Ancestry of
John Brown

American Abolitionist

Peter Brown

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of John Brown — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1631 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Mar 1691/1692 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Gillett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Jul 1658 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Brown (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  Cornelius Brown

  • Notes: 

  • Peter Brown of Windsor, Connecticut, is often claimed to be the son of the Mayflower passenger of the same name. This does not appear to be true as the land of Peter Brown of the Mayflower divided equally between his three daughters. If Peter was his son, he would have been a teenager at the time and would surely have received a share of the estate. So claims of this Peter Brown being a son of the Mayflower Peter Brown are surely false.

    There have also been claims that Peter Brown of Windsor was the son of John Brown, brother of Mayflower passenger Peter Brown. This claim has also been disproved.

• Sources for Peter Brown

  • ¹ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for son Cornelius Brown.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 42, Death record for Peter Brown.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 42, Marriage record for Peter Brown and Mary Gillet.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 41, Birth record for son John Brown.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, pp. 21-22.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 768.
  • ⁷ Loomis, Elisha S., Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America: And His Antecedents in the Old World, Berea, Ohio: unknown (1909), 129.
  • ⁸ McGhan, Judith, Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2006), 38.
  • ⁹ Stile, Henry Reed, The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, Including East Windsor, South Windsor, and Ellington, Prior to 1768 . . ., New York: Charles B. Norton (1859), 559.
  • ¹⁰ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 2.