The Births for Heath, MA (Franklin County) to the year 1850, typed by Dave Swerdfeger were just added to my web site at: http://www.rays-place.com The Marriages and Deaths will follow when they are typed, please be patient waiting for them. Cheers Ray Brown http://www.rays-place.com

All- I am interested in hearing from anyone who is connected to the below line. I have worked on this line for some time, and have not seen it published anywhere else. I do know a little bit about some of the connected lines but did not include in the interest of trying to keep focused on the BROWNS. Sarah Johnson Lynn/Colrain, MA What I (Sarah Johnson) know of Isaac Brown (1736?-1803) of Guilford, VT and some of his descendents: 1. Isaac Brown m. Elizabeth (NOT Elizabeth Millet- that marriage was ruled out.) 2. Isaac 1762-1834 m. Mary WEATHERHEAD 1764-1837 3. Abraham 4. Jacob 5. Samuel b. about 1776 m. Rachel JONES of Buckland, MA 4/27/1798 6. John (b. 1780) m. Sylvalla JONES of Buckland, MA 6/15/1802 7. Susannah m. Edmund(?) SATTERFIELD 8. Phebe m. (1?) Levi SMITH 2/17/1807, (2) Wm. JONES of Buckland, MA, (3) Joshua TOTMAN of Colrain 10/4/1815 (I think he lived on Catamount Hill) 9. Mary m. Abner LAKE 10. Lydia m. Jonathan SPRAGUE of Buckland 11/22/1790 (they lived on Catamount Hill, Colrain, MA, then removed to Spragueville, NY with many others.) 11. Sarah (Sally) m. Wm. FRANKLIN 6/21/1795 12. Elizabeth (Betsy?) m. James BROWN 2/1/1816 (unrelated as far as we know) 13. Joseph note: the above children are not in birth order because I don't have birth dates for most of them. Sources: records in the family folder in Colrain, library, vitals, and Elizabeth Brown's will, dated 1813. 2. Isaac Brown and Mary WEATHERHEAD had at least one son, Isaac, who m. Delinda KEEP. Their known children: Emla Keep b. 5/4/1815 Hanna D. b.4/26/1817 Mary M. b.3/12/1819 Isaac Emerson b. 4/6/1821, d. 11/1/1833 Agusta b. 1824, d. 1875 George R. b. 1829, d. 3/26/1849 Alfred b. 1831, d. 1893. m. Mary MILLER, d. 1903 Isaac(?) d. 1831 buried next to Alfred S. may have been a twin brother who did not survive? 5. Samuel (Catta) BROWN m. (1) Rachel JONES of Buckland, MA 1798, (2) Mrs. Rhoba/Phoebe COOLIDGE (d. of Josiah and Tabitha FULHAM COOLIDGE) of Colrain 4/22/1815. Samuel's known children: 14. Samuel Jr. b. 1804 d. after 1865 15. John 1807-1877 16. Malona (Lonnie) 1816-1879 17. Abraham 18. Sylvalla (Suzy?) 19. Martha? 20. 3-5 more? 14. Samuel Jr. BROWN m. Abigail HASTINGS, (b. 1804, d. of Zebina and Sarah HASTINGS) of Charlemont, MA. Not sure of marriage date. Their known children: 21. John L. b. 1825 m. Jerusha M. CLARK 1848 (she b. 1831 to Adam and Sarah CLARK of Buckland, MA) 22. Alonzo R. (1836-1893) m. Elvira MINER(1841-1912) 1860 (she d of Benj. and Almira MINER of Leyden, MA) 23. Caroline L. b. 1840 m. Jerah C. MINER 1860 (he b. 1835 to Randall and Hannah BAKER MINER of Leyden, MA) 24. Henry b. 1843 25. Harriet b. 1846 15. John BROWN m. (1) Minerva EDSON of Buckland, MA 1829. Their known children: 26. Horace (1831-1894) m. Orcelia SPRAGUE 27. Windsor (1833-1913) m. Juliette ? (d. probably in Albany, NY) 28. Mary (1834- after 1903) m. Louis HEATON 1853. rem. to Tarma Co., Iowa 29. Edwin (1836- bef. 1877?) m. Abigail ? rem. to West Jersey, Stark Co. IL. Think they might have moved back to New York. 30. Harriet Minerva (1838-1919) m. - HEATH, rem. to Presque Isle, MI. (2) Elizabeth MARCY BROWN (1816- 1847) 1845. She was the widow of John's cousin, Chandler BROWN. John and Chandler's fathers were brothers (John and Samuel) and their mothers were likely sisters (Rachel and Sylvallah JONES, both of Buckland.) Chandler d. in 1845, leaving Elizabeth with three children: Irving, Almon/Elmond, and Charles. Known child of Elizabeth and John: 31. Chandler Eugene (BROWN) SMITH 1847-1929 m. Sarah GATES Note: Chandler Eugene was left with a childless minister and his wife when a baby. John took his other children and moved to Spragueville, NY. Chandler Eugene was adopted and settled in Leominster, MA. He stayed in touch with his BROWN siblings, and finally met them in 1924/5. His descendants still live in the same house in Leominster. (3) Priscilla EDSON SHIPPEE (1808-bef. 1856) in 1848. (she d. of David and Polly BELDING EDSON of Ashfield, MA.) Priscilla was sister to John's first wife, Minerva EDSON, and widow of Josiah SHIPPEE, who died in 1848 in Spragueville, NY. She was left with 6 children: Francis, Orin, Samuel, Thurston, Suzannah, and Electa. She and John are not known to have had any children. (4) Fidelia GILLETT (1826-1892) 1856. (she d. of Norris and Martha Ann HAUKE GILLETT). Norris was descended from Jonathan GILLET, who came to Dorchester, MA on the Mary and John in 1630 and settled in Windsor, CT in 1635. Known children of Fidelia and John: 32. Minerva Culbertson 1857-1949? m. Louis HEATON (her sister's widower) 33. Curtis b. 1859 34. Franklin Edwin (1860-1925) m. Wilhelmina Bancroft (d. 1925) (she d. of George and Eliza Jane ROOD BANCROFT). They lived in Glen Park, NY. 35. Malona (May) (1867-1952) m. - WYETH 27. Windsor BROWN m. Juliette ? . Their known children: 36. Frederick Wullen BROWN b. about 1860 in NY. d. 1893 in Atlanta, GA 37. John Holmes BROWN b. ca. 1864 in NY, d. after 1903 29. Edwin BROWN m Abigail ? about 1841. In 1860 he was listed as a shoemaker in the Fowler, NY census. He and his sister Harriet had lived with Jehial and Martha Gillet in 1850.. Jehial was a shoemaker as well. Known children: 38. Idah J. b. ca. 1857 39. Charles N. b ca. 1859 40. Etta b. bef. 1877 NOTES ON SOME OF THE BROWNS LISTED ABOVE: 1. Isaac Brown Sr. He first shows up in Guilford, VT. The house where he lived is still standing, and the farm was in the family for 220 years. It was just sold a few years ago because of family tragedy. (It eventually passed through marriage to the Coombs family- Mary Brown married a COOMBS- so it was recently known as the Coombs farm). In spite of much searching, we have not been able to figure out from where Isaac came. I think he lived 1736-1803. Elizabeth (last name not known- if you research MA records, Elizabeth MILLETT has been ruled out)- died in 1813 and left a will with all of her living children listed. We do know that Isaac suddenly showed up in 1777 in Guilford and bought land with Continental Dollars. Usually it was only Rev. War vets who had this money. A thorough search of all MA Rev. War vets has turned up nothing for us. He might have served in another state, or sold land to vets elsewhere and acquired the money that way. He is our big mystery. (I tracked down the Isaac Brown of Ashby, MA- not our Isaac). There is some talk that our Isaac came from Dover, VT, now part of Wardsboro. I was unable to locate him in the Wardsboro records, nor in any of the cemeteries there. There is more work to be done. There is also a possibility that he came from Rhode Island, because his neighbor, Philip Franklin, came from there. The Browns and Franklins were very close (their houses are right across the road from each other) and so there could be a previous connection. He could also be the Isaac Brown listed in the 1771 census in Deerfield, MA. The Isaac Brown from Hopkinton, MA has been ruled out. 5. Samuel "Catta" Brown. He leased a sawmill from Nathan MILLET in Guilford, VT in 1800 for 11 years. He showed up in Colrain, MA in 1810 on Catamount Hill. We have recently identified the site of his sawmill on Catamount Hill. He was living in Whitingham, VT in 1850, as a pauper. He was a Methodist. Note: any descendants of this Samuel Brown are by birth members of the Catamount Hill Association- a group which has been meeting every five years since 1875 to celebrate the heritage of those who lived on Catamount Hill. For more info, please contact: Sarah JOHNSON, President, Catamount Hill Association P.O. Box 68, Colrain, MA 01340 ([email protected]). Our next meeting will be in 2005, but we have annual hikes on the hill every summer. All who are able are welcome. (No $ solicited). A part of a poem in the Catamount Hill Association records says: "From there across the meadow I then went on To where Catta Brown lived; his wife had been gone And Martha had stayed to make herself useful Giving Lonny and Abram of milk each a cupful I found Abram away, he was lame to his sorrow and had gone to Uncle Peter's (Shippee- author's uncle) his crutches to borrow" there is also the reference to the hen: "Abram's father said tell Susy to pick it and cook it for dinner" I think these words were written by Fanny Bowen Shippee. 15. John Brown (Sarah Johnson's gggrandfather). John Brown was poor his whole life. He grew up on Catamount Hill (Colrain, MA) and then removed to Whitingham, VT for awhile in the 1840s. He was in debt and when he went to New York State, his creditors sent someone after him. They returned saying that he was destitute and had nothing of value to confiscate. (1845). He removed to Spragueville, New York shortly after to join his Aunt Lydia SHIPPEE. The house he built is still standing- the gentle woman who lives there still has to use the outhouse and hand pumps her water. The barn he built was still standing straight, but was blown down in a violent storm recently. When John Brown died, he left one dollar to each of his children. REGARDING THE FRANKLINS: Philip FRANKLIN came to Guilford, VT in 1777 with his family from Scituate, RI. They lived across the road from Isaac Brown and his family. Philip's daughter Rachel married an unrelated Brown in Colrain, and lived to be a very old woman. This causes some confusion when trying to trace Rachel JONES BROWN, w. to Samuel BROWN. It is believed that Rachel Jones Brown d. young- before 1815, since he remarried in 1815. I did not find any record of Isaac Brown in Rhode Island yet. Christchurch Cemetery has the following Browns buried there: (it is an Episcopal church) in lot #27: Agusta Brown 1824-1875 Delinda Keep Brown 1791-1877 George R. Brown 1829-1847 Isaac Brown 1793-1870 Isaac Emerson Brown 1821-1833 in lot #48: (right next to lot #27) Alfred S. Brown 1831-1893 Isaac Brown d. 1831 (probably an infant) Isaac Brown 1762-1834 Mary Brown 1764-1837 Mary Miller Brown d. 1908 Abbie Aurissa Brown 1865-1867 Clara Augusta Brown 1862-1865 Mary Coombs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com