Abigail Brown

1732 - 1800  (68 years)

• Name	Abigail Brown  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	1732	Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts   [6]
  Gender	Female
  Death	28 Nov 1800	Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [6, 7, 8]
  Burial	Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [6]
  Person ID	I15963	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2018

  
  

  Father	Rev. John Brown,   b. 1 Nov 1696, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 2 Dec 1742, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 46 years)
  Mother	Joanna Cotton   d. 1772
  Marriage	1719	Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [5]
  Family ID	F8644	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rev. Edward Brooks,   b. 31 Oct 1733, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 6 May 1781, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	Sep 1764  [9]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Brooks,   b. 27 Jan 1769   d. 30 Jan 1842, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F9986	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2018

  
  

• Notes

  John Wingate Thornton calls her merely "a dau." of "Rev. J. Brown, of Haverhill" and his wife Joanna Cotton, but he is specific that she was the wife of "Rev. Edw. Brooks of North Yarmouth, Me."

  
  

• Sources

  [S1537] Edward Gray, "William Gray of Lynn, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants." Essex Institute Historical Collections 52:113, 1916. [S1577] "Out Here at the Front": The World War I Letters of Nora Saltonstall ed. Judith S. Graham. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004. [S1582] John Wingate Thornton, "The Cotton Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1:164, April 1847. [S1583] The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement, in 1640, to the Year 1860 by George Wingate Chase. Haverhill, 1861. [S1580] Memoir of Francis Parkman by Edward Wheelwright. Cambridge, Massachusetts: John Wilson and Son, 1894. [S1671] Find a Grave page for Abigail Brown Brooks. [S1576] Register of Families Settled at the Town of Medford, Mass. by William Henry Whitmore. Boston: John Wiley & Son, 1855. [S1585] Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall by Leverett Saltonstall. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897., date only. [S1585] Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall by Leverett Saltonstall. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897.