Person:Richard Brown (65)

From the diary of Mr. Brown^[3]

"Sept. 12, 1719. I am this day forty-four years old, and have received from God 44,000 mercies, for which I have made but poor returns. The Lord pardon, and make me thankful. I do humbly renew my love with God this day, and give myself to him - my whole self - and resolve that by his grace I will labor to live more closely with him."

1. ↑ Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911)
   1:71.

   Brown, Richard, s. Richard, Sept. 12, 1675.

2. ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1912)
   502.

   Brown, Richard, Rev., Oct. 20, 1732. "Pastour at ye first church in Reading".

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Bliss, Charles R. Wakefield Congregational Church: a commemorative sketch 1644-1877
   35.

   [Reading became Wakefield]
   Rev. Richard Brown born in Newbury in 1675, and gradudated at Harvard in 1697, Mr. Brown became an instructor in his native town in 1700, and continued in that calling eleven years, when he came to this place. He was ordained the next year, and discharged the duties of his office twenty years, dying in 1732, at the age of fifty-seven.
   "The most quaint and peculiar records in our church book are from his pen."