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Excerpt from A Biographical Sketch of Captain Oliver Brown, an Officer of the Revolutionary Army, Who Commanded the Party Which Destroyed the Statue of George the Third, in New York City, July 9, 1776 It has been claimed that Oliver was fourth in descent from Peter Brown, who came to America in the Mayflower, in 1620, through Peter, of Windsor, Conn., 1632. But the connection between the Windsor Browns and the Mayflower emigrant is not proven. Chas. Hudson, in his History of Lexington, Mass, makes Oliver fourth in descent from John, of Watertown, thus: Oliver 4, Benjamin 3, Joseph 2, John 1. This John, the ancestor of Oliver, was son of John, of Hawkedon, County Suffolk, England, mentioned by Savage as baptized in Hawkedon Church, October 11, 1601; arrived September 16, 1632, at Boston, from London, on the ship Lion, and settled at \vatertown. According to Savage, John Brown, of Cambridge, called a Scotchman, married April 24th, 1653, Esther, daughter of Thomas Makepeace, and in his father's will, eleven years after, is called of Marlborough. He had eleven children, of whom the youngest, Joseph, was born at Marlborough, 1677. The next year John (i) moved to Falmouth, and probably at the second destruction of that town moved to Watertown, where he dates his will, November 20th, 1697, in which he mentions his son Joseph Joseph (2) mar ried November 15th, 1699, Ruhamah Wellington, and had Ruhamah, Daniel, John, and Joseph, born at vvatertown. In 1709 he removed to Lexington, and there had James, Josiah, Benjamin, and William. He died there, a deacon of the church, January 11th, 1766. His wife died July Ist, age 92. This genealogical problem must be left for others to solve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
