Mary Brown was born May 26, 1683 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts. She was the third child of Thomas Brown and Hannah Collins.
Excerpt from BROWN GENEALOGY, Vol II, by Cyrus Henry Brown (1915); pp. 25 & 26:
Mary Brown (19) dau. of Thomas (2) and Hannah Collins, son of Thomas (1) and Mary Newhall; she was the third child that was born in Stonington, Conn., May 26, 1683, at the "Pond Place" before described, the early home of this family in primeval days, her father being the first to stir the soil in this then wilderness of Stonington, now No. Stonington, and awake the echoes with his axe in this primitive forest. This takes us back to the beginnings of this oldest family of the Browns in Stonington.
Mary Brown married Thomas York on January 9, 1704, at Stonington. They had the following children, all born at Stonington:
Mary (Brown) York passed away about 1725, likely in Stonington.
Sources
History of the town of Stonington, county of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900 : with a genealogical register of Stonington families. By Richard Anson Wheeler. New London, Connecticut : Day Publishing Company, 1900; p. 696-7, no. 7: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n718/mode/1up
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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The merge of Brown-68273 and Brown-1814 should now proceed; her mother's profile, Collins-424, is now merged, so the 2nd note below has been addressed.
Brown-68273 and Brown-1814 are not ready to be merged because: Waiting for mothers to be merged, Hannah Collins (Collins-17383) and Hannah Brown (Collins-424)
Brown-68273 and Brown-1814 appear to represent the same person because: identical families, same birth, death is an estimate, no sources for data on Brown-68273
I adopted this orphaned profile since she is my 7th great grandmother. If you have additional information regarding her, I would be very interested in it.
b. 1660-02-01 d. 1723-12-27 and Hannah Brown (Collins-424) b. 1660-02-01 d. 1723-12-27 to be merged