Oh well, we're getting used to these dead ends! <g> Thanks Janet! Celia At 2:42 PM -0400 7/4/98, [email protected] wrote: >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