Celia & Rudd cousins: After getting your e-mail regarding Rogue Valley material on William BROWNE and Marie Hogle's notes, I found the following info in "Hear-Saye", Vol IX No. 1, Spring 1994 (this is newsletter of SCFA - Saybrook Colony Founders Assn)... Probably at request of Joshua Hempstead, grandson of Phebe BROWNE through her daughter Elizabeth LARRIBEE, his aunt Jane (LEE)(HYDE) BURCHARD, wrote out a record of the BROWNE family. A transcription appeared in the "Register", 63[1909]:100: "A genealogy of my Mother taken from Aunt Barthard 1723 [illegible] following I took from my fathers Joshua Hempsteads Esq papers my Granmother was the Daughter of Old William Brown. he Lived in the County of Esex [sic] and town of Rusper in England. Come over to New England in ye year 1645. her Granmother come allso and Granmother died with the smallpox on board and their eldest son John. They had 3 children that come over (viz) Hennery, Phebe & Mary. Hennery lived att Providence had three sons; Pheebe had three husbands. the first was LEE the second LARRIBIE the third CORNISH. LEE died with the smallpox a comeing over & left 3 children (viz) Jane Pheebe & Thomas = Laribie had five children (viz) Greenfield John Elisabeth Joseph & Sarah. Joseph died young; Cornish had two sons (viz) James & one still born with which she died in child bed att Northhampton; Mary BROWNE married Robert MARVIN lived at Southampton on Long Island & att Hempsted Old Great Granfather Brown [illegible] with his daughter Mary MARVIN. their predissesors were ministers was time Quenn Mary Rine (reign)." >From this we learn that Thomas LEE embarked with his wife's family bound for America, but died of smallpox on the passage. Although the Browne family has been found in the parish registers of Rusper, co. Sussex, there is no record of Thomas Lee, nor of his marriage to Phebe Browne; he is only seen in the baptisms of his children (Register, 61[1907]:116-8). His occupation and reasons for coming to the New World are also unseen. Later, Joshua Hempstead says: "She [Mary (Lee) Riggs] was the 3d daughter to my uncle Lee who lived & died in Lyme & was the first of ys name there & came over a child with my Grandmother in the first Settlement of this Country. He had 2 sisters, one was mother of the family of Hides in Norwich & Lebanon #c. (Hempstead Diary, p. 684) A fine outline of the Browne family in America appears in "THE HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE CORNISH FAMILIES IN AMERICA" by Joseph E. Cornish (Boston: George H. Ellis Co., 1907, p. 6). The "Hear-Saye" newsletter states: "From "The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910" by Dean Crawford Smith, publ. by NEHGS, 1992, pp. 393-394. So......... from this account, it seems Mary Browne married Robert Marvin, hence was not the bride of Lt. Jonathan Rudd. and so, it seems, his bride's identity is still a mystery..... and the search continues ! Janet