Dinah (Spaulding) Brown (abt. 1650 - 1707)

Born about 14 Mar 1650 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Eleazer Brown — married 9 Feb 1674 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 11 Mar 1707 at about age 56 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Parents

Dinah was the daughter of Edward Spalding and his second wife Rachel.^{[1] [2]}

Birth & Baptism

Dinal Spalding was baptized 1 FEB 1656 at Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. ^[3]

• A note on Find a Grave states that her birth date of March 14, 1649/1650 was "calculated from Massachusetts Vital Records, Chelmsford Volume I, page 141 -- she was 7 years, 1 month, 14 days old on December 1, 1656 baptism."^[4]

The actual transcribed record is as follows: ^[5]

• Dinah, d. Edward, bp. 1: 12 m: 1656, a. 7 y. 14: 1 m: 1656.

Marriage

Dinah Spaulding married 9 FEB 1674 to Eleazer Brown at Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Property

On 26 JAN 1698/9, Dinah and her husband Eleazer Brown Sr., formerly of Chelmsford and now of Canterbury, New London, Connecticut, gave their son Eleazer Brown Jr., weaver of Concord, a small tenement and six acres of meadow and twelve acres of upland in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. ^[9]

Death

Dinah died 11 MAR 1706/7 and is buried at Cleaveland Cemetery in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. ^{[4] [10] [11]}

Sources

1. ↑ "North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000"Book Title: A history of the Allerton family in the United States, 1585 to 1885 : and a genealogy of the descendants
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61157 #1016493 (accessed 8 June 2022)
   Name: Dinah Spaulding; Gender: Female; Birth Date: 14 Mar 1649; Father: Edward Spaulding; Mother: Rachel.
2. ↑ Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 1, p. 200.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ27-69N : 15 January 2020), Dinah Spalding, 1656.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 17 December 2023), memorial page for Dinah Spaulding Brown (14 Mar 1649–11 Nov 1706), Find A Grave: Memorial #256511572, citing Cleaveland Cemetery, Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by MonasMoe (contributor 47872985).
5. ↑ Vital records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, p. 141.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-YBG9 : 10 November 2020), Dinah Spaulding in entry for Eleazer Brown, 9 Feb 1674; citing Marriage, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934228.
7. ↑ "The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011" July, 1897, page 308; Chelmsford Marriages.
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2129 #372138 (accessed 8 June 2022)
   Dinah Spaulding marriage to Eleaser Brown on 9 Feb 1674 in Chelmsford, USA.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #177786221 (accessed 8 June 2022)
   Dinah Spaulding marriage to Eliazer Browne on 9 Feb 1674 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
   • Spaulding, Stephen Waasa, How Edward Spalding, a Puritan Farmer from the Norfolk–Suffolk Border, Came to Prosper in New England, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2019) Vol. 173, WN 691, Page 231.
9. ↑ The centennial of the Social Circle in Concord: March 21, 1882 (Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1882) pp. 79-80.
10. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP4Y-4QLP : 20 June 2019), Dinah Brown, ; citing Death, , Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272222.
11. ↑ Ancestry - Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) Shows Husband on this record as Eleazer Brown