Ruhamah (Wellington) Brown (abt. 1680 - 1772)

Born about 1680 in Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Browne — married 15 Nov 1699 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 15 Jul 1772 at about age 92 in Lexington, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

“Joseph Brown m. in Wat. Nov. 15, 1699, Ruhamah Wellington, dau. of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Sweetman) Wellington, of that place. ... He d. in Lex. Jan. 11, 1764, aged 86. She d. July 1, 1772, aged 91. They lived together, husband and wife, 64 years.”^[1]

“Ruhamah, b. ---; m. Nov. 15, 1699, Dea. Joseph Brown, then of Wat., but afterwards of Lexington. She d. July 1, 1772, aged 92.”^[2]

She died 15 July 1772 and is buried in the Old Burying Ground, Lexington, Middlesex Co, MA.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ History of the Town of Lexington (Genealogical Register, page 27).
2. ↑ History of the Town of Lexington (Genealogical Register, page 254).
3. ↑ Date on the gravestone: Ruhamah Brown at Find A Grave: Memorial #16639420;
   Lexington Epigraphs (page 16)
   However, Hudson's History of the Town of Lexington (Genealogical Register, page 27, page 254), Lexington Records (Record of Deaths, page 168), Bond's Genealogies (page 145 and page 628) and Fleming (volume 5, page 20) all give the date of death as 1 July 1772.

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28L-9GY3 : 22 July 2021), Ruhamah Wellington in entry for Jonas Brown and Hannah Munroe, 28 May 1734; citing Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 927,923.
• Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1855.
• Brown, Francis H. Lexington Epigraphs: A Copy of Epitaphs in the Old Burying-Grounds of Lexington, Massachusetts. The Lexington Historical Society, Spatula Press, Boston, 1905.
• R. P. Clapp, C. A. Staples, and G. O. Smith, editors. Lexington, Massachusetts, Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths to January 1, 1898. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1898.
• Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from its First Settlement to 1868, with a Genealogical Register of Lexington Families. Boston: Wiggin & Lunt, 1868.
• Fleming, George T. History of Pittsburgh and Environs. The American Historical Society, New York and Chicago, 1922.