This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01BEB376.83D2DDA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01BEB376.83D2DDA0 Content-Type: text/plain; name="Brown02.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Brown02.txt" These all lived to raise families, and no death occurred till = Jonas was 27 years. John Brown was in the Revolutionary War, a private in Captain = Sylvanus Rice's company, which marched, April 22, 1775, in response to the alarm = of April 19, 1775. 15th. Josiah Brown. Married Mary Wilder December 2, 1790, who died = November 13, 1804. No children resulted of this marriage.=20 Josiah Brown married for his second wife Rebekah Flower Porter, who was born on the 28th of August, 1784, and died January 25, = 1849. AS NEAR AS POSSIBLE TO ASCERTAIN THE GENEALOGY OF THE BROWNS Deacon John Brown, grandfather of the present Brown family, is = believed to be the son of=20 Rev. Cotton Brown, who died in Brookline, Mass., in 1751. Cotton Brown's = father, John Brown,=20 settled in Haverhill, Mass.; died in 1742. This John Brown was son of = John Brown, a minister=20 of Duxbury, Mass., who was son of the Rev. John Brown of Plymouth, = Mass., who landed in=20 Plymouth in 1621 and was believed to be the brother of Peter Brown of = the Mayflower of 1620. The Genealogy of the Brown Family From an Authentic Record on the = Maternal Side Five years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth = Rock, Samuel Porter=20 arrived from England and was hospitably received by his fellow = countrymen who had preceded him.=20 Samuel Porter removed from Plymouth to Beverly, Mass., where Samuel, a = son of the original=20 settler, was born, and at maturity was married to Miss Lydia Dodge of = that place. His son,=20 John Porter, married also a Beverly girl, Lydia Herrick. Nehemiah, son = of John, married=20 Miss Hannah Smith, also of Beverly, Mass. His son, Nehemiah, was born at = Ipswich, Mass.,=20 March 22, 1720; graduated at Harvard, 1745; married Miss Rebecca Shipman = of Beverly, and was=20 ordained Minister of the Gospel in the Congregational Church at Ipswich, = January 3, 1750,=20 where he remained sixteen years. He was afterwards installed at = Ashfield, Franklin County,=20 Mass., December 21, 1774, where he lived until his death, February 29, = 1820. He lacked only=20 twenty-one days of completing a century, having laboured faithfully in = the ministry as Gospel=20 ambassador for over sixty years. His son, John Porter, married Miss = Rebecca Flower of Ashfield,=20 Mass. As the fruit of their marriage they had two sons and five = daughters. The sons' names were John, who died young, and Ebenezer, who lived to an advanced age. The = daughters' names were=20 Mehitable, who married Russel Chauncy; they had fifteen children. = Elizabeth married Elias=20 Carrier; they had seven children. Rebecca married Johiah Brown; they had = twelve children.=20 Hahnah married Hezekiah Warner; They had five children. Sally married a = Mr. Pollard; no children. ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01BEB376.83D2DDA0--