Capt.
John
Brown
Esq.
aka Browne
Born about in Malford, Worcestershire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Nicholas (Browne) Brown
and Elizabeth (Leids) Brown
Brother of
Josiah Brown, Cornelius Browne, Edward Browne, Edward Brown, Elizabeth (Browne) Parker, Joseph Brown and Sarah (Brown) Foster
Husband of
Ann (Fiske) Brown
— married
30 May 1677 in Massachusetts
Husband of
Elizabeth (Bulkeley) Browne
— married
29 Mar 1682 in Massachusetts
Husband of
Rebecca (Crawford) Brown
— married
24 Jun 1697 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Father of
Anna (Brown) Emerson
Died
at about age 83
in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
Capt John Brown, son of Nicholos Brown and Elizabeth Leids, was born 1634 in Malford, Worcestershire, and died March 12, 1716/17 in Reading, Massachusetts.[1]
Marriages
John married 30 May 1677 to Anne Fiske [2] was born on 15 Jan 1646 in Malford, Worcester, England. She was the daughter of Reverend John Fiske and Anne Gipps. She died 30 May 1681 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [3]
John married 3d on 29 March 1682 to Elizabeth Bulkeley, born 1638 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [2] She was the daughter of Edward Bulkeley and Lucian Unknown. She 1st married 7 Dec 1665 in Concord, Middlesex, Mass to Joseph Emerson (b. 25 Jun 1620 in England – d. 3 Jan 1680 in Concord, Mass.). Elizabeth died on 4 Sep 1693 in Reading, Middlesex, Mass. [4]
John married 4th on 24 June 1697 to Rebecca Crawford, born about 1634. [2] [5]Rebecca died 8 July 1710, Reading, Massachusetts. [6] She was the daughter of John Crawford and Winifred Unknown. The widow of Samuel Sprague.
John lived on the farm now [1874] owned by Dr. Francis P. Hurd. He was Captain, Justice of the Peace, Selectman, and representative.
Death & Burial
He died on 11 March 1717 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [4] is buried in Old Burying Ground in Wakefield, Massachusetts. [7]
Inscription:
- To the Memory of Capt John Brown,
- Esqr. Who, after He had Served his generation
- By the will of God, fell Asleep
- March the 11th, 1717, Aged near 83 Years.
- Witty yet wise, grave, good, amonge ye best
- Was he (the memory of ye just is Blest),
- Prudent, a pattern, Pillar, and more say,
- A hearty morner for the Sins of the Day;
- Bless’d God, When Dying, That he feard not Death,
- His pious Soul Took Wings, gave up her Breath
- Dropt here her Mantle in the Silent Dust Which Waits the Resurrection of :the Just.
Capt. John Brown's likenamed contemporary at Reading, John Brown/Browne, was born about 1628. He died at Reading 27 July 1714 at about age 86.[8] The two are easily confused; fortunately, their respective wills -- naming family members -- clarify which is which.[9]
Sources
- ↑ Death: Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010). Reading p. 501
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 02 January 2021), memorial page for Anna Fiske Brown (15 Jan 1645–30 May 1681), Find A Grave: Memorial #21229368, citing Old Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by V. Nareen Lake (contributor 46613568) . citing Old Burying Ground in Wakefield, Massachusetts; the accompanying photographs by The Guardian are materially informative, but do not provide a legible image of the inscribed data: Inscription: Here lyes the body of Anna Fiske, first wife of Captian John Brown, Esquire, who dyed May 30, 1681, in her 36th year.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
- ↑ Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 02 January 2021), memorial page for Rebecca Crawford Brown (1633–8 Jul 1710),Find A Grave: Memorial #21241488, citing Old Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by V. Nareen Lake (contributor 46613568) . Find A Grave Memorial no. 68,955,520, citing Old Burying Ground in Wakefield, Massachusetts; the accompanying photographs by Robyn H. are materially informative, and provide a legible image of the inscribed data.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 02 January 2021), memorial page for Capt John Brown (1634–11 Mar 1717), Find A Grave: Memorial #22257450, citing Old Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by K Barrett (contributor 48210189) .citing Old Burying Ground in Wakefield, Massachusetts; the accompanying photographs by Jack Parker and The Guardian are materially informative, and provide a legible image of the inscribed data.
- ↑ Thomas Williams Baldwin, comp. Vital records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Co., 1912), page 501. Digital copy from www.Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofre00inread. Accessed 3 Oct 2016.
- ↑ Probate record (including will) of Capt. John Brown (NEHGS): Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/i/14460/3066-co1/263792919 (subscription)
- Death (alt. transcript): “Capt John Browne Esqr Departed This life March 12th Day 1717 . in The 83 year of his age”: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG12-4R8F : 29 November 2018), John Brown, 12 Mar 1717; citing Death, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009686.
- Will and probate record (NEHGS): Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/i/14460/3066-co1/38190725 (subscription)
See also:
- Johnson, Amandus. New Sweden: Lists of Officers, Soldiers, Servants and Settlers in New Sweden. Philadelphia: N.p., 1911. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1969; Appendix B, pp. 699-726.), p. 717.
- DAR Magazine (Jan 1934), President General, Mrs. Eldred Martin Yochim, ((Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1975); ISBN: 0-8063-0681-5; LC CALL NO.: CS68.E83; FORMAT: Book; LCCN: 75-15398 (Daughters of the American Revolution, 68:156, Jan 1934)), 929/.373., 57:349 1936-Boston Transcript No. 2697.
- George Norbury MacKenzie. Americana: Colonial Families of the United States of America. Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD (1907-1920) repr. 1995, GPC #3590, 19:221, H 44:281.
- Stephen Babcock. Babcock Genealogy. Boston:MA, NEHGS, 1903. NEHGS
- Frank William Sprague. Sprague: Ralph and William Sprague (NEHGR -April 1909), NEHGS, Boston, MA: April 1909,, vol 63:147-158), 63:147
- Eaton, Lilley. List of Early Settlers of Reading and South Reading, Mass., From 1640 to 1700, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1848) Vol. 2, Page 46. "Capt. John Brown, Esq., died 1717, age 82"
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
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Rejected matches › John Browne (-abt.1684) › John C. Brown › John Brown (abt.1640-abt.1673) › John Browne (1632-bef.1677) › John Brown (abt.1834-1921) › John Brown › John Brown › John Henry Brown Sr. (1781-1855) › John Brown › John Dunlap Brown (1759-1834) › John Brown › John Todd Brown (1911-1985) › John Abel Brown (1852-1926) › John Brown (abt.1780-) › John Henry Brown (1857-) › John Browne (abt.1639-aft.1678) › John Brown › John Brown › John Christopher Brown › John Brown (1803-)
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Whitney, Charles Carrell, (1832-) "Some Brown genealogy; being some of the descendants of John Brown, one of the early settlers of Reading, Mass." pub 1897. E-book in the public domain at: https://archive.org/details/somebrowngenealo00whit/page/n10/mode/1up/search/early+reading%2C+middlesex%2C+massachusetts?q=early+reading%2C+middlesex%2C+massachusetts
PLEASE NOTE: That John Browne's will names these children: Elezebeth Hazeldon, Hanah Parker, _Martha Ffarington_, Mary Brown, Nathaniel Browne, and _John Browne_ (left only 5 shillings because he is a Stubborn Dissobedentt And a Rebelyous Son To me.). The will does not name his wife, but his (second) wife and Relect widdo Sarah Browne/Brown (both spellings appear in the document) signed a quitclaim on 29 July 1714 which is included in the probate file. (Possibly the marriage to Sarah was very late, occurring after the will was drafted in 1709; or there may be another reasons she is not in the will: I'll be researching this.) Two of the children named in this profile -- Martha and John -- belong to this other John Browne. Only daughter Anna (see below) belongs here.
THE WILL OF THIS 1634-1717 JOHN BROWN(E), made 18 February 1712/13 and proved 29 April 1717, NAMES ONLY THESE INDIVIDUALS: brother Josiah Browns son John Brown, my cousen Cornelious Brown, my son in Law Ebenezer Emerson, my cousen Mary Gould ye daughter of my my brother Cornelious Brown, Mrs. Peirpoint ye relict of ye reverend Mr. Jonathan Peirpont, _my Loving Son & Daughter Peter & Anna Emerson_ and ye children of my daughter by my son Emerson, and (as overseers) my cousens John Woodward & Nicolas Brown. The will does not name a wife.
Tracing the family of "the other" John Browne through the next two generations is something of a nightmare, and I have now been in it for nearly two weeks. It turns out that the lost John Brown of Brown-1129, merged away last July, _still has a profile on WikiTree_ under the spelling Browne: John Browne. _The first of the four wives shown in this profile, Elizabeth Osgood Brown -- as well as the children Martha and John -- also appears to belong to Brown-2283._ I will verify this before making the switch.
Please let me know of any objections or concerns. I am treading as carefully as I can with these Brown(e) lines; I wish to ensure I am not stepping on any toes. All feedback is welcome.