Jedediah Brown III (1752 - 1815)

Born 17 Dec 1752 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Wheeler) Brown — married 30 Jun 1778 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States

Died 13 Mar 1815 at age 62 in North Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA

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Biography

Jedediah Brown, son of Jedediah and his wife Annah (Holmes) Brown was born December 17, 1752. He married Sarah Wheeler, daughter of Jeremiah and Anna (Pellet) Wheeler, June 30, 1778 at Stonington, Connecticut.^[1]

Jedidiah served in the army of the American Revolution, in Capt. Oliver Smith"s regiment of the Connecticut militia, in the campaign at New York, in the year 1776, from Sept. 8 to Nov. 17 of that year and were honorably discharged. He survived till the close of the Revolutionary War and the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. He is interred with his family in Union Cemetery in No. Stonington.

Jedediah and Sarah's known children were:^[1]

1. Jedediah, born April 20, 1778; was called Dyre Brown; died September 6, 1855, at age 76
2. Wheeler, born December 5, 1779
3. Russell, born January 29, 1782
4. Rowland, born February 7, 1784
5. Sally, born March 31, 1787
6. Shepard, born April 21, 1790
7. Coddington, born April 24, 1792
8. Patty, born February 19, 1794
9. Nancy, born September 2, 1799

Source

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Brown, Cyrus Henry, Brown Genealogy, Many of the Descendants of Thomas, John and Eleazar Brown, 1628-1907, published 1907. Reference Volume 1, pages 23-4

• History of the Town of Stonington 1649-1900, By Richard Wheeler 1900 pg 641 (shows Sarah's parentage and marriage)

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