Individual Details

Francis Brown

(1610 - 1668)

Francis Brown was born in England and came to America where in 1636 he married Mary Edwards. Francis was on the expedition party to find a new settlement, and stayed behind in what would be New Haven to get the site ready for settlement. In New Haven, once it was settled he ran the ferry and farmed.

Events

Birth1610England
Marriage1636England - Mary Edwards
Civil1638Exploring party
Civil1639Freeman - New Haven, British America
CivilAugust 6, 1640New Haven, British America
CivilMarch 10, 1643New Haven, British America
CivilJune 16, 1645New Haven, British America
CivilJune 15, 1663New Haven, British America
CivilDecember 20, 1665New Haven, British America
Death1668East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
OccupationTailor
OccupationFerryman
Burial

Families

SpouseMary Edwards (1616 - 1693)
ChildEleazer Brown (1642 - 1714)
ChildEbenezer Brown (1647 - 1717)
ChildSamuel Brown (1645 - 1691)

Notes

Civil

Joshua Atwater, Francis Brown, John Beecher, Robert Pigg and Thomas Hogg were of the seven. We may imagine they spent their time hewing, cleaving and sawing, hunting, trapping and collecting by bartering with the natives beaver and other furs for the European market.

Civil

ATT a court held att New Haven the 6th of the 8th m. 1640 Francis Browne fined 1S for late comeing to keep their watch

Civil

At a general court held the 10th of March, 1642, the names of people as they were seated in the meeting-house were read in court, and it was ordered they should be recorded, which was as followeth: On the other side of the door, 5th Francis Browne

Civil

Francis proposes a ferry boat: Francis Browne moved if he may have a little house or shade att the water side to worke in and competent allowance for his paines, and some land in the Oyster-shell field to plant, he will keep a ferry boate to carry people over the East River, and thatt he will attend itt every day from the rising of the sun to the going downe of the same in an ordenary course till 12 moneths be expired, exceptinge Saboth dayes and other times of solemne publique word of God.

Burial

There is no headstone photo, memorial has family links and a note, "Time and weather has erased the location of this grave".

Francis offers ferry services in exchange for a bit of land

Endnotes

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2. Atwater, Edward E.History of the Colony of New Haven to Its Absorption Into Connecticut, New Haven, Printed for the author, 1881, Page 63.

3. New Haven Colony. Records of the Colony And Plantation of New Haven, From 1638 to 1649. Hartford: Printed by Case, Tiffany and company, 1857, Page 10 Freeman list.

4. New Haven Colony. Records of the Colony And Plantation of New Haven, From 1638 to 1649. Hartford: Printed by Case, Tiffany and company, 1857, Page 42.

5. Atwater, Edward E.History of the Colony of New Haven to Its Absorption Into Connecticut, New Haven, Printed for the author, 1881, Page 545.

6. New Haven Colony. Records of the Colony And Plantation of New Haven, From 1638 to 1649. Hartford: Printed by Case, Tiffany and company, 1857, Page 164, 165.

7. New Haven (Conn.). New Haven Town Records, 1649-1769. New Haven: Printed for the Society, 1917-1962, Volume 2 page 48.

8. New Haven (Conn.). New Haven Town Records, 1649-1769. New Haven: Printed for the Society, 1917-1962, Volume 2 page 162.

9. Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Provo, UT, USA, 2006, East Haven Vital Records 1700-1852 page 133.

10. New Haven (Conn.). New Haven Town Records, 1649-1769. New Haven: Printed for the Society, 1917-1962, Volume 2 page 48.

11. New Haven Colony. Records of the Colony And Plantation of New Haven, From 1638 to 1649. Hartford: Printed by Case, Tiffany and company, 1857, Page 164, 165.

12. New Haven (Conn.). New Haven Town Records, 1649-1769. New Haven: Printed for the Society, 1917-1962, Volume 2 page 48.

13. , "FindAGrave.com," online database, Find a Grave ( http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), .