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Source: 1st KNOWN AMERICAN RECORD AT STAMFORD WITH MG TO MARTHA (Wombrey.) THIS FRANCIS BROWN HAS BEEN MIXED up WITH 3 OTHER MEN, 1 of Newbury, MA, 1 of Boston-see Great Migration; D J Lines shows diff from New Haven Francis Brown in Old Families of Fairfield.

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Title	1st KNOWN AMERICAN RECORD AT STAMFORD WITH MG TO MARTHA (Wombrey.) THIS FRANCIS BROWN HAS BEEN MIXED up WITH 3 OTHER MEN, 1 of Newbury, MA, 1 of Boston-see Great Migration; D J Lines shows diff from New Haven Francis Brown in Old Families of Fairfield.

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Joseph Brown

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FIRST KNOWN AMERICAN RECORD WAS AT STAMFORD WITH HIS MARRIAGE TO MARTHA. (According to Torrey's "New England Marriages before 1700," it was Martha Wombrey. THIS FRANCIS BROWN HAS BEEN MIXED AND MERGED WITH AT LEAST TWO OTHER DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT MEN WHO HAD THE SAME NAME and probably more. This Francis Brown was different than one of his name at Newbury, Mass. or the one of Boston as shown by several references in the Great Migration; and the one at New Haven by Lines. Donald Jacobus Lines treated this family as distinct and different from the New Haven Francis Brown family in his Old Families of Fairfield. PLEASE READ this explanation. Francis Brown of Stamford and his wife Mrs. Martha Chapman, widow first of Thomas Lawrence of Milford and 2) widow of John Chapman of Stamford had four children: Joseph, Rebecca, Sarah and Mercy. By his first wife, name unknown, he had daughter Mary. Francis married 3). Judith Budd Ogden and removed with her to Rye, New York. See Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, v. 1, 105-106. In Robert Charles Anderson, "Great Migration Begins," v. 1, A-F, page 333 there is a sketch about John Chapman, Martha's 2nd husband just prior to her 3rd husband Francis Brown. This source stated: "The inventory of the estate of 'John Champan deceased,' attested on 30 October 1665 by the wife of Francis Browne, totaled £403 11s. 8d., of which £200 was real estate [Fairfield PR 2:9]. The intestate proceedings distributed the estate to the widow, £110 10s. 8d.; to [dau] Mary Chapman, £86; to Eliizabeth Chapman £86; to the widow 'to have half the housing and land at Stanford' and the said Mary and Elizabeth 'to have the other half of the farm divided between them equally' [Fairfield PR 2:9]." In 1672 Mary's husband Eleazer Slason of Stamford acknowledged receipt of Mary's portion. In 1673/4 they sold with Elisabeth Chapman to "their father-in-law Francis Brown," three parcels of land. Other transactions between these parties continued. Another description of Francis Brown comes from Charles W. Baird, "History of Rye, New York, (1871)," : "An eccentric individual, not related, so far as appears, to the preceding family. He came here about the year 1683, and was here in 1700. He had been an early settler of Stamford, where Mr. Huntington says 'he seems to have been a pertinacious stickler for the largest liberty to the individual.' His second (sic: 3rd) wife was Judith, daughter of John Budd, and widow of John Ogden; and through her he acquired property in Rye. In 1685, 'while now lying upon his bed of sickness,' he made his will, which for some reason is entered in full on our records; 'for the settling and ordering of his effects according to his will and mind as it becomes a Christian living in his condition, that after his decease there may be no contentions arise amongst his successors, and free the country from trouble as concerning him.' He 'returns to his dear and loving wife Judith Brown that part of the estate that fell to her of her former husband, which the overseers gave her ... only my wife is to pay Captain Silleck for the cider I bought of him this last fall, and take in my bill.' He survived, however, and was alive in 1700. His son Joseph returned to Stamford." The two men named Francis Brown were different although both had connections to Stamford and to Rye. For the first wife's maiden name see http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cofairfield/pages/stamford/fbrown_background.htm

FIRST KNOWN AMERICAN RECORD WAS AT STAMFORD WITH HIS MARRIAGE TO MARTHA. (According to Torrey's "New England Marriages before 1700," it was Martha Wombrey. THIS FRANCIS BROWN HAS BEEN MIXED AND MERGED WITH AT LEAST TWO OTHER DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT MEN WHO HAD THE SAME NAME and probably more. This Francis Brown was different than one of his name at Newbury, Mass. or the one of Boston as shown by several references in the Great Migration; and the one at New Haven by Lines. Donald Jacobus Lines treated this family as distinct and different from the New Haven Francis Brown family in his Old Families of Fairfield. PLEASE READ this explanation. Francis Brown of Stamford and his wife Mrs. Martha Chapman, widow first of Thomas Lawrence of Milford and 2) widow of John Chapman of Stamford had four children: Joseph, Rebecca, Sarah and Mercy. By his first wife, name unknown, he had daughter Mary. Francis married 3). Judith Budd Ogden and removed with her to Rye, New York. See Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, v. 1, 105-106. In Robert Charles Anderson, "Great Migration Begins," v. 1, A-F, page 333 there is a sketch about John Chapman, Martha's 2nd husband just prior to her 3rd husband Francis Brown. This source stated: "The inventory of the estate of 'John Champan deceased,' attested on 30 October 1665 by the wife of Francis Browne, totaled £403 11s. 8d., of which £200 was real estate [Fairfield PR 2:9]. The intestate proceedings distributed the estate to the widow, £110 10s. 8d.; to [dau] Mary Chapman, £86; to Eliizabeth Chapman £86; to the widow 'to have half the housing and land at Stanford' and the said Mary and Elizabeth 'to have the other half of the farm divided between them equally' [Fairfield PR 2:9]." In 1672 Mary's husband Eleazer Slason of Stamford acknowledged receipt of Mary's portion. In 1673/4 they sold with Elisabeth Chapman to "their father-in-law Francis Brown," three parcels of land. Other transactions between these parties continued.

Another description of Francis Brown comes from Charles W. Baird, "History of Rye, New York, (1871)," : "An eccentric individual, not related, so far as appears, to the preceding family. He came here about the year 1683, and was here in 1700. He had been an early settler of Stamford, where Mr. Huntington says 'he seems to have been a pertinacious stickler for the largest liberty to the individual.'
His second (sic: 3rd) wife was Judith, daughter of John Budd, and widow of John Ogden; and through her he acquired property in Rye. In 1685, 'while now lying upon his bed of sickness,' he made his will, which for some reason is entered in full on our records; 'for the settling and ordering of his effects according to his will and mind as it becomes a Christian living in his condition, that after his decease there may be no contentions arise amongst his successors, and free the country from trouble as concerning him.'
He 'returns to his dear and loving wife Judith Brown that part of the estate that fell to her of her former husband, which the overseers gave her ... only my wife is to pay Captain Silleck for the cider I bought of him this last fall, and take in my bill.'
He survived, however, and was alive in 1700. His son Joseph returned to Stamford." The two men named Francis Brown were different although both had connections to Stamford and to Rye.
For the first wife's maiden name see http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cofairfield/pages/stamford/fbrown_background.htm

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