| Show II 1 II i Corner in d BROWN FAMILY Of Saxon or French Name Derivation Derivation Name o 01 Battle Abbey Roll Roil Coveted Mayflower Mayflower May May- flower Ancestry BY ELEANOR lOR LEXINGTON Drown Brown may be of Saxon or of French Brun derivation Among mon tho the first of or whom we have records is i Sir Anthony Browne dont don't omit tho the e C He was standardS standard bearer bearer of o England and ancestor anc stor of tho tIre Viscounts Vis iS counts Montague onta uc Time The stor story is th that t Henry VIII gave the famous Battel Abbey Ubey bbc to lo him He i-fe or his descendants sold it an and 1 all nil its belongings belonging's to Sir Sil Thomas Webster Vc and the time original Battle Abbey Roll Holl was probably burned burned burn burn- ed when the Webster Tebster mansion near the abbey wa WO-H lle destroyed troyed by file flie 1793 It should 1 bo be of or Interest to the tha Browns Drowns to know that Lelands Leland's Lelan copy of oC the Roll foil made from Crom the original has the name Brown which name also occurs in most copies of tho Roll foil It Itis ItIs ItIs is the English spelling of the French Brun Dma Sir Anthony Anthon Browne died in l GS and amid andas was as succeeded in the tho title by hIson hi his hisson son who lio was created cl the first Viscount Montague He married 1 Jane daughter of or the Earl of Sussex and after her death Margaret t daughter daught r of or Lord Dacre Apropos to tho Iho story handed down downin downin in the family it Is said anything can be said ald do you ou M say say that there thero isa is isa a no matter of a n million dollars awaiting Sir Anthonys Anthony's heirs looked locked up somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where in England Every heir hell of or course is sla glad 1 to know that this ibis sum And the ke key is un under lock and key in the bottom of or a tl bottomless s well A few fow years ago an nn a association of or Brown heirs hells or 01 would would-be bc 1 heirs was Corm formed 1 in this country countr to look into tho the matter and it Is safe safo to sa say that old records have been pretty thoroughly thorough thorough- I ly overhauled o 1 but hut the money mone Is 19 not yet a n. tangible Brown asset The rhe heirs In America are tho time descendants de of or William and George Brown younger brothers of or Sir Anthony Anthon anti and Immigrants grants One Ono of or the time worthies of England Ingland 1 I was tho eldest son of Christopher Brown of Hawl edom Suffolk count county one of oC tho ancient Drown Brown family The worthy worth for Cor services rendered to the king could appear with his head covered in presence of oC tho the king his heirs and successors orp and of ot all un great mon men lords spiritual and temporal temporal tem tern and amI nil all other persons person whomsoever ever of tho time kingdom The pilgrims of ot Frown Brown name are arc many Peter Peer Brown was ono one of or the II signers or of the tho Mayflower compact John Drown Brown the first and anti original John Brown c came caine mc from Lincoln Eng England England land and settled ettle 1 down In Boston Doston 1632 or what was stas going to he be Boston lIe He may ma be the John Brown Drown merchant merchant mer chant and rich capitalist who married mar mar- lied ried Dorothy Doroth and hod had John James nn and 1 Mary an Through h James Jame his heirs mn may trace back to tho the Immortal Mayflower Mayflower May May- flower for ho married Mary daughter of oC John Howland also a CL Mayflower Igner Mary daughter of oC John Brown pilgrim married Thomas Willett the first t mayor of oC New York cit city aft after r England had hael expelled tho the Dutch Christopher Brown Broun of or Mas tass ns came from Crom Suffolk an anti and 1 Is called caned call can ed etl a n. descendant of o Christopher of oC Two of oC th the proprietors proprietor of Sudbury Mass were Thomas Thoma Brown Drown an and 1 his brother TIe Rev Edmund Edmun 1 born at nt Bury SL St Edmunds Suffolk I They came o er in 1637 and it was wasat wasat wasat I at their suggestion that Sudbury was thus called E Edmund 1 was the Iho first mInister of the town and ono one of the distinguished clergymen men of or the time He le was apparently a man of or property for fOl he hC owned acres and called his place Brunswick His flis home was of oC ample dimensions lons and an 1 hie h had a n li library library li- li of oC nearly volumes To Harvard liar Har yard vard he bequeathed OO The grounds of oC Brown university Providence Pro R. 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I comprise a n large portion of f the prop property prop prop- crt erty of 01 Chad Chal Brown from England 1638 George Brown born In Leicester ter England 1643 was ono one of ot the progenitors of or tho the Pennsylvania anla branch The Tho Browns Brown Browner ever er ready leadY to respond to their country's cO call aH to arms arm wore svere In In tho tim Lexington Alarm and at ul Hunker Bunker Hill Of or the Massachusetts family officers in ill the revolution ro may maybe mil maybe be named Ensign Benjamin Lieuten Lieutenant ant Abijah and Major 1 Andrew of or the Connecticut branch bronch Sergeant I Bryant and Lieutenant Bez Bezaleel leel of the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania branch Lieutenant Alexan Alexan- der tier of or Delaware Lieutenant Caleb and of South Carolina Lieutenant Charles General Jacob Drown Brown who won hl his spurs purs in the war of ot I 1812 was horn born In Pennsylvania Penns 1775 At t mt the time of his chief in of death ho he was the tho arm army His portrait now hangs Inthe in inthe inthe the city hall New lew York anti and when he visited 1 that thC city at nt time Iho close of the war ho was a n much feted fete 1 hero helo the lion of oC the da day and the freedom of oC the town was offered to him Tho rho illustrated coat arms Is bla- bla blazoned zoned per blend arg argent nt and nuel rable roble three mascle in ben bend 1 counter- counter changed Crest a a. storks stork's hea head 1 anti and at the neck between two wIngs at argent gent Motto A This Tills coat armor is a ascribed to lo Christophel Christopher Chris Chris- tophel Brown of if Mass l The arms given gi to John Brown of oC Boston Boston Bos Dos ton tori Is probably tho the oldest t of coat-of- arms anus It Js is is- is Argent two lions passant passant passant pass pass- ant In pale lULIe sable roble To fo Thomas the pilgrim and his heirs forever is given arms Sable three lions passant pass between two double argon argent I Crest A bucks buck's head hen 1 erased erase 1 proper attired and ducally gorge gorged 1 or Motto Motto- otto Follow Reason Tho The family of South C Carolina who as a 0 rule use bear the tho final o Browne bear Browne same sarno arms alms as Thomas and his heirs hells |
