Person:Paul Brownell (2)

Paul Brownell

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m. 6 Jul 1706

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Name	Paul Brownell
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	12 Jun 1721	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Death^[1]	20 May 1761	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United Statesae 40

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "The Brownell Family", in Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin, and Little Compton Historical Society [Rhode Island]. Little Compton Families. (Little Compton [Rhode Island]: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967 (College Hill Press : Providence, R.I.))
Vol 1 p. 95.

"...born in LC 12 June 1721, died there 20 May 1761 ae 40.

"He married in LC 6 Jan 1746 Deborah Dennis of Tiverton, daughter of Robert and Susannah (Briggs) Dennis, born in Tiverton 21 March 1722, died in LC 23 Sept. 1785. She married second John Earle, published 14 Feb. 1773.

"They are buried in the Brownell cemetery at Westport Harbour on what was the George Brownell place and later the Barker Peckham place at the four corners, the beach being south of the four corners."

Note "children are not recorded in LC (as this area became part of MA), but taken from the private framed records which were sold to Mrs. John A Seabury at the Mark Brownell auction."
Rounds, H. L. Peter. Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987)
16:219.

Receipts by George Brownell and Paul Brownell for legacies from Estate of their father George Brownell of Dartmouth, paid by Jonathan Brownell, exec., dated 31 Dec 1757 & 13 July 1757. Witnesses: Ichabod Stoddard, Deborah Stoddard, Benjamin Sawdey and Giles Brownell [16:51].