Peter BROWNE, (MAYFLOWER)

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SOURCES:  CONN W2B VOL 15 P.208
ANC.WINDSOR 2  118,558
AM 14 VOL 1  AM PUB A VOL 3
P115 AM 28  PT 2, P27
MASS 27 VOL2, P131

FAMILIES OF THE PILGRIMS....PETER BROWN  PUB: MASS.SOC OF MAYFLOWER DESC.

Museum in Plymouth.....Some of his things are there.

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Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691
            Part Three: Biographical Sketches
            Biographical Sketches
            Brown, Peter

            xxx A 1620 Mayflower passenger, Peter Brown was not a Leiden Separatist, but not much else is
            known about his background. We read in Mourt's Relation, p. 27, that he and John Goodman were
            cutting thatch on 12 January 1620/21 about 1 1/2 miles from the Plymouth settlement and wandered
            away and got lost. The next day the colonists sent ten to twelve armed men to seek them, going out as
            far as seven or eight miles, afraid that they had been captured by Indians. Finally, after the searchers
            had given up, Brown and Goodman found their way back to the Colony. Brown was on the 1633
            freeman list. On 1 January 1632/33 he was fined three shillings for not appearing at court, and on 2
            January 1632/33 he was fined the same amount again for the same reason (PCR 1:5, 7). On 7 January
            1632/3 a dispute between him and Samuel Fuller was referred by the court to Robert Hicks and
            Francis Cooke for arbitration (PCR 1:18). He probably died in the 1633 sickness, for his inventory
            was taken on 10 October 1633 (MD 1:79).
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Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories.	79
king James of England, France, & Ireland ye eighteenth, and of Scotland ye fiftie fourth. Ano: Dom. 1620.
John Carver*	Samuel Fuller	Edward Tilley*
William Bradford	Christopher Martin*	John Tilley*
Edward Winslow	William Mullins*	Francis Cooke
William Brewster	William White*	Thomas Rogers*
Isaac Allerton	Richard Warren	Thomas Tinker*
Myles Standish	John Howland	John Ridgdale*
John Alden	Stephen Hopkins	Edward Fuller*
John Turner*	Degory Priest*	Richard Clarke*
Francis Eaton	Thomas Williams*	Richard Gardiner
James Chilton*	Gilbert Winslow	John Allerton*
John Crackston*	Edmund Margeson*	Thomas English*
John Billington	Peter Brown	Edward Doty
Moses Fletcher*	Richard Britteridge*	Edward Leister
John Goodman*	George Soule

[7] 1633 WYNSLOW GOVR.
An Inventory taken the 10th of Octobr 1633 of the goods & Chattels of Peter Browne of new Plymouth deceased as they were prised by Capt Myles Standish & mr Will Brewster of the same & presented upon oath in Court held the 28th of Oct. in the ninth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles &c.
Inpr Corne 130 bushels	32 16 02
it Six melch goats prised at	18 0 00
it ffive young lambs	27 0 00
it 2 wether lambs & a Ram	02 00 00
it 4 Barrow hoggs at	9 15 02
it 3 sowes at	2 12 00
it 4 barrow Shotes	4 00 00
it 2 young sowes & a Bore	3 00 02
* Died the first year.

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            Search Terms: PETER (5), BROWN (12)
            Database: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33
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                                             PETER BROWN


            ORIGIN: Unknown
            MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower
            FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth

            FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen ahead of those made free on 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:4].
            EDUCATION: Inventory includes one Bible valued at 3s.
            ESTATE: In list of "meersteads & garden plots of [those] which came first laid out 1620" on south side of
            street next to John Goodman [PCR 1:3].
               In 1623 Plymouth land division "Peter Browen" received one acre as a passenger on the Mayflower [PCR
            12:4]. In 1627 Plymouth cattle division Peter Brown, Martha Brown and Mary Brown were the fourth, fifth
            and sixth persons in the eighth company [PCR 12:11].
               Peter Brown assessed 18s. in Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 [PCR 1:10]; widow Brown assessed 9s.
            in list of 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:28].
               The inventory of the estate of "Peter Browne of New Plymouth deceased" was taken 10 October 1633 and
            presented at court on 28 October 1633, on which date the widow, Mary Brown, was granted administration
            [MD 1:79-82, citing PCPR 1:7-8; PCR 1:17].
               On 11 November 1633 a court of assistants at Plymouth ordered that "whereas Peter Browne died without
            will, having diverse children by diverse wives, his estate amounting to an hundred pounds, or thereabouts, it
            is ordered, that Mary, his wife, who is allowed the administra~trix of the said Peter, forthwith pay down
            fifteen pounds for the use of Mary Browne, daughter of the said Peter, to Mr. Joh. Done, of Plymoth
            aforesaid, with whom the said Court have placed the said Mary for nine years; at the end whereof the said
            John is to make good the said fifteen pounds to her or her heirs, if in case she die. Also it is further ordered,
            that the said widow Mary Browne pay or cause to be paid into the hands of Mr. Will[iam] Gilson the full sum
            of fifteen pounds, for the use of Prisilla Browne, another of the daughters of the said Peter, the Court having
            placed the said Prisilla with the said Will[iam] for 12 years, at the end whereof the said Will[iam] is to make
            good the same unto her, as her father's legacy as aforesaid; & to that end the said John & Will[iam] either
            stand bound for other for performance of the several payments, as also for such other performances of
            meat, drink, clothing, &c., during the said term, as is meet.
               "And for the rest of the estate, the widow having two children by the said Peter, together with her own 3d,
            it is allowed her for bringing up the said children, provided that she discharge whatsoever debts shall be
            proved to be owing by the said Peter, & the legacies given by the Court. For performance whereof she &
            Mr. Will[iam] Brewster bound in two hundred pounds" [PCR 1:18-19].

            BIRTH: By about 1600 based on estimated date of marriage.
            DEATH: Plymouth between 25 March 1633 (tax list) and 10 October 1633 (inventory).
            MARRIAGE: (1) By 1626 widow MARTHA FORD, who died in 1630 or 1631 [TAG 42:35-42].
            (2) By 1631 Mary _____, who survived her husband by at least one year [PCR 1:28], but was probably dead
            by 1647 when one of her daughters sold land without referring to the widow's dower rights.
            CHILDREN:

                 With first wife Martha (_____) Ford


                    i   MARY, b. about 1626 (and certainly before the division of cattle on 22 May 1627); m. by
                 27 October 1647 Ephraim Tinkham [PCLR 1:146; PCR 12:146].


                    ii   PRISCILLA, b. about 1628; m. Sandwich 21 March 1649 William Allen [PCR 8:9]. 
                 With second wife Mary

                    iii   REBECCA, b. about 1631; m. by about 1654 William Snow [PCLR 5:197].

                    iv   Child, b. by 1633; d. by 1647.
            ASSOCIATIONS: JOHN BROWN of Plymouth by 1632 was brother of PETER BROWN.
            COMMENTS: In his list of those who came on the Mayflower Bradford included Peter Browne in a group of   men without families [Bradford 443]. In his accounting of the Mayflower passengers as of 1651, Bradford
tells us that "Peter Browne married twice. By his first wife he had two children who are living and both of
them married; and the one of them hath two children. By his second wife he had two more. He died about
sixteen years since" [Bradford 447].
               The evidence for the marriages of Peter Brown's three daughters is largely from deeds in which his land
            was sold by his sons-in-law, with the consent of his daughters. The earliest and best treatment in print on
            this point is an article published in 1966 by Florence Barclay [TAG 42:35-42, citing PCLR 1:146, 186, 5:197
            (bis)]. The claim has also been made that Peter Brown of Windsor was son of the Plymouth Peter, but these
            same deeds, showing that each of the three daughters controlled one-third of the real estate, provide the best
            evidence that there was no such son, and Robert S. Wakefield argued this in greater detail in 1979 [NGSQ
            67:253-54]. Barbara Merrick has argued for some estimated dates slightly different from those used here
            [MQ 53:10-13].
               The seventh volume of the Five Generations Project, prepared by Robert S. Wakefield and published in
            1992, covers the descendants of Peter Brown [Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five
            Generations: Volume Seven, Peter Brown (Plymouth 1992)].

    

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BROWN, JOHN [1632, Duxbury]



JOHN BROWN


ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Duxbury

OCCUPATION: Weaver.
FREEMAN: Took oath of fidelity at Duxbury, perhaps in 1657 [PCR 8:182].
EDUCATION: Signed his will by mark.
OFFICES: In Duxbury section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:189].
ESTATE: Assessed 9s. in Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:10, 27].
      On 8 June 1650 William Allin of Sandwich sold to John Browne of Duxbury, weaver, about thirty acres of upland in Duxbury "being one part of three of land which appertained unto the children of Peter Brown, brother unto John" [PCLR 1:186, cited in TAG 42:41]. On 13 August 1679 Ephraim Tinkham of New Plymouth sold to John Brown of Duxbury two acres of meadow "one of which I had in right of Mary my wife, daughter of Peter Brown deceased" [PCLR 5:197, cited in TAG 42:41]. On 7 November 1679 William Snow of Bridgewater sold to John Brown "all that my one third of 25 acre lots of land formerly of Peter Brown of Duxbury" [PCLR 5:197, cited in TAG 42:41].
     In his will, dated 15 April 1672 and sworn 5 June 1684, John Brown of Duxbury, planter, bequeathed "unto Pheebe my wife all my houses, lands, & cattells & movables for term of her life, & as for cattells & movables to be disposed of at her discretion, and at the end of her life I give this aforementioned houses & lands unto my son-in-law Josiah Wormall & unto his wife Remember my true & natural daughter, and at the end of their lives the aforementioned houses & lands I give unto John Wormall my grandchild at the decease of his father & mother, and if God so dispose that the aforesaid John Wormall be deceased before he do or may by right enjoy it then I give it equally between Pheebe & Lyddia my grandchildren" [PCPR 4:2:128].

BIRTH: By about 1610 based on date of marriage.
DEATH: By 5 June 1684 (probate of will).
MARRIAGE: 26 March 1634 Phebe Harding [PCR 1:26]; she was named in her husband's will, 15 April 1672.

CHILD:


     i   REMEMBER, b. say 1648; m. by about 1668 Josiah Wormall [MD 43:154-59].

ASSOCIATIONS: Brother of PETER BROWN of Plymouth.

COMMENTS: The identification of John Brown of Duxbury as brother of Peter was published in 1957 by Donald Lines Jacobus and again in 1966 by Florence Barclay [TAG 33:214-22, 42:35-42]. More recently Gerald W. McFarland repeated this identification, and added to it an explicit argument showing why this John Brown was not the same man as the John Brown who resided in Plymouth, Taunton and Rehoboth, and served frequently as an Assistant of Plymouth Colony [NEHGR 140:331-32].
     It remains to demonstrate that John Brown, brother of Peter, was the man taxed in Plymouth in 1633 and 1634, thus placing his arrival as early as 1632, and removing any evidence for the presence of the more prominent John Brown in Plymouth prior to 1635.
     John Browne of Plymouth, Taunton and Rehoboth was referred to in the records as "Mr." or "gent." He was elected an assistant on 5 January 1635/6 [PCR 1:36], and had, along with Timothy Hatherly, been admitted as a freeman on the same day [PCR 1:4]. From that date on, he was frequently named to high office, and was one of the most important men in the colony.
     The tax list entries for 1633 and 1634 assess John Brown at nine shillings, the lowest amount assessed. Mr. John Browne, the assistant, would have had an estate large enough to earn a higher assessment. John Brown, brother of Peter, fits the economic profile of these tax assessments better, and we already know that he was in Plymouth at least by 1633, based on his date of marriage.
     Thus, the evidence is consistent with the arrival of John Brown, brother of Peter, by 1632, in time to appear in the 1633 tax list, and of Mr. John Browne in 1635, followed by immediate admission as a freeman and election as an assistant. [For more on this John Brown, see Phantom File.]
     John Brown may have lived for some time in Plymouth before his removal to Duxbury, but the earliest records for this man (two tax lists and marriage) may have been from either town, as the colony records at this date do not differentiate among Plymouth, Duxbury and Scituate.
     Since John Brown of Duxbury had arrived by 1632, there is a chance that he was the John Brown who sailed on the Lyon in 1632, but reasons are given in the sketch of JOHN BROWN of Watertown for thinking that he is more likely this passenger.
     The estimated date of birth for daughter Remember is based on the crude estimate that she married by about 1668, based on her father's will which shows that she had three children by 1672. Josiah Wormall was born in Rowley in 1642. Remember was in fact probably born somewhat earlier than 1648, but still probably some years after her parents' marriage.

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BROWN, PETER [1620, Plymouth]



PETER BROWN


ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth

FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen ahead of those made free on 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:4].
EDUCATION: Inventory includes one Bible valued at 3s.
ESTATE: In list of "meersteads & garden plots of [those] which came first laid out 1620" on south side of street next to John Goodman [PCR 1:3].
     In 1623 Plymouth land division "Peter Browen" received one acre as a passenger on the Mayflower [PCR 12:4]. In 1627 Plymouth cattle division Peter Brown, Martha Brown and Mary Brown were the fourth, fifth and sixth persons in the eighth company [PCR 12:11].
     Peter Brown assessed 18s. in Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 [PCR 1:10]; widow Brown assessed 9s. in list of 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:28].
     The inventory of the estate of "Peter Browne of New Plymouth deceased" was taken 10 October 1633 and presented at court on 28 October 1633, on which date the widow, Mary Brown, was granted administration [MD 1:79-82, citing PCPR 1:7-8; PCR 1:17].
     On 11 November 1633 a court of assistants at Plymouth ordered that "whereas Peter Browne died without will, having diverse children by diverse wives, his estate amounting to an hundred pounds, or thereabouts, it is ordered, that Mary, his wife, who is allowed the administra~trix of the said Peter, forthwith pay down fifteen pounds for the use of Mary Browne, daughter of the said Peter, to Mr. Joh. Done, of Plymoth aforesaid, with whom the said Court have placed the said Mary for nine years; at the end whereof the said John is to make good the said fifteen pounds to her or her heirs, if in case she die. Also it is further ordered, that the said widow Mary Browne pay or cause to be pai