Jeremiah Brown is the third son of Rev. Chad Browne and Elizabeth Sharparowe.[1][2] The date of his birth is unknown. His elder brother, John, was born in 1630. Sources indicate John was the only child that accompanied his parents to America in 1638. Therefore as third child his birthday is estimated to be after 1639.
Marriages
Jeremiah first married Mary who last name is unknown, [2] though the present Wikitree link to his first spouse presently identifies her maiden surname, without evidence, as Gardiner.
His second wife was Mary (Sherman) Cook, the widow of Thomas Cook. They had one child James.[2]
On 6 September 1687 he is cited on Gov. Andros' tax roll at Rochester, (Kingstown) Rhode Island owing a “pole” (poll) tax of 1 s, and a property tax of 1s 2d. This tax record places him as an adult resident and as a property landholder in Kingstown, RI on this date. [3][2] This tax roll identifies a sum total of 136 heads of house living in the roughly 22.5 square mile area associated with Kingstown, RI on this date in 1687; one consequence of this sparse population is that he would have been well acquainted with many, if not all, of the individuals identified on this list. The list is a defacto definition of the people who were available to be his friends, neighbors, and allies; it would be essential to cultivate strong working relationships with these neighbors in order to survive on this frontier landscape. This cross reference tool provides hot links to peruse most of the 136 Wikitree families identified in this tax roll; families who were very frequently interconnected, or became interconnected, by marriage over the course of their lives and throughout the ensuing generations, further binding a network of neighbors into extended families. [4]
Jeremiah Brown died between 16 Sep and 30 Oct 1690 and was buried in the Common Burying Ground, in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. [5]
Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1920). The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Vol. 1. New York: The American Historical Society. pp. 177,196. https://books.google.com/books?id=El0EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA177. Note: Jeremiah is not mentioned in this source. His father Chad is mentioned.
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I found the following information contained in the Chad Browne Memorial Book: JEREMIAH BROWN,
THIRD SON OF CHAD.
Th_e information concerning Jeremiah Brown, third son of
Chad and Elizabeth, is meagre, and is derived wholly from
Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. He removed
to Newport, R. I., where 'he died m 161)0, between Sept. 16 aud
Oct. 30th. Nothing is known of hfs first wife but her name-
Mary. He in. 2d, about 1680, Mary Cook, widow of Thomas,
who survived him. It is certain that he had o~e son, James, by
,trade a cooper, who in 1693, sold to William Gibson, of Kings
Town, for £12, certain land in Providence given by last will of
his father, Jeremiah. Possibly, S~!!!filll, Daniel and William
Brown, of Kings Town, were his sons, but of this there is no
proof." He was living in Kings 'l'own in 1687, as he was taxed
there on Sept. 6, 2s. 2d. He probably returned to Newport.
He was Freeman in 1671, served on the Grand Jury in 1686,
and in 1690, Sept. 16, with two others, was appointed by the
Assembly to proportion the rate of tax for Kings Town's part of
mo~e.;....:::}_z~.,a-. Indian War.
THIRD SON OF CHAD. Th_e information concerning Jeremiah Brown, third son of Chad and Elizabeth, is meagre, and is derived wholly from Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. He removed to Newport, R. I., where 'he died m 161)0, between Sept. 16 aud Oct. 30th. Nothing is known of hfs first wife but her name- Mary. He in. 2d, about 1680, Mary Cook, widow of Thomas, who survived him. It is certain that he had o~e son, James, by ,trade a cooper, who in 1693, sold to William Gibson, of Kings Town, for £12, certain land in Providence given by last will of his father, Jeremiah. Possibly, S~!!!filll, Daniel and William Brown, of Kings Town, were his sons, but of this there is no proof." He was living in Kings 'l'own in 1687, as he was taxed there on Sept. 6, 2s. 2d. He probably returned to Newport. He was Freeman in 1671, served on the Grand Jury in 1686, and in 1690, Sept. 16, with two others, was appointed by the Assembly to proportion the rate of tax for Kings Town's part of mo~e.;....:::}_z~.,a-. Indian War.