John
Brown
Jr.
Born in England
Ancestors 
Son of John (Browne) Brown
and Dorothy (Unknown) Browne
Brother of
Mary (Browne) Willett and James Browne
Husband of
Lydia (Buckland) Lord
— married
5 Nov 1659 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Died
at about age 32
in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
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Biography
This John Brown is clearly John Browne Jr., as his parents are John and Dorothy (Unknown) Browne. John Brown Jr. also known as John Brown (II) and as Ensign John Browne, died "the last day of March, 1662, ten days before his father's death." [1] John Browne Jr.'s siblings are Mary and James. [1]
John Browne married twice. [1]
The name of his first wife is not known. [1] They had four children: John, Lydia, Anna (or Hannah) and Joseph. [1]
His second wife is Lydia Buckland, daughter of William Buckland, married after April 9, 1658 and before 1660. [1] They had a son, Nathaniel Browne, born 9 June 1661. [1]
Death
Death: Mar 1661/1662, Wannamoisett, Massachusetts
His will is dated "last day of March in the year 1662", being sick. He mentions his father-in-law, William Buckland, his wife (but doesn't name her), his five children, his eldest son John Browne, and others he did not name, his brother, James Browne, and his father, John Browne. His inventory dated 19 April 1662 was exhibited to the Plymouth Court on 3 October 1662.[2]
Wannamoisett, Massachusetts: "Wannomoisset -TRACT. Viall region, head of Bullock's Cove, near which, on the Warren and Providence road, was the residence of Thomas Willett, who was buried on the east bank of the cove." [3]
Thomas Willett married Mary Browne, daughter of John Browne. [1] John Browne about 1638 removed from "Plymouth to Cohanet. [1] Cohanet was incorporated by the name of Taunton March 3, 1639. [1] From Taunton he removed to Rehoboth where he became a great proprietor of Wannamoisett, included in the ancient Swansea." [1]
Children
By first wife ____ ____. Born in Rehoboth in the part now called Swansea.[4]
- 1. John Browne b. 27 Sep 1650; d. 1709; m. Ann Mason
- 2. Lydia Browne b. Aug 1656; d. 1728; m. William Parker
- 3. Anna/Hannah Browne b. 29 Jan 1657; m. Hezekiah Willett
- 4. Joseph Browne, b. 9 Apr 1658; d. 1731; m. Hannah Fitch.
By second wife, Lydia (Buckland)[4]
- 5. Nathaniel Browne b. 9 June 166; d. 1739; m. several times.
Sources
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 John Browne, gentleman, of Plymouth, page 14, 22, 25, 33-34
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-VQQ6 : 8 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 285 of 616; State Archives, Boston.
- ↑ American Indian Place Names In Rhode Island: Past & Present
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Early New England Families, 1641-1700. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB501/i/56539/3/1425839969
- John Browne, gentleman, of Plymouth, (and one branch of descendants to the 12th generation) assistant, commissioner, magistrate, pioneer in New England colonial life, by George Tilden Brown, database online, InternetArchive, (Providence, Rhode Island, Remington Press, 1919), Page 14, 22, 25, 33-34.
- American Indian Place Names In Rhode Island: Past & Present, database online, RootsWeb, a US GenWeb Project
- Early Families of New England. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) John Browne, Jr.
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John Browne Jr.'s eldest child was born by 1650, so he was not the John Browne who married Anne Dennis in 1655 either.
There were so many men named John Browne at that time in Massachusetts and region.
Charles Robert Anderson asserts that the name of John Brown's first wife is unknown, either her first or her last name.
See Great Migration page 426 (revised version) at American Ancestors, NEHGS.
"Burial" Perhaps there is a typo, but under Burial, it says 1611, Lancaster, Massachusetts. Even the Pilgrims didn't land until 1620, and Lancaster, Mass. was founded 1643.
It is not disputed that John Browne, Jr. died March 31, 1662 at Rehoboth. He was buried at Little Neck Cemetery.
"The cemetery was founded in 1655, when the area was part of Rehoboth, Massachusetts" (Wikipedia).
"Birth" There is no evidence that John Browne, Sr. lived at Rhode Island. There was a different Browne family in Rhode Island (Rev. Browne).
John Browne Sr. immigrated about 1633, was made a freeman of Plymouth 1634.
Rhode Island was not founded until 1636.
[and whose father John Browne, Sr. lived first at Plymouth, (freeman 1634), then at Cohannet in 1638 (name changed to Taunton in 1639), and finally settled on the great plantation Wannamoisett (at Rehoboth) and died there April 10, 1662 - ten days after John Browne, Jr.]
was not born in Rhode Island. John Jr. was about ten years old when his father settled in Plymouth. It was a different Browne family in Rhode Island.
Thank you.
Also he married Lydia in Rehoboth, Mass. where her father had a plantation in 1656, not in England.
Please merge into the lower of the duplicate profile ID#s which is Browne-31. Thank you. When the merges are all completed the final profile will have accumulated all the necessary sources, which are currently scattered among several.
Lydia Buckland was the 2nd wife of John Browne. His first wife died after 8 9, 1658, when her last child was born, and before 1660, when John Browne's brother wrote a letter referring to his second wife. Lydia's son Nathaniel with John Browne was born 9 June 1661. They likely married in 1660, when a marriage settlement was completed. All of this was in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Please see the sources on Browne-505 and on Browne-578 to verify these facts.
Please change the marriage date to about 1660, the location to Rehoboth, Massachusetts (where Lydia Buckland's father William had property also). Thank you, April Dauenhauer.
Also, the merges of Browne-1001, and Brown-18335 and Browne-578 and Browne-578 into Browne-31 should be approved and completed. Thank you.