Notes:

!SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:21, 32.

!SOURCE: http://www.genealogy.org/~smcgee. Gives Providence, RI, as birth place. However, Providence as a birth place is questionable, since Providence was not organized until 1636 (Handy Book for Genealogists. 6th ed. [Logan, UT: Everton Publishers, 1971], p. 195.)

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 258. Gives birth date of 1630. (Previously recorded as 1629.)

!SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2000.

!NOTE: It is this John Brown for whom [John] Brown University is named. --L. Ozynga

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 9, 10. Gives birth 1630 in England. (Birth previously entered as 1629.)

John married Mary Holmes in 1654. Mary (daughter of Obadiah Holmes, Reverend and Catharine or Katherine) was born about 1632 in , Lancashire, England; died in 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sarah Brown was born in 1657 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died in 1733 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island.
2. John Brown, Ensign was born on 18 Mar 1662 in of, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 19 Sep 1719.
3. James Brown, Elder, Reverend was born in 1666 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 28 Oct 1732 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island.
4. Obadiah Brown was born about 1668 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 24 Aug 1716.
5. Martha Brown
6. Mary Brown died before 1726.
7. Deborah Brown

Notes:

!SOURCE: John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:21, 32

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 7-9.

!SOURCE: http://www.genealogy.org/~smcgee/

!SOURCE: Gaspee Virtual Archives, http://www.gaspee.org/JosephBrown.htm, 6 Aug 2002.

!IMMIGRATION: "Came from England in the ship 'Martin,' which arrived in Boston, Mass., July 1638. --A.I.B. Bulkley.

!RESIDENCES: One of the original signers of the pact that organized Providence, Rhode Island, in 1638; the first signer of the charter of Providence, 1644. --A.I.B. Bulkley

!DEATH: "It is evident that he died some years earlier than has been supposed, as the name of his widow occurs in a tax list of Sept. 2, 1650." --A.I.B. Bulkley

!BURIAL: "Chad and Elizabeth Browne were buried in an orchard on his Home Lot, College Street, corner of Benefit, where the County Court House now stands. Their remains were removed in 1792 to the Nicholas Brown lot in the North Burial Ground." --A.I.B. Bulkley

Chad + Elizabeth Sharparowe. Elizabeth was born about 1604 in Melchbourne, Bedfordshire, England; died before 1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: http://www.genealogy.org/~smcgee/

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 7-9, 10.