Dorothy (Bagley) Brown (abt. 1720 - 1770)

Ancestors

Wife of Jacob Morrill — married 12 Nov 1754 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died Sep 1770 at about age 50 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Elizabeth (36. VII.) daughter of Ezekiel and Elizabeth Wentworth, was married by Rev. Nicholas Sever of Dover, N.H. 3 November 1713 to Nathanial Brown, brother to Col. Paul's (32) wife, and son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Fellows) Brown of Salisbury, Mass. He was born 24 July 1689, and died 5 August, 1747. She died 9 March, 1737.

Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Wentworth) Brown had children:

1. 179. Nathaniel Brown, born 19 January 1715; married, 23 March 1738, Dorothy Bagley and died at Salisbury, Mass. 14 November 1752. They had:

1. Elizabeth Brown, born 31 January 1739; married 25 December 1755, William Page of South Hampton, N.H.

2. Abra Brown, born 31 August 1741; married 6 February 1759, Oliver Morrill of South Hampton or Epping, N.H.

3. Dorothy Brown, born 12 January 1744; married 16 (or 17) August 1778; Michael Worthen of Chester N.H.

4. Sarah Brown, born 14 November 1745; married 10 October 1765, John Knapp

5. Judith Brown, born 14 February 1748; married 13 February 1779 Jonathan Morse.

6. Nathaniel Brown, born 19 June 1750.

7. Orlando Brown, born 2 April 1753, married 24 May 1778, Mary Hotchkiss.

2. 80. Elizabeth Brown, born 17 August 1716; married 8 December 1742, Joseph Hubbard.

3. 81. Abra Brown, born 20 January 1720; died 16 April 1727

4. 82. Ezekiel Brown, born 10 October 1721; married 1st, 15 December 1743, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Morrill) Brown, who was born 29 September 1724, and died 1 December 1771. He married 2d, 15 September 1772, Hannah Weld. He died 22 March 1774, in Epping, N.H. where he had resided for several years.

They had children:

1. Benjamin Brown, born 26 October 1746; died young.

2. Elizabeth Brown, born 7 May 1748

3. Ezekiel Brown, born 6 January 1752

4. Benjamin Brown, born 30 January 1755; married Abigail Morrill, of Epping, N.H.

5. Mary Brown, born 17 May 1757

6. Paul Brown, born 15 August 1759; married 4 February, 1783, Sarah Gunnison, and died 9 January 1810 at Epping, N.H. He left children.

7. Nathaniel Brown, born 5 July 1761; married 17 Feb 1785, Jemima Rowell

8. Betsey Brown, born 15 January 1763

9. Sarah Brown, born 20 February 1766; married 4 February 1783, Jonathan Prescott.

5. 183 Benjamin Brown, born 3 March 1725; died young.

6. 184. Paul Brown, born 6 December 1728; married Sarah, daughter of Rev. James Pike, of Somersworth, N.H.; he lived at Salmon Falls, N.H. and died there childless. By will, made 8 May 1786, and proved 20 June 1787, he gave all his property to his wife. She made her will in May 1787, which much have been immediately after his death; but it was not proved until 28 January 1799. She willed to her brothers Daniel and John Pike, sistery Betsey, wife of Joseph Roberts; sister Abigail, wife of Rev. Avery Hall and to Paul Brown, son of late Ezekiel, who was brother to her husband. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "The Wentworth Genealogy comprising The Origin of the name, the Family in England and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the Emigrant and of his descendants". By John Wentworth, LL.D., of Chicago, Ill. In Two Volumes, Volume 1. 1870 Press of Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, Mass. pages 134-136

• "Massachusetts Town Births Index, ca. 1630-1905", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHRS-ZQK : 22 October 2020), Capt. Jacob in entry for Dorothy Morrill, 1770.