Thomas Brown

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact 1: Soldier in King Phillip's War
• Fact 2: Wounded in fight at Narrangansett Fort.
• Fact 3: Town Clerk in Concord, Massachusetts.

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).

Thomas married Ruth Vinton Wheeler on 12 Nov 1677 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Ruth (daughter of Capt. Thomas Wheeler and Ruth Wood) was born on 25 Apr 1650 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 9 Feb 1740 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]