More on Mary (Hicks) Brown of Salem

Moderator: MOD_nyhetsgrupper

Svar
John Brandon

More on Mary (Hicks) Brown of Salem

Legg inn av John Brandon » 04 mar 2006 00:51:28

A few months ago, I wrote that there was decent evidence that Mary,
wife of Benjamin2 Brown of Salem, was nee Hicks (see copied post
below).

One of the Higginson letters, in _Collections of the Massachusetts
Historical Society_, 3rd series, vol. 7 (1838): 201, adds a little
further information on her. Writing from Salem in 1697 to Mr. Matthew
Collet in London, John Higginson says,

Sir, I pray you present my best respects, love, and service to good Mr.
How, your father-in-law, with my thankfulness to him for his writing to
my son. His kinswoman, Mrs. Brown, married in this towne, is very
well. She is a pious, good woman; much exercised with soul-trouble.
She doth much good to the poor, and is a friend to Ministers.

The extracted IGI shows a marriage between Matthew Collett and Philipa
Howe, 25 October 1692 at St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, which is
probably pertinent.


--------------------

I believe that RCA, in one of the Great Migration volumes, provides a
sketch of the family of William1 Brown of Salem, Mass. As I remember,
he lists a son Benjamin, but does not name Benjamin's wife. Savage's
_Genealogical Dictionary_ says the following about Benjamin2 Brown:

B[ROWN], BENJAMIN, Salem, s. of first Hon. William, m. it is said,
Mary, d. of Rev. John Hicks, a noncomform. min. in Eng. wh. d. 26 Aug.
1703, had only two ds. Sarah, and Mary. He was rep. of his nat. town
1693 and 9, of the Exec. counc. 1702-5, a liberal benefact. of Harv.
Coll. d. 7 Dec. 1708.

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newen ... 63-274.htm

It seems there is good authority for the statement that Benjamin Brown
of Salem married Mary Hicks: the writings of John Dunton, a traveller
in America in the 1680s --

John Dunton, _The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London_
(reprint, Burt Franklin), vol. 1, p. 124:

In the same ship with Mr. [Charles1] Morton [later of Charlestown,
Mass.] came over one Mrs. _Hicks_, with the valuable _Venture_ of her
beautiful person, which went off at an extraordinary rate; she marrying
a Merchant in Salem worth thirty thousand pounds; and therefore I do
not wonder that so many pretty women venture themselves to the
West-Indies, since they succeed so well, and are a commodity that makes
such vast returns.


Svar

Gå tilbake til «soc.genealogy.medieval»