Fanny (15 Aug 1797-22 Jan 1836) — m. Samuel Dearborn on 16 Mar 1820
Flavel (16 Feb 1800-2 Aug 1861) — m. Lydia Rowell about 1822
Sally (16 Feb 1802-Jun 1842) — m. Joel Lund about 1833
William Whittier (28 Aug 1804-6 Jan 1874) — m. Caroline L. Gerrish on 8 May 1838; Rebecca Pearson Gerrish on 8 Oct 1839; m. Martha Wheeler Ames on 12 May 1846
Abigail (3 Nov 1806-9 Nov 1883) — m. Alvah Avery on 10 Mar 1825
Mary (24 Mar 1809-27 May 1849) — m. Jacob Norris II on 4 Feb 1829
John Shepard (24 Oct 1811-????)
Christina (26 Sep 1813-2 Oct 1878) — m. John Wheatley Perkins on 24 May 1840; m. Nathaniel L. Chase in 1865
Jonathan (9 Feb 1817-23 Aug 1875) — m. Sarah C. Stevens on 10 Dec 1843
Ebenezer was born in Poplin, an old name for Fremont, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. His father is consistently said to be Jonathan Brown, but there were several contemporary Jonathan Browns in Rockingham County, and just one mention in a book with some questionable facts (History of old Chester [N.H.] from 1719 to 1869, by Benjamin Chase; see pages 31, 476, and 477) points to Ebenezer’s parents having been Jonathan Brown and Sarah Moulton of Poplin.
Mary was born to Isaac Whittier and Mary Blaisdell in Brentwood, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. That’s a few miles east of Poplin/Fremont.
Ebenezer and Mary married on 19 Feb 1795. They were in Vershire, Orange County, Vermont by 1797 when their first child, Fanny, was born, and they never left. Ebenezer was a farmer, and also made iron from bog ore according to that book.
The 1800 census listed Ebenezer Brown in Washington, Orange County with a wife and two children. Washington is some miles north of Vershire. The 1820 census had him in Vershire with 10 family members, which is...everybody, Mary and all nine children.
The 1820s were the decade where most of the children married and moved out. The 1830 census for Vershire listed Ebenezer and wife and four other members of household: one boy and two girls in their teens, plus a woman in her twenties. The young woman was probably Sally. Christina and Jonathan would account for two of the teenagers, but there’s no candidate for the other teen girl. Son Flavel and family were next door.
The 1840 census listed Ebenezer and wife and four other members of household: a boy and girl in their teens, and a man and woman in their 20s. Again, the older two were likely Christina and Jonathan, but who were the teenagers? Maybe two of daughter Fanny’s children? Fanny had died just a few years before. Son Flavel and family were next door.
In the 1850 census for Vershire, Ebenezer and Mary were sharing their home with son Jonathan, his wife Sarah, and their son Milton. Son Flavel and family were next door.
Ebenezer died in Corinth in 1852, and is buried in Corinth Corners Cemetery, Corinth Corners, Orange County, Vermont. Mary died in 1858 and is buried with him. Even before I had been to the cemetery and found their graves, I was confident that I would find Flavel next door. I was close – he’s a few plots away.
To reach this cemetery: Head east from Chelsea, Vermont on Route 113. After about 4 miles, turn left (north) onto Goose Green Road. It’s about two miles to Corinth Corners, where the road, now called Chelsea Road, bends sharply right. At this bend, turn left onto the smaller Heath Road. The cemetery is on the right just before the creek.
Fanny married Samuel Dearborn (18 Aug 1792-12 Dec 1871) from New Hampshire on 16 Mar 1820. It was his second marriage, her first. Their children included:
Ebenezer B. (7 Dec 1820-8 Jul 1851) — m. Malinda R. Burlingame on 19 Jan 1845
Julia Ann (23 Jun 1823-5 Dec 1889) — m. Frederick P. Eaton on 8 Nov 1842
Olive Augusta (15 Oct 1825-4 Sep 1881) — never married
Dewitt Clinton (15 Sep 1829-1 May 1843)
Cornelius Van Ness (14 May 1832-18 Apr 1886) — m. Susan Frances “Louisa” Eaton in Jun 1857
William Brown DEARBORN/AVERY (12 Jan 1836-12 Nov 1903) — m. Sarah J. Clement on 1 Jan 1859
Fanny died in 1836, shortly after William was born. She’s buried in Meadow Meeting House Cemetery, Corinth Center, Vermont. William was adopted by her sister Abigail, and carried Avery as his last name from then on.
Samuel, a church deacon, later married Phebe Kimball. He died in 1871, and is buried in Meadow Meeting House Cemetery with all three wives.
Although son Ebenezer married and died in Morgan County, Ohio, he’s buried with his parents and brother Dewitt.
Flavel Brown, the eldest son, married Lydia Rowell (25 Feb 1802-4 Sep 1864), daughter of Moses and Sally Rowell of Corinth, about 1822. Children I know of (note the twins!):
Julia Annette (27 Dec 1823-13 Dec 1890) — m. David E. Handy
Luthera L. (3 May 1826-18 Jun 1859) — m. Samuel Dewey on 29 Mar 1846
William Henry (18 Feb 1828-15 Nov 1901) — m. Caroline L. Barnard on 30 Jul 1854
Sarah F. (17 Mar 1830-22 Jan 1917) — m. Eliphalet Merrell Wiggins on 3 Jun 1849; m. Francis Locke Newcomb on 9 Sep 1898
Leonard Rowell (5 Feb 1832-18 Sep 1891) — m. Lucia Cornelia Palmer on 22 Oct 1856
Angeline M. “Angie” (30 Jul 1834-16 Mar 1904) — m. George W. Ripley on 3 Mar 1866
Caroline E. “Carrie” (30 Jul 1834-16 Aug 1864)
They were living next door to Flavel’s parents in 1830, 1840, and 1850. In 1860, they were living with son Leonard and his family. Flavel died in 1861 and is buried in Corinth Corner Cemetery, near the graves of his parents.
Wife Lydia died of consumption in 1864 in Northfield, Vermont, the same place as and just after daughter Carrie. Both are buried in Northfield Falls Cemetery. In the 1870 census, daughter Sarah was living with her married younger sister Angie in Montpelier. Son Leonard, who had at least three children, died in Boston, Massachusetts. So did daughter Julia and son William. Daughter Angie died of apoplexy in 1904 in Worcester, Vermont, and is buried at Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier.
Some records mis-label their daughter Luthera as a son, “Luther”, and others make Leonard out to be “Leonora”.
Sally married Joel Lund (3 Nov 1798-19 Sep 1848) from Corinth in 1833 or 1834. It was a second or possibly a third marriage for him – his previous wife, whom he married in 1828, was Almira Ingalls (1797-14 Mar 1833) from Massachusetts. Sally and Joel lived in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont. Known children:
Henry N. (1834-2 Jun 1838)
unnamed (1835-5 Mar 1835)
Maryette (1836-9 Jan 1837)
William Brown (3 Apr 1841-23 Nov 1924) — m. Elizabeth S. Bowman on 16 Jun 1879
Edmon C. (Jun 1842-14 Jun 1842)
The 1840 census listed the household in Burlington as including a young man in his twenties, a boy age 15-19, a boy and girl age 10-14, and a boy age 5-9. The youngest was undoubtedly Joel Ingalls Lund (1833-4 Jan 1905), Joel’s son by Almira. I don’t know about the rest. Joel had been head of a mixed household with four other adults and two boys in the 1830 census, so the older children could have been his from an unknown earlier marriage, or some other relation entirely.
Sally’s youngest child died shortly after birth in 1842, and Sally died soon after. She is buried with four of her five children in Elmwood Cemetery, Burlington. Joel married Sally Emily Hatch (1806-1874) the following year, and had at least one more child who also didn’t live long. He died in Burlington in 1848, and is buried in the same cemetery as Sally. When Sally #2 died in 1874, she too was buried there.
Sally’s only child to survive to adulthood, William, became a doctor like his namesake uncle. Findagrave.com lists him as the son of Sally Hatch. She was the mother who raised him, but his birth mother was Sally Brown, as confirmed by his 1924 death record.
William taught school in New York in 1827-1828, and around the same time began studying medicine with Dr. John Poole of Bradford, Vermont. He graduated from the New Hampshire Medical Institution in 1830, and then from Dartmouth College, class of 1835. He became a doctor, practicing at first in his father’s home town of Fremont, New Hampshire, and later in Chester, New Hampshire. In 1838, he married Caroline L. Gerrish (24 Aug 1814-23 Sep 1838), but she died only months later. He married her recently widowed older sister Rebecca Pearson Gerrish Ames (24 Sep 1812-29 Jun 1845) in 1839. They had two children:
(PVT) William Gerrish (1840-11 Jul 1865)
(2LT) Charles Lawrence (1843-6 Mar 1863)
In 1843, William went to New York City to further his education. After Rebecca’s death in 1845, William returned to New Hampshire, opening a practice in Manchester. He married again in 1846 to Martha Wheeler Ames (23 Dec 1823-27 Nov 1895). They had three children:
George Ames (29 Apr 1848-13 Apr 1849)
Frederic Whittier (29 Apr 1853-20 Feb 1855)
Grace Foster (7 Aug 1857-15 Oct 1862)
So all of William’s children died young, two of them in uniform.
In 1861, William was appointed unit surgeon to the 7th New Hampshire Volunteers. He served until 22 Jul 1864, reaching the rank of major, and then resigned due to ill health.
He was chosen as president of the New Hampshire Medical Society in 1869. He also became the post surgeon for Louis Bell Post #3 of the G.A.R., a position he held until his death in 1874. William is buried with his children in Valley Cemetery, Manchester, New Hampshire. Martha died in 1895 (findagrave.com incorrectly says 1899) and is buried with him.
Page 31 of The History of Old Chester, New Hampshire from 1719 to 1869 by Benjamin Chase describes William’s career. General Catalogue of Dartmouth College and the Associated Schools, 1769-1900 lists under class of 1835, “William Whittier Brown, 28 Aug 1804-6 Jan 1874, born in Vershire, Vermont, physician, surgeon with 7th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry from 1861 to 1864. Longtime resident of Manchester, New Hampshire, where he died.” History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1727-1912, Volume II, by James Otis Lyford, also mentions William and his family. Willey’s Semi-centennial Book of Manchester, 1846-1896 by George Franklin Willey has an entire page (page 148) devoted to William, with photo.
Abigail, sometimes spelled Abagail, married Alvah Avery (30 Jan 1798-7 Aug 1861) of Corinth, son of Christopher Avery and Sally Jones, on 10 Mar 1825. They had two adopted children:
James Stevens (22 Sep 1826-????)
William Brown DEARBORN/AVERY (12 Jan 1836-12 Nov 1903) — m. Sarah J. Clement on 1 Jan 1859
The 1830 census record showed them in Corinth. They were still there in 1840, with both adopted sons and an unidentified woman in her twenties. William was the son of Abigail’s older sister Fanny, who died in 1836. James’s biological parents are unknown. Both took the last name Avery.
Alvah died in 1861, and Abigail in 1883. They’re buried in Meadow Meeting House Cemetery, Corinth Center, which is a couple of miles east of Corinth Corners Cemetery along Chelsea Road.
Mary married Jacob Norris II (13 Jul 1804-3 Aug 1884) of Chelsea, Orange County, Vermont on 4 Feb 1829. Known children:
Ruth Blake (18 Nov 1829-5 Jul 1875) — m. David Holden Norris on 8 Feb 1848
Edwin Jerome (26 Apr 1832-1904) — m. Marcia Corwin in 1854
James Dennis (9 Jan 1838-15 Mar 1917) — m. Martha Jane Hayes on 14 Apr 1861; m. Melissa A. Irving on 7 May 1873
Jacob Elvin (1 Sep 1840-28 Oct 1862)
Mary Elizabeth (27 Jun 1843-4 Jul 1940) — m. George E. Sherburne in 1868; m. William Henry Norris on 25 Jun 1902
George Brown (27 Feb 1849-10 Apr 1858)
Mary died in 1849 and is buried in Highland Cemetery, Chelsea. Jacob remarried in 1849 to Susan Gifford, with whom he had at least one child, Emily (b. ~1852). He died in 1884 in Chelsea.
Some of the children moved to Massachusetts. One of them, Edwin, settled in Montana.
John Brown was as common a name as anyone could ask for. Can’t track him. There was a John S. Brown in Ohio who was married to Margaret E. Avery (a familiar name), served in the Civil War, and died before 1890. Maybe him? And there was a John Shepard Brown who married Anna Rose in 1872 in Marion County, Ohio, except I don’t know how old he was or where he was from.
Christina married John Wheatley Perkins (20 Jul 1814-8 Feb 1858) on 24 May 1840 in Corinth. He was born in Chelsea, a few miles west of Vershire. He became an Episcopal Methodist minister (that’s a thing?), and they moved to Massachusetts, not necessarily in that order. They had one child I know of:
Ellen Frances (14 Feb 1851-2 Oct 1851)
The 1850 census showed Christina and John in Salem. It turned their place of birth, Vermont, into “Virginia” and Christina’s first name into “Chastina”. The 1855 Massachusetts census showed John and “Justina” Perkins in Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, still childless.
John died of consumption in 1858. I can’t find Christina in the 1860 census. In 1865, she married Nathaniel Ladd Chase (30 Oct 1813-3 May 1875) in Manchester, New Hampshire, where her brother William lived. The 1870 census for Manchester showed her as Chastina (sic) Chase, age 55, living with Nathaniel and a daughter of Nathaniel’s from a previous marriage.
Christina returned to Vermont after Nathaniel’s 1875 death. She died of heart disease in 1878 in Montpelier.
Jonathan has his own entry in the family tree.
http://records.ancestry.com/ebenezer_brown_records.ashx?pid=49714604 -- Traces Ebenezer to Jonathan Brown and Sarah Moulton
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa&cc=moa&view=text&rgn=main&idno=AJA2004.0001.001 -- The History of Old Chester, New Hampshire from 1719 to 1869
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jamesdm49&id=I49846 -- Ebenezer; bogus date for his father
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jamesdm49&id=I48854 -- Ebenezer and Mary (with wedding date) and their children
http://records.ancestry.com/mary_blaisdell_records.ashx?pid=22974750 -- Mary Whittier’s mother
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNP-VZL -- Fanny’s birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNP-V6G -- Flavel’s birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRQ-L99 -- 1800 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNT-2QN -- Sally’s birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNT-TQV -- William’s birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFN2-HLH -- Abigail’s birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFN5-7BN -- Mary’s birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNP-BJP -- John’s birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFN2-F24 -- Christina’s birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFKH-YM4 -- 1814 birth of John Wheatley Perkins, Christina’s future husband
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNP-BBW -- Jonathan’s birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLG-53W -- 1820 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8LC-743 -- 1820 birth of Ebenezer Dearborn
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5X-2ZT -- 1830 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5X-KW4 -- 1830 census, Abagail
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8LC-7HV -- 1832 birth of Cornelius Dearborn
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106088454/fanny-dearborn -- 1836 grave of Fanny Brown Dearborn
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRB-NQB -- 1840 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRB-ND3 -- 1840 census, Abagail in house of Alvah Avery
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRB-9GV -- 1840 census, Sally’s family
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFN2-F2X -- 1840 wedding of Christina Brown
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC2D-1VF -- 1850 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC26-3CB -- 1850 census, Samuel Dearborn with daughter Augusta
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWZF-YCH -- 1850 census, William W. Brown
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD9K-K1R -- 1850 census, Christina
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCF4-XMP -- 1851 birth of Christina’s daughter Ellen
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FXCQ-4CY -- ditto
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7KL-X5P -- 1851 death of Christina’s daughter Ellen
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFN2-JL2 -- 1852 death of Ebenezer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179304975 -- 1852 grave of Ebenezer
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQW1-DKF -- 1855 census, Christina in Boston area; some Averys nearby
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7KH-Q9B -- 1858 death of Christina’s husband
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFN5-W8F -- 1858 death of Mary
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179305211/mary-brown -- 1858 grave of Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7WB-W4V -- 1860 census, William W. Brown
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSKZ-2MP -- 1862 death of Grace Foster Brown
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSK8-H9D -- 1865 death of William Brown’s son
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6RH-5KK -- 1870 census, Samuel Dearborn and daughter Augusta
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106088328/samuel-dearborn -- 1871 grave of Samuel Dearborn
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7883612/william-whittier-brown -- 1874 grave of William
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF4V-K8J -- 1878 death of Christina
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vermont/OrangeCornith.html -- Abigail Brown and Alvah Avery; “Taplin” is a mistaken reference to Poplin
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFSK-LZL -- 1881 death of Augusta Dearborn
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF7G-WVD -- 1889 death of Julia Dearborn Eaton
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42877887/abagail-avery -- Grave of Abigail
http://www.geni.com/people/Alvah-Avery/6000000027877935067 -- Abigail’s husband Alvah Avery
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42877725/alvah-avery -- Grave of Alvah Avery, with genealogy data
http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/f/u/r/Andrew-N-Furst/GENE2-0006.html -- Traces Mary Brown born 1809
http://files.usgwarchives.net/nh/rockingham/bios/norrisjd.txt -- Mary Brown’s Norris in-laws
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42877782/william-brown-avery -- 1903 grave of Fanny’s son/Abigail’s stepson William
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF97-377 -- 1920 census, Mary’s daughter Mary in Quincy, MA
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNP-P2Q -- 1823 birth of Julia
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFN5-QMK -- 1826 birth of Luther
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNT-TQS -- 1828 birth of William
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNT-L6R -- 1830 birth of Sarah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFN5-96R -- 1832 birth of Leonard
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFN2-8QT -- 1834 birth of Angelina and Carrie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC2D-1VL -- 1850 census, Flavel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFJQ-CQ8 -- 1859 death of Luthera Brown Dewey
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175336277/luthera-l-dewey -- Grave of Luthera Brown Dewey
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFDQ-VB1 -- 1860 census, Flavel and Lydia and son Leonard
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFNP-V62 -- 1861 death of Flavel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFN5-QWT -- 1864 death of Lydia Rowell Brown
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96820233/lydia-brown -- 1864 grave of Flavel’s wife Lydia
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPQT-FVKG -- 1866 wedding of Flavel’s daughter Angie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6RD-NVX -- 1870 census, Flavel’s daughters Sarah and Angie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8WN-NG4 -- 1880 census, Flavel’s daughter Angie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH3W-551 -- 1890 death of Flavel’s daughter Julia
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7RY-PXJ -- 1891 death of Flavel’s son Leonard
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFDW-L5W -- 1898 wedding of Flavel’s daughter Sarah F. Brown Wiggins
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMP4-33G -- 1900 census, Flavel’s daughter Angie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF78-3H4 -- 1904 death of Flavel’s daughter Angie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPFF-6G3 -- 1910 census, Flavel’s daughter Sarah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDSD-4YM -- 1850 census, a different Perkins family
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHRN-VYJ -- 1880 census, not a son of Dr. William W. Brown