Subject: Samuel Brown, Jr., Esq & Lydia Willard & Abigail Burr - Watertown & Stockbridge, Mass. Source: The Early History of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860. p.130 - 133 Samuel Brown, Jr., Esq., was a commissary during most of the Revolutionary War, and attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, at the close of it. He was a lieutenant in 1767. About 1763, he purchased, for himself and others of two chieftains of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, for £1700. the tract of land, afterwards, in 1766, divided the towns of Richmond (before called Yokumtown); and Lenox (before called Mount Ephraim). In the year 1761, several families moved and settled in the southwest part of the town of Richmond - viz., Samuel Brown Jr., Esq. Elijah Brown Isaac Brown John Chamberlin David Pixley, Sr. Joseph Patterson Daniel Rowley Timothy Rowley Aaron Rowley His Will was dated Jan. 12, 1790 and Proved April 3, 1792, his son, Elisha Brown, administrator, "if he attains his majority before his father's decease." Samuel Brown Jr. m. (1) Lydia Willard. She d. Sept 8, 1755 and he m. (2) Nov 11, 1757, Agigail Burr of Windsor, CT. Children: 1. Stephen Brown who settled in West Stockbridge and died aged 83. He m. (1) Abiah Lawrence b. Nov 30, 1760, dau. of Jonas & Tryphena (Lawrence) Lawrence of Canaan, CT. Jonas Lawrence, her father, was the eldest brother of Isaac Lawrence who m. Mary Brown, aunt of this Stephen Brown. By his first wife, Stephen Brown had two children. He m. (2) ____ Goodrich and had 4 other children. 2. John Brown who d. March 9, 1761. 3. Lydia Brown b. Aug 9, 1755; d. July 26, 1828; m. May 28, 1768, Abner Carpenter b. Aug 7, 1755; d. Nov 29, 1831; of Stockbridge - 13 children. p.132 4. Violet Brown b. Sept. 21, 1758; d. Mar 22, 1838; m. Major Elnathan Curtis, Jr., a farmer of Stockbridge who d. 1820 aged 74. - 8 children. 5. William Brown, b. Feb 7, 1761, a merchant of the firm of Pepoon & Brown of Stockbridge; he d. in So. Carolina in 1788. His father was his administrator - 1789. 6. Abigail Brown b. July 31, 1762; d. Nov 14, 1814; m. Jan. 1786, Asa Bement, Esq, a farmer of Newark, New Jersey who d. April 21, 1847. - 8 children. p.133 7. Samuel Brown, b. Aug 23, 1765; a farmer of West Stock- bridge; m. 1787 Electa Brown. He d. 1796. - 3 children. 8. Elisha Brown b. Aug 9, 1771; m. Elizabeth Woodbridge of Stockbridge, where he resided until 1832 then moved to Dayton, Ohio where he d. 1853. - 10 children. 9. Henry Brown b. June 3, 1773; entered Yale College but ill health compelled him to leave in his sophomore year. He engaged in mercantile business in Stockbridge where he was a Colonel, and a very enterprising, exemplary, useful citizen; a Representative in 1809. In 1816, he went to Ohio and selected and afterwards purchased Township No. 6 in the 19th Range, now known as Brownhelm, Lorain County, Ohio. The next year a colony of his old neighbors went out to settle the township, whither his family went the following year. He was apptd Assistant Judge at the organization of the County; and was one of the original and most active and efficient Trustee of the Western Reserve College. See the Ohio Observer for Jan 25, 1844 for a delineation of his character, as an earnest, con- sistent Christian, fruitful of good works, and given to hospitality. His extensive information, his frank, ingen- uous disposition and his large intercourse with the world, made his society very agreeable and profitable. He m. (1) Mary Wells of Hartford, who died Sept 4, 1807 and he m. (2) Sept 27, 1809, Harriet Seymour of Hartford, CT. He d. Dec 10, 1843. - 14 children. Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth **************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the grill. (http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000004)