Cornelius Browne
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Cornelius Browne, son of Nicholas Browne and Elizabeth (…), was born at Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts, about 1637.1 He died at Reading, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, before 1703.2,1
Cornelius married (1) Sarah Lamson, daughter of William Lamson and Sarah Ayers, at Reading, 6 March 1664/65;2,1,3,4 he married (2) Sarah Southerick at Reading, 20 November 1684;1,4 he married (3) Mary Dustin at Reading, 26 September 1698. The ancestry of the last two wives is unknown (or not traced here).1,4
In the division of the "Great Swamp" in Reading in 1666, he received by lot, land valued at 00-12-08. In 1669, he was one of the 59 heads-of-households in Reading.
In 1686, he paid his assessment to the Indians for the purchase of land comprising the town of Reading. In 1688 he subscribed toward the new meeting-house. He was "owned by the church" in 1690. Also in 1690, he sold his farm to his son Samuel, "out of fatherly love and good affection," and in consideration that the said Samuel pay his father the "just sum of 03-00-00 a year during his natural life," and "reserving room for me in my now dwelling-house while I am a widower."
He died intestate, and the division of his lands named or mentioned:
William Browne was given: "two lotts of Commmon rights in Redding as also the other half of our Fathers pine Swamp Lott & our Fathers meadow in Rear meadow; he the sd William paying unto his Brother in Law Thos Wellman four pounds Twelve Shillings & six pence in or as money--."3,5,6
Cornelius married (1) Sarah Lamson, daughter of William Lamson and Sarah Ayers, at Reading, 6 March 1664/65;2,1,3,4 he married (2) Sarah Southerick at Reading, 20 November 1684;1,4 he married (3) Mary Dustin at Reading, 26 September 1698. The ancestry of the last two wives is unknown (or not traced here).1,4
In the division of the "Great Swamp" in Reading in 1666, he received by lot, land valued at 00-12-08. In 1669, he was one of the 59 heads-of-households in Reading.
In 1686, he paid his assessment to the Indians for the purchase of land comprising the town of Reading. In 1688 he subscribed toward the new meeting-house. He was "owned by the church" in 1690. Also in 1690, he sold his farm to his son Samuel, "out of fatherly love and good affection," and in consideration that the said Samuel pay his father the "just sum of 03-00-00 a year during his natural life," and "reserving room for me in my now dwelling-house while I am a widower."
He died intestate, and the division of his lands named or mentioned:
an unnamed mother-in-law [step mother], widow and relict;
Cornelius Browne;
John Browne;
Samuel Browne;
William Browne;
Thomas Wellman;
Jeremiah Gould;
Susannah Browne;
Hannah Browne
Cornelius Browne;
John Browne;
Samuel Browne;
William Browne;
Thomas Wellman;
Jeremiah Gould;
Susannah Browne;
Hannah Browne
William Browne was given: "two lotts of Commmon rights in Redding as also the other half of our Fathers pine Swamp Lott & our Fathers meadow in Rear meadow; he the sd William paying unto his Brother in Law Thos Wellman four pounds Twelve Shillings & six pence in or as money--."3,5,6
Family 1 | Sarah Lamson b. 1645, d. 4 Oct 1683 |
Children |
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Family 2 | Sarah Southerick d. bef. 1698 |
Family 3 | Mary Dustin |
This person was last edited on | 21 Jul 2022 |
Citations
- [S707] Marcia Wiswall Lindberg, "Nicholas Browne of Lynn and Reading, Massachusetts," The Essex Genealogist 8 (Nov 1988): 178-188, further cited as Lindberg, "Nicholas Browne of Lynn and Reading."
- [S857] William J. Lamson, Descendants of William Lamson of Ipswich, Mass., 1634-1917 (New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1917), 15-22, further cited as Lamson, Lamson Descendants.
- [S720] Mrs. Harriet H. Robinson, "Nicholas Browne of Reading and Some of His Descendants," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 44 (Oct 1890): 281-286, further cited as Robinson, "Nicholas Browne."
- [S1872] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 217, further cited as Torrey, New England Marriages (2011).
- [S1314] Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, Probate records 1648--1924, Docket #2972, FHL microfilm 386037 img 283, further cited as Middlesex Co. Probate Papers.
- [S1314] Middlesex Co. Probate Papers, 10:730; FHL #521770 img 400.
- [S707] Lindberg, "Nicholas Browne of Lynn and Reading," 186.