831. "4. Sarah Ann Eliza (see forward). 5. Eunice Andrews, born April 25, 1828; died May 2, 1831. 6. Ezra Ripley. born February 5,, 1830; died April 29. 1845. 7. Mary Ann Celista (see forward). & Elizabeth E.. borii March 10, 1842; married. May 10, 1866. Paul Tibbetts: resides at 18 Charlton street, Worcester (1905). 9. Lucy (see forward).

      (VII) David Whitney Brown, son of Joel Brown (6). born at Concord. Massachusetts, December 29. 1819: married Alay 30. 1844, Mary M. Stiles. (See sketch of Stiles Family herewith). He died December. 1893: she died March II. 1903. He came to Boylston, from Concord, with his parents where young and attended the Boylston schools. He learned the trnde of stationary engineer. He removed to Worcester and was the first janitor of the Classical high school, a position he held for twelve years. His home was at lop Mulberry street, where his daughter now lives. His wife was sister of John C. Stiles, of Worcester, who was one of the first three conductors on the Worcester & Nashua Railroad when it began business. Children: were: i. Lucy Maria, died young. 2. Emerson Whitney, died "iii infancy. 3. John Emerson, born June 22. 1853: married April 9, 1881, Nellie Whit- comb, stationary engineer in Worcester. 4. Josiah (see forward). 5. Charles Jerome, born December 16. 1858: graduated from Harvard College 1882: studied in divinity school, but broke down in health ; died in 1890. 6. Mary Eugenia, born July 9. 1861 teacher of music: unmarried (1905); resides at loo Mulberry street. Worcester. (Most of the above dates are a year of two different from those in the Stiles genealogy.)

      (VII) Alzirus Brown, son of Joel Brown (6), born October 16, 1821 ; married, at Worcester, November 16, 1843, Harriet D. Proctor. They resided in Worcester. He was a manufacturer of mowing machines, and later established a large trucking business in Worcester. They had no children. His widow resides (1905) in their homestead at the corner of Main and Madison streets.

      (VII) Sarah Ann Eliza Brown, daughter of Joel Brown (6), born at Concord, Massachusetts, April 18, 1826; married November 15, 1847, Asa J Hersey, at Boylston, Massachusetts, and settled in Maine. Their sons are: 1. Wilfred; resides on the homestead of his father at Waterford, Maine, has five or more children and grandchildren. 2. Ezra, resides at North Waterford, Maine, has one son, Charles A. 3. Francis, city missionary at New Bedford, Massachusetts, has two daughters.

      (VII) Mary Ann Celista Brown, daughter of Joel Brown (6), born at Concord, Massachusetts; married (first) Edward H. Parker by whom she had four children. Edward Hanford Parker was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, December 28, 1825. He was the son of Ebenezer, Jr., and Hannah B. Parker. (See Parker Genealogy by Theodore Parker, of Worcester, son of Edward H. and Mary A. C. Parker). Edward H. Parker was a carpenter and builder in Worcester. The children of Edward H. and Mary A. C. Parker were: 1. Arthur, resides at Dunellen, New Jersey; married; has three children. 2. Clarence E. ; "married; resides at Yonkers, New York; is a contractor and fence manufacturer in New York city; married; has one child. 3. Edward, was overseer in the American Steel and Wire Mill, Worcester; married : has two children. 4. Theodore, clerk in Worcester post office, author of the Parker Genealogy ; married; no children. Mary Ann Celista (Brown) Parker married (second) John C. Landers, of Worcester, a carpenter and contractor, who has died since. The widow resides on Pleasant street, Worcester.

      (VII) Lucy, daughter of Joel Brown (6), married George P. Slocum, a carpenter, and they settled at Marietta, Ohio. They have five children, grown to maturity.

      (VIII) Josiah Brown, son of David W. Brown (7), born in Worcester, May 28, 1854. He was educated in the Worcester schools. He learned the machinist's and gear-cutting trade of John Williams, one of the first gear-cutters and mechanical tool-makers in the city. After working at his trade for a time he accepted a position on the railroad and worked as fireman and engineer for six years. Then he returned to the machine shop to run the business of John Williams for the widow. He conducted the Williams business for ten years, then started the Worcester Gear works on his own account, and for the past ten years has carried on this business successfully. The shop is located at 13 Cypress street. He manufactures machinery and makes a specialty of cutting gears. Mr. Brown is well known in Masonic circles. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Worcester Royal Arch Chapter, of Hiram Council. He married July 3, 1876, Alma Richardson. They have six children, born in Worcester. The children are : 1. Frank J., born May 4, 1877. 2. Walter I., born May i8, 1879. 3. Arthur G., born September 5, 1881. 4. Brenda A., born October 18, 1883. 5. Warren E., born October 27, 1887. 6. Evelyn M., born June 12, 1890. 7. Hellen R.. born January 26, 1895; died April 8, 1896.

  • Sources 
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    2. [S123] Cutter, William Richard, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908), Vol 1, Page 67 (Reliability: 2).
      Thomas Brown, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1609, according to his deposition made in 1670 that his age was sixty-one. He came to Concord in 1638, and was one of the original proprietors of Sudbury who were given authority by the general court to begin the plantation September 6, 1638. He was admitted a freeman March 14, 1639, and the general court, October 7, 1640, granted him two hundred acres of land for the twenty-five pound "adventure" (subscription) of Mrs. Anne Harvyes. He was a proprietor in Sudbury in 1640. but within a year was back in Concord. He bought land in Concord, May 20, 1655, in 1661 and in 1671 being called a resi.lent of Concord in each deed. He removed to Cambridge, however, and was a town officer there in 1660-63-68 : was admitted to the Cambridge church, May 18, 1666. He served on a committee to divide Concord property March 26. 1676, and November 20, 1680, in a deed of land to his son, Thomas Brown, Jr., he calls himself "late of Concord, now of Cambridge." It has been proved, anyhow, that there was but one Thomas Brown to whom all the records
      refer. He married Bridget , who died at Cambridge, January 5, 1681 ; he died November 3, 1688. He filed May n, 1681, a list of the lands that he had given his son Boaz,

    3. [S124] Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard, editor, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, (London: Thomas Curson Hansard, 1842), Vol 5, Page 1010-1015 (Reliability: 2).
      Disfranchisement Of Sudbury.] On the Order of the Day for further proceeding with the third reading of the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill,
      Mr. Blackstone expressed his regret that he was obliged by a sense of duty to interfere with the progress of the adjourned debate which stood for that evening, while he stated bis objections to this bill. As there was no probability, considering the period of the Session at which they had arrived, that the bill could become law in the present Session, he could have wished that the hon. Gentleman had consented to abandon the measure for the present, and to take the course which was adopted in the Southampton case—that of submitting the circumstances connected with the Sudbury election to a searching and rigorous inquiry. In the case of Southampton, it was proved that 5,000/. had been spent in a way that led to the conclusion that bribery bad been extensively practised ; but it was not, therefore, proposed that Southampton should be disfranchised. Instead of taking that step, the case was made the subject of solemn and serious inquiry. In the instance of Sudbury, not more than eight or ten cases
      of actual bribery were established ; and that, surely, was not a sufficient ground of disfranchisement. He had no doubt that bribery bad taken place ; he had no desire to conceal or to palliate the fact ; and, therefore, a good prima facie case was made out for further investigation; but certainly such a case was not substantiated as warranted the immediate disfranchisement of the borough. That many of the electors were corrupt he believed ; but it did not appear that a majority of the constituency were corrupt, and that had been held the only just ground for disfranchisement. In the cases of Cricklade and other boroughs, where it was proved that bribery had been practised to a very considerable extent; as a majority of the constituencies did not appear to have been corrupt, the House did not proceed to the extreme punishment of disfranchisement. He therefore should propose, admitting that a certain degree of corruption prevailed in the borough, not that it should be disfranchised, but that the right of voting should be extended to the hundred of Babergh, in the county of Suffolk. The population of that hundred amounted to 24,069, and he believed that if they ex- tended the borough, as he desired, they would secure an addition to the present constituency of at least 1,000 voters. The evidence was not sufficiently strong to enable him to strike more voters off the register than the eight individuals distinctly proved to have been bribed, and the three who were clearly established to have been bribers. He regretted that this was the case, because probably there were many more voters implicated, and it would have been the wish of the House to punish all the guilty persons. Being unable to do that, however, their next object ought to be to join with him in shielding the innocent from receiving the punishment due to the guilty, and in this point of view, even if 200 of the electors were corrupt, they ought to consider how hardly this bill would bear upon the 400 against whom nothing was proved. But, even if these reasons were insufficient to induce the House to adopt his amendment, there were other strong objections to the bill, which should cause them to reject it. la the first place, there was no instance on record in which a total disfranchisement bill was passed which embodied no provision for the transferring of the right of representation to some other constituency.
      If they adopted this measure, they would be absolutely lessening the number of Members in that House ; and when they recollected that the relative number of representatives for England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, had been adjusted at the time of the passing of the Reform Act, he did think they ought to pause before they took a step so opposed to precedent. Now, if they adopted his amendment, this weighty objection would be overruled, and there was strong argument for its adoption in the fact that in no case in which the franchise had been extended had there been any allegations of bribery subsequent to such extension. Short-hum and East Retford were now supposed to be tolerably free from corrupt practices, neither were the class of boroughs under schedule B in the Reform Act liable to that imputation, except in an isolated case or two. Again, the class to whom he desired to extend the privilege of voting was a class generally admitted to be free from corruption. Let Gentlemen opposite, who delighted in calumniating the British farmer, say what they pleased, they at any rate could not say that they were guilty of corrupt practices. It was to agriculturists that he proposed to extend the right of voting, and their experience afforded every ground to believe that that right would be purely exercised. In favour of the extension of the franchise he might quote several opinions, but he would content himself with remarking that the right hon. Baronet at the head of the Government had on a former occasion expressed a strong opinion in favour of extension in preference to disfranchisement, and had cited Lord Chatham and Mr. Pitt to the same effect. Nothing doubting that the right hon. Baronet adhered to his former opinion, he confidently anticipated the support of her Majesty's Government on this occasion, and knowing that the House were anxious to go to other matters, he would no longer detain them than to move his amendment and clause, which were
      "In line 14, after the words 'pausing of iliis act,' to insert ' be held and considered as comprising within its limits the hundred of Babergh, in the county of Suffolk, and the hamlet of Ballingdon-cum-Brundon, in the county of Essex, and that the right of voting for any burgess or burgesses to serve in Parliament for the said borough of Sudbury be hereafter vested in those persons residing within the said hundred of liabergh, and the
      said hamlet of Ballingdon-cum-Brundon, having the qualification required as electors for cities and boroughs under the act 2 William 4th, cap. 45.' And be it further enacted, that from and after the passing of this act, the following persons whose names are hereinafter inserted be disqualified from voting at all future elections for the borough of Sudbury, \l/. : John Francis SykesGooday, William Warner, Thomas Goody, James Bell Johnson, Francis Making, James Brown, Thomas Brown, Charles King, Richard Steel, William Jol- laday, Thomas Shelley, and Joseph Wheeler, jun."
      Clause brought up, and read a first time.
      On the question that the clause be read a second time,
      Mr. Redington said, he should offer very few observations to the House on the amendment before them. He was astonished when an lion. Member charged him, and the committee generally, with being hostile to the borough of Sudbury, and he was the more astonished when he considered the quarter from which the charge now came, for if he recollected right, that hon. Member had himself not long back proposed to the House to disfranchise every freeman in that borough. The Sudbury freemen were in number 407 ; but now that the ardour of the hon. Gentleman had cooled, he only proposed to disfranchise eight of that number. The hon. Gentleman had quoted the right hon. Baronet as an authority in favour of extension of the franchise. He could quote the opinion of a right hon. Gentleman whose authority was much respected in that House, and who, upon the Grampound case, had expressed his conviction that the infection would remain, let them extend the franchise as they might. The hon. Member had also said that this bill was without a precedent. He begged leave to inform him that, with the exception of the substitution of "Sudbury" for "Stafford" it was an exact copy of the bill previously introduced for ¡the disfranchisement of the last-named borough, by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckingham, now one of the Secretaries of the Treasury. But the hon. Member further objected that only eight persons had been proved to have been bribed. When he said that, however, he should have added ¡hat only eight had been proved to have been bribed by name ; for the fact was, that 200 persons were proved to have received bribes, but unfortunately the
      committee were unable to get at the names of any of them, except those distinctly mentioned. With regard to the proposition to add the adjoining hundreds to the borough, he would merely ask why the corruption of Sudbury should confer a favour or benefit on the adjacent districts? But then the hon. Gentleman urged the peculiar purity of the inhabitants of those districts. Now, although he was no very great Reformer, if he looked abroad he would find plenty of freemen in different English counties whom it would be desirable to enfranchise, and who were, perhaps, quite as pure and immaculate as those inhabitants of Babergh whose peculiar virtue it was thus proposed to reward. For his own part, if those persons were so very pure, he should think he was doing them a much greater favour if he kept them free from the corruption of Sudbury, instead of plunging them into its very vortex. He should, therefore, decidedly object to the amendment, and he hoped the House, having already generally sanctioned the bill, would not adopt any motion which would have the effect of impeding its progress.
      The House divided ;—Ayes 53 ; Noes 134; Majority 81.
      List of the Ayes.
      Arkwright, G.
      Bailey, J.
      Bailey, J.jun.
      Baillie, H. J.
      Baldwin, B.
      Beresford, Major
      Boldero, H. G.
      Borthwick, P.
      Broadley, II.
      Broadwood, II.
      Brownrigg, J. S.
      Buckley, I".
      Cochrane, A.
      Codrington, C. W.
      D'Israeli, B.
      Doffield, T.
      Dugdale, W. S.
      Kscott, B.
      Farnham, E. B.
      Ferrand, W. B.
      Fitzroy, hon. H.
      Forbes, W.
      Fuller, A. E.
      Goring, C.
      Grimsdilch, T.
      Grogan, .

      Halford, H.
      Henley, J.W.
      Hodgson, F.
      Hughes, W. B.
      Husscy, T.
      Inglis, Sir R. II.
      Jackson, J. D.
      Ker, D. S.
      Knightley, Sir C.
      Litton, E.
      Lygon, hon. Gen.
      Mackenzie, T.
      Mackinnon, W. A.
      Manners, Lord C. S.
      Manners, Lord J.
      Mundy, F.. M.
      Northland, Visct.
      Pakington, J. S.
      Palmer, G.
      Repton, G. W. J.
      Round, C. G.
      Sheppard, T.
      Stuart, H.
      Taylor, J. A.
      Veré, Sir C. B.
      Waddington, H. S.
      Wodehouse, E.
      TELLERS.
      Blackstone, W. S.
      Itushbruoku, Col.
      List of the Noes.
      Adderley, C. B. H awes, B.
      Aldam, W. Heathcoat, J.
      Antrobus, E. Hervey, Lord A.
      Baird, W. Hodgson, R.
      Bannerman, A. Hope, lion. C.
      Baring, hon. W. B. Howard, hn. C. W. G.
      Baring, 11. B. Howick, Visct.
      Barnard, E. G. Hume, J.
      Barneby, J. Humphrey, Aid.
      Berkeley, hon. C. Hutl, W
      Berkeley, lion. Capt. James, W.
      Bernard, Visct. Jolliffe, Sir W. G. H.
      Brotherton, J. Knight, H. G.
      Browne, hon. W. Lambton, H.
      Bryan, G. Längsten, J. H.
      Buller, hon. Col. Längsten, W.ü.
      Byng, G. Layard, Capt.
      Campbell, A. Leader, J. T.
      Cavendish, hon. C. C. Lockhart, W.
      Chapman, A. Lowther, J. H.
      Chapman, B. Macnamara, Major
      Childers, J. W. Mainwaring. T.
      Clerk, Sir G. Miles, P. W. S.
      Clive, E. B. Morgan, O.
      Cobden, R. Muntz, G. F.*
      Colborne.hn. W. N.R. Murphy, F. S.
      Colcbrooke, Sir T. E. Napier, Sir C.
      Compton, 11. C. Norreys, Sir D. J.
      Craig, W. G. O'Brien, J.
      Crawford, W. S. O'Connell.J.
      Cripps, W. O'Conor, Don
      Denison, E. B. Ogle, S. C. H.
      Dickinson, F. H. Ord, W.
      Divett, E. Parker, J.
      Douglas, Sir II. Pechell, Capt.
      Doublas, Sir C. E. Pendarves, E. W. W.
      Douglas, J. D. S. Philips, M.
      Duncan, G. Plumridge,Capt.
      Easthope, Sir J. Praed, W. T.
      Eastnor, Visct. Protheroe, E.
      Ebrington, Visct. Ricardo, J. L.
      Egerton, W. T. Roebuck, J. A.
      Ellice, rt. hon. E. Russell, Lord J.
      Eliot, Lord Seale, Sir J. II.
      Elphinstone, H. Seymour, Lord
      Ferguson, Sir R. A. Shell, rt. hon. R. L.
      Fitzroy, Capt. Smith, rt. hon. R. V.
      Flower, Sir J. Smyth, Sir H.
      Forster, M. Somerset, Lord G.
      Fox, . R, Stanley, Lord
      Gaskell, J. Milnes Stansfield, W. R. C.
      Gibson, T. M. Stewart, P. M.
      Gill, T. Strutt, E.
      Gordon, Lord F. Thornely, T.
      Goulburn, rt. hn. H. Towneley, J.
      Graham, rt. hn. Sir J. Tufnell, H.
      Greenall, I'. Vernon, G. H.
      Greene, T. Wakley, T.
      Grey, rt. hn. Sir G. Wall, C. B.
      Hall, Sir B. Wallace, R.
      Hamilton, Lord C. Ward, H. G.
      Hampden, R. Wilbraham, hon. R.B.
      Ilarcourt, G. G. Williams, W.
      Hardy, J. Wilshere, W.
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      Worsley, Lord
      WrightSOn, W. B. TEILERS.
      Yorke, H. R. Redington, T. N.
      Young, J. Hill, Lord M.
      Bill passed.
      Election Proceeding s Committee.] On the Order of the Day for the adjourned debate on the subject of the report of the secret committee, and on the question that Mr. A. B. Cochrane, a Member of that House, be directed to attend and give evidence before the committee,
      Mr. Roebuck said, that, seeing the hon. Member for Bridport in his place, he might state, that after what he understood had passed yesterday, he should consider it unnecessary to press this motion unless the hon. Member did not adhere to his announced intention of attending and giving evidenee.
      Mr. Cochrane said, that having looked at the precedents, and finding that they tended against the view he had originally taken, and being anxious not to detain the House unnecessarily, he had no objection to repeat that he intended to attend the committee.
      Motion withdrawn.
      This was a debate in British Parliament on whether to disenfranchise the voting rights of Thomas Brown and other named named propietors of Sudbury, because they no longer resided in the town, though they still owned land.

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      Birth Date: 10 Jan 1605
      Birth Place: Lavenham, Suffolk, England
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