John Brown, Elder

1630 - Abt 1706  (76 years)

• Name	John Brown
  Suffix	Elder
  Born	1630	, , England
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1706	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Person ID	I6569	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Chad Brown, Reverend,   b. Abt 1600, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England ,   d. Bef 2 Sep 1650, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island  (Age ~ 50 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Sharparowe,   b. Abt 1604, Melchbourne, Bedfordshire, England ,   d. Bef 1672  (Age ~ 67 years)
  Family ID	F3788	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Holmes,   b. Abt 1632, , Lancashire, England ,   d. 1690  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Married	1654
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Brown,   b. 1657, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island ,   d. 1733, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island  (Age 76 years) + 2. John Brown, Ensign,   b. 18 Mar 1662, of, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island ,   d. 19 Sep 1719  (Age 57 years) + 3. James Brown, Elder, Reverend,   b. 1666, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island ,   d. 28 Oct 1732, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island  (Age 66 years) + 4. Obadiah Brown,   b. Abt 1668, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island ,   d. 24 Aug 1716  (Age ~ 48 years) + 5. Martha Brown + 6. Mary Brown,   d. Bef 1726   7. Deborah Brown
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2021
  Family ID	F3717	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1630 - , , England Died - Abt 1706 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:21, 32. !SOURCE: http://www.genealogy.org/~smcgee. Gives Providence, RI, as birth place. However, Providence as a birth place is questionable, since Providence was not organized until 1636 (Handy Book for Genealogists. 6th ed. [Logan, UT: Everton Publishers, 1971], p. 195.) !SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 258. Gives birth date of 1630. (Previously recorded as 1629.) !SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga (undisclosed at example dot net) to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2000. !NOTE: It is this John Brown for whom [John] Brown University is named. --L. Ozynga !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. 9, 10. Gives birth 1630 in England. (Birth previously entered as 1629.)