Thomas Brownell

Bef 1608 - 1664  (> 56 years)

• Name	Thomas Brownell  [1]
  Birth	Bef 5 Jun 1608  [2, 3]
  Baptism	5 Jun 1608	Rawmarsh, Yorkshire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Sep 1664	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island   [3]
  Alternate death	Abt 1665	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island   [4]
  Person ID	I20251	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert Brownell,   b. of Rawmarsh, Yorkshire, England
  Mother	Mary Wilson
  Marriage	1605	Sheffield, Yorkshire, England   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F12531	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann   d. Aft 1665
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Brownell   d. 6 Sep 1676, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island + 2. William Brownell   d. Between 6 Nov 1714 and 21 Mar 1715, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F12530	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He died from hitting his head on a tree while engaged in an impromptu horse race with Daniel Lawton on the lands of William Wodell.

  
  

• Sources

  [S679] The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by John Osborne Austin. Albany, New York; 1887. [S1839] Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Thomas Brownell of Portsmouth, R. I." The American Genealogist 36:126, 1960. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S479] Little Compton Families, from records compiled by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour. Little Compton, Rhode Island: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967. Fifth edition, Baltimore: Clearfield, 1997.