I am looking for information on a Brown family in CT. I don't know too much at this point, but they lived in the eastern portion of CT, possibly in or near Preston. The wife was Eunice, but I don't know her maiden name. I don't know the husband's name, and it is probably that he died well before the wife, possibly during the Revolutionary War, or even earlier. This was in the mid 1700's -- as far as I know, Eunice was born in 1732 and died in 1805. Any information that anyone has about this family would be greatly appreciated. Norma

You are possibly looking for the relatives of the famous abolitionist, John Brown of Harpers Ferry, WV. That John Brown was the son of Owen and Ruth (Mills) Brown of Torrington, Conn. His family is descended from Peter Browne (b.c. 1632 in Plymouth, MA - d. Mar. 9, 1691/2 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Conn.). Double click and Check-out #8 (Owen Brown) at: <http://members.aol.com/ptrbrwn/jbc.html> Click on link of John Brown at the top of the page to go back by generation all the way to Peter Browne from Mass.. John Brown was b. May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Conn., the son of Owen and Ruth (Mills) Brown who were m. Feb. 13, 1793. Owen Brown was b.c. 1761 and Ruth b.c. 1762. The first of Owen Brown's kin to arrive in America some believe came on the Mayflower in 1620, being Peter Browne. Others believe a later Peter Browne who arrived in Conn. about 1650. "However, other investigators, such as the Rev. Clarence S. Gee, of Lockport, NY, an authority on the Brown family genealogy, believe that the Mayflower Peter Browne was John Brown's direct ancestor." [Richard O. Boyer, "The Legend of John Brown"(New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 1973), p. 168] Owen Brown's father was Captain John Brown who died in the Rev. War, who was in turn the son of a John Brown, b.c. 1695 (At least one years before the abolitionist's birthday in 1800). He was the captain of Train Band Nine of the Eighteenth Conn. Regt.. The abolitionist's maternal grandfather was Gideon Mills who had also served in the Rev. War as a lieutenant who was the son of Rev. Gideon Mills a well known Conn. preacher and graduate of Yale. The Owen Brown family consisting of seven persons including an adopted brother of John Brown (a Levi Blakesley, age 11); dau. Ruth, 7; John, b. 5; Salmon, 3; Oliver, 1, and an infant daughter in arms left Conn. in 1805 for Ohio's Western Reserve in the company of Benjamin Whedon, a Conn. schoolmaster. George W. Page +++++++++++++ At 02:14 PM 3/17/2001 -0500, Sew4210@aol.com wrote: >I am looking for information on a Brown family in CT. I don't know too much >at this point, but they lived in the eastern portion of CT, possibly in or >near Preston. The wife was Eunice, but I don't know her maiden name. I >don't know the husband's name, and it is probably that he died well before >the wife, possibly during the Revolutionary War, or even earlier. This was >in the mid 1700's -- as far as I know, Eunice was born in 1732 and died in >1805. Any information that anyone has about this family would be greatly >appreciated. > >Norma