Person:John Brown (245)

John Brown was a soldier in the French War. He commanded a company in the Louisburg expedition in 1745. He took a leading part in the Revolution and had 3 sons in the service. He was a prominent man in the town and its representative in the General Court for twenty years. He was 5 feet 10 inches tall and of light complexion. His wife, Mary Jones, was the aunt of Hon. John Coffin Jones.

Massachusetts, Geneological Record 3, Vol II

Source: Washburn's History of Leicester, Massachusetts Source: Leicester, Massachusetts Vital Records Source: Genealogies of Hadley Families (including Hatfield); L.M.Baltwood1862 Source: History of Hocking Valley, Interstate Publishing Co., Ohio, 1883 Source: Conn. Nutmegger, Sep 1975, queries 2267-41, 42, 43, 45; Dec 1976

1. ↑ Middlesex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900: indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950). (Cambridge [Massachusetts]: [s.n.], 1965-1966)
   Vol. 30, p. 392.

   5 Aug 1729: "John Brown of Leicester ... Husbandman" for £20 to Josiah Converse of same a tract of land of 3+ acres in Town of Leicester "bounded Easterly by my hon'd Father William Browns Land and is part of the Land which I had of him" ...

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Leicester, Massachusetts, to the end the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1903)
   p. 246.

   BROWN, John, [died] ---, 1791, a. 88.