Phebe (Harding) Brown (abt. 1612 - aft. 1672)

Born about 1612 in England

Wife of John Browne — married 26 Mar 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died after 15 Apr 1672 after about age 60 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

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Phebe (Harding) Brown migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 150) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Parentage

Phebe's parentage is unknown. There is no reason to believe that she was the daughter of John Harding who, according to Wilbur H. Harding's 1925 Hardings in America, died in Northampton, England in 1637. There is no evidence that that John Harding had a daughter named Phebe. In addition, as described in John Harding's profile, there is no reliable evidence that any of his children emigrated to New England, and Wilbur J. Harding's claims to the contrary appear to have been speculative fabrications.

Date and Place of Birth

Phebe's date and place of birth are uncertain. Based on her date of marriage, she was probably born sometime in 1608-1616, with about 1612 being a reasonable midpoint estimate. Based on her date of birth, she was almost certainly born somewhere in England.

Marriage

Phebe married John Browne on March 26, 1634.^[1][2][3][4]

Children

Phebe and John had the following child:

1. Remember, b. about 1648 in Duxbury, m. about 1668 Josiah Wormall^[2][5]

There is no evidence that Phebe and John had any other children.^[2][5] However, they were guardian's for Priscilla Brown, the daughter of John's brother Peter Brown, for several years before her marriage.^[5]

Death

Phebe's date and place of death are uncertain. Since she is mentioned as a living person in her husband's will dated April 15, 1672,^[2] she died sometime after that date, most likely in Duxbury.

Sources

1. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England. Court Orders: Vol. I. 1633-1640. 1855. p. 26. Link to page at archive.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Volume I A-F. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. pp. 257-259. Link to pages at ancestry.com.
3. ↑ Royal Ralph Hinman, A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut (Hartford: Tiffany and Company, 1852), p. 352, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=KTkBAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA352. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 1 January 2016).
4. ↑ “Plymouth Colony records, court orders, 1633-1690”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3S3-4QXJ-Z : 3 April 2023), , FHL microfilm 008492483, image 41, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Vol 1-3, 166-1640, Page 59.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} "A genealogical profile of John Brown," plimoth.org