Samuel BROWN (20 Nov 1720-May 1794) +
Susannah KNOWLES (1726-3 May 1789)

Mary (21 Apr 1746-????)

Jonathan (15 Sep 1747-1828) — m. Sarah Moulton; m. Abigail Moulton Basford about 1823

Fenia prob. Tryphena (24 Aug 1750-????)

Joseph (Oct 1752-18 Nov 1754)

Samuel, Jr. (11 Nov 1754-3 Jul 1827) — m. Sarah “Sally” Paine; m. ?? Robinson in 182x

Suse prob. Susannah (14 Dec 1756-????)

Joseph (23 Feb 1758-13 Dec 1802) — m. Lydia Hall in 1782; m. Lydia Mace

John (20 Nov 1760-5 Sep 1822) — m. Comfort Jenness on 25 Oct 1785

Feene (3 Feb 1763-????)

David (17 Sep 1765-1838) — m. Elizabeth Nay

Samuel was born in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, the son of Joseph Brown from Rye, New Hampshire and Elizabeth Moulton from either Rye or Hampton. Some records refer to him as Doctor Samuel Brown.

Susannah was the daughter of John Knowles (14 May 1686-23 Dec 1759) and Tryphena Locke (~1692-????), who married on 31 Dec 1713 in Hampton.

Samuel and Susannah married on 17 or 18 July 1745 in Rye, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Their first two children were born in Rye. The rest were born in Chester, where they resided for most of their lives.

Susannah died in 1789. Samuel reportedly died in 1794 in Bradford, Massachusetts. Their burial locations are unknown.

NOTE: There was a different Samuel Brown (1719-1790), son of Samuel Brown Sr. and Elizabeth Meloon, who married Mary Philbrick and Elizabeth Kenniston and died in Hampton.

Children

Mary Brown (1746-????)

No information.

Jonathan Brown (1747-1828)

Jonathan has his own entry in the family tree.

Fenia Brown (1750-????)

No information, except to suggest that her proper name was probably Tryphena for her maternal grandmother.

Joseph Brown (1752-1754)

Joseph died in childhood.

Samuel Brown, Jr. (1754-1827)

Samuel, Jr. was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He settled in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and married Sally Paine (17 Oct 1755-26 Oct 1819), daughter of Amos Paine. Their children:

Richard (20 Dec 1779-8 Mar 1858) — m. Betsy Shute

Samuel (16 Feb 1781-????) — prob. m. Sarah Sanborn on 9 Nov 1820

David (20/24 Mar 1782-15 Jun 1846) — m. Hannah Weeks on 6 Mar 1806; m. Betsey Weeks on 4 May 1810; m. Sally Gooch on 3 Dec 1820

Sarah (21 Mar 1784-????) — m. Mark Prescott

Jonathan (11 Jan 1786-????) — m. Lydia Smith on 1 Jan 1812

Amos (4 Jan 1788-????)

Hannah (14 Jun 1789-????) — m. Joseph Farnham

Ebenezer (30 Jun 1792-26 Oct 1864) — m. Susanna Taylor on 25 Dec 1817

unknown name (22 Dec 1796-????)

Sally died in 1819. Samuel married a woman named Robinson. He died in 1827. His burial location is unknown.

Susannah Brown (1756-????)

No information.

Joseph Brown (1758-1802)

Joseph, named for his older brother who died young and/or for their grandfather, married Lydia Hall (1765-15 Dec 1790), daughter of Caleb Hall, in 1782. They lived in Poplin. Their children, according to History of old Chester [N.H.] from 1719 to 1869 by Benjamin Chase, pages 476-477:

Sarah ()

Abraham () — “went to Maine”

Samuel () — “went to Maine”

Betsy () — m. Moses Chase

After Lydia's death, Joseph married Lydia Mace, and had several more children. He died in 1802.

John Brown (1760-1822)

John married Comfort Jenness (????-30 Oct 1846) on 25 Oct 1785. And then?

Feene Brown (1763-????)

No information about Feene except that he was a he. I doubt his name is rendered correctly.

David Brown (1765-1838)

David married Elizabeth Nay. They reportedly lived in Raymond, New Hampshire.

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Samuel’s Parents

Joseph BROWN (20/30 Jan 1689-19 Mar 1759) +
Elizabeth MOULTON (16 May 1693-21 Jun 1760)

Joseph (2 Jan 1716-~1721)

Thomas (6 Aug 1717-????)

(Dr.) Samuel (20 Nov 1720-1794/1804) — m. Susannah Knowles on 17 Jul 1745

Joseph (2 Dec 1722-Nov 1771) — m. Abigail Goss on 27 Nov 1746

(Col.) Jonathan (20 Dec 1724-Jan 1798) — prob. m. Mary ????

Zipporah (1726-9 Feb 1810)

Nathan (1726-????)

Elizabeth (6 Aug 1727-before 1781) — m. Simon Garland (16 Jan 1725/1726-????) on 3 Jan 1754

Sarah (~1730-????) — m. Moses Tappan on 20 Jun 1756 -- uncertain Sarah was of this family

Huldah (~1730-????) — m. James Smith on 20 Jun 1756

Mary (1 Jul 1732-12 Nov 1736)

Joseph Brown was born in Hampton, New Hampshire to Thomas Brown and Abiah Shaw. Elizabeth Moulton was born in Rye or Hampton, daughter of Joseph Moulton and Bethia Swaine (1652-1723).

Joseph and Elizabeth married around 1715 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. They lived first in Hampton, and moved to Rye about 1740, where they later died. Accounts that Joseph died on 21 Jan 1760 appear to be a confusion with the date of his wife’s death.

“History of the Town of Rye, New Hampshire” by Langdon Brown Parsons mentions most but not all of the children listed above.

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Samuel’s Grandparents

Thomas BROWN (14 Jul 1657-29 Jun 1744) +
Abiah SHAW (Oct 1662-21/25 Dec 1739)

Thomas (14 Dec 1686-7 Jun 1766) — m. Dorcas Fanning on 13 Dec 1710

Joseph (20/30 Jan 1689-19 Mar 1759) — m. Elizabeth Moulton around 1715

Sarah (3/5 Apr 1691-29 Apr 1762/8 Aug 1767) — m. Joshua Towle, Jr. (~1692-24 Nov 1752) on 6/16 Feb 1713

Elizabeth (21 Apr 1694-????) — m. Solomon Dowst on 31 Jan 1723

Ebenezer (1696-20 Oct 1780) — m. ?? Moulton on 27 Feb 1724; m. Mary Flanders on 5 Oct 1753

Josiah (5 Feb 1701-4 Dec 1790) — m. Elizabeth Fellows on 1 Jan 1724; m. Mary Bradbury on 5 Dec 1744

Thomas, son of John Brown and Sarah Walker, was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, and fought in King Philip’s War, like his brothers. Abiah, born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, was the daughter of Joseph Shaw and Elizabeth Partridge. Thomas and Abiah married in 1685.

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Samuel’s Great-Grandparents

John BROWN (1588/1589-28 Feb 1687) +
Sarah WALKER (1618-6 Jun 1672)

Rebecca (1640/1642-1701) — m. John Scott, Sr. -- might not be of this family

Sarah (~1643-28 Dec 1678) — m. John Poor (1636-29 Aug 1683) on 13 Mar 1661

Benjamin (~1647-1736) — m. Sarah Brown in 1679

Elizabeth (1650-5 Oct 1689) — m. Isaac Marston on 25 Dec 1669

Jacob (1653-13 Feb 1739) — m. Sarah Brookings (1662-1740) in 1684

Mary (13 Sep 1655-2 Oct 1695) — m. Nathan Parker on 15 Apr 1675; m. William Eliot in 1681

Thomas (14 Jul 1657-29 Jun 1744) — m. Abiah Shaw in Sep 1686

Stephen (~1659-29 Jun 1677)

John Brown’s father Angus supposedly came from Scotland to England around the time John was born. John was reported born in London, and owned a bakery there. John, accompanied by his young assistant James Walker and James’s sister Sarah, a draper, arrived in Boston in June 1635 on the ship Elizabeth de London. John moved to Salem, Massachusetts in 1638, and settled in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire around 1639 (definitely by 1640). He married Sarah in 1640 in Charlestown. He built ships and raised livestock. He was one of the largest land-owners and the third-wealthiest man in Hampton per the 1653 tax list. He was one of the selectmen in 1651 and 1656.

John’s and Sarah’s daughter Sarah died in Charlestown, Massachusetts of smallpox. Their son Stephen was killed by Indians at Black Point (Scarborough), Maine, during King Philip’s War, in which all the Brown sons took up arms. Their daughter Elizabeth’s husband Isaac Marston was a bondsman (i.e., he put up bail money) for Isabel Towle, one of the women accused of witchcraft at Salem.

Hampton has a river named Brown’s River after John, although it would be more accurate to describe it as a broad stream through a salt marsh feeding into Hampton River. In Founders Park along Park Avenue in southwest Hampton, across from the Tuck Museum, there’s a stone dedicated to John, with a bronze plaque. John is mentioned in several books, including History of the Town of Rye, New Hampshire: From Its Discovery and Settlement by Langdon Brown Parsons (published 1905), Sarah Stone by Walter Goodwin Davis (published 1930), and History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire by Joseph Dow. The latter book says of him:

“A tract of four acres, for a house-lot, lying near a branch of the river, afterward bearing his own name, was granted to him, though he seems not to have settled there. His residence was on a ten-acre lot bought of John Sanders, on which Zaccheus Brown, a lineal descendant of the seventh generation, now resides. He afterward, by purchase, made large additions to this lot, and obtained various other tracts in different parts of the town.”

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