"… The acquittance of Hannah (Williams) Rose was written by her stepfather John Browne who witnessed it. The beautiful handwriting and signature are identical with script in Newark records written by John Browne, Jr., of Milford, Conn., and Newark, N.J., son of John and Mary (Burwell) Browne. This establishes the identity of the writer. Browne's first wife was a daughter of George Clarke, 'farmer,' of Milford, and sister of the wife of Abraham Pierson, Jr., minister at Newark and Killingworth. Doubtless it was this connection which led Browne to meet and marry for his second wife the widow Williams of Killingworth, and later to settle there. … His only surviving child, Samuel Browne, by the second wife, settled in Lebanon and Waterbury, Conn., married Joanna Loomis and had ten children."