Eleazer Brown (1649 - 1720)

Born 6 Jul 1649 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Dinah (Spaulding) Brown — married 9 Feb 1674 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 22 Jan 1720 at age 70 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

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Biography

Eliezer is apparently the way Brown wrote his name. He was of Chelmsford and was made a freeman 11 Mar. 1673/4 [Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay..., v.4, pt. 2, p. 587], and he later served as one as one of Chelmsford's town clerks. In 1675-76 Eleazer Brown served in King Philip's War under Capt. Thomas Wheeler of Concord and was at Groton Garrison. [Bodge, G.M., Soldiers in King Philip's War...(3d ed., 1906), pp. 114, 360.] ...

The date, 26 April 1710, is the date of the marriage contract between Eleazer Brown and his second wife Rebecca, not the actual marriage date which would have been shortly after. His son Benjamin apparently died young as he is not mentioned in the will. Yes, Deacon Thomas Brown's dau. Zerviah (written Zeruiah in the will) married _____ Adams. I have not looked for that marriage. It may be in the Canterbury VRs. Will check sometime.

Eleazer Brown II was born in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts on July 6, 1649. He was the son of Thomas Browne and Bridget Bateman Browne.^[1][2]

Eleazer was married February 9, 1674/5^[3] in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, to Dinah Spaulding, daughter of Edward Spaulding and Rachel (Unknown) Spaulding.^[4][5][6][7]

Eleazer died January 22, 1720 in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut.^[1][8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} U S Find a Grave Index; memorial #11979073.
2. ↑ Pope, Charles Henry: "Pioneers of Massachusetts"; page 75
3. ↑ Spaulding, Stephen Waasa, How Edward¹ Spalding, a Puritan Farmer from the Norfolk–Suffolk Border, Came to Prosper in New England, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2019) Vol. 173, WN 691, Page 231.,https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image/?rId=1427840886&volumeId=58666&pageName=231&filterQuery=
4. ↑ NEHGS Register; volume 051 (1897) Chelmsford Marriages, page 308
5. ↑ Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 120-1988; Chelmsford Town and Land Records with Births, Marriages and Deaths, page 24
6. ↑ U S New England Marriages prior to 1700; page 105.
7. ↑ Yates Publishing Company, " U.S. and International Marriage Records,1560-1900" (Generations Network, Inc., Provo, Utah, USA, 2004)
8. ↑ Connecticut Town Death Records prior to 180 (Barbour Collection); Volume I, page 95.

• Spaulding, Stephen Waasa, How Edward¹ Spalding, a Puritan Farmer from the Norfolk–Suffolk Border, Came to Prosper in New England, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2019) Vol. 173, WN 691, Page 231.

• The Wilson Family Descendants of John Wilson, Mariner Together with an Account of the Brown Family by Gerald James Parsons, M.S.L.S. 1970, pg. 62.

• Genealogy of the Waldo Family a Record of the Descendants of Cornelius Waldo Waldo Lincoln A. B.

• Brown Family Crest http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=image&guid=4d4a79a8-abfd-4044-a34c-f7dbb51b3be6&tid=4478194&pid=-119877451

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Granberry Family and Allied Families (E. F. Waterman, Hartford, Conn., 1945) Page 144.

• Tolman, George. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Beacon Press, Boston, Mass., 1895) Page 5.