TENTH GENERATION

814. Thomas Browne (14792)(14793) was born in 1601 in Lavenham, co. Suffolk, England.(14794) He established settlement in 1638 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. (14795) He took the oath of freeman on 14 Mar 1639.(14796) He moved from Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts in 1640 to Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. (14797) He moved from Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts in 1680 to Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. (14798) He died on 3 Nov 1688 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. (14799) (14800) He was a husbandman and planter. (14801) The Wilson Family Descendants of John Wilson, Mariner Together with an Account of the Brown Family by Gerald James Parsons, M.S.L.S. 1970, pg. 61.
Thomas Brown (or Browne), the first of this family in America, came from England to New England prior to 1640 and settled in Concord, Middlesex Co., Mass., where he supposedly died 3 Nov 1688. He married Bridget _________, who died 5 mar. 1681, in Concord.

Most authorities say he was the Thomas Brown who came in 1637; was made a freeman 14 Mar. 1638/9; was a proprietor of Sudbury, Mass., where lands were assigned to him in 1640; and removed to Concord soon after. This seems likely for the Thomas Brown of Sudbury had left that settlement before 1646. Some authorities state also that he was a brother of the Rev. Edmund Brown(e) of Sudbury, but I have seen no proof. Pope in The Pioneers of Massachusetts states that Thomas Brown of Concord was the same man of the name who lived in Cambridge, but this can easily be disproved by a search of Concord and Cambridge records. The Thomas Brown of Concord was married 7 Oct. 1656, Martha Oldham, who was mentioned in his will dated 23 Nov. 1690; while the wife of Thomas Brown of Concord was named Bridget and lived until 1681 in Concord.

A Thomas Browne of Concord served in King Philip's War in 1675 and 1676 and was wounded. [Bodge, G.M., Soldiers in King Philip's War... (3d ed., 1906), pp. 171, 172.] This may have been Thomas Brown, Sr., but it seems more likely it was Thomas Brown, Jr. who so served. "Thomas Brown, sen." was a tithingman in Concord 24 Feb. 1679. [The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 5:173.] Savage and Potter state that Thomas
Brown died 3 Nov. 1688, but this record does not appear in printed vital records of Concord. He was married to Bridget before 1640. (14802)(14803) (14804)

815. Bridget (14805)(14806) died on 5 Jan 1680/81 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. (14807)(14808) Children were:

child i. Boaz Browne(14809) (14810) was born on 14 Feb 1641/42 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. (14811) He died on 7 Apr 1724 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.(14812)
child ii. Jabez Browne(14813) was born in 1644.(14814)
child407 iii. Mary Brown.
child iv. Eleazer Browne(14815) was born in Jul 1649.
child v. Thomas Browne(14816) (14817) was born in 1651.(14818) (14819) He died in 1718. (14820)