Notes written by a grandson, Stephen Orman Brown:
"I knew but little of my father's father except that his name was Stephen Brown and that he came from Weare, N.H. He married my grandmother, Mary Pearson, who also came of a family of clothiers in Byfield, Mass., on August [sic] 23, 1803. They moved immediately to Bucksport, Maine, then known as "Buckstown", where he went into trade. He branched out into the West India trade and failed. I do not know the exact date of his failure, but it was near the time of the breaking out of the war of 1812, which may have had something to do with it.
"After the breaking up at Bucksport, my grandmother went back to Byfield, while her husband went a privateering, and not long after, died of ship fever in Boston.
"Their children, both born in Bucksport, were Cellissa, b. Aug. 13, 1804, d. March 27, 1831, at Vassalboro; Stephen Pearson, b. Nov. 12, 1807, d. July 22, 1867, at Dover."
