Person:John Browne (69)

Elder John Browne

b.Bef 1611

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m. Bef 1636

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]^[4]	Elder John Browne
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]	Bef 1611	Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage	Bef 1636	Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child. to Unknown
Emigration^[1]	1637
Residence^[1]^[3]	1637	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Other^[1]^[3]^[4]	2 May 1638	Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Will^[2]	2 Jan 1683
Death^[2]	Bef 24 Nov 1685	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)Before date of probate.
Probate^[2]	24 Nov 1685	Will proved.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 John Brown, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
45.

"Brown, John: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1637; [Resided] Salem [STR 1:51, 93; SChR 7; MBCR 1:374; Essex Ant 13:147; Perley 1:430-32; TG 2:132-33; EIHC 4:171, 8:33-35]."
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Perley, Sidney, ed. Essex Antiquarian. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Antiquarian)
13:147.

"Elder John Browne¹, an early resident of Salem, was made a freeman in ~~1637~~ [1638]. He was ruling elder of the church, and a prominent man in many ways. He was a mariner and merchant, trading with Maryland and Virginia, went on voyages himself frequently, and was shipwrecked in 1660. His wife was living in 1667; and he died in 1685, his will, dated Jan. 2, 1683, being proved Nov. 24, 1685."
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 John Brown, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
1:270.

"John (Brown), Salem 1637, freem. 2 May 1638, rul. elder of the ch. had John, bapt. Sept. 1638; and James, June 1640; d. 1685."
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
3:96.