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James Brown (Captain)

BIRTH: 22 Mar 1698, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
DEATH: 27 Apr 1739, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
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TITLE: Captain

Father: James Brown (1666 - 28 Oct 1732)
Mother: Mary Harris (17 Dec 1671 - 18 Aug 1736)

Family 1: Hope Power (4 Jan 1701/1702 - 8 Jun 1792)

MARRIAGE: 21 Dec 1722, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island

James Brown (12 Feb 1724 - 15 Feb 1750)
+Nicholas Brown (28 Jul 1729 - 29 May 1791)
+Mary Brown (1731 - 26 May 1795)
Joseph Brown (3 Dec 1733 - 3 Dec 1785)
+John Brown (26 Jan 1736 - 20 Sep 1803)
Moses Brown (12 Sep 1738 - 6 Sep 1836)

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                                             _Chad Brown _____________|
                                            | (1600 - 1650)           |
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                       _John Brown _________|
                      | (1630 - 1706) m 1654|
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                      |                     |                         |                        
                      |                     |_Elizabeth Sharparowe ___|
                      |                       (1604 - 1672)           |
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 _James Brown ________|
| (1666 - 1732) m 1691|
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|                     |                      _Obadiah Holmes _________|
|                     |                     | (1607 - 1682) m 1636    |
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|                     |_Mary Holmes ________|
|                       (1632 - 1690) m 1654|
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|                                           |_Catharine or Katherine _|
|                                             (.... - 1682) m 1636    |
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|--James Brown 
|  (1698 - 1739)
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|                                                                      _Andrew Harris ______|__
|                                                                     | (.... - 1616) m 1603   
|                                            _William Harris _________|
|                                           | (.... - 1681)           |
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|                                           |                         |_Jane Bagley ________|__
|                                           |                            m 1603                
|                      _Andrew Harris ______|
|                     | (1635 - 1686) m 1670|
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|                     |                     |                          _John Hyde __________|__
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|                     |                     |_Susan Hyde _____________|
|                     |                       (.... - 1682)           |
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|                     |                                               |_Mary Bonfoy ________|__
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|_Mary Harris ________|
  (1671 - 1736) m 1691|
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                      |                      _Richard Tew ____________|
                      |                     | (.... - 1673)           |
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                      |_Mary Tew ___________|
                        (1647 - 1688) m 1670|
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                                            |_Mary Clarke ____________|
                                              (.... - 1687)           |
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Notes

!SOURCE: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:42.

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders (Born in the Eighteenth Century) (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889), p. 13.

!SOURCE: "John Brown of Providence, RI: He Opposed the British Flag and Was Captured in 1774. (Some Extracts from the Memoirs of Elkanah Watson)," Brown Family Genealogical Society, Vol. 25, Issue 2 (December 1996), p. 17-18. Gives death 26 Apr 1739. (Previous sources give 27 Apr 1739.)

!SOURCE: Gaspee Virtual Archives, http://www.gaspee.org/JosephBrown.htm, 6 Aug 2002. Gives death 26 Apr 1739.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 16.

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