_____________________ | _Chad Brown _____________|_____________________ | (1600 - 1650) _John Brown ____________| | (1630 - 1706) m 1654 | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Elizabeth Sharparowe ___|_____________________ | (1604 - 1672) _James Brown ________| | (1666 - 1732) m 1691| | | _____________________ | | | | | _Obadiah Holmes _________|_____________________ | | | (1607 - 1682) m 1636 | |_Mary Holmes ___________| | (1632 - 1690) m 1654 | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Catharine or Katherine _|_____________________ | (.... - 1682) m 1636 _James Brown ________| | (1698 - 1739) m 1722| | | _Andrew Harris ______ | | | (.... - 1616) m 1603 | | _William Harris _________|_Jane Bagley ________ | | | (.... - 1681) | | _Andrew Harris _________| | | | (1635 - 1686) m 1670 | | | | | _John Hyde __________ | | | | | | | | |_Susan Hyde _____________|_Mary Bonfoy ________ | | | (.... - 1682) | |_Mary Harris ________| | (1671 - 1736) m 1691| | | _____________________ | | | | | _Richard Tew ____________|_____________________ | | | (.... - 1673) | |_Mary Tew ______________| | (1647 - 1688) m 1670 | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Mary Clarke ____________|_____________________ | (.... - 1687) | |--John Brown | (1736 - 1803) | _____________________ | | | _Nicholas Power _________|_____________________ | | (1657 - ....) | _Nicholas Power ________| | | (.... - 1675) m 1671 | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_Jane ___________________|_____________________ | | (.... - 1667) | _Nicholas Power _____| | | (1673 - 1734) m 1700| | | | _____________________ | | | | | | | _Zachariah Rhodes _______|_____________________ | | | | (1603 - ....) m 1646 | | |_Rebecca Arnold Rhodes _| | | (1656 - 1727) m 1671 | | | | _William Arnold _____ | | | | (1587 - 1675) | | |_Joanna Arnold __________|_Christian Peake ____ | | (1617 - 1692) m 1646 |_Hope Power _________| (1701 - 1792) m 1722| | _____________________ | | | _________________________|_____________________ | | | _Pardon Tillinghast ____| | | (1622 - 1717) | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_________________________|_____________________ | | |_Mercy Tillinghast __| (1679 - 1769) m 1700| | _____________________ | | | _Philip Taber ___________|_____________________ | | |_Lydia Masters Taber ___| (1642 - 1720) | | _____________________ | | |_Lydia Masters __________|_____________________
!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 birth 27 Jan 1736.
!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, 34-37.
!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.
!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 17 Jul 2004. Cites John Sterling's North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island, Old Section 1700-1848 (Greenville, R.I.: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2000), p. 66. Adds burial place. "Merchant, Patriot, Legislator; built house now belonging to the RI Historical Society on corner Power/Benefit Streets"
!IDENTITY: "One of the noted four Brown brothers, [he] was a leading merchant of Providence. In 1786 he built the great mansion on Power Street, Providence, which is now occupied by The Rhode Island Historical Society." --Gen. of R.I. Families.
!IDENTITY: "One of the famous 'four brothers,' merchants in Providence and founders and patrons of Brown University." --John Brown of Providence, RI
!NOTE: "He was the leader of the party which destroyed the British armed schooner the Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay in June 1772." --A.I.B. Bulkley, p. 34.
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