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Nicholas Brown

BIRTH: 24 Feb 1720/1721, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
DEATH: 12 Oct 1793
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Father: Jabez or Jabesh Brown (30 Dec 1683 - 29 Jan 1763)
Mother: Mary Whipple (3 Nov 1699 - ____)

Family 1: Hopestill "Hope" Whipple (28 Apr 1723 - 12 Oct 1793)

MARRIAGE: 22 Apr 1744, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island

+Ichabod Brown (ABT 1745 - 16 Sep 1828)
+Jeremiah Brown (1747 - 1796)
+Nicholas Brown (22 Dec 1749 - 21 Jul 1833)
+Levi Brown (3 Aug 1752 - 1823)
+Mary Brown (1753 - ____)
+Elizabeth "Betty" Brown (10 Jan 1754 - 17 Feb 1842)
+Hopestill Brown (1757 - 13 Apr 1800)
+Abiel Brown (1760 - ____)

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                                                                      _John Brown _________|__
                                                                     | (1595 - 1662)          
                                                _John Brown _________|
                                               | (1620 - 1662) m 1634|
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                                               |                     |_Dorothy Beauchamp __|__
                                               |                       (1593 - 1674)          
                          _Joseph Brown _______|
                         | (1658 - 1731) m 1680|
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                         |                     |                      _Joseph Harding _____|__
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                         |                     |_Phebe Harding ______|
                         |                       (.... - 1658) m 1634|
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 _Jabez or Jabesh Brown _|
| (1683 - 1763) m 1718   |
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|                        |                      _John Fitch _________|
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|                        |_Hannah Fitch _______|
|                          (1662 - 1739) m 1680|
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|                                              |_Mary _______________|
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|--Nicholas Brown 
|  (1720 - 1793)
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|                                                                     _John Whipple _______|__
|                                                                    | (1617 - 1685) m 1638   
|                                               _David Whipple ______|
|                                              | (.... - 1710) m 1677|
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|                                              |                     |_Sarah ______________|__
|                                              |                       (1624 - 1666) m 1638   
|                         _Israel Whipple _____|
|                        | (1678 - 1720) m 1697|
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|                        |                     |                      _John Tower _________|__
|                        |                     |                     | (.... - 1701) m 1638   
|                        |                     |_Hannah Tower _______|
|                        |                       (1652 - 1722) m 1677|
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|                        |                                           |_Margaret Ibrook ____|__
|                        |                                             (1620 - 1700) m 1638   
|_Mary Whipple __________|
  (1699 - ....) m 1718   |
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                         |                      _Thomas Wilmarth ____|
                         |                     | (1648 - 1690)       |
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                         |_Mary Wilmarth ______|
                           (1678 - 1720) m 1697|
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                                               |_Mary Robinson ______|
                                                 (1652 - 1694)       |
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Notes

!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to the Whipple Web Site, January 1998, citing Capt. John Whipple (1617-1685) and his Descendants by Clair A. Newton Hemmenway, p. 65. Gives name as Nicholas Bacon. In follow-up email, Joanne reports that Claire Newton's information IS wrong. James Arnold's Vital Records of Rhode Island: Smithfield Marriages, p. 78 lists "Whipple, Hope and Nicholas Brown April 22, 1744."

!SOURCE: Email from Doug Tucker (email hidden) to the Whipple Web Site, 19 Feb 1998, states that Richardson family records give Nicholas' surname as Brown. Follow-up email received 5 Mar 1998.

!SOURCE: Carl Boyer, Helen H. Lane, Elaine Varley, New England Colonial Families, Vol. 1 (Newhall, Calif.: Carl Boyer, 1981), p. 26.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 3, Smithfield, Part 6 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 21.

!SOURCE: "Records of Old Smithfield," in The Narragansett Historical Register: A Magazine Devoted to the Antiquities, Genealogy and Historical Matter Illustrating the History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, ed. by James N. Arnold (Hamilton, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co.; Central Falls, R.I.: E.L. Freeman) Vol. VIII (1889), p. 214-215. Extracted by Beth Hurd and submitted to the Whipple Website 21 Mar 2003. Records marriage of "Whipple, Hope, and Nicholas Brown; Apr. 22, 1744."

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