Phineas Browne

Patriot of the American Revolution DAR Ancestor # A015798

Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE Birth: 5-30-1747 WALTHAM MIDDLESEX CO MASSACHUSETTS Death: 6-6-1818 VERGENNES ADDISON CO VERMONT Service Source: MADAR, TOWN OFFICIALS 1775-1783, GRC S1, VOL 71, PP 43, 48, 50, 53 Service Description: 1) SURVEYOR, 1779, 1783; WARDEN, 1781

He was a skillful Surveyor, a successful farmer, good neighbor and intelligent magistrate and Legislator. He served several months in the Continental Army, and was at the Battle of Saratoga. He kept a store and was the first trader in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a Surveyor on the so-called "New Hampshire Grants". He settled in New Haven, VT. in 1784, which Town he repeatedly represented in the Vermont Legislature. Member of the Constitutional Convention 1786. Alderman of the City of Vergennes,VT. and Civil Magistrate for more than twenty years. He m. 1st, at Stockbridge, Mass. Oct. 1775. Sarah (b. June 30 1753 d. Aug. 10 1800.) dau. of Joseph Patterson (b. Aug. 27, 1710.) and Lydia Mereaul of Newton. He m. 2nd, May 6, 1802. Mrs. Elizabeth (Backus) Rosseter, (b. Nov. 24, 1766. d. Salisbury, Vt. July 20, 1828.) widow of Timothy Rosseter and dau. of Sylvanus Backus aud Elizabeth Gamble of Wyndham, Conn.

THE BEMIS HISTORY AND GENEALOGY being an account, in greater part of the descendants of Joseph Bemis, of Watertown, Mass. ... By Colonel Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper ... Published 1900, San Francisco, California, p. 63