164. HENRY BROWNE (d. 1701), son of Henry Browne
165. ABIGAIL UNKNOWN (c. 1615–1702)
Deacon Henry Browne died on 6 August 1701 in Salisbury. [VRSD]
Abigail was born about 1615. [QCE0] The widow Abigail Browne died on 23 August 1702 in Salisbury. [VRSD]
The widow Browne who died on 28: 10: 1641 in Salisbury must be Henry's mother. [VRSD]
Henry was a deacon and a shoemaker. He was the brother of William and George of Salisbury. [OFA]
Henry was a freeman in Salisbury on 24 (2) 1649. [QCE1]
Henry was on the trial jury on 22 (2) 1649, 7 (8) 1651, 12 (2), 1653, 10 April 1677 and 8 April 1682. He was on the grand jury on 10: 2: 166, 12 April 1670, 28 September 1680, 30 September 1684 and 31 March 1685. He was th foreman of the grand jury on 30 March 1675, 30 May 1676, 8: 8: 1678 [QCE2]
Henry was dismissed from all training, allowing ten groats a year to the Salibury military company, in April 1670. [QCE3]
Henry was appointed a commissioner to end small causes in October 1677, November 1678, November 1679 and September 1681. [QCE4]
Henry was licensed to sell wine for the necessity of sick folk in April 1679. [QCE5]
Children of Henry Browne and Abigail Unknown. All births recorded in Salisbury. [VRSB]
i. Captain Nathaniel Browne was born on 30: 4m: 1642. He died on 5 October 1723 in Salisbury. [VRSD] He married Hannah Felllows on 18: 8m. 1666 in Salisbury. [VRSM] Hannah, the widow of Captain Nathaniel died on 23 May 1727 in Salisbury. [VRSD]
ii. Abigail Browne was born on 23: 12m: 1643. She married Samuel French on 1: 4: 1664 in Salisbury. [VRSM]
iii. Jonathan Browne was born on 25: 9m: 1646. He probably died young. [OFA]
iv. Philip Browne was born on —: 10m 164[6!]. He died on 21 July 1729. He married Mary Buswell.
v. Abraham Browne was born on 1: 11m: 1649. He died on 26 March 1733 in Salisbury. [VRSD] He married Elizabeth Shepherd on 15 June 1672 in Salisbury. [VRSM]
Abraham was a yeoman of Salisbury. [OFA]
vi. Sarah Browne was born on 6: 10m: 1654. She married Andrew Grele, Jr. on 12 June 1673 in Salisbury. [VRSM]
vii. Henry Browne was born on 8: 12m: 1658. Henry "sometime of Salisbury, late of Salem" died on 25 April 1708. [VRSD] He married Hannah Putnam on 17 May 1682 in Salisbury. [VRSM]
References:
VRSB. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 28–35.
VRSD. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 531–4.
VRSM. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 284–92.
QCE0. George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, digitized book, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu), 4:347, she doposed that she was about 56 at the 11 (2) 1671 court.
QCE1. George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, digitized book, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu), 1:167.
QCE2. George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, digitized book, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu), 1:164, 236, 279; 2:375; 3:315; 4: 235; 6:21, 139, 341; 7:102, 104, 190; 8:1; 9: 311, 431.
QCE3. George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, digitized book, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu), 1:167.
QCE4. George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, digitized book, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu), 6:141; 7:104; 7:277, 8:186.
QCE5. George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, digitized book, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu), 7:195.
OFA. David Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Providence: Snow and Farnham, 1897), 72–76.
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