Granddaughter of Elisha Brown (b-1717) and Sarah Olney, of Chad Brown (b-1705) and Sarah Smith, of John Brown (1630-1706) and Mary Holmes, of the first Rev. Obediah Brown and Catherine Holmes. Mary Sayles was the daughter of Richard Sayles and Mary Phillips, of John Sayles Jr, of John Sayles and Mary Williams. Mary Williams was the daughter of Roger Williams, who settled Providence, 1636. Esek Brown, father of Anne, was the Ensign of the Third Co, Trained State Milita Bands of Glocester, 1781 and 1784, and a Lieutenant inthe Fourth RI Regiment in 1800. He is said to have been an officer inthe Continental Army. In 1788, he voted against the adoption by Rhode Island of the new Constitution. He acquired considerable estate in northern Vermont, although he remained all his life in Glocester, where his father and grandfather resided. Esek and Mary had sixteen children. (Stukely Westcott, Vol. 2, Pg. 151, 1939)

They removed prior to 1800, to West Eaton, Madison Co, NY, where he cleared a farm homestead from the wilderness. After his son Parul was old enough to assume the work of the farm and had married, Oliver, removed to New Haven, Oswego Co, NY, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. In 1878, more than 250 of his descendants assembled on the old homestead farm at West Eaton for a family reunion. (History and Genealogy of Stukely Westcott, Vol. 1, Pg. 162, 1932)

Counted in Scituate census of 1790, where their first five children were born. he had a small farm in Scituate. Between August 1798 and 1803, the family migrated from Scituate to Madison Co, NY, several years before the county was set off (Mar 21, 1806) from old Montgomery Co, and here in the wilderness on the shores of Hatches Lake and near what is now West Eaton, they settled on a 400-acre tract of land with only a few settlers and the Indians, with whom they became friendly, for neighbors. With their five sons, Paul, Esek, George, Jeremiah and Liver Jr, and one daughter Elizabeth, none of whom were yet twelve years of age, they started life anew in a home hurriedly built of logs and bark. Oliver was in his early thirties and Anne in her late twenties. They must have possessed the determined pioneering spirit of their ancestors which was so characteristic of the early settlers in central New York. Out of the forest they hewed a home-farm where they reared their family of thirteen children, two more sons and five daughters being born to them in their new home. Late in life, Oliver divided his farm among his children, and Oct 7, 1831, acquired a 30-acre tract of land in Richland Township, to which he added more land on Aug 30, 1847, two years before he died. His daughter Philena, and her husband Brayton Slater, he being the son of pioneer settlers at West Eaton, settled nearby in Richland at the same time. Oliver and Anne made their home with this daughter in their advanced years. He lived to be eighty-two years of age and Anne passed away in her ninety-second year. In 1878, more than 250 of their descendants assembled on the old homestead for a family reunion. Since then similar gatherings have been held by their descendants nearly every year and in 1938, the twenty-seventh annual reunion was held. This record is truly worthy of the family spirit. (Book of Appendices, Stukely Westcott, Vol. 2, Pgs. 151-152, 1939)