David Brown (1744 - bef. 1833)

Ancestors Descendants

Biography

David Brown was born at Eastham, Massachusetts, 3 Dec 1744, the son of Jesse Brown and Elizabeth Walker; d at Milbridge, Maine; m (1) at Falmouth, Maine, 15 Dec 1768, Sally Jordan; m (2) c1781, Hannah Alden, b at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, 1 Dec 1752, the daughter of David Alden and Elizabeth Thorndike; m (3) c1798, Abigail Alden, sister of Hannah, b at Cape Elizabeth, 25 Dec 1777. David lived in Cape Elizabeth, before settling on #5, then called Narraguagus. He served in the Revolutionary War as sergeant in Capt. joseph Sevey's Co., Col. Benjamin Foster's Regiment, later as lieutenant in Capt. John Hall's Co.^[1][2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHK2-M8V : accessed 2 September 2019), David Brown, Township East of Machias, Washington, Maine, United States; citing p. 183, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 2; FHL microfilm 568,142.
2. ↑ Edited by Ruth Gray, Joseph Cook Anderson II, Lois Ware Thurston, C.G., et al, Maine Families in 1790 (Maine Genealogical Society, Picton Press, Rockport, ME), Vol. I, p. 25
3. ↑ Darryl B. Lamson & Leonard F. Tibbets, Early Narraguagus River Families of Washington County, Maine (Picton Press, Rockport, Maine, 2002), Vol. 1, p. 63; Vol. 2, p. 1051