Richard Brown (abt. 1650 - 1701)

Born about 1650 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy (King) Dayton — married 8 May 1683 in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony

Descendants

Died 11 Jul 1701 at about age 51 in Oyster Pond, Suffolk, New York

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Biography

(Ensign) Richard Brown III was born about 1650 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts (or Southold, Suffolk County, New York by another record).

He was named lieutenant of a foot company for the County of Suffolk, Isaac Arnold being Captain, 8 Oct. 1686 (from “Cutchogue, Southold’s First Colony, Wayland Jefferson, 1940, pg. 135)

He married Dorothy King of Southold, New York, in May 1683 in Southold, New York (or Salem, Massachusetts by another record). They had eight children and lived in Southold, where all the children were born.

Richard died 11 JUL 1701 in Oysterponds, now called Orient, Suffolk County, New York.

Sources

• 1698 Southold LI Census - A Study of Identities - Town of Southold Suffolk County Long Island, New York By Norris M. Taylor, Jr. - Richard, Dorithy, Richard junjr, Samuel, Dorathy, Abigall, Mehitobel, Henry (538-545). This is Richard-2 (Richard-1) Brown and his wife, and also his cousin, Dorothy-3 (Samuel-2, William-1) King. This family covered in NYGBR 31:65-70, 1900. A David born after the census. Query: Where is Deborah, who later married her step-brother, Daniel Dayton? She should have been only about 5 years old at the time of the census? For Richard-1 Brown material, see NYGBR 31:65-70, 1900, Ackerly article. ^[1]

• RootsWeb - Ancestry.com ID I9318 - Ensign Richard Browne - father of Samuel Browne. Richard Browne was married to Dorothy King, 8 May, 1683; he died in 1701, in his 50th year. Issue: Richard Browne, born 6 April,1684; Samuel Browne, born 21 March, 1685-6; Dorothy Browne, born 3 April,1688; Abigail Brown, born 25 April, 1690; Deborah Browne, born 5 March,1692-3; Mehittabell Brown, born 8 Oct., 1695; Henry Browne, born 3 Jan.,1697-8, died 18 Aug., 1702; David Brown, born 8 Feb., 1699-1700. ^[2]

• Title: “A Brief Account of the Family of Lieutanant Richard Browne of Southold, NY” Author: Lucy D. Ackerly - Publication: Genealogies of Long Island - Families, Vol. I - Repository: Media: Family Archive CD Page: pg. 164-5 ^[3]

• Title: “William & Dorothy King, of Salem, Mass., and Three Generations of Their Long Island Descendants - compiled by Lucy Dubois Akerly from the Manuscript Genealogy of Rufus King of Yonkers, N. Y. (New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Volume 33 - April 1902 pp. 70-75 (July 1902): pp. 145-149^[4]

• Title: Southold, NY Town Records, Vital Statistics from Libers D & E in Town Clerk’s Office - Author: Compiled by William A. Robbins - Publication: Long Island Source Records on Genealogies of Long Island Families CD - Media: Family Archive CD - Page: pg. 160

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~riss/ny/southold/1698_census.html#b
2. ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jloops&id=I9318
3. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=09QUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA65&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
4. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=CdUUAAAAYAAJ&q=King&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=6#v=snippet&q=King&f=false

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Elizabeth Hargrave for creating WikiTree profile Brown-17496 through the import of HargraveCohen.ged on Feb 6, 2013.