"Robert Brownell evidently lived on the west side of the Long Highway nearly opposite Quicksand Pond." Will mentions wife Mary, sons Thomas, Benjamin; daughters Patience, Margaret and Ann."
-Aug. 19, 1721 Robert Brownell of Little Compton, aged about 70 years, deposed that he formerly lived in Portsmouth; mentioned his father Thomas Brownell. [Gleanings from Newport Court Files 1659-1783, 1998, by Jane Fletcher Fiske, item 175]