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BROWN, William

BROWN, William

Male 1622 - 1706  (83 years)

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  • Name BROWN, William  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] 
    Birth 24 Dec 1622  Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 7, 8, 9] 
    Gender Male 
    Arrival 1649  Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Differentiator Testified against Susannah Martin who was tried and executed for witchcraft; Salem witch trials cast of characters 
    Misc Wife was mentally ill, afflicted about 1660 
    Public Service Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Selectman & Constable 
    Witch Trials Connection 1692  Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Testified against Susannah Martin who was tried and executed for witchcraft; Salem witch trials cast of characters 
    Occupation Weaver and Farmer 
    Residence England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Residence Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Lived on Brown's Hill 
    Death 24 Aug 1706  Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6, 7, 9, 10] 
    Person ID I2244  My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

    Father BROWN, George,   b. 19 May 1592, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Nov 1633, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother HIBBERT, Christiana,   b. 1592, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Dec 1641, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 30 Sep 1611  Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F686  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family MURFORD, Elizabeth,   b. 1620, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1692, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage 25 Jun 1645  Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 5, 9] 
    Children 
    +1. BROWN, Mary,   b. 17 Jun 1647, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Aug 1696, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. BROWN, William,   b. 24 Feb 1649, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Nov 1669, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 20 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. BROWN, Sarah,   b. 12 Apr 1658, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1730, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. BROWN, Elizabeth,   b. 6 Aug 1656, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Aug 1679, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 22 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. BROWN, Ephraim,   b. 24 Jun 1650, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jun 1693, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. BROWN, Martha,   b. 5 Jun 1654, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1674, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 19 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. BROWN, Elizabeth,   b. 1644, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Mar 1727, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. BROWN, Martha,   b. 5 Jul 1654, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Mar 1717, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Photos
    U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
    Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
    Family ID F685  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 24 Dec 1622 - Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 25 Jun 1645 - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsArrival - 1649 - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsPublic Service - Selectman & Constable - - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsWitch Trials Connection - Testified against Susannah Martin who was tried and executed for witchcraft; Salem witch trials cast of characters - 1692 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Lived on Brown's Hill - - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 24 Aug 1706 - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
    Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
    Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
    William-Brown-Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
    Salem deposition
    William Brown m. Murford
    Brown The ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836 pg 71
    Edward A Brown, descendant of George Brown, sons Henry, William and George, William's son Ephraim and his son Ephraim and his s
    Salisbury Church 1687
    William Brown Family
    Christian Hibbert
    William Brown m. Murford

    Documents
    Biography and will of George B    		Biography and will of George B

    Histories
    Grandfather's sad story    		Grandfather's sad story

    Albums  Living
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  • Notes 
    • Deposition against Susannah Martin 11 May 1692

      The deposition of William Brown of Salisbury, aged seventy years, who, testifying, saith: That about one or two and thirty years ago Elizabeth, his wife, being a very rational woman and sober, and one that feared God, as was well known to all that knew her, and as prudently careful in her family, which woman going upon a time from her own house towards the mill in Salisbury, did there meet with Susanna Martin, the then wife of George Martin of Amesbury. Just as they came together the said Susanna Martin vanished away out of her sight, which put the said Elizabeth into a great fright; after which time the said Martin did many times appear to her at her house, and did much trouble her in many of her occasions; and this continued until about February following, and then, when she did come, it was as birds pecking her legs or pricking her with the motion of their wings; and then it would rise up into her stomach, with pricking pain, as nails and pins; of which she did bitterly complain, and cry out like a woman in travail; and after that it would rise up to her throat in a bunch like a pullet’s egg, and then she would turn back her head an say, ‘Witch, ye sha’nt choke me.’

      In the times of this extremity the church appointed a day of humiliation, to seek God on her behalf, and thereupon her trouble ceased, and she saw goodwife Martin no more for a considerable time, for which the church, instead, of a day of humiliation, gave thanks for her deliverance. She came to meeting and went about her business as before. This continued ‘till April following, at which time the summonses were sent to the said Elizabeth Brown and goodwife Osgood by the court to give their evidences concerning the said Martin; and they did, before the grand jury, give a full account.

      After which time the said Elizabeth told this deponent that, as she was milking her cow, the said Susanna Martin came behind her and told her that she would make her the miserablest creature for defaming her name at the court, and wept grievously as she told it to this deponent. About two months after this deponent came home from Hampton, and his said wife would not own him, but said they were divorced, and asked him whether he did not meet with one Mrs. Bent of Albury, in England, by whom he was divorced. And from that time to this very day she has been under a strange kind of distemper and frenzy, incapable of any rational action, though strong and healthy of body.

      He further testifyeth that when she came into that condition this deponent [got] Doctors Fuller and Crosby to come to her for her release, but they did both say that her distemper was supernatural, no sickness of body, but that some evil person had bewitched her.

      Sworn the eleventh day of May Anno Domini 1692, before me, Robert Pike, Assistant.

  • Sources 
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      U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700      		 U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700


    2. [S93] Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Place: Salisbury, Massachusetts; Year: 1649; Page Number: 45.

    3. [S1317] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;), Birth year: 1622; Birth city: Salisbury; Birth state: MA.

    4. [S1569] Ancestry.com, England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2008;), Place: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; Collection: St Edmond; -; Date Range: 1587 - 1812; Film Number: 1279311.

    5. [S1281] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;).
      Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988      		 Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988


    6. [S1281] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;).
      Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988      		 Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988


    7. [S1737] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).

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    9. [S1706] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;).

    10. [S1884] Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1871 Census of Canada, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010). Pg 533.
      William-Brown-Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850      		 William-Brown-Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850



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