Mary Brownson

Abt 1623 - Bef 1670  (~ 46 years)

• Name	Mary Brownson  [1]
  Birth	Abt Mar 1623  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 1670  [2]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. John Brownson ,   b. Bef 21 Sep 1602   d. Bef 28 Nov 1680, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age < 78 years) ▻ Frances Hills ,  m. 19 Nov 1626 + 2. Mary Brownson ,   b. Abt Mar 1623   d. Bef 1670  (Age ~ 46 years) ▻ Nicholas Desborough
  Person ID	I40934	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of XYZ
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Roger Brownson,   b. Bef 15 Sep 1576   d. Between 4 Aug 1635 and 22 Oct 1635, Aldham, Essex, England (Age > 58 years)
  Mother	Mary Underwood,   b. Bef 2 Feb 1586   d. Abt Mar 1623 (Age > 37 years)
  Marriage	12 May 1600	Lamarsh, Essex, England   [2]
  Family ID	F14035	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nicholas Desborough,   b. Abt 1613, of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. Bef 31 Aug 1683 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Children	+ 1. Hannah Desborough,   b. Abt 1644   d. 23 Oct 1718, Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age ~ 74 years)
  Family ID	F23960	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  "Mary Brownson was a baby when her mother died; she was raised by a stepmother who was, possibly, unsympathetic, and this may well explain much that happened in Mary's youthful career. Mary was a seventeenth century teen-ager when she accompanied her older brothers, John and Richard Brownson, to Hartford, and there she became almost, but not quite, a juvenile delinquent. Probably her brothers and her sister-in-law were unable to control her. Four boys, John Olmstead, Jonathan Rudd, John Pierce, and Nicholas Olmstead, got into grave trouble for what must have been strenuous petting with Mary, but there is no mention of fornication in the court records, as there certainly would have been in so strait-laced a community as Hartford if the town authorities suspected it had occurred. Instead, the phrases used by the court were 'wanton dalliances, lacivious Caridge & fowle Mysdemenors at sundry times wth Mary Brunson.' Mary and the first three boys were merely 'corrected', but Nicholas Olmstead was given a stiff fine and ordered 'to stand Vppon the Pyllery at Hartford.' All this seems to have happened in the winter of 1639-40 and the early spring of 1640. Mary Brownson was hastily married off, at Hartford, before 2 Apr. 1640, to a safe, substantial, and somewhat older man, Nicholas Desborough (or Disborough, Disbrow)." [John Insley Coddington, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S7610] Gale Ion Harris, "The Family of William1 Kelsey of Hartford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 68:208, 1993. [S3046] John Insley Coddington, "The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl's Colne, Essex, England, - Connecticut, and South Carolina." The American Genealogist 38:193, 1962.