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- An order of the court respecting the final settlement of his estate recites of him as "deceased in the year 1650." . . . though there are some circumstances that favor the belief that he died between the close of 1643 and 1648. . . . The earliest mention of a burying-place, in the town records, is July 5, 1642, . . . what is now known as The Old Graveyard of Watertown. . . . it was the only one in the town . . . for more than seventy years. In it repose the remains of the Puritan progenitors and kindred . . . from Genealogies of the Early Settlers of Watertown (1855)
Baptized Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, 22 October 1588, son of Edmund and Mary (Cramphorne) Browne. Surveyor from Childerditch, Essex who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1631 & settled in Watertown. Died in Watertown in 1650, prior to 1 October.
MARRIAGE: (1) South Weald, Essex, 21 September 1619 Joan Shelton, who was buried at South Weald 27 September 1628.
(2) By 1631 Lydia _____; she married (2) Ipswich 27 November 1659 Andrew Hodges; "Lidia Hoges (a widow)" died at Watertown 27 September 1686.
In 1996 Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn demonstrated the English origin and connections of this immigrant; he was brother of JOHN BROWN of Watertown, Edmund Brown of Boston by 1634, and Hannah (Brown) Ines, almost certainly wife of MATTHEW INES. There was a brother Richard, but he was clearly not the immigrant to Watertown.
Source: Anderson's Grest Migration Study Project
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1588 - 1650 (~ 61 years)
