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(III) Joseph, son of John and Margaret Lowell, was born November 28, 1639, at New- bury, and died August 19, 1705, at Boston, Massachusetts. He removed to Boston with his brother John previous to 1661, and was a cooper. He married, March 8, 1660, Abigail, daughter of George P. and Edith Proctor, of Dorchester, born in 1635, died June 27, 1707. Their children were: I. Joseph, born August I, 1661, at Boston, died young. 2. Hannah, January 31, 1662-63. 3. Joseph. 4. Abigail, February 4, 1667, died young. 5. James, March 27, 1668, married Elizabeth Gusten. 6. Abigail, March 9, 1671. 7. Samuel, July 13, 1678. 8. Benjamin, November 5, 1679.
(IV) Joseph (2), second son of Joseph (I) and Abigail (Proctor) Lowell, was called a "mariner." About 1726 he removed to Hamp- ton, New Hampshire. Joseph and his brother James were members of "Ye Second Foot Company," of Newbury, Massachusetts, under
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command of Captain Hugh March. He mar- ried (first) Patience -, who died Janu- ary 3, 1714. He married (second) March 9, 1720, Sarah, daughter of Deacon James Pres- cott Jr., by his wife Maria, daughter of Will- iam and Rebecca (Page) Marston. Sarah Prescott was born January 20, 1701, died June 12, 1746. Joseph had children by his first marriage as follows: 1. Joseph Jr., born January 3, 1696, died, July 10, 1697. 2. Abi- gail, who died August 26, 1703, at Boston. By his second marriage he had : 3. Jeremiah, born April 15, 1722, at Hampton, New Hamp- shire. 4. David, November 19, 1723, married Abigail Perkins. 5. James. 6. Lucy, 1727, died April 21, 1711; married Deacon Abner Sanborn Jr. 7. Mary, baptized May 10, 1730.
(V) James, son of Joseph (2) and Sarah (Prescott) Lowell, was born October 12 or 22, 1725, and died about 1830. In 1747 he took part in the campaign against Louisburg, served twenty-nine days as private in the con- tinental army, in Captain David Quimby's company, Colonel Joseph Gale's regiment, in the Rhode Island campaign, and in 1756 took part as soldier in the siege at Crown Point, New York. He married, in 1747, Mary Clark, of Falmouth, Maine, and their children were: Oliver, Sarah, Mary and Joseph.
(VI) Sarah, the elder daughter of James and Mary (Clark) Lowell, was born August 22, 1750, and died at Seabrook, New Hamp- shire, December 29, 1824. She married John Brown, of Seabrook, New Hampshire. (See Brown IV.)
BROWN The large number bearing this name among the pioneer settlers of New England have left a very numerous progeny. The frequent re- currence of the same christian names has ren- dered it extremely difficult to trace the descent of many. Happily the line herein covered is fairly complete and includes some prominent natives of Maine who have earned distinction by their own merit and ability.
(I) John Brown, born in England in 1588- 89, came to Massachusetts as early as 1635, and settled permanently at Hampton, in what is now New Hampshire, in 1639. He was granted a house lot of four acres, but soon after purchased ten acres from John Sanders, upon which he took up his residence. This property continued in the hands of his lineal descendants through seven generations. He must have been a man of much industry, for he made several additions to this tract by pur- chase, and also acquired other tracts in vari-
ous parts of the town. He died February 28, 1687. The records show that his wife's chris- tian name was Sarah. Their children were: Sarah, John, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Jacob, Mary, Thomas and Stephen.
(II) Benjamin, second son and third child of John and Sarah Brown, was born about 1647, in Hampton, and was a farmer residing in the southeastern part of the town, in what is now Seabrook, on land received from his father. He was married in 1679 to Sarah Brown, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Murford) Brown, pioneer settlers of Salis- bury, Massachusetts. She was born April 12, 1658, in Salisbury. Their children were : William, Sarah, Benjamin, Elizabeth, John, Jacob, Stephen, Mary, Thomas and Jeremiah.
(III) Thomas, ninth child and sixth son of Benjamin and Sarah (Brown) Brown, was born May 21, 1699, in Hampton, and resided in that part of the town now Seabrook, where he died in November, 1765. He was married May 2, 1729, to Mehitable, daughter of Joseph and Mehitable (Hobbs) Towle, of Hampton. Their sons were: Joseph, Benjamin, Thomas and John.
(IV) John (2), son of Thomas and Mehi- table (Towle) Brown, was born January 3, 1747, at Seabrook, New Hampshire, and died August 12, 1839. In 1769 he married Sarah, daughter of James and Mary (Clark) Lowell, born August 22, 1750, died December 29, 1824, at Seabrook. (See Lowell VI.) Their children were: I. Molly, born December 14, 1771, died June 15, 1860. 2. John Jr., Decem- ber 2, 1775, died August 8, 1843. 3. Lowell, May 13, 1778, died August 20, 1863. 4. Sarah, September 21, 1780, died May 10, 1806. 5. Mehitable, July 31, 1783, died Oc- tober 31, 1849. 6. Betsy, August 12, 1786, died May 15, 1865. 7. Nancy, April 29, 1789, died March 6, 1843. 8. Benjamin, September 25, 1791, died August 5, 1864. 9. Newell.
(V) Newell, youngest son of John (2) and Sarah (Lowell) Brown, was born November 17, 1794, and died February 10, 1875. He was a farmer and large stockdealer, and lived at his birthplace, Seabrook, New Hampshire. In 1823 he married Abigail Perkins, daughter of Jonathan Leavitt, born in 1794, died in 1880. Jonathan Leavitt was a captain of ar- tillery in the revolutionary war, and his son, Hon. B. B. Leavitt, won a distinguished place in political affairs of Maine. The family lived at Eastport, Maine, and were people of edu- cation and refinement. The children of Newell and Abigail Perkins (Leavitt) Brown were: I. John Newell, married Abby Ann
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Dearborn, and had two children, both of whom are dead. 2. Sarah A., unmarried. 3. Frank, married Nancy Brown and has four children: i. Abby N., married George Pike, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. ii. Ida, mar- ried Edward Blood, of Mendon, Massachu- setts. iii. John, married May Batchelder and has three children. iv. Ellsworth, married Emma Morrell and has no children. 4. Syl- vester, married Martha Clough and has two children : i. Grace, married William Evans and has one daughter, Amy. ii. Lincoln, mar- ried Mary Butler and has one child, Martha. 5. Calvin Smith.
(VI) Hon. Calvin Smith, youngest son of Newell and Abigail P. (Leavitt) Brown, was born January 4, 1837, at Seabrook, New Hampshire, and after attending the public schools of his native town worked on his father's farm, and taught school to secure his further education, which was largely attained through his own effort. He attended Rock- ingham Academy at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, Hampton Academy of the same place, Dearborn Academy of Seabrook, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Northfield, New Hampshire, Colby Academy at New London, New Hamp- shire, and in 1858 entered Dartmouth College, graduating in 1862 with degree A. B. On his graduation he enlisted for three months as private in the Seventh Squadron of the Rhode Island Cavalry, a company raised among the students of Dartmouth College and Norwich University, and with them he participated in the battle of Harper's Ferry in September, 1862, also in the battle of Antietam. His term of service ended, he re-enlisted as captain of Company C, of the Seventeenth New Hamp- shire Volunteer Infantry, where he served until the disbanding of that regiment. Upon the call for three hundred thousand men in 1864, he enlisted as a captain of infantry in the state of Maine, and soon was promoted to rank of major, subsequently being appointed lieutenant colonel in command of the First Battalion of Maine Infantry Volunteers, where he served until April, 1866. After the assassination of President Lincoln, he was or- dered from the Shenandoah Valley to Wash- ington, and after the "Grand Review" to Georgia and thence to South Carolina, where he commanded Anderson, Abbeville, Green- ville, Pickens and Union districts, as sub- commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau, until his discharge, and while guarding Confederate cotton at Brown's Ferry on the Savannah river, three of his men were killed. On re-
tiring from the army he resumed the study of law, which he had begun during the war, and in October, 1866, was admitted to practice in the courts of Maine, at the Washington county bar. In December of that year he opened an office for the practice of law at St. Louis, Mis- souri, remaining there until 1870, then spent nearly two years in mercantile business with the house of Packer, York & Company, Mont- gomery county, Kansas, after which he spent two years as bookkeeper in the banking house of Eby & Company, Coffeyville, Kansas. In 1873 he represented Montgomery county in the state legislature; in 1876-77-78 he served as mayor of Parker, and in 1878 mayor of Coffeyville, Kansas. When he came to Wash- ington his first appointment was clerk in the pension office, and after a short service there he took examination for interior department of the land office and received an appointment in the railroad division, which position he now fills. Mr. Brown has been a member of the order of Free and Accepted Masons since 1864, when he joined Eastern Lodge, No. 7, of Eastport, Maine. He is Independent in Religion, and a staunch Republican. He be- longs to Lincoln Post, No. 3, Grand Army of Republic, of Washington, and to the Maine Society of Washington. Mr. Brown is a use- ful and patriotic citizen, and has served his country in war and in peace the greater part of his life. He married, November 15, 1871, Caroline Noyes, daughter of Samuel Wither- ell, of Eastport, Maine, born in 1842, and their children are: I. Annie Witherell, born July 30, 1874, died in infancy. 2. Sarah Witherell, September 2, 1877. 3. Edith Lilian, March 29, 1881.
The ancestors of this family BROWN lived in Brownfield, Oxford county, were probably pioneers there, and the town may have been named for the family.
(I) Asaph Brown, son of Silas and Judith Brown, was born January 7, 1759, in Stowe, Massachusetts, and resided there before the time of his marriage. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and in the Massachu- setts Records is credited to the town of Tem- pleton. His record follows: Asaph Brown, of Templeton, was a private in Captain Eze- kiel Knowlton's company, Colonel Dike's regi- ment ; pay abstract for travel allowance from Dorchester home dated Dorchester, November 20, 1776; also pay abstract for gun and blan- ket money, etc., dated Dorchester, November 30, 1776; also same company and regiment ;
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service from December 14, 1776, to March I, 1777; also pay abstract for gun and blanket money dated Dorchester Heights, March 31, 1777. He settled on a farm in Waterford, Maine, and married Hannah Shaw, born in Waterford, December 22, 1763, died in Bethel, February 11, 1841, daughter of Josiah and Mary ( Lamprey ) Shaw, of Waterford. Their children were : Abigail, Robbins, Josiah, Catherine, Asaph, Susan, Nancy and four oth- ers who died young.
Josiah Shaw, father of Mary (Shaw) Brown, was a son of Ebenezer and Anna (Philbrick) Shaw (see Shaw), and was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, January 31, 1740, and died August 7, 1810. In 1763 he removed with his family to the township of Pearsontown, now Standish, and bought lot 43. There he settled and kept the first tavern ever opened to the public in that town. He was first town treasurer of that municipality, as well as selectman; he was a cooper and farmer. He married Mary Lamprey, of Hampton, who died January 9, 1826. They had six children: Mary, Hannah (wife of Asaph Brown), Anna, Jonathan, Josiah and Eli.
(II) Robbins Brown, and his brother Jo- siah Brown, removed from Brownfield and settled in Bethel. Josiah lived in the Chandler neighborhood, and married Mehitable, a daughter of Asa Lovejoy. Robbins Brown, born April 29, 1776, died May 31, 1848, was a tanner and lived on Bethel Hill. He mar- ried Hannah, a sister of his brother's wife. Their children were: David F., born Sep- tember 28, 1812, married Nancy Richardson ; Hannah, born March 10, 1814, died August 17, 1823; Josiah, born June 21, 1815, married Mary A. Stevens; mentioned below; Mehi- table, born April 13, 1819, married Eli Grover. (III) Robbins (2), third son of Robbins (I) and Hannah (Lovejoy) Brown, was born October 26, 1818, and died January 8, 1879. He and his brother David F. engaged in the tannery business. He was an industrious, re- spectable citizen, a member of the Congrega- tional church, and in politics a Republican. He married (first), July 12, 1847, Mary R. Ayer, who died December 21, 1853, leaving no child. He married (second), February 10, 1855, Ausina Barker, who was born Novem- ber 14, 1829, and died May 23, 1882, daughter of Francis and Nancy H. (Ingalls) Barker, of Bethel. She descended from the immigrant as follows: James and Grace of Rowley, Massachusetts; Nathaniel and Mary; James and Sarah; James and Elizabeth; Jedediah
and Sarah; Samuel and Betsey (Roger) Bar- ker, who settled in Bethel in 1803, and had Francis, who married Nancy H. Ingalls, Sam- uel Barker was a Revolutionary soldier. Three children were born to Robbins and Au- sina (Barker) Brown: I. Fred Ingalls, born January 2, 1857, lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; married, September 16, 1880, Agnes Izella Brown. 2. Frank I., mentioned below. 3. William, born October 13, 1863.
(IV) Dr. Frank Irving, second son of Rob- bins and Ausina (Barker) Brown, was born in Bethel, 'October 27, 1860. After being schooled in the public schools and Gould's Academy, he entered Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1885. He taught school in Norway, Maine, and in Hopkinton, Massa- chusetts. He began the study of medicine, and was graduated from the Maine Medical College in 1891. In 1891-92 he was an in- terne in the Maine General Hospital, and went thence in 1893 to Cape Elizabeth, and settled and engaged in the general practice of his profession, in which he has attained success in South Portland. He is a member of the Cum- berland County Medical Association, the Maine Medical Association, and the American Medical Association, the Portland Medical Club, and the Athletic Club. In Free Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree, and is a member of the following organizations of that order: Hiram Lodge, No. 180; Green- leaf Royal Arch Chapter; Portland Council, Royal and Select Masters; Portland Com- mandery, Knights Templar; and Maine Con- sistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. He is also a member of Kora Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine; of Nor- way Lodge, No. 16, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Lodge Bayard, No. 44, Knights of Pythias. He worships with the Congregationalists, of which denomination he has always been a member.
Dr. Brown married, in Bethel, February 19, 1896, Edith A. Philbrick, of Bethel, who was born November 27, 1863, daughter of John M. and Paulina (Eames) Philbrick of Bethel. Two children have been born of this marriage : The first child died young; Dwight Francis, the second child, was born September 3, 1905.
James Brown was the emigrant BROWN ancestor of Euthalius Irving Brown, of Portland, Maine. He was born in Scotland about 1720-30. There is a tradition in the family that he was wealthy, having with him a chest of gold. Owing to a storm or shipwreck the gold was lost. Be-
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sides the gold it is said that he had twenty fine linen shirts that were also lost on the journey over. He was a tailor by trade. He married Hannah Blanchard, of Dunstable, Massachusetts, and their descendants have been numerous in the vicinity. Dunstable is now Nashua, New Hampshire. The Blanch- ards were among the pioneers there. Thomas Blanchard, her emigrant ancestor, came to America from the vicinity of Andover, Eng- land, in the ship "Jonathan," in. 1639. He settled first at Braintree. His son George was with him. He bought of Rev. John Wilson, February 12, 1650-51, house and land in the south part of Malden, Massachusetts. . ( Pope says he came from Penton, Hants, England.) He married (first) in England. His wife died there. He married (second) Agenes (Bent) Barnes, widow, a sister of John Bent. She died on the passage over. He married (third) Mary He died May 21, 1654. His will is dated May 16, and was proved June 20, 1654. He made bequests to his wife Mary; to children George, Thomas, Samuel, Nathaniel; to grandson Joseph, and to the church at Malden. He provided that Benja- min Thompson should be fitted for the Uni- versity (Harvard) if his parents consent. Benjamin was son of Deacon John Blanchard. Benjamin does not appear in the list of Har- vard graduates, however. His estate was ad- ministered by his widow, appointed June 3, 1656.
Deacon John Blanchard, son of Thomas Blanchard, the emigrant, was one of the pio- neers at Dunstable, Massachusetts, now Nash- ua, New Hampshire. He was admitted a free- man in 1649. He was one of the founders of the Dunstable Church in 1685. Children were : Joseph, Thomas, Hannah, born January 6, 1659; Benjamin, James, Sarah, Mary, Na- thaniel.
Thomas Blanchard, son of Deacon John Blanchard, and grandson of Thomas Blanch- ard, the emigrant, was born about. 1670 and must have been a young child when his father went to Dunstable. He married Tabitha
She died November 29, 1696. He married (second) Ruth Adams, of Chelms- ford, Massachusetts, October 4, 1698. He died March 9, 1727. In the possession of Mrs. Charles E. Wheelock, 8 Cottage street, Worcester, is a deed from Thomas to his son Thomas, dated 1721, of land in Dunstable. Children of Thomas and Tabitha Blanchard were: Abigail, born May 5, 1694; John, May 20, 1696. Children of Thomas and Ruth (Adams) Blanchard were: Thomas (see for-
ward) ; William, born 1701; Ruth, April I, 1703.
Thomas Blanchard, son of Thomas Blanch- ard, and grandson of Deacon John Blanchard, of Dunstable, was born August 12, 1699. He served in the Indian wars and was taken prisoner in September, 1724. He was a promi- nent man in Dunstable, and held various town offices. Mrs. Wheelock has the original tax warrant for the year 1738, for the old town of Dunstable, issued to Thomas Blanchard as collector of taxes. It shows the results of his work. It contains a full list of the taxpayers of the town. Joseph Blanchard, son of Cap- tain Joseph Blanchard, who was uncle of Thomas Blanchard, heads the list.
Hannah Blanchard, born about 1740, daugh- ter of Thomas, married James Brown, the emigrant. He died in 1778. A copy of his will dated October 10, 1778, is owned by Mrs. Wheelock. It is a certified copy made soon after the will was proved in the Nashua court. It should be noted that James Brown, of Dun- stable, was a lieutenant in the battle of Bunker Hill, according to the history of Dunstable, and no other James Brown of the right age and description is to be found.
The children of James and Hannah (Blanchard) Brown were: John; James, set- tled in Waterford, Ohio ( Mrs. Wheelock has a letter written by him in which he mentions the death of his first wife in 1798 and his sec- ond marriage) ; Phebe; Hannah; Isaac; Dan- iel; Samuel; Aaron (see forward). The will indicates that all but Samuel and Aaron were of age, as it specifies that the others receive their bequests, and the two youngest receive theirs when they become of age.
(II) Aaron, son of James Brown, was born in Dunstable or Nashua, New Hampshire, No- vember 17, 1773. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his grandson, Euthalius I. Brown, of Portland, has the drum and drum stick he carried as a drummer in the war. He married, September 5, 1797, Hannah Proctor, daughter of Reuben Proctor, of Merrimac, New Hampshire. She was born July 13, 1778. He lived in Nashua and died April 24, 1844, in Canton, Maine, where he removed about 1815. He was a charter member of the Liv- ermore Falls ( Maine) Lodge of Free Masons, and was a prominent man in the order. The children of Aaron and Hannah ( Proctor) Brown were: I. James (see forward). 2. Nancy, born at Dunstable, December 28, 1799, married the Rev. - Bartlett. 3. Larned Small, born in Dunstable, March 18, 1801. 4. John, born in Wilton, Maine, December 29,
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1802, married Huldah Gardner. 5. Reuben Proctor, born in Wilton, Maine, January 28, 1805. 6. Jefferson, born in Wilton, Maine, September 22, 1806. 7. Arthur, born in Wil- ton, Maine, October 15, 1807. 8. Rebecca Proctor, born in Wilton, Maine, February 5, 1810. 9. Abigail Bigelow, born at Jay, Maine, March 29, 1812. 10. Susannah Car- penter, born in Jay, Maine, July 16, 1815. II. Hiram, born February 9, 1817, at Jay, now Canton, Maine. 12. Orin, born October 20, 1818, at Jay, now Canton, died in Texas; he was a general in the rebellion, and stood high in Masonic circles. 13. Belinda Bartlett, born in Canton, Maine, July 1, 1821.
(III) James (2), son of Aaron Brown, was born in Dunstable, Massachusetts, or Nashua, New Hampshire, August 5, 1798, died April 8, 1881, at Grafton, Maine. When a young man he came to Maine and was a pioneer in the woods of that state, being for many years well known to the woodmen and lumbermen of Maine. He was a man of fine stature, enormous strength and endurance, and thus was well equipped for the life of a pioneer. He emigrated into the woods of Oxford county, among the early settlers of Grafton, where he purchased a large tract of timber land. He made the trips on foot and carried on his back part of the supplies necessary to establish his camp. He put the contents of a barrel of flour into two sacks and carried the same together with fifteen pounds of nails through Grafton Notch into the wilderness, where he erected his house and a mill, operat- ing the latter for many years. He also cleared the land and cultivated the same, but the greater portion of his time was devoted to the lumber and timber business, surveying timber lands, making estimates of their foot- age and quality and determining their value. He was a thorough woodsman, and was recog- nized as an authority on all matters pertaining to woodcraft. He assisted Samuel Ames and Major Barrett, old time county surveyors, to survey many of the town limits of Oxford county. He experienced all the hardships and perils of pioneer life in the Maine woods, not only in Oxford county but in many other sec- tions. During his early manhood he made extensive trips into the woods of Canada, on timber hunting expeditions, and met with many wild experiences, as the native lumber- men were very hostile to those coming from the states, and many a time they had to fight their way and defend themselves as best they could. He also established a tavern on the old homestead, converting his farmhouse into a
typical wayside inn, and the road which passed his house and mill became the favorite route for most of the teamsters from the woods in New Hampshire to the sea port and city of Portland. The main production of the woods was potash, which was hauled to the coast, and the teams upon their return brought rum, sugar, molasses and other necessary stores. Mr. Brown resided on the old homestead until his deccase. He was a Democrat in politics, and for two years served in the capacity of county commissioner. James Brown married (first) Mary Thompson, July 4, 1824; she died April 19, 1833. Married (second) Ruth Swan, October 28, 1838; she died February 4, 1901. Children of James and Mary (Thomp- son) Brown were: I. James Monroe, born November 15, 1825, died September 11, 1895; married Eunice E. Frost, November 15, 1849; their child, Mrs. Charles E. Wheelock, of Worcester, Massachusetts. 2. Arthur, born September 24, 1827, died October 15, 1857. 3. Ira Bisbee, born April 5, 1829, died March 12, 1831. 4. Ira Bisbee, born June 10, 1831, died July 19, 1851. 5. William Thompson, born January 16, 1833, married Esther H. Swan, June 10, 1859; he died April 28, 1861. Children of James and Ruth (Swan) Brown : 6. Mary T., born August 22, 1839, married George H. Otis, October 10, 1863; children : Frances Lillian, married Fred Decker, of Bur- lington, New Hampshire; Arthur Monroe; Jennie M., married Harvey C. Philbrook, of Bethel, Maine; Will Howe. 7. George Miller, born August 16, 1844, married Ella M. Briggs, March, 1864; he served as selectman of Grafton, Maine, for many years. 8. Eu- thalius Irving, born November 14, 1851, see forward.
(IV) Euthalius Irving, second son and third child of James (2) and Ruth (Swan) Brown, was born in Grafton, Maine, Novem- ber 14, 1851. He attended the schools in the neighborhood of his home, completing his studies at the age of fourteen. Having been reared in the timber regions of his native state, he was familiar with all the mysteries of the woods, which he explored with his father, as- sisting him to survey and estimate on large tracts of timber lands, also in supervising a large force of men to secure the timber and haul it out to the stream and thence to mar- ket. In this manner he acquired a thorough knowledge of all the branches of the timber business, often meeting with thrilling adven- tures with bears, panthers and deer while camping for months in the woods, and in due course of time became one of the most expert
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