Person:Ebenezer Brown (3)

Ebenezer Brown
b.15 Jun 1765 Cambridge, MA
  1. Ebenezer Brown1765 -
  • HEbenezer Brown1765 -
  • WMary Hyde1759 - 1798
m. 21 Jun 1781
Facts and Events
Name Ebenezer Brown
Gender Male
Birth[1] 15 Jun 1765 Cambridge, MA
Marriage 21 Jun 1781 Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Hyde
Death? Waltham, MA
Reference Number 01-182z
Questionable Information Found
see note.
References
  1. No such birth record is found. In addition, it is unlikely any person born in 1765 would marry at age 16 in 1781, so even if found, it would likely be a mistaken identification of the husband of Mary Hyde. It appears to be an erroneous representation of Ebenezer Brown, the son of Thomas Brown and Martha (Sherman) Oldham, who was born exactly 100 years before the date given here, 15 Jun 1665, per Cambridge VRs. That Ebenezer married a woman named Mary, but died in Newton in 1740, about 2 decades before Mary Hide was even born. See Mary's page for further discussion of who her husband wasn't. There is a 1757 baptism of Ebenezer Brown, s/o Ebenezer Brown of Cambridge Village, listed in Watertown Records, who would be a more appropriate age, though he hasn't been investigated.