Joseph
Brownell
Born in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Brownell
and Esther (Taber) Brownell
Brother of
Elizabeth Brownell, Thomas Brownell Jr, Sarah (Brownell) Wing, Esther (Brownell) Tefft, Content (Brownell) Cornell, Rebecca Brownell and Bridget Brownell
Husband of
Unknown (Tripp) Brownell
— married
about 1722 [location unknown]
Husband of
Leah (Lawton) Brownell
— married
3 Jun 1736 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay
Husband of
Hannah (Bowdish) Brownell
— married
24 Feb 1748 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay
Husband of
Experience (Gifford) Brownell
— married
about 6 Mar 1755 in Little Compton, Rhode Island [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Father of
Robert Brownell, Jeremiah Brownell, Peleg Brownell, Sarah (Brownell) Peckham, Joseph Brownell, Stephen Brownell, Mercy Mary Brownell and Hannah Brownell
Died after
after age 70
in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island
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Biography
Joseph was a Friend (Quaker)
Joseph was born on 13 Feb 1699 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island. He was the son of Thomas Brownell and Esther (Taber) Brownell.[1][2]
He married about 1730 a daughter of Peleg Tripp. Peleg's will dated 1753, names among others son-in-law Joseph Brownell (named executor), grandsons Robert Brownell, Peleg Brownell and Jeremiah Brownell and granddaughter Sarah Peckham. The children named by Peleg Tripp would be children of Joseph by his first marriage.[1][3]
Joseph married again in Dartmouth 6 March 1755 Experience Gifford,[4] born in Dartmough 21 August 1715, died after 10 June 1769, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Tompkins) Gifford.[1]
21 April 1753, Joseph Brownell, of Dartmouth, yeoman, sold land to his son Robert Brownell.[1]
20 May 1762, Joseph, now of Little Compton, sold land to his son Jeremiah. This parcel of land was given to Joseph by his father in law Peleg Tripp.[1]
He died after 10 Jun 1769 (date of will) and before 6 April 1733 (will proved) in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island.[1]
His will is dated 10 June 1769 and proved on 6 April 1773 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. He named his wife Experience and the children listed below.[5] His inventory was also taken on 6 April 1773.[5]
Children
- Children of Joseph Brownell named in his will in this order:
- The first four were the grandchildren of Peleg Tripp.
- Robert Brownell. 21 April 1753 deed indicates he was probably over 21 so born before 1732
- Peleg Brownell.
- Sarah Brownell. m. Peckham, deceased in 1769
- Jeremiah Brownell. 1762 deed indicates born before 1741.
- Joseph Brownell
- Mary Brownell. m. Crandle
- Hannah Brownell
- Stephen Brownell
Research Notes
The above wives, ____ Tripp and Experience, are named by the Mayflower Society. Two wives members of the Society of Friends married a Joseph son of Thomas and Esther. They could fit. They were both deceased in the right time frame to allow for the next wife, and they had respectively three children and one child (Hannah), which nicely fits the four children who were not children of the first wife.
He married Leah Caton [/Laton/Lawton], daughter of George and Mary of Dartmouth, on 3d 4m 1736 [3 Jun 1736].[6][7] Leah's father, George, wrote his will in 1750, indicating that daughter Leah Brownell was deceased. He left her three children (names not specified) £10 each.[8]
He married Hannah Bowdish, daughter of William and Mercy Bowdish of Dartmouth, on 24d 12m 1747/8 [24 Feb 1748].[9][10] Hannah's father, William, in his will written in 1750 made a bequest "unto my grand Daughter Hannah Brownell Daughter of Joseph Brownell When of Seven years old" [11]
Page at American Ancestors listing sources used in MF5 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2728/i/53443/366/72504415
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Wood, Ralph V., Jr.; Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, The First Five Generations. (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1999), pp. 140, 365
- ↑ Arnold, James N. Vital record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 : a family register for the people. (Providence [Rhode Island] : Narragansett Historical, 1893) Vol 4 Newport, Section 6, p. 86: digital image, FamilySearh, (www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/182750/459 : accessed June 2023)
- ↑ Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate files, Vol 17, 1760-1762, Peleg Tripp, p. 337-340; digital image, FamilySearch, Film # 007703536, ( https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-3D5N?i=564&cat=277787 : accessed June 2023)
- ↑ Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Vol 2 p. 198. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7690/198/140849009
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649137_00354). Rhode Island, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 [database on-line], image 353-356, Newport, Little Compton, Book 2 page 226-228 (will) & 230-231 (inventory). Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
- ↑ Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 281.
- ↑ Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Vol 2 p. 293. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7690/293/140851147
- ↑ Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate files, Vol 13, 1751-1754, George Lawton, p. 370; digital image, FamilySearch, Film # 007703534, ( https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9Y5-Y93R-R?i=548&cat=277787: accessed June 2023)
- ↑ Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 353.
- ↑ Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Vol 2 p. 73. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7690/73/140845870
- ↑ Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate files, Vol 14, 1754-1756, William Bowdish, p. 379; digital image, FamilySearch, Film # 007703535, (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-4QZM?i=197&cat=277787 : accessed June 2023)
- Wood, Ralph V., Jr.; Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, The First Five Generations. (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1999), pp. 140, 365
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While this Joseph did name a son Joseph in his will, that son is not the one attached here. Indeed, the one attached here is attached to the mother Ruth Cornell, who was not one of the wives of this Joseph. Joseph and Ruth Cornell recorded children in Portsmouth, and they are not the same children as those mentioned in the will of this man (not to mention the fact that Joseph and Ruth Cornell recorded a child in 1736, after the birth of this Joseph's son Robert).