Individual Details
Nathaniel Brown
(22 Jan 1704 - 1797/98)
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).
Events
Families
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 ( - ) |
Notes
Marriage
They were married by Rev. Peter ThacherEndnotes
1. Lovejoy, Clarence E., The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930: especially recording the American descendants and the English ancestry of John Lovejoy (1622-1690) of Andover, Mass., and of Joseph Lovejoy (1684-1748) of Prince George County, Md., but also embracing all known data on other persons bearing the Lovejoy name whether or not identified with the emigrant ancestors (New York: Lovejoy, 1930), 80; digital images, Heritage Quest Online (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com : accessed 10 November 2009.
2. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The history of Kings County, Nova Scotia, heart of the Acadian land : giving a sketch of the French and their expulsion: and a history of the New England planters who came in their stead, with many genealogies, 1604-1910 (Salem, MA: The Salem Press Company, 1910), 587; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 30 November 2009.
3. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The history of Kings County, Nova Scotia, heart of the Acadian land : giving a sketch of the French and their expulsion: and a history of the New England planters who came in their stead, with many genealogies, 1604-1910 (Salem, MA: The Salem Press Company, 1910), 587; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 30 November 2009.