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Richard Brownson

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of David McCullough — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1586 
  • Father:
  • Roger Brownson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Underwood   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 23 Jul 1615 
  • Christening Location:
  • Earl's Colne, Essex, England  
  • Death Date:
  • BY 26 Sep 1687 
  • Death Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  Hannah Brownson (Ahnentafel No:793 )

  Mary Brownson

  Samuel Brownson

  Samuel Brunson

  • Notes: 

  • Richard Brownson's surname is also seen as Bronson and Brunson.

    The name of Richard Brownson's second wife is completely unknown. She is thought to have died around the time of the birth of her son Samuel.

    Richard Brownson's surname is also seen as Bronson and Brunson.

• Additional marriages for Richard Brownson

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  • Spouse:
  • Abigail Wyborne
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1642
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Hartford, Hartford Co., Connection

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 27 Apr 1664

• Sources for Richard Brownson

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, p. 22, Marriage record for son Samuel Brownson and Sarah Gibbs.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1962, Vol. 38, pp. 204-208.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 46.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 456.
  • ⁵ Brownson, Dr. Ernest R., Genealogy of One Branch of the Richard Brownson Family, 1631-1951, Mayville, North Dakota: Typed manuscript (1951), 1-6.
  • ⁶ Sanford, Carlton E., Thomas Sanford, the Emigrant to New England: Ancestry, Life and Descendants, 1632-4 (2 vols.), Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1911), 92.

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