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(III) Increase, fourth son and fifth child of John and Mary (Strong) Clark, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, April 8, 1684. He married Mary Sheldon, February 2, 1710, and they had nine children, born as follows: I. Mary, January 7, 17II, married Jerijah Strong. 2. Daniel, mentioned with descend- ants in this article. 3. Eunice, December 18, 1714, dicd January 10, 1715. 4. Moses, North- ampton, June 7, 1716, mentioned with descend- ants in this article. 5. Lois, September 5. 1718. 6. Simcon, October 19, 1720. 7. Richard, Sep- tember 5, 1725, dicd August 8, 1745, unmar- ricd. 8. Jemima, September 5. 1728, married Aaron Baker. 9. Elijah, Junc 14, 1730, mar- ried Experience Field, of Sunderland, Novem- ber 8, 1759, had eight children as follows :
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Elijah, 1761, dicd 1763; Eli, 1763; Elijah, 1765; Luther, 1767; Calvin, 1770; Increase, 1772: Experience, 1774; Enos, 1779. Elijah Clark, the father of these children died April 12. 1791, aged sixty-one years. Increase Clark died August 27, 1755, aged ninety-one years, and his wife Mary ( Sheldon) Clark, August 6. 1767.
(IV) Daniel, eldest son and second child of Increase and Mary ( Sheldon) Clark, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, March 13: 1713, died there December 26, 1804. He married Experience Allen, August 30, 1739, lived first at Pancake Plain, and in 1746 re- moved to Elm street, Northampton. Children : I. Experience, June 29, 1740, married to Moses Stebbins, of Deerfield. 2. Daniel, June 9, 1742, died August 18, 1760. 3. Solomon, (q. v.), September 2, 1744. 4. Nathan, February 5, 1747, married Widow Mary Clark and died April 4. 1821. 5. Rachel, August 30, 1748, married Zachariah Fields, of Hatfield, Febru- ary 28, 1799. 6. A child born 1750, died soon after its birth. Experience ( Allen) Clark, the mother of these children, died 1751. Mr. Clark married (second) Mary Field, of Sunderland, March 14, 1754. She died August 15, 1804, at the age of eighty-six years. His children by this marriage were: 7. Irene, December 29, 1754, married David Parsons, of West- hampton, and died October, 1826. 8. Mary, baptized August 14, 1751, died September, 1757. 9. Mary, baptized March 22, 1761, died January 14, 1776.
(V) Solomon, second son and third child of Daniel and Experience (Allen) Clark, was born in Pancake Plain, Northampton, Massa- chusetts, September 2, 1744, died in Northamp- ton, Massachusetts, November 4, 1821. He married. November 9, 1769, Eleanor Wright, and she died November 22, 1812, aged sixty- five years. Children, born in Northampton as follows: 1. Eleanor, baptized October 7, 1770, died unmarried in 1840. 2. Daniel, baptized September 27, 1772, married Joanna Marsh and died in Huntsburg, Ohio. 3. Solomon, August II, 1775, died September 8, 1777. 4. Mary, baptized in 1777, died unmarried in 1830. 5. Solomon, baptized September, 1779, died March 29, 1887. 6. Lovina, baptized De- cember 9, 1781, married John Brown, of Salem, Massachusetts. 7. A child baptized March, 1783, died March 27, 1783. 8. Irena, baptized July 4, 1784. 9. Julius, baptized February 27, 1785. 10. Dorothy, baptized October 22, 1786, married Justin Strong. 11. Allen, (q. v.) bap- tized February 1, 1789. 12. Experience, bap-
tized December 23, 1792, married Henry Chapin.
(VI) Allen, fifth son and eleventh child of Solomon and Eleanor (Wright) Clark, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, and bap- tized February 1, 1789. He married Sophia, daughter of William W. and Ann (Cook) Cook, of Hadley, Massachusetts. They had seven children born in Northampton, as fol- lows: I. John, married Electa Strong, and had children: Helen, who married John Phelps, and Harriet, who married Aretus Loomis. 2. Daniel, married Mary Reock, and had child, Allen, who married Letta Field and had one son Daniel, and two daughters, Caroline L. and Lulu, who died in childhood. 3. Harriet, mar- ried Sylvester Wright. 4. Edwin Cook (q. v.), October 23, 1826. 5. Sophia, married James Beebe, and had child, Henry Warren Beebe, who married Mary Wheelock. 6. Pamela, married Herman Smith and their son Henry died young, another son James married Minnie Sturdevant and had one child Ruth Smith. 7. Charles Strong (q. v.) June 26, 1833.
(VII) Edwin Cook, third son and fourth child of Allen and Sophia ( Cook) Clark, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, October 23, 1826, died May 10, 1898. He married, No- vember 20, 1850, Emily Hines, born April 24, 1832. Edwin Cook Clark was reared and educated in Northampton. He went to Cali- fornia in 1849 at the outbreak of the "Gold Fever," and was one of the "Forty-niners" who made history in that year and won for the United States the rich possessions on the Paci- fic coast. During the civil war he served in the twenty-seventh and fifty-second Massa- chusetts Volunteer regiments, and was quarter- master of his regiments in the Department of the Gulf and in Butler's Mississippi campaign. At the close of the war he returned to Massa- chusetts and engaged in the livery stable busi- ness with his brother, Charles Strong Clark (q. v.). When he found the street railways were likely to destroy the livery business, he wisely accepted the condition and interested himself in the Northampton Street railway, and was made superintendent of the road and treasurer of the company, and he thus served in a dual capacity for many years. In 1893 he retired from active participation in the affairs of the corporation and from business life. He was made a member of the first board of ald- ermen, elected in the city of Northampton, representing ward one in the board. The four children of Edwin Cook and Emily (Hines) Clark, were: I. Ida, July 15, 1852, in Jersey
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City, New Jersey, married March 5, 1873, Joseph Carhart, and had ten children as fol- lows: Clark Harland Carhart, born November 5, 1873, and lives in Minnesota; Edwin Cook Carhart, April 3, 1875, married Cora Latan in June, 1908, and resides in Minneapolis, Minne- sota ; Emily Louise Carhart, April 11, 1877, married Hantz Halonson and lives in Milton, North Dakota; Edith Beebe Carhart, April 14, 1879; Margaret Carhart, November 21, 1881, married Eugene Larran and resides in May- ville, North Dakota, and has children; Joseph Carhart, December 3, 1883 ; Ruth Mirchell Car- hart, July 5, 1886; Agnes Carhart, March 26, 1889; Ida Corrine Carhart, September 24, 1893; Lizbeth Turner Carhart, May 9, 1894. 2. Edwin Cook (q. v.) January 3, 1856. 3. Mary A., October 28, 1860, in Northampton, Massachusetts, married E. V. Mitchell, of Hartford, Connecticut, October 24, 1883, and have children; Jean Mitchell, born April 28, 1886; Ruth Mitchell, September 3, 1888; Edwin V. Mitchell, April 24, 1890; Blanche Mitchell, December 6, 1891. 4. William Abbott (q. v.), March 2, 1868.
(VIII) Edwin Cook (2), eldest son and second child of Edwin Cook (I) and Emily (Hines) Clark, was born in Southampton, Massachusetts, January 3, 1856. He attended the public school in Northampton, Wilbraham Academy and Mount Pleasant Academy. He was employed by his father in the livery stable business for many years, and in 1882 he became connected with the Northampton Street Rail- way Company. He was made superintendent of the road in 1889 and in 1909 was still in that responsible position, and the success of the road, thc enlargement of the plant and the re-equipment with modern devices, are largely due to his active efforts to make the corpora- tion up-to-date and dividend earnings. He married, December 5, 1877, Maria, daughter of John and Mary ( Walz) Vogel, and their children were born in Northampton as follows : I. Ida Mary, September 5, 1878, died February 10, 1886. 2. Annetta, April 30, 1882. 3. Edwin Cook (3), March 24, 1889.
(VIII) William Abbott, second son and youngest child of Edwin Cook (1) and Emily (Hines) Clark, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, March 2, 1868. He was brought up in Northampton, where he received a thorough school training in the excellent schools of that place. He removed to Troy, New York, on reaching his majority, where he cngaged in the coal business. In 1897 he re- turned to Northampton where lic established
the Clark Coal Company Corporation, of which he was manager. He also established the Eastern Coal & Coke Company of Hartford, Connecticut, and was made president of that corporation. He was also made a director of the Connecticut Valley Street Railway Com- pany. His church affiliation is with the Prot- estant Episcopal church and he was made a trustee and vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church in Northampton. His club affiliation includes the Northampton County Club, of which organization he is treasurer. He mar- ried. September 30, 1897, Alice Robbins, daughter of George W. and Mary Ellen (Stowell) Johnson, and granddaughter of Samuel and Charlotte A. (Howe) Johnson, of Boston, Massachusetts. Children : I. Alan Robbins, born February 16, 1900. 2. Marion Johnson, born March 24, 1903.
(VII) Charles Strong, seventh and young- est child of Allen and Sophia (Cook) Clark, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, June 26, 1833, died March 26, 1871. He was brought up and liberally educated in North- ampton, and he lived his thirty-eight short years in that place. He engaged in the livery stable business with his brother, Edwin Cook Clark (q. v.), theirs being the only livery stable in the town. He married, in 1858, Ellen, daughter of Timothy and Sarah (Laidly) Daley, born in 1838, in Scotland, and their chil- dren were born in Northampton, as follows : I. Sophia C., July 5, 1859. 2. Ellen Pamela, November 3, 1864, married William A. Trow, and had children: William Clark Trow, born December 1I, 1894; Donald Gilman Trow, June 24, 1897. 3. Charles Allen (q. v.), Janu- ary 12, 1869.
(VIII) Charles Allen, only son and young- est child of Charles Strong and Ellen ( Daley) Clark, was born in Northampton, Massachu- setts, January 12, 1869. He was graduated at the Northampton high school and thereupon entered the service of the First National Bank of Northampton, where he was advanced through the regular grades and in 1908 held the responsible position of tellcr. He was also interested in the W. A. Clark Coal Com- pany, of which his cousin, William Abbott Clark, was manager, but he sold out his stock so as to give his entire attention to the bank- ing business. His church affiliation is with the First Church of Northampton and especially with its Sunday school organization, of which he has served as treasurer and secretary for fifteen years. His interest in civic affairs in- (luced him to accept the position as member of
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the city improvement committee, and he held the office of city councilman, to which he was elected in 1894-95, by the Republican party, and in 1907 he served as a member of the board of aldermen of the city. He married, June 22, 1897, Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Charles B. and Elizabeth ( Parsons) Pres- cott, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and their chil- dren were born in Northampton as follows: I. Charles Prescott, March 12, 1898. 2. Kath- erine Ellen, June 22, 1899. 3. Joseph Par- sons, December 17, 1903. 4. Virginia, Decem- ber 27, 1904.
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(IV) Moses, second son and fourth child of Increase and Mary (Sheldon) Clark, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, June 7, 1716. He married ( first ) Sarah, daughter of William Parsons, and their children were born in that town as follows: I. Oliver, March 18, 1741- 42. 2. Mary, September 21, 1743, married Benson Graves. 3. Moses, August 8, 1745, died September 21, 1746. 4. Moses, June 12, 1747. The mother of these children died Sep- tember 15, 1747, and Moses Clark married (second) in 1748, Lydia Roote, of Sunder- land, and by her he had two children. 5. Lydia, born in Northampton, October 20, 1749, married Ebenezer Barnard. 6. Phineas, born in Sunderland, Franklin county, 1751, to which place his parents had removed in that year. Lydia (Roote) Clark died in 1754, and her husband married (third) Martha Henderson, and by her he had three children, born in Sun- derland, as follows: 7. Jacob, 1756, died young. 8. Samuel, 1758. 9. Job, 1761, died young and the same year the mother died. In 1762 Moses Clark married ( fourth) Rebecca Dickinson, of Amherst, and he had five chil- dren, born in Sunderland, as follows: Rebecca, 1763, married Elijah Harmon. II. Israel (q. v.), March 1, 1765. 12. Enos, 1767, died young. 13. Ruth, 1770, died young. 14. Amy, 1771, married Nathaniel Rice, of Charle- mont.
(V) Israel, eighth son and eleventh child of Moses Clark, and first son and second child by his fourth wife, Rebecca (Dickinson) Clark, was born in Sunderland, Franklin county, Massachusetts, March 1, 1765, died in Hawley, October 22, 1851. He married Dorcas, daugh- ter of Captain John Lyman, January 28, 1790, and they lived in Hawley, which was known as Plantation No. 7, until incorporated as a town February 6, 1792. The children of Israel and Dorcas (Lyman) Clark, were born in Hawley, Franklin county, Massachusetts, as follows : I. Cephas, married Achsah Turner. 2. Luther,
married Wealthy Wilder. 3. John Lyman (q. v.), October 23, 1797. 4. Israel, who was drowned young. 5. Hannah, married Edwin W. Clark.
(VI) John Lyman, son of Israel and Dorcas (Lyman) Clark, was born in Hawley, Frank- lin county, Massachusetts, October 23, 1797. He married, February 22, 1822, Hannah, daughter of Curtis and Jerusha (Clark) Loomis, of Southampton, Hampshire county, Massachusetts. She was born in Southampton, April 14, 1802. Children, born in Northamp- ton, as follows: I. Israel Dickinson, (q. v.) September 29, 1822. 2. John. 3. Martha, married Sidney Ferry. 4. Mary, married Lemuel Ferry. 5. Joseph. 6. Benjamin. 7. Charles. 8. Anna. 9. Carrie, died young.
(VII) Israel Dickinson, eldest child of John Lyman and Hannah (Loomis) Clark, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 29, 1822. He received his early school and mercantile training in Northampton and Hunt- ington in the public schools of Northampton and in a general store ; first in Huntington and later in business in Northampton. He became connected with the business firm of Batchelder, Mann & Company, wholesale grocers and im- porters to the West Indies, in Boston, remain- ing about twenty years. He married, Decem- ber 14, 1846, Cynthia A., daughter of Jabin Bennett and Lydia (Wilson) Williams, of Huntington, Hampshire county, Massachusetts. Cynthia A. Williams, was born at Becket, Sep- tember 27, 1827. After his marriage Mr. Clark lived in what is now known as Hunt- ington, Hampshire county ; 1848-50 was post- master Chester village, 1849-50 and in the early days of the Boston & Albany railroad was mail agent and later became a passenger conductor on the road. In 1865 he returned to North- ampton where he died February 9, 1873. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a respected and useful citi- zen. The two children of Israel Dickinson and Cynthia A. (Williams) Clark was born in Huntington : I. Arthur Wilson, Chester vil- lage, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, March 28, 1848. 2. Frank Edgar (q. v.).
(VIII) Frank Edgar, second son of Israel Dickinson and Cynthia A. (Williams) Clark, was born in Chester village, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, July 7, 1854, and the name of the place was changed to Huntington, March 9, 1855. He removed with his parents to Northampton in 1865, where he was prepared for college and he matriculated at Yale in 1873, and was graduated A. B. in the class of
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1877. He engaged in business in the Williams Manufacturing Company of Northampton and was treasurer of the corporation for a number of years before his retirement from business in 1900. To him the Williams Manufacturing Company owe much for its successful business career to his skill and ability as a financier. His valuable services in this direction were secured by the First National Bank of North- ampton as a member of its board of directors, by the Northampton Institution for Savings of which he was a trustee, and a member of the investment committee, and the board of e assessors of the First Church of Northampton, of which board he was chairman. He never married. His residence in Northampton is at No. 59 Pomeroy Terrace.
BROWN Edward Brown lived and died in Inkberrow, Worcestershire, England. He married Jane Lide, daughter of Thomas Lide. Among their children was Nicholas, mentioned below.
(II) Nicholas, son of Edward Brown, was born in England, doubtless at Inkberrow, Wor- cestershire. He was a farmer and first came to this country about 1630. He settled in Lynn and was a proprietor of that town as early as 1638. He was a commissioner of the general court, May 13, 1640. He removed from Lynn to the adjacent town of Reading, formerly Lynn Village, incorporated as a town in 1644. In 1660 he sent his eldest son, John, to Eng- land with power of attorney to receive certain property that came to him from the estate of his mother Jane (Lide) Brown. He was a proprietor of Reading in 1644 and later was a town officer. He and his wife and children were admitted to the Reading church from the Lynn church. He died at Reading, April 5, 1675. His will dated March 9, 1673, proved June 17, 1673, bequeathed to children John, Josiah, Cornelius, Elizabeth, Edward, Joseph, and to wife Elizabeth. Children : I. John, born 1634. 2. Josiah. 3. Cornelius. 4. Eliza- beth, married Hananiah Parker. 5. Edward, born August 15, 1640. 6. Joseph, mentioned below. 7. Sarah, June 6, 1650.
(III) Joseph, son of Nicholas Brown, was born in Reading, December 10, 1647, died in Reading, October 17, 1723. He married, May 26, 1674, Elizabeth Bancroft. Children, born at Reading: I. Elizabeth, 1671, died 1674. 2. Elizabeth, January 18, 1676. 3. Nicholas, Sep- tember 22, 1677, mentioned below. 4. Joseph, November 16, 1679, died October 16, 1723. 5. Thomas, April 14, 1682. 6. Ebenezer, Jan-
uary 12, 1685, died young. 7. Ebenezer, born and died June 16, 1688. 8. Hepzibah, Febru- ary 23, 1693. 7. Son, February 20, 1695, died young.
(IV) Nicholas (2), son of Joseph Brown, was born in Reading, September 22, 1677. He married, May 22, 1700, Rebecca Nichols, who died in 1713. He lived in Reading. Among their children was Benjamin, mentioned below.
(V) Deacon Benjamin, son of Nicholas (2) Brown, was born February 21, 1702. Married Susanna , and died April 1, 1768. Chil- dren : I. General Benjamin, had the homestead ; tanner by trade; soldier in the revolution, col- onel in the continental army and general in the militia afterward; town clerk, selectman, representative to the general court; deputy to the first provincial congress; justice of the peace; deacon; married Hannah Swan. 2. Sarah, born March 15, 1730, died young. 3. Thomas, September 25, 1733, died in 1734. 4. Tabitha, March 29, 1737. 5. Nicholas, Janu- ary 22, 1740. 6. Joseph, mentioned below. 7. Sarah, March 28, 1746. 8. Thomas, August 18, 1748.
(VI) Joseph (2), son of Deacon Benjamin Brown, was born May 10, 1743, at Reading. He was a prosperous farmer, owning much land, but became involved in litigation over the title to some of his land, and eventually spent all his property in defending the suit and lost it in the end, leaving him in financial straits. The law of entail in the provinces was at issue. He married, December, 1763, Mary Eaton. He died April 6, 1816. Children: 1. Mary, born February 14, 1765, died September 21, 1769. 2. Joseph, July 1I, 1766, died August 5, 1784. 3. Nicholas, February 16, 1769, died September 22, 1821. 4. Mary, March 2, 1772, died Feb- ruary 2, 1792. 5. Benjamin, November 20, 1775, mentioned below. 6. Oliver, January 13, 1777, died February 9, 1853. 7. Jacob, No- vember 5, 1780, died May 24, 1849.
(VII) Benjamin (2), son of Joseph (2) Brown, was born November 20, 1775, at Read- ing, died August 12, 1853. In his younger days he was a dealer in provisions in Faneuil Hall market, but was obliged to resign from active business on account of his health, be- coming an invalid from rheumatism, a great sufferer throughout the remaining years of his life. He was a Whig in politics. He married (first) Nancy Wyer, born December 15, 1779, died April 11, 1819. Children, born at Charles- town: I. Ann, August 19, 1801. 2. Benja- min, mentioned below. 3. Louisa, May 22, 1805. 4. Charles, November 2, 1806. 5.
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Edward, September 22, 1808, died young. 6. May Eaton, September 23, 1810. 7. Edward W., January 8, 1813. 8. Caleb Strong, Septem- ber 23, 1815. 9. Thomas Austin, April 12, 1818. He married (second) July 5, 1824, Hannah M. Mead, widow of - Mẹad. Had three children : 10. Sarah Frances, April 14, 1825, died 1826. II. Sarah Frances, Sep- tember 30, 1826. 12. Rev. Jedediah, October 19. 1828.
(VIII) Benjamin (3), son of Benjamin (2) Brown, was born in Charlestown, March 14, 1803. died January 23, 1878. He was edu- cated in the public schools. He became a broker in Boston and was for many years one of the prominent brokers of Boston. He was progressive and one of the prime movers and charter members of the Boston Stock Ex- change. Among other charter members were Henry Andrews, Matthew Bolles, Joseph Clark, P. P. F. Degrand, Enoch Martin, Samuel G. Williams, John E. Thayer and Charles Torrey. He commanded the confi- dence of capitalists and men of business. His integrity and good judgment were proverbial. He lived to see the stock exchange more than fulfil his expectations and to see it take part in some of the greatest financial transactions of the century. In early life he was a Whig, later a Republican. He and his wife were Unitarians in religion. He married, Septem- ber 17, 1837, Amy (Turner) Lunt, born Janu- ary 20, 1809, at Charlestown, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died August 28, 1897, daughter of Rev. Edward Turner, one of the leading Universalist preachers of his day, an intimate friend of Rev. Dr. Hosea Ballou with whom he collaborated in compiling a well-known hymnal. Her father changed his religious faith later in some points and continued in the ministry as a Unitarian, finding a broad field and accomplished great good. Amy Turner married (first) Jeremiah L. Lunt, of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, and had three sons by this marriage, Charles Henry, born August 30, 1830, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and two sons who died in infancy. Children of Benjamin and Amy (Turner) (Lunt) Brown : I. Frederick Turner, born July 2, 1838, died February 24, 1898; for many years a prominent member of the Boston and New York Stock exchanges; married Caroline V. Emmons, daughter of John Lewis Emmons, a prominent Boston business man ; his widow resides in New York City : children : i. Eleanor Emmons, born January 9, 1867, married John WV. Harper, of Harper Brothers, book pub- iii-15
lishers, New York City ; ii. Margaret Emmons, born September 19, 1869, married John Henry Bradford Jr., and resides in New York City ; iii. Philip Turner, born December 21, 1870, member of the New York Stock Exchange ; iv. Malcolm Emmons, born October 1, 1878, a manufacturer of Norfolk, Connecticut ; mar- ried Virginia Schwickardi, November 17, 1908. 2. Arthur Wyer, August 22, 1840, mentioned below. 3. Emma Louise, May 25, 1842, died June 24, 1843. 4. Mary Eaton, December 2, 1846, was educated in public and private schools of Boston; resides with her brother on the homestead at West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
(IX) Arthur Wyer, son of Benjamin (3) Brown, was born in Charlestown, Massachu- setts, August 22, 1840. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and when a young man entered the office of Nevins & Company, bankers and note brokers, remain- ing some six years, when he joined his father and brother in the firm of Benjamin Brown & Sons, stock brokers ; when his father died and the brothers went to New York the firm was dissolved and he is not now in any active busi- ness. He is well and favorably known, and he and his sister reside in the homestead on Center street, West Roxbury. In religion he is a Unitarian, in politics a Republican.
BROWN John Brown, or Browne, immi- grant ancestor, was associated with the Pilgrims at Plymouth. While he was travelling in his youth he became acquainted with Rev. John Robinson, pastor of the Pilgrims, and through him met many of his people in the same way that Governor Winslow and Captain Myles Standish came to join the Pilgrims. He was born in England in 1595 and died April 10, 1662. He did not come in the "Mayflower," however. It was not until March, 1629, that he reached New Eng- land and landed at Salem. Two years earlier, however, March 19, 1627, the council for New England approved a patent for trade soil and planting on which a Royal charter was obtain- ed March 4, 1628, to certain patentees and their associates, among whom were John Browne, John Saltonstall, and others who be- came well known in the colonies. He was elected to Governor John Endicott's council, April 3, 1629, with Francis Higginson, Samuel Skelton, Francis Bright, Samuel Browne, Thomas Graves and Samuel Sharp. He went from Salem to Plymouth and later to Taunton with his son James. In 1643 John Brown and his sons, John and James, were residents of
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