Individual Details

Nathaniel Brown was a Charlestown innkeeper calling his inn "The Three Cranes Tavern" . He petitioned for a divorce from his wife Abigail, on June 7, 1748, his complaint implicating Richard Butler, and perhaps Nathaniel married second Mary Fox of Woburn.
Nathaniel Brown, as father-in-law of Captain Abiel Lovejoy, was often identified with the latter. Probably Nathaniel put up some or all of the money to help Captain Abiel get his start in business in Maine, and it is also probable that Nathaniel's Tory sympathies were in part to blame for Captain Abiel's difficulties with a small minority of his neighbors in Sidney and Vassalboro late in the Revolution. However, it is also said that Nathaniel Brown's house was the first fired by the British when they burned Charlestown, but, again almost in contradiction, it is said Nathaniel was obliged to move from Charlestown when his public house was boycotted and stoned by the mobs calling themselves patriots (Lovejoy 80).

Nathaniel Brown was in Charlestown, Mass as early as 1738, the same year he married Abigail Colesworthy in Boston. Nathaniel was a resident of Boston in 1773 and carried on trade with Horton, Nova Scotia. His house in Charleston was destroyed in the battle of Bunker Hill by British guns but a claim for loss to the British authorities in 1775 was not honored. In 1781 he was in Pownalborough, Maine, but soon afterward came to Horton to reside near his brother, Jacob Brown, one of the settlers of Horton in 1760. He brought with him his family and several slaves. His place in Horton was at Grand Pré, on the hill back of the station, almost opposite the Presbyterian Church. There he died in 1797/1798, his burial place being the burying ground of the Methodist Church (Eaton 587).

Birth	22 Jan 1704
Marriage	12 Dec 1738	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British America - Abigail Colesworthy
Marriage	Bef 1768	Mary Fox
Death	1797/98	Horton Township, Nova Scotia, Canada
Burial		Methodist Cemetery, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada

Spouse	Abigail Colesworthy ( - )
Child	Sarah Brown (1739 - 1754)
Child	Abigail Brown (1740 - )
Child	Mary "Polley" Brown (1741 - 1812)
Child	Nathaniel Brown (1743 - 1744)
Child	Nathaniel Brown (1745 - )
Child	Stephen Brown (1747 - 1748)
Child	Sarah Brown (1748 - 1819)
Child	Joseph Brown (1752 - 1824)
Child	James Brown ( - )

Spouse	Mary Fox ( - 1804)
Child	William Brown (1768 - )
Child	Samuel Brown (1769 - )
Child	Jonathan Fox Brown (1770 - )
Child	Charles Brown (1773 - )
Child	Abiel Lovejoy Brown ( - )

Father	William Brown (1646 - 1723)
Mother	Mary Lathrop (1661 - 1713)
Sibling	Jacob Brown ( - )

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