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Issue
Mary Rittenhouse, born July 26, 1799.
Elijah Rittenhouse, born Dec. 2, 1802.
Daniel Rittenhouse, born Mch. 6, 1804.
Susan B. Rittenhouse, born Feb. 22, 1806.
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Hulda B. Rittenhouse, born Apr. 9, 1808.
Watson J. Rittenhouse, born Nov. 1, 1810.
Wilson B. Rittenhouse, born Sep. 26, 1813.
Mahalah Rittenhouse, born June 9, 1816.
Delilah Rittenhouse, born Apr. 13, 1821.
43 JONATHAN BRAY, son of Daniel Bray, 12, born June 25, 1781; married Feb. 14, 1805, Elizabeth Cool.
Issue
93 John W. Bray, born Oct. 16, 1805.
94 Mary Ann Bray, born Aug. 4, 1807.
95 Susan Bray, born Apr. 30, 1809.
96 William Cool Bray, born Aug. 25, 18II.
97 Hiram Bray, born Jan. 24, 1814.
98 Silas Bray, born Oct. 18, 1819.
99 Elijah Bray
44 HANNAH BRAY, daughter of Daniel Bray, 12, born Apr. 28, 1783; married Oct. 25, 1801, Jonathan Blackwell.
Issue
Jemima Blackwell, born Sep. 11, 1803. Matilda Blackwell, born Jan. 1, 1808.
Sydney Bray Blackwell, born Apr. 13, 1813. Susan B. Blackwell
46 SUSANNAH BRAY, daughter of Daniel Bray, 12, born Dec. 6, 1786, married May 20, 1820, Israel Bateman.
Issue
John Newton Bateman, born June 16, 1821. George Whitfield Bateman, born Sep. 2, 1822. Charles Wesley Bateman, born Apr. 5, 1824. Israel Bateman, born Apr. 6, 1826.
47 ANDREW BRAY, son of Daniel Bray, 12, born Dec. 12, 1789; married Sarah Rit- tenhouse.
Issue
100 Silvanus Jackson Bray, born Oct. 27, 1815.
' IOI Daniel Bray, born Sep. 5, 18I8. 102 Elijah Bray, born Sep. 5, 1818. 103 Anderson Bray, born 1826.
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49 WILSON BRAY, son of Daniel Bray, 12, born Dec. 21, 1793; died Nov. 22, 1850; married, Dec. 4, 1816, Mary, daughter of Thomas West. He was High Sheriff of Hunterdon Co., in 1830.
Issue
104 Lucinda Bray, born Dec. 22, 1817.
105 John Wesley Bray, born Feb. 24, 1819.
106 Fletcher Bray, born Dec. 8, 1820.
107 Wilson Bray
108 Stacey B. Bray, born Nov. 16, 1826.
109 Nancy Bray
IIO Elizabeth R. Bray
III Thomas W. Bray
112 William M. Bray
113 Mary W. Bray
114 Ellen R. Bray
115 Francelia W. Bray
116 Emeline Bray
117 Charles B. Bray
118 Anna J. Bray
50 DANIEL BRAY, son of Daniel Bray, 12, born July 20, 1795; died about 1857; married, Feb. 7, 1827, Elizabeth Kirk.
Issue 119 William R. Bray
120 Mary Bray
59 JOHN BRAY, son of John Bray, 13, married
Issue
12I Amy Bray
I22 Mary A. Bray
123 Harriet Bray
124 John W. Bray
125 Austin Bray
126 Lucy Bray
127 Anderson Bray
128 Scott Bray
129 William W. Bray, born Sep. 16, 1826.
60 ANDREW BRAY, son of John Bray, 18, born Feb. 18, 1760; died June 30, 1846; married Cornelia Traphagen, born June 21, 1761; died Mch. 5, 1840.
He, his father, and his grandfather fought in the Revolution side by side, aged respec- tively eighteen, forty, and sixty-five.
Issue
130 John T. Bray
131 Hannah Bray; married William Van Deren.
132 Susan Bray; married, first, William Johnson; second, Rev. James Christie.
133 Cornelia Bray; married William H. Coit.
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BRAY OF NEW JERSEY
68 WATSON BRAY, son of John Bray, 18, married Mary, daughter of Dr. John F. Grandin.
Issue
134 Adeline Bray; married John Bray Taylor.
135 John Grandin Bray; removed to California.
136 Watson Augustus Bray; removed to California.
78 SAMUEL BRAY, son of Samuel Bray, 29, born Dec. 29, 1787; died Sep. 11, 1849; married, Apr. 30, 1812, Hope, daughter of Richard and Mary (Stillwell) Applegate, born Aug. 5, 1794; died July 29, 1864. He lived on the Bray lands near Holmdel, and is buried in Holmdel Cemetery.
Issue
137 Mary Bray, born Mch. 20, 1813; married, first, Joseph Bray; and second, Wilson Brown. She had
Issue Elizabeth; married William Warner.
138 Richard Bray, born Mich. 20, 1813.
139 William Stillwell Bray, born July 27, 1815.
140 Ann Bray, born Sunday, 5 P. M., June 1, 1817; married Peter Johnson.
14I Samuel Ogborne Bray, born May 19, 1819, Wednesday.
142 Sidney Bray, born May 29, 1822.
143 Joseph Watson Bray, born Mch. 23, 1826; died Nov. 28, 1855.
144 Ira Bray, born May 31, IS32; died October, 1898, unmarried.
85 JOHN BRAY, son of Daniel Bray, 32, died Feb. 22, 1845 or 1848, aged 46 years, II months and 17 days. He married, at Freehold, Sep. 23, 1823, Hannah Crawford.
Issue
145 Sarah Bray, born 1831; married Mch. 6, 1851, Tabor, son of William and Mary (Chadwick) Cook, born 1816.
Issue Douglas Cook, born 1861.
146 Anna Bray; married Rev. L. O. Manchester.
147 Amy Bray; married William Griggs.
148 Mary Bray; married Samuel Pettit.
149 Daniel Bray
150 Sophia Matilda Bray; died Jan. 23, 1852, aged 16 years, 1 month and 25 days.
89 DAVID SUTTON BRAY, oldest son of James Bray, 35, born Sep. 19, 1795; died Feb. 24, 1841; married, Mch. 28, 1822, Eliza, daughter of Moses McLane, born Mch. 4, 1803; died Apr. 1, 1841.
Issue
151 James Bray, born June 20, 1824; died June 21, 1906.
152 Joseph Warren Bray.
153 Charles Douglas Bray, born 1836; died Jan. 9, 1904.
154 David Watson Bray; went to Missouri.
155 Ann Eliza Bray. born July 5, 1832; unmarried.
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156 Rachel Bray, born July 30, 1834.
157 Mary Catharine Bray, born Aug. 21, 1837.
158 Cordelia Bray, born Dec. 24, 1840; died Apr. 16, 1904; married Robert T. Smith, of Red Bank, N. J.
129 WILLIAM W. BRAY, son of John Bray, 59, born Sep. 16, 1826; died 1871; married Ann
Issue
159 Anthony Bray 160 William W. Bray
161 Sophia Bray 162 Mary T. Bray
130 JOHN T. BRAY, son of Andrew Bray, 60, born Nov. 5, 1780; died Dec. 15, 1851; married Euphemia Armstrong, born Sep. 4, 1782; died Aug. 21, 1858.
Issue
163 Lydia Bray; married Mr. Hammerkin.
164 Andrew Watson Bray
165 Cornelia Bray; married Mr. Crammer.
166 Mary Bray
138 RICHARD BRAY, son of Samuel Bray, 78, born Mch. 20, 1813; married Nov. 31, 1842, Julia Smith, born 1816; died 1874.
Issue
167 Adelaide Bray; married Martinus Walling.
168 Emily Bray
169 Jasper Bray
170 Elizabeth Bray
171 Irene Bray; married Alfred Kerr.
172 Margaret W. Bray; married Stephen Allen.
139 WILLIAM STILLWELL BRAY, son of Samuel Bray, 78, born July 27, 1815; died Dec. 13, 1847; married Patience Angevine. After his death she married, second, William Stevens.
Issue
173 Elizabeth Hope Bray; married Daniel Hall. 174 Francina Bray
141 SAMUEL OGBORNE BRAY, son of Samuel Bray, 78, born May 19, 1819; married, first, Susan, daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Tilton) Burdge, born Jan. 29, 1826; and second, Louisa, daughter of John Sutphen.
Issue by second wife 175 William Stevens Bray 176 Sidney Bray
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142 SIDNEY BRAY, son of Samuel Bray, 78. born May 25, 1822; died Aug. 16, 1881; married, Mch. 11, 1851, Margaret Van Brackle, daughter of Roger Haddock and Gertrude (Schenck) Whitlock, born Aug. 12, 1830.
Issue
177 Gertrude S. Bray, born Mch. 7, 1852; married J. J. Beers.
178 Margaret Bray, born June 28, 1854; died May 6, 1859.
179 Harriet Whitlock Bray, born Mch. 1, 1870.
149 . DANIEL BRAY, son of John Bray, 85, married Mary, daughter of Garret D. and Mary Ann (Schenck) Schenck.
Issue
ISo Anna Bray; married William Bennet.
ISI Sarah Bray; married Mr. Sutphen.
182 John M. Bray
183 Daniel D. Bray
151 JAMES BRAY, son of David Sutton Bray, S9, born June 20, 1824; died June 21, 1906. He married, first, Dec. 23, 1846, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Ann (Hance) Grant, born Aug. 31, 1823; died Aug. 25, 1884; and second, about 1889, Gertrude, daughter of Francis White, of Red Bank, N. J.
Issue
184 David H. Bray, born Aug. 11, 1848.
185 John Grant Bray, born Jan. 26, 1851; died young.
186 Adoniram Judson Bray, born May 25, 1853.
187 James Bray, born Feb. 5, 1856.
ISS William Bray, born Oct. 26, 1858; died Mch. 5, 1895.
189 Catharine E. Bray, born July 25, 1861.
164 ANDREW WATSON BRAY, son of John T. Bray, 130, born Dec. 17, 1805; died Apr. 16, 1888; married Sarah Thompson, born Jan. 9, 1822; died Oct. 6, 1883.
Issue 190 Andrew W. Bray
191 John W. Bray
192 Samuel T. Bray
193 Henry Augustus Bray
194 William Bray
195 Fannie T. Bray
196 Lydia H. Bray
197 Euphamia Bray
169 JASPER BR.AY, son of Richard Bray, 138, married Jedida, daughter of Joseph and Lois (Van Note) Stillwell.
Issue
198 Herbert Bray 199 Helen Irene Bray
200 Walter Jasper Bray
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HISTORICAL MISCELLANY
184 DAVID H. BRAY, son of James Bray, 151, born Aug. 11, 1848; married Stella Van Schoick. After the death of her husband she married again.
Issue 201 Libbie Bray; married 202 Grace Bray; married Henry Hodge. 203 Lillie Bray 204 Harry Bray
186 ADONIRAM JUDSON BRAY, son of James Bray, 151, born May 25, 1853; married, Feb. 24, 1876, Jessie, daughter of Richard and Jane Cicely Oliver.
Issue
205 William A. Bray; married Feb. 14, 1902, Vera De Noies.
206 Jessie Bray, born January, 1879; died July 26, 1899.
207 Jennie Bray; married Paul Dahlgren.
208 Maud Bray; married Apr. 4, 1904, John L. S. Cooke.
187 JAMES BRAY, son of James Bray, 151, born Feb. 5, 1856; married Ida Smith. Issue
209 George Bray
210 Catharine Bray; married, Oct. 15, 1902, Frederick W. Harrie, born 1875; died Dec. 21, 1903.
2II James Leo Bray; married, Dec. 23, 1906, Annie, daughter of Charles Hankins. 212 Joseph Bray
188 WILLIAM BRAY, son of James Bray, 151, born Oct. 26, 1858; died Mch. 5, 1895; married Margaret Hubbard.
Issue 213 Ethel Bray; died March, 1895. 214 Mabel Bray
189 CATHARINE E. BRAY, daughter of James Bray, 151, born July 25, 1861, married, Mch. 17, 1887, Joseph W. Thompson, of Lincroft, N. J.
Issue 215 Elizabeth Grant Bray, born Dec. 7, 1887.
216 Edith May Bray, born July 12, 1895.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
Rev. William McKendree Bray, born 1821, died Aug. 9, 1906, had
Issue
Horace Bray
Daughter; married John E. Williams.
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BRAY OF NEW JERSEY
Daughter; married Rev. Jerome Wood. Daughter; married Rev. Mr. Sampson. Daughter; married Rev. H. M. Smith.
MARRIAGE LICENSES AT TRENTON, N. J.
1773, Oct. 12. Sarah Bray and Joseph Leonard; both of Monmouth Co. 1780, Dec. 3. Andrew Bray and Amelia Traphagen; both of Hunterdon Co.
1781, Jan. 1. Mary Bray of Monmouth Co., and Reuben Kellogg, of Cumberland Co.
A letter from Perry A. Bray to Miss H. W. Bray:
Noblesville, Indiana, 22 August, 1897.
Dear Madam,
In answer to yours of 4th Aug. I will say that our ancestor had a brother John. I can't say just when our ancestor came to America but sometime the latter part of the 17th century. He came from London embarked from Liverpool & landed in Philadelphia. I have no facts about our family in England and only tradition about the brother John for whom my great grandfather was named.
My Bray line of ancestry is as follows:
Henry Bray
Edward Bray Sarah Maynard
Henry Bray = Kezia Jones
1755-1848 1761-
John H. Bray = Hannah Shelton
1780-1875 1790-1872
Henry Bray = Betsey Mills 1811-1897 1819-1877
Perry A. Bray = Lizzie Perry
1861- 1868-
You will observe that our people have been much the longest lived. The first Henry lived to be more than a hundred and Edward 113 *
A letter from Charles M. Bray to Miss H. W. Bray:
Kinderhook, N. Y., 22 Sept. 1897.
"I have no knowledge of any relationship with the N. J. Brays either of Hunterdon or Monmouth. I have never made any attempt at looking up my ancestors but I have an uncle now traveling in Europe who has looked into the matter and can no doubt give you considerable information * * * * *. Ile was in Ireland about 2 years ago looking up the history of the Bray family but I made little or no inquiry as to the result of his searching. The name Bray I am led to believe is a French name & at the time of the massacre of the French Huguenots they were driven out of France & emigrated to the North of Ireland.
My grandfather John Bray & my g. grandfather Peter Bray lived at Shuys, Ireland. My grandfather came to this country when a young man, married & settled here in Kinderhook.
Herewith I enclose a table showing descendants of Peter Bray.
Perhaps you may have noted that on the East coast of Ireland there is a city & river by the name of B ay. If there is anything further that I can give I will gladly do so."
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BRAY OF KINDERHOOK.
Matthew Bray, died unmarried.
John Bray
Frank Bray
Helen Bray Mary Bray
Charles M. Bray
Peter Bray died s. p.
Matthew Bray
Mary Bray Alice Bray Agustus Bray
Myron Bray
Sarah Bray married
George B. Tomlin- son
Laura Tomlinson 1 Nellie Tomlinson
Van duesen Bray -
Charles Bray
Lloyd Bray
-
Charles Bray
Leverett Bray
John Bray
Alonzo Bray
Frank Bray
Harriet Bray
Carrie Bray
Mary Bray married William Egan, of Shuys, Ireland, -
Michael Eagen s. p.
-
James Eagen
Peter Bray, of Shuys [Sheys?], Ire- land dead.
John Bray dead
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BRAY OF YARMOUTH, MASS.
BRAY OF
YARMOUTH, MASS.,
Furnished by William J. Davis, Esq.
Thomas Bray accepted as Townsman, of Yarmouth, 25 March, 1708.
I THOMAS BRAY married Elizabeth Ryder. He died Nov. 25, 1742; she died Feb. 2, 1755.
Issue
2 Thomas Bray born in Yarmouth; married Mary Crowell, 24 Sept. 1723; he was born July 1701.
Issue 3 Elizabeth Bray, born 4 Apr., 1725. 4 Mary Bray, born 23 Feb., 1726/7. 5 William Bray, born Dec. IS, 1729. 6 John Bray, born May 18, 1732. and others.
6 JOHN BRAY, not mentioned again; probably moved away.
EDWARD BRAY, brother of John Bray, 6, had a son:
John Bray, born May 12, 1767; married, Sarah Mathews, Nov. 17, 1791. Issue
John Bray, born 12 Aug. ISoo; married, 1832, Maria Baker.
Issue
John Bray, born 30 Apr. 1842; but he is not mentioned again.
MINE
BROWN
OF
MONMOUTH COUNTY
1 NICHOLAS BROWN, was an Englishman, and a resident of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1638, when he was admitted an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck.
1639, Apr. 30. He was one of twenty-nine who joined to create themselves into a "civill body politicke," at Portsmouth.
1639. "Nicholas Browne doth dismiss himself of the Government here."
1640 to 1642. Nicholas Brown, of Aquidnecke, receipts for all money due him for sale of land to John Wickes, which was adjacent to Mr. Samuel Hutchinson's house lot. He signed by his mark.
1646, Feb. 4. He received twenty acres adjoining his other twenty.
1649, Mch. 1. Nicholas Brown, of Portsmouth, R. I., sold to John Woode, Sr., of the same place, a parcell of land, "granted to me by the towne, in Portsmouth, near Newport line." He signed by his mark.
In 1655, he was a Freeman.
1656, Feb. 6. Nicholas Browne, of Portsmouth, sold to Thomas Wood, of the same place, land.
1656. Nicholas Brown, of Portsmouth, bought of George Parker, twenty acres, in Ports- mouth.
1657, Dec. 10. Nicholas Brown was granted, with many others, six acres of land, in Ports- mouth.
1659, May 14. Nicholas Brown, of Portsmouth, for a consideration, sold to Ellexander Enos, one acre of land, in Portsmouth.
1680. He was taxed 6s. 4d.
1693-4, Mch. 15. He paid the town treasurer 20 s., for twelve acres of land, which he bought of the said town Feb. 23, 1693-4, lying in Portsmouth.
Nicholas Brown married Frances, widow of George Parker, who died 1656: she died after 1669. Whether she was the mother of his children, or whether they were by a former wife, is unknown.
1694, Nov. 16. Will of Nicholas Brown, of Portsmouth, husbandman; proved Dec. 27, 1694, mentioned: Eldest son, Nicholas Brown, received 5 shillings.
Son, Abraham Brown, received 5 shillings.
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BROWN OF MONMOUTH COUNTY
Daughter, Jane Badcock, received fio.
Grand-daughter, Martha, \ children of "my son William Brown," deceased, each, fro, and a bed and Grand-daughter, Jane, blankets.
To grandson, Tobias Brown, son of son William, deceased, the residue of his estate and creates him executor. He signed by his mark.
Nicholas Brown, of Rhode Island, had among others, the following:
Issue
2 Nicholas Brown, of Shrewsbury, N. J., 1665.
3 Abram Brown, of Shrewsbury, N. J., 1665.
4 William Brown
5 Jane Brown
NICHOLAS BROWN, son of Nicholas Brown, I, was settled at Shrewsbury, N. J., 2 in 1665. He patented and bought large tracts of land, and died seized of a large estate. He was, apparently, an Episcopalian and was liberal in his donations to that Church. Nicholas Brown married three times. It is not improbable that he went forth alone from Rhode Island and later sent for his wife, for he applied for lands for himself from 1665, and for his wife from 1666. Her given name and surname are unknown.
He married, second, Katharine, daughter of William and Audry Almy, of Rhode Island, and widow of Bartholomew West. Bartholomew West had died prior to 1675, leaving her Bartholomew West, William West, John West, Stephen West, Audrey West and Ann West, who married William Woolley. Catharine Almy (West) Brown died about 1703.
Nicholas Brown married, third, in 1707, Mary, daughter of John and Mary Chambers, who was born, at Shrewsbury, 5th, 4mo., 1676, by whom he had his only child.
1673, Sept. 14. Nicholas Brown was appointed an Ensign in the Militia Company, of Shrewsbury, N. J. Annual Report of the State Historian, of New York. Colonial Series, Vol. 1, 1896, p. 383.
1684, Mch. 24. Court of Sessions. James Ashton, foreman, and among the juryman, William Ashton, which should read Aston. This court also sat Mch. 25th and Mch. 26th, at Middletown.
Nicholas Brown, plaintiff, vs. Joseph Parker, defendant, for brand marking a mare with the letters C. A., that belonged to the said Nicholas, etc., for forty-five shillings. The defen- dant desires to know in what capacity the plaintiff sewes (sues) and how the property of Ben- jamin West's estate came to be altered. The plaintiff replies that Benjamin West, being dead, and he, the nearest relative, the right is now vested in him.
John Slocum for evidence saith that the mare sewed for was a mare formerly called the difference mare and was accounted a stray, and that when the mare was about to be branded, Kathrine Brown forewarned the branding of her, but Christopr Almy told her lett the mare be branded Sister and she shall be never the farther from off from you, for I have sold a beast to John Wood in Rhoad Island and I goe there and find whither that beast hath the same eare marke that this mare hath. then if she hath tis mine otherwise not. And this evidence farther saith that he did see Joseph Parker brand the mare.
Caleb Shreive to the same effect.
Abraham Brown that he helped to marke a mare of the same coullor (color) & naturall markes with this mare sewed for.
John Haven saith same as John Slocum.
Found for plaintiff.
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HISTORICAL MISCELLANY
16S9. Nicholas Brown was presented for selling of rum to ye Indians but nothing was proved against him therefore he had no tryall.
In 1706, Nicholas Brown deeded to the Episcopal church, the lot now occupied by Christ Church, Shrewsbury, N. J.
IZTI, Feb. 21. Nicholas Brown made his will; proved June 2, 1714, in which he stated that he was of Shrewsbury; created his wife sole executrix, and mentioned his only daughter Mary.
He died in 1714-15.
The widow of Nicholas Brown became, in 1716, the second wife of Ephraim, son of Thomas and Ann Potter, but had no further issue, and upon his demise, she married William Exceen. See Potter Family.
Issue
6 Mary Brown, born Aug. 25, 1710; married Daniel Seabrook.
3 ABRAHAM BROWN, son of Nicholas Brown, I, of Shrewsbury, N. J., in 1665.
In 1667, he was a purchaser in the Monmouth Tract.
In 166S, Abram and Nicholas Brown took oath of allegiance?
1670, Aug. 13. Peter Tilton sold to Abram Brown one share at Potapeck.
In 1692-1695, he mentions his wife Mary,* who was living as late as 1711.
He resided in Shrewsbury until 1698-99, when he removed to Mansfield, Burlington County, West Jersey.
He probably had a first wife, Catharine.
1699, Dec. 15. Abraham Brown, Sr., of Burlington County, deeded land to his "son-in- law, Samuel Thorp," "sometimes living with his father-in-law." Mary Thropp was a wit- ness, in 1686-7, to the marriage of Martha Brown and John Hampton.
1714, May 5. Will of Abraham Brown, of Mansfield, Burlington County, N. J .; proved July 10, 1714, mentioned:
Wife, Mary, as "Mary my dearest beloved wife."
Son, Preserve Brown
Son, Nicholas Brown
Son, William Brown
Son, Caleb Brown
Son, Abraham Brown
Daughter, Sarah Potter
Daughter, Elizabeth Alfree
Grandson, Thomas Potter
He gave to his son, Abraham, the plantation whereon he lived.
Issue
7 Abraham Brown, Jr .; married, 1692, 29, 7mo., Leah Clayton.
8 Elizabeth Brown; married to Thomas Alfree, in 1694, by John Hance, Justice.
9 Nicholas Brown, of Freehold, in 1694, and, in 1709, of Burlington, N. J.
IO Preserve Brown
II William Brown
12 Caleb Brown
13 Sarah Brown
14 Martha Brown, perhaps, who married, John Hampton, of Middletown, 3, Imo., 1686-7, at Shrewsbury.
*James Steen, Esq., probably correctly maintained that this Mary was a sister to the Ephraim Potter who married Sarah. daughter of this Abraham Brown, 3; in other words father and daughter, married Aster and brother.
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4 WILLIAM BROWN, son of Nicholas Brown, I, married He was taxed, in 16So, at Portsmounth, R. I., 4s. 2d.
Issue
15 Martha Brown
16 Jane Brown, born 1677.
17 Tobias Brown
5 JANE BROWN, daughter of Nicholas Brown, I, died in 1719. She married James, son of James and Sarah Babcock, of Rhode Island. He was born in 1641, and died about 1698.
Issue
18 James Babcock
19 Sarah Babcock
20 Jane Babcock
21 Mary Babcock
22 Hannah Babcock
23 Elizabeth Babcock
See Austin.
7 ABRAHAM BROWN, son of Abraham Brown, 3, married, first, Leah Clayton. Abraham Brown, aged thirty-seven, appears in the Census of Burlington County, N. J., of 1709. Leah Brown, aged forty-one, appears in the same Census.
The following five children appear in this same Census and are their issue:
24 Abram Brown, aged fifteen.
25 Alice Brown, aged thirteen.
26 John Brown, aged eleven.
27 Rachel Brown, aged seven.
28 Zebulon Brown, aged four.
The following two items are from the same Census:
Richard Brown, aged twenty-six years.
Mary Brown, aged twenty-eight years.
Richard Brown was the executor of Preserve Brown, who died 5 mo., 22, 1760.
1696-7, Jan. 25. Abraham Brown, of Shrewsbury, conveyed land to his son, Abraham Brown, of Mansfield. Next day, Jan. 26, 1696-7, Abraham Brown and wife Leah, of Mans- field, sold this land.
1709, 5 mo., 6. Abraham Brown was granted a certificate of removal to the Burlington Meeting, by the Chesterfield Meeting.
Abraham Brown, 7, married, second, I mo., 7, 1711, Hannah Adams. Thomas and Mary French were witnesses. Chesterfield Meeting Records.
9 NICHOLAS BROWN, son of Abraham Brown, 3, was of Freehold, N. J .. in 1604, and, in 1709 of Burlington, and of Manahocking prior to 1714. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Abiah Edwards, as per will of her father, Jan. 17, 1714.
Nicholas Brown, made his will Jan. 3, 1723-4; proved Feb. 2, 1724, when he was of Manahockin, in Monmouth County, ycoman. He mentioned:
Wife, Elizabeth
Son, Abraham Brown
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Son, Joseph Brown
"loving daughter not yet 19 years."
Legacy to Benjamin Cook when twenty-one years of age.
Executors: His brother, Preserve Brown, and his sons, Abram and Joseph Brown.
Witnesses: John Potter, Caleb Brown, Jr., Thomas Tims.
Issue
29 Abraham Brown
30 Joseph Brown
31 Mary Brown, named in the will of her grandfather, Abiah Edwards, Jan. 17. 1714-15.
. 1719. Hugh Jackson bought from his "loving brother-in-law," Nicholas Brown, formerly of Monmouth Co. but now of Burlington Co., land in Monmouth Co., then in the occupancy of the said Hugh Jackson. (Salter).
1729. Hugh Jackson was the brother-in-law of Nicholas Potter. This relationship was through his having married Mercy, a sister of Nicholas Potter, both being children of Eph- raim Potter.
The relationship of Hugh Jackson, this same man, to Nicholas Brown of Burlington Co. is not so easy to establish, and I am led to infer that the solution of it lies in a possible marriage of Nicholas Brown's father, Abraham Brown, to the widowed mother of Hugh Jackson. This supposition would change the expression of relationship from "brother-in-law" to step brother. This deduction is further sustained by the fact that Abraham Brown, 3, had two wives.
10 PRESERVE BROWN, son of Abraham Brown, 3, died 5 mo., 22, 1760.
Issue
32 Lydia Brown; married, as his second wife, Isaac Ivins and had Issue Diadamia Ivins, born I mo., 22, 1734; died 1813; married, April, 1753, John, son of Joseph and Sarah (Foulke) Thorne, born 3 mo., 4, 1730; died Aug. 22, 1807. 33 Preserve Brown, Jr.
11 WILLIAM BROWN, son of Abraham Brown, 3.
1699, Sept. 17. Abraham Brown, Sr., and wife Mary, conveyed to their son, William, all of Mansfield, land, bought of William Leeds and his wife, Dorothy.
13 SARAH BROWN, daughter of Abraham Brown, 3, born 5 mo., 20, 1669; died 9 mo., 6, 1715; married, circ. 1688-9, Ephraim Potter. He died 12 mo., 21, 1717. For issue see Potter Family.
29 ABRAHAM BROWN, son of Nicholas Brown, 9, married Susannah Richardson, by license dated July 26, 1749.
Issue
47 Joseph Brown, born in Chesterfield, Burlington County, N. J.
EAST JERSEY RECORDS AT PERTH AMBOY.
"D." page 60. Phebe Page, a Quaker, affirmed that she saw Abraham Brown married to Susannah Richardson, by whom they had a son Bora which is called Joseph Brown, which she knoweth by reason she
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BROWN OF MONMOUTH COUNTY
nursed the said Susannah Brown with the said Joseph Brown, and hath been acquainted with him ever since. Dated March 30 1772.
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