Elizabeth Brown

Family

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_276.html#P2640

Nicholas Brown married Elizabeth. Elizabeth died in Reading, MA aft 17 Jun 1673.249

Many other children have been attributed to Nicholas and Elizabeth, but without justification.

Their children include:

1. Capt. John Brown (ca 1634-12 Mar 1717). Married 1) Elizabeth Osgood 2) Anne Fiske 3) Elizabeth Bulkeley 4) Rebecca Crawford.
2. Josiah Brown (ca 1635-29 Jan 1690/1). Married Mary Fellows.
3. Cornelius Brown (ca 1637-ca 1701). Married 1) Sarah Lamson 2) Sarah unknown 3) Mary Dastin.
4. Edward Brown (15 Aug 1640-26 Apr 1685). Married Sarah Dix.
5. Elizabeth Brown (Twin) (10 Dec 1647-27 Feb 1697). Married Hannaniah Parker.
6. Joseph Brown (Twin) (10 Dec 1647-17 Oct 1723). Married 1) unknown 2) Elizabeth Bancroft.

Disputed children

The following profiles are unsupported as children of Nicholas Brown of Lynn & Reading and have been detached:

Anthony Brown, Anthony Brown, Abraham Brown, Sr., of Portsmouth & Mansfield, William Brown, of Portsmouth, Nicholas Brown, of Haverhill, Thomas Brown, of Newbury, Mehitable O. Townsend, Mary Upham, Sarah Burnap

References

• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L2SG-RWQ/elizabeth-leids-1605...
• https://sg30p0.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/dascloud/pa...
• http://minerdescent.com/2012/04/08/nicholas-brown
• https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_276.html#P2640 cites
  • Brown Genealogy by Cyrus Henry Brown
  • 249. Marcia Wiswall Lindberg, “Nicholas Browne of Lynn and Reading, Massachusetts,” The Essex Genealogist, 8 (1998): 178-188.
• "Gleanings from English Records," G. Andrew Moriarty, contributor The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) NEHGR 103 (July 1949):182 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11652/182/0

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Elizabeth was born about 1605, in Malford, Worcestershire, England. Her parents were Jane Gibbs and Thomas Leids (Lide) (Lyde). Elizabeth married Nicholas Browne about 1630, probably at Worcestershire, England. Some sources say that Elizabeth's older sister, Jane, married the father of Elizabeth's husband, Nicholas Browne. Nicholas' father was Edward Browne.

Elizabeth and Nicholas had at least two children in England, and probably came to New England in 1635, arriving in Boston. They had a couple more children, either in England before they came to America, or possibly in Lynn, Massachusetts. Their last two children were born in Reading, Massachusetts, after they moved there. Nicholas was active in the government of Reading.

Elizabeth died in Reading on November 1, 1674. Her place of burial is unknown.