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- TWICE RELATED TO CHADDUS BROWN and & ELIZABETH SHARPAROWE
Sons:
1. Rev John Brown 2. Jeremiah Brown
his dtr Sarah Brown his son Joseph
Sarah Brown's dtr Joseph m Sarah "Mary" Pray (1st cousin once removed)
Sarah "Mary" Pray
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Chad Brown arrived in Boston in July 1638 on ship "Martin", with his wife, Elizabeth, and his young son, John. The family moved to Salem, then to Providence, Rhode Island. He was a pious Baptist, and a preacher.
"Few merchantile dynasties anywhere in America exceeded the Browns of Providence in the diversity and the magnitude of their interest. The first of the name, Chad Brown...fathered a line that continues unbroken to the present day. In the later eighteenth century the Browns controlled fleets of vessels trading to the ends of the earth; they engaged in varied mercantile and manufacturing activities that included the production of spermateci candles, the distilling of rum, and the smelting of pig iron. Hardly a profitable activity in Rhode Island failed to enlist the interest of the Browns."
from page 312, The American Heritage History of the Thirteen Colonies, 1967.
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"Among those Rhode Island families which may almost be styled "basic" in the history and genealogy of that Colony and State" the Chad Browne family must be numbered. Spreading almost immediately to all parts of the colony, it has been from the first influential in all lines of service, whether religious, political or industrial. Its name is stamped upon a great university, and men of note have borne it proudly. " By William Bradford Browne of North Adams, Mass.
Chad Browne arrived in Boston in early July 1638 on board ship "Martin", accompanied by his wife Elizabeth and son John, aged 8 years. His parentage is unknown. On the voyage of the "Martin" to New England, one of the passengers, Sylvester Baldwin died, of Aston Clinton, Bucks Co., , having declared on June 21 in a noncupative will, which was proved on July 13, 1638 before Deputy Governor Dudley by the oaths of Chad Browne and three other men. In 1638 he proceeded to Providence, where he was associated with Roger Williams and was a signer of the famous Compact which denied religious interference in civil affairs. In 1640 he was a member of a committee to consider the Colony boundaries, and was at times called a surveyor.
In 1642 he was ordained as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Providence, the mother church of the Baptist Church of America.
The home log of Chad Browne was at the corner of the present Market Square and College Street in Providence, and Brown University now occupies that lot. He was buried on his own ground, a spot now occupied by the Court House, and his remaire removed in 1792 to the North Burial Ground.
On December 31, 1672, James Brown, the second son of Chad, conveyed to Daniel Abbott a parcel of land "which was my father Chad Browne his house lot or home share he receiived from ye town of Providence, my said father in his last will appointing the same after his wife Elizabeth Browne her decease, to revert unto my brother, John Browne, which said share my brother John passed over to me."
(Source: Chad Brown of Providence, R.I. & 4 generations by William Bradford Browne-Regi)
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Abt 1600 - Abt 1663 (~ 63 years)
