Anna (Gardner) Brown (1772)

Born 16 Jan 1772 in Machias, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Philbrick Brown — married Oct 1790 in Machias, Washington, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Anna Gardner was born at Machias, Maine, 16 Jan 1772, the daughter of David Gardner and Zeruiah Huntley. ^{[1] [2] [3]} married at Machias, Oct 1790, Philbrook Brown, ^{[4] [3]} born at Machias, 31 Jan 1766, the son of James Brown and Anna (_____), her identity not established; ^[5] died at Saint Stephen, New Brunswick, before 18 Oct 1794; ^[6]

Washington County [Maine] Deeds, Vol. 1-2 1785-1800, pp. 296, 319:

1788, 14 Aug: James AVERY of Machias, Lincoln Co., Massachusetts, Esq., for 25 pounds paid by Philbrook BROWN of Machias in said county, yeoman, conveyes 1/2 of a first Division lot of upland in said Machias containing 25 acres, which AVERY holds by virtue of a grant made by the proprietors of Machias in 1784, the said land to be taken up and laid out in Gardner's Stream between Mark SCOTT's and Jabez HUNTLEY's lots. Delivered in presence of Amasa LEWIS, James BROWN.

1793, 14 Jun: James AVERY of Machias in Washington Co., ME, Esq., for 25 pounds paid by Philbrook BROWN of said Machias, yeoman, conveys 1/4 part of a privilege for a single saw mill at a place called Gardners Stream in said Machias, being the upper privilege where said GARDNER has erected a new Mill being 1/8 part of the whole of said privilege, with the Dam and all the rights of the said eight part.

Sources

1. ↑ Mrs. Beulah G. Jackman, Earliest Records of Machias, Maine (1767-1827) (Concord, NH, 1937?, 55 pages), p. 7
2. ↑ Gladys Hall Forslund, The History of Whiting, Maine (Advertiser Publishing Company, Calais, Maine, 1975, 95 pages), p. 79
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Memorial of the Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of Machias (C. O. Furbush, Machias, 1863, 179 pages), p. 163. Cit. Date: 15 Oct 2022.
4. ↑ Jackman, op. cit., p. 32. Cit. Date: 11 May 2020.
5. ↑ Jackman, op. cit., p. 3. Cit. Date: 11 May 2020.
6. ↑ Arnold E. Krause, Forest of Trees: Loyalist Descendants of New Brunswick and Maine "Plus Others" (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=aek740a), Philbrook Brown. Cit. Date: 11 May 2020.