John Brown

April 24, 2013 — ancestors, John Brown, New Hapshire

New Hampshire

My 10th great grandfather was baker in London who came to America with his very young future wife in 1635.  He became wealthy in New Hampshire.

” John Browne 40″ as well as “William Walker, 15; James Walker 15 and Sarra Walker 17, servants to John Browne, baker, and William Brasey, linen draper in Cheapside” embarked upon the Eliz abeth, Mr. William Stagg, master, leaving London on 17 April 1635 and arriving in Boston, Suffolk County, MA in June, according to Peter Wilson Coldham’s  The Complete Book Of Emigrants . 

In London, Middlesex, England, John was a Baker and was listed as such on the manifest of The Elizabeth.  His master, John Browne, was a Puritan who followed his preacher, Reverend  Stephen Bachiler, to New England to escape the oppression of King Charles.  He became a freeman two years after arriving in 1635, then moved to Hampton, New Hampshire.

First called the Plantation of Winnacunnet, Hampton was one of four original  New Hampshire  townships chartered by the General Court of  Massachusetts , which then held authority over the colony. “ Winnacunnet” is an  Algonquian  Abenaki  word meaning “pleasant pines”. The town was settled in 1638 by a group of parishioners led by Bachiler , who had formerly preached at the settlement’s  namesake :  Hampton,  England .

He received a grant of 4 acres for a house lot on Brown’s River. He eventually became the third wealthiest man and the largest landowner in Hampton, owning four farms. John served as Selectman in 1651 and 1656 

John sued Thomas Swetman for a debt due “for two fat oxen” in 1654. He also brought suit against the “prudential men” and the Town of Hampton for not building a road to his farm, which was near the Falls River toward the part of Salisbury, Essex County, MA that became Seabrook, Rockingham County, NH. The court decided in his favor and the road he wanted was built.

Once in New Hampshire, John built the first bark, a small ship, in Hampton, Rockingham County, NH at the river near Perkins Mill. This ship was mentioned in John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “The Wreck of River Mouth.”

John Browne (1589 – 1687)
is my 10th great grandfather
Rebecca Browne (1669 – 1700)
daughter of John Browne
Dorothy Whipple (1669 – 1728)
daughter of Rebecca Browne
Dorothy Rhoades (1705 – 1705)
daughter of Dorothy Whipple
Margaret Hammett (1721 – 1753)
daughter of Dorothy Rhoades
Benjamin Sweet (1722 – 1789)
son of Margaret Hammett
Paul Sweet (1762 – 1836)
son of Benjamin Sweet
Valentine Sweet (1791 – 1858)
son of Paul Sweet
Sarah LaVina Sweet (1840 – 1923)
daughter of Valentine Sweet
Jason A Morse (1862 – 1932)
son of Sarah LaVina Sweet
Ernest Abner Morse (1890 – 1965)
son of Jason A Morse
Richard Arden Morse (1920 – 2004)
son of Ernest Abner Morse
Pamela Morse
I am the daughter of Richard Arden Morse