ELEVENTH GENERATION
1540. Chaddus "Chad" BROWN was born c1600
in High Wycombe, England. He Bio.(71)
"Chard Brown (I) emigrated from England in the ship "Martin"
to Boston, Massachusetts, landing in July, 1636, and bringing with him his wife,
Elizabeth, and their son, John, then eight years old. Going first to Salem,
Massachusetts, he stayed there but a short time, being unable to endure the intolerance
of the first church Puritans, but joined the Roger Williams colony at Providence,
Rhode Island, where he bought for his home lot the land now occupied by Brown
University. He was a surveyor by profession, and in 1640 was one of a committee
of three appointed to report to the Providence colony a written form of government,
and this form was adopted and used by the colonists until the return of Roger
Williams from England, in 1644, with the first charter. In 1642, Chard Brown
became the first ordained settled pastor in the colonies. He died about 1665."
He died in Rhode Island.
1541. Elizabeth SHARPAROWE
(65) was born about 1604 in MELCHBOURNE,
ENGLAND. She died in 1672 in Providence, RI. She was born c1600 in Melchborne,
England. She died in Rhode Island. Children were:
i. John
BROWN was born about 1630 in England. He died in 1706. He Bio.
(71) JOHN BROWN (1628-1706) "was a surveyor, and an elder in
the Baptist Church. He inherited the home lot, which he sold in 1672 to his
brother, James Brown, who resold it to John Abbott, but whose great-grandsons,
John and Moses Brown, more than a century later, repurchased and presented it
to the College of Rhode Island, which was then emoved from Warren, Rhode Island
to its present site in Providence; the corner stone of University Hall was laid
by John Brown, one of the donors, and in 1804 the name was changed to Brown
University."
ii.
Jeremiah BROWN.
770 iii.
Daniel Chaddus BROWN.
iv.
James BROWN.
v. Judah
BROWN.
vi.
Chad BROWN.
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