Ancestry of
John Brown

American Abolitionist

John Brown

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• • Grandfather of John Brown — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • John Brown Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Eggleston   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Nov 1728 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Sep 1776 
  • Death Location:
  • New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Owen
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Mar 1758 
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  • Child:

  Owen Brown (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Brown died from illness while serving in the army during the American Revolution. He was reportedly buried near where he died a few miles north of New York City. A marble monument in the Canton Center Cemetery in Canton, Connecticut, was erected in his honor at his wife's grave.

    Some published sources appear to skip a generation and give John Brown's parents as John Brown and Elizabeth Loomis. They are his grandparents and not his parents.

• Sources for John Brown

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 20, Birth record for son Owen Brown.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 41, Birth record for John Brown.
  • ³ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A015553.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 19.
  • ⁵ Johnson, Mary Coffin, The Higleys and their Ancestry: An Old Colonial Family, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1896), 378.
  • ⁶ Loomis, Elisha S., Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America: And His Antecedents in the Old World, Berea, Ohio: unknown (1909), 129.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/08/2017).
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Owen Brown (college founder)", (accessed 04/01/2015).