Descendants of Andrew Brown Sr: Second Generation

5. Lt Andrew2 Brown Jr (Andrew1) (#6376) was born in Scarborough, Cumberland, ME 1657/8.(39) Individual flags: KP War. Andrew died 4 July 1723 in Arundel, York, ME, at 65 years of age.(40) age 65y His body was interred aft 4 Jul 1723 in Arundel, York, ME, Arundel Cemetery, Section 5.(41)

He married twice. He married Anne Allison in Scarborough, Cumberland, ME, 1679/80.(42) 5 children

IGI says 1679 Kittery, York, ME Film 1260913, Batch 8117510, No. 80 - need to check; AF says 1697 Scarborough, Cumberland, ME; others say abt 1685 Scarborough, ME - Lydia Booker Passow says c1686 (Anne Allison is #6377.)

Anne was born 1660 in Kittery, York, ME.(43) IGI: FHL Film No. 1126162, Batch 7732615, No. 43 - check; AF says 1658; 1660 Anne was the daughter of Lt Ralph Allison (Allanson) and Anne Dixon.

Anne died 1697 in Arundel, York, ME, at 37 years of age.(44) in childbirth; AF says died Scarborough

He married Sarah Hill in Scarborough, Cumberland, ME, 23 Jan 1709/10.(45) Andrew Brown Jr and Sarah Fletcher Priest Hill had no issue

Abstract from History of Kennebunkport by Bradbury, p 230:

2. Andrew, the 2nd s/o Andrew sen, m widow of Pendleton Fletcher, grandson of Bryan Pendleton. He d 4 Jul 1723, aged 65; and his widow d 1726, aged 65. Their only child, Andrew, never married, and d 14 Mar 14, 1722, aged 31 years.

Abstract from MMF, W.G. Davis, 1:242:

He [Lt. Andrew Brown] m2 Jan 1709/10 Sarah (Hill) (Fletcher) Priest, daughter of Roger Hill and widow of Lieut. Pendleton Fletcher, who died an Indian captive in Canada, and of William Priest." (Sarah Hill is #9288.)

Sarah was born 7 Apr 1661 Saco, York, ME.(46) Sarah was the daughter of Roger Hill and Mary Cross. Sarah died 1726 in Arundel, York, ME, at 65 years of age.(47) at age 65 AF says merged with AFN PF2M-CB

He resided in Scarborough, Cumberland, ME 1657/8 - 1699.(48) Andrew served in the military 1675-1677.(49) Andrew Brown Jr. was an Ensign (1687) and a Lieutenant in King Phillip's War

He resided Winter Harbor, York, ME 1717-1719.(50) He resided in Arundel, York, ME 1719-1723.(51) Andrew's will was probated in Arundel, York, ME, aft 4 Jul 1723.(52) Abstract from History of York, Maine, 1:277: Arrival of New Settlers (1600-1700): Andrew Brown - He was the son of Andrew Brown of Scarboro, born in 1658, and came here probably in connection with the military protection of the town soon after the massacre, and in 1697 he was a selectman. He bought land in Cooper Lane in 1699 in partnership with Lewis Bane, and two years later they divided it (Deeds vi, 109-110). In 1701 he was assigned a "hind seat in the gallery" of the church. He was called an ensign in 1709, later a lieutenant, and his house was then a garrison. He removed to Saco in 1717, and to Arundel in 1719, and died 4 Jul 1725. He had sold his property here in 1719 (Ibid ix, 165). He m1 Anne Allison of Scarboro, and m2 Mrs. Sarah (Hill) Fletcher Priest, 23 Jan 1709/10, widow of Pendleton Fletcher and William Priest. His descendants resided in Saco.

Abstract from MA/ME Families by W. G. Davis, 1:230-233:

3. LIEUT. ANDREW(2) BROWN (Andrew(1)) was born about 1657, presumably in Scarborough. As young men he and his brother John saw much service in King Philip's war. In Boston in 1675, perhaps on a coasting vessel, they were impressed to go on an expedition to Kennebec under Capt. Thomas Moore. On their return they were assigned to garrison duty at Black Point, as related in their father's petition to the General Court, and remained there nine or ten months. With their father, they were listed as living three musket-shot from the Scottow garrison in October 1676. By the granting of the peitition they were released from duty in July 1677, and when the garrison was abandoned, Andrew Brown went to Massachusetts, presumably Boston, along with the other refugees.

In 1681 the Browns were back in Scarborough, where he paid a tax of 2s. He was a selectman, serving at the same time as his father, in 1686, and in 1687 he was given a commission as ensign in the town's military company.

Either during the family's exile in Massachusetts or soon after their return to Maine, Andrew Brown married Anne Allison, daughter of Lieut. Ralph and Anne (Dixon) Allison of Scarborough, and grand-niece of Mr. Henry Watts, who in 1687 deeded to Brown the five hundred acres adjoining the Brown property at Black Point in consideration of life support.

In 1690 hostilities again broke out between the English settlers and the French and Indians, and Scarborough, a frontier community, was abandoned. It was perhaps at this time, as related by Brown's granddaughter, Sarah Stackpole, that he was sick with small pox and was defended at his home by his father and friends after most of the inhabitants had fled. When he had sufficiently recovered he and his family reached Chebacco (now the town of Essex) in Massachusetts in safety, remaining there several years.

Some time before 1696, Brown settled at York where he purchased seventeen and a half acres of land from Henry and Sarah Wright of Boston on the north-east side of York river on August 10, 1696 (YD VI:110). He was a selectman of York in 1697, and a member of the county grand jury in 1698 and 1699. 1697 also marks the death of his wife, Anne. In 1699 he sold one hundred and fifty acres of the Watts land in Scarborough to George Vaughan and one hundred seventy-two and one-half acres to William Cotton, Sr., the deeds showing that Watts had disposed of thirty acres to John Pickering before his death (YD 6:72; 12:1:24). In partnership with Lewis Bane he bought land in Cooper Lane from Sarah Wright, who held a power of attorney from Philip Cooper, in 1699, and in 1701 Brown and Bane divided it (YD I:109-110). In 1701 he was assigned a "hind seat in the gallery" of the church, "provided he seat it conveniently full of people." He was successively an ensign and a lieutenant in the town company, and his house was a garrison for four families of twenty-two persons, one soldier being assigned as guard. He married, second, January 1709/10, Sarah (Hill) (Fletcher) Priest, daughter of Roger Hill and widow of Lieut. Pendleton Fletcher, who died an Indian captive in Canada, and of William Priest.

By 1717 the Browns had moved to Biddeford, where Lieut. Brown was selectman that year, but they were finally settled in Arundel in 1719 when he sold his York property to Diamond Sargent (YD IX:165). While at Winter Harbor (Biddeford) he had purchased one hundred acres at Cape Porpoise "the ancient seat of Rowland Young" from Samuel Hill of Charlestown, and in 1720, in partnership with his neighbor Thomas Perkins, he bought from John Watson, Jabez Dorman, and James Tyler fifty acres, "being the south-west corner of Montague's neck." He also bought a saw-mill in partnership with Mr. Storer of Wells. He was elected in 1719 selectman of Arundel, this being the fourth town in which he had held that office. In 1720 he and Mr. Perkins settled their boundaries by two deeds (YD VIII:266; IX:209, X:271; XII:14). On August 1, 1721, Andrew and Sarah Brown executed two deeds giving to each of his sons Andrew and Allison forty acres of land, about four acres of marsh, one-third of the Brown ownership in the Brown-Storer saw-mill and one-third of his rights in undivided lands, mill privileges and comman lands in Arundel (YD XI:71; XIII:72).

The gravestone of Andrew Brown is still standing in Kennebunkport and bears the inscription "Here lyes Buried ye Body of Lieut Andrew Brown Who Died July 4th 1723 Aged 66 Years." Sarah (Hill) Brown apparently survived until 1726, and her husband's estate was not settled until after her death. The inventory of the estate of Andrew Brown, gentleman, late of Arundel, was filed April 2, 1726, and two days later Allison Brown filed his bond as administrator. On May 9, 1726, John Stag(ck)pole of Biddeford, yeoman, and Elizabeth his wife, Samuel Carr of Arundel, fisherman, and Mary his wife and Joshua Lassell of Arundel, husbandman, and Katherine his wife released to their brother Allison Brown all their rights in their father's lands (YP #1992). Allison Brown died before he had settled his father's estate, and in 1729, John Treworgy, who married his widow, was appointed administrator, the three sisters and their husbands renouncing their rights. Treworgy made his final division on July 19,1730 (YP #1993).

p 242:

iii. Andrew, b abt 1657; m1 Anne Allison; m2 Jan 1709/10 Sarah (Hill) Fletcher) Priest who survived him and m John Treworgy as her 4th husband; d 4 Jul 1722 age 66 years; served in King Philip's War and was ensign and lieutenant in the militia; living successively in Scarborough, Chebacco (when he and his family were refugees in the second Indian war), York, Biddeford, and Arundel, he was a selectman in each of the four Maine towns (for a fuller account of his life and his descendants, see The Ancestry of Sarah Miller, W.G. Davis, Portland, 1939).

Abstract from Scarborough Becomes a Town by Libby, pp 54; 80:

On June 26, 1728, a church was organized in town with the following enrolled on the church record: John Pugsley, William Tompson, Andrew Brown, Roger Dearing, Thomas Starbird, Nathaniel Winslow, Arthur Bragdon, Daniel Fogg, John Harmon, James Smith, Henry Boothby, John Darling, William Duly, Paul Thompson, David Sawyer, David Ring. This was the first regularly organized church in Scarborough. On a trip to Scarborough, England, Colonel Thomas Westbrook brought and gave to the church a communion set of pewter, containing two tankards, two plates, and six goblets.

A few months later the following joined the church: Job Burnham, Clement Meserve, Samuel Samll, John Bragg, and Mary wife of John Bragg, Aaron Jewett, Martha wife of David Ring, Thomas Westbrook, Elizabeth wife of John Pugsly, Daniel Moody and Mary, his wife, and Henry Libee, the first of a long line of Libbees to be connected with this church. In 1731 the new church was built at the northwest corner of the present Black Point Cemetery.

The next stronget fortification was Vaughan Garrison, on Mill Creek near Oak Hill. This farm was first settled by Andrew Brown, who sold it to Robert Elliott in 1699. Elliot held several town offices before he died in 1720 and left his farm to his son-in-law, Colonel George Vaughan. The farm passed down to his son Elliot, who lived in it in 1742. It contained one hundred and fifty acres of upland and marsh, and on the river that bordered it was an Indian mill for grinding corn. Vaughan's garrison had great strength and security. It had four flankers about sixteen feet square, built of hewn timber. Ten feet up, a floor had been laid and the walls projected horizontally a foot or more, to give an opportunity to fire at anyone who should attempt to climb the wall. The four flankers were connected with each other by a wall of timber about fifty feet on a side. The garrison stood within the enclosure. To "make assurance doubly sure," the house, thus protected by the wall of solid timber, was planked up with four-inch oak. Eleven families lived in this garrison for seven years. It was one of the two that remained standing for many years. We are told that twnety different kinds of trees were brought here by boat and in saddlebags, and planted around the garrison.

Abstract from ME/NH Gen Dict, LND, p 114:

3 LT.ANDREW(2), b. ab. 1658, d. 4 July 1723, ag. 66 (grst.). Selectman in three towns. Was given Mr. Watts' farm for life support. Refugee in York, where his house was a garrison, and he had a pew in the meetinghouse. In Arundel with Joseph Storer he built a mill. Ensign 1687. Selectm. 1684, 1687, 1688; gr.j. 1698, 1699, 1704, 1705. Lists 237a, 239b, 38. M. Anne Allison(2); 2nd 23 Jan. 1709-10 Sarah (Hill), wid. of William Priest. She d. in 1726. Ch: Elizabeth, m. John Stackpole, Mary, mar. Samuel Carr. Catherine, b. ab. 1689, m. Joshua Lassell, 6 ch. Andrew, b. 1691, d. 14 Mar. 1722, ag. 31 (grst.); m. in Boston 12 Dec 1718 Mary Kneeland, who in 1754 was Mary Turner, Boston, 1 dau. Matthew, liv. 1720; soon d.s.p. *Allison, Lieut., b. 1697, d. 16 apr 1728, ag. 31 (grst.). Sarah (Smith) Stackpole dep. that her grandmo. d. soon aft. her uncle Allison's birth, and he was suckled by his aunt Libby. The first deputy from Arundel to the General Court, 1723. Interest. will 29 Mar. 1728. M. Hannah Scammon (Humphrey), who mar. 2d by 28 Mar 1729 John Treworgy, 2 ch.

Abstract from History of Kennebunkport by Bradbury, pp 229-230:

Brown, Arthur [should read Andrew], who had "been bred a merchant from his youth upwards" (county records), came to this country in 1643 (??). His son Andrew lived in Scarborough, but removed to York where he resided in 1699. Andrew bought land at Winter Harbor in 1717 and lived there a short time, but removed to Arundel before 1719 and was one of the selectmen that year. He owned mills on "Brown's mill river," where he resided. He must have been a very aged man at the time of his removal into this town; and he lived but a few years after that period. He left five children, Allison, Andrew, Matthew, Elizabeth who married Abraham Tyler, and a daughter that married Joshua Lassel.

1. Allison married Hannah, the daughter of Humphrey Scamman of Saco. He was styled Lieut. and was chosen to represent the town in General Court in 1723, being the first representative from the town. He died April 16, 1628, aged 71 years. His gravestones are still standing. Mr. Brown was the wealthiest citizen of the town. His widow, who was nearly 30 years younger than himself, married John Treeworgy, who had for some time been a hired man in Mr. Brown's service, much against the wishes of her friends. Mr. Brown's children were Andrew and four daughters. The daughters married Carr, John Stackpole, Smith, and Joshua Lassel, jr. Andrew, son of Allison, married Elizabeth Harding Nov 5, 1757. He erected a house at the Mills June 27, 1751, but seubsequently resided on Neck Island. His children were Louisa m Adam McCulloch; Allison m Elizabeth Tyler and removed to Scarborough; Hannah m Joshua Alley; Andrew m Mary Webber and removed to Kennebec; Mary, who was married five times: John Wakefield, Thomas Washburne, Joseph Parsons, Mr. Crosby, and Eliakim Bickford; Elizabeth m Abner Huff; and four that died young.

2. Andrew, the second son of Andrew sen., married the widow of Pendleton Fletcher, grandson of Bryan Pendleton. He died July 4, 1723, aged 65 and his widow died in 1726, aged 65. Their only child Andrew was never married and died March 14, 1722 aged 31 years.

3. Lt. Matthew Brown, the third son of Andrew sen. died before 1734 and left no children.

Andrew Brown Jr and Sarah Fletcher Priest Hill had no issue.

Abstract from Penobscot Pioneers by Philip Howard Gray, 1:36-38:

Andrew2 Brown was born about 1657 (W.G. Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Miller, 1939 p 53). Active in King Philip's War, being credited to Capt. Scottow on the Sept 1677 list (G.M. Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, p 339). He returned to Scarborough with his father and serving at the same time as his father, he was a selectman in 1686 (Anc of Sarah Miller, p 54). In 1687 he was commissioned as ensign of the town's militia (ibid). After the 1690 Indian massacre, he and his family escaped to Chebacco where they remained several years before returning to Maine (ibid p 54-55). He was selectman of Old York town in 1697, bought land, and was assigned to a "hind seat in the gallery" of the church (C.E. Banks, History of York Maine, 1931 p 277). A member of the grand jury at the session of 5 July 1698, and often on jury duty thereafter (Province and Court Records of Maine, 1958 v 4 p 104 etc). By 1717, when he moved to Biddeford, he was called Lieut. Brown and that same year he was selectman of Biddeford (Anc of Sarah Miller, p 55). He was living in Arundel in 1719 when he bought 100 acres on Cape Porpoise and 50 acres on Montague's Neck; he also bought part ownership of a sawmill (ibid). On 5 Nov 1719 he was one of the two selectmen of Arundel who called a town meeting to order the affairs of the reincorporated town (C. Bradbury, History of Kennebunk Port, 1837 p 110). So far as I know, Andrew Brown the junior was the only New Englander besides Brain Pendleton to have been selectman of four different towns. Died 4 July 1723 in Kennebunkport ME (Anc of Sarah Miller, p 56). When with my wife and two children I ran an art gallery in Kennebunkport in the summer of 1972 we had not the faintest idea that two of the town's most eminent citizens, father and son, were ancestors, thus we never sought out the gravestones which Walter Goodwin Davis said were still standing there in 1928, of which the older man's bore the inscription: "Here lyes Buried ye Body of Lieut Andrew Brown Who Died July 4th 1723 Aged 66 Years" (ibid). Married about 1681 to Anne2 Allison, whose grand-uncle Henry Watts deeded to the couple his 500 acres (ibid p 69). She was born about 1660 as a guess. Died before 1709/10 when her husband married secondly the widow of Lt. Pendleton Fletcher who had died an Indian captive in Canada (ibid p 55). The children of Andrew Brown and Anne Allison were Elizabeth3, Mary3, Katherine3, Andrew3, Matthew3, and Allison3 (ibid p 57-58).

Abstract from ME Probate Abstracts by Frost, 1:129:

3/330. Andrew Brown, of Arundel. Quitclaim (3.265). Inv (3.265). F1992. John Stackpole of Biddeford, yeoman, & Elizabeth Stackpole, Samuel Carr, fisherman, & Mary Carr, Joshua Lassell, husb, & Katherine Lassell, all of Arundel, quitclaim, 9 Mar 1726, to their br Allison Brown of Arundel, all rights in the est of their fr Andrew Brown, late of Arundel, decd. Wits: Edward Melcher, Thomas Watson, Elizabeth Melcher, John Hutchins, Edmund Avery. Above ack, Biddeford, 29 July 1727, by John & Elizabeth Stackpole & Joshua & Katherine Lassell, & at Arundel, 30 Mar 1728, by Samuel & Mary Carr. Inv of the est of Andrew Brown, gent, late of Arundel, decd, ret Arundel, 2 Apr 1726, by James March, Jabez Dorman & Thomas Perkins, at L295; val att Arundel, 29 Mar 1728, by the apprs, & ext by Allison Brown, admor. Inv incl 80 a of land at homestead with 5 a of marsh & 100 or more a of land at Black Point with all bldgs & 1/3 of 2 mill privs -- all at L120, 2-1/2 a of land with the housing by the harbor, at L45, total "with ye Interest in ye fort," L295.

Abstract from VRs of Scarborough, ME 1681-1893, p 3:

From a list of the estate of the inhabitants of Town of Scarborough: Andrew Brown 2nd 90 acres marsh 410 acres of land 2 oxen 3 cows 2 2-year old 2 steers 3 yearlings, 1 horse 3 hogs

Abstract from Pioneers of Maine:

Andrew lived in York 1697, Saco 1717, Arundel 1719. He was a Lt; his 2nd wife was widow of Pendleton Fletcher and William Priest - they married 23 Jan 1709/10.

Various/Misc Undocumented Facts:

Andrew was a refugee in York, ME, an ensign in 1687, a selectman in three town (1684, 1687, 1688), and a gr. j. in 1698, 1699, 1704, 1705. He (family?) had a pew in the meeting house in York and was in Arundel with Joseph Storer where he built a mill. His house was a garrison and he was in Scarborough 22 Sept 1681.

Field/Stuntz Ancestors - Judith Mae Field Stuntz ([email protected]):

ID: I19117 Name: Andrew_#3 BROWN Sex: M Birth: ABT 1658 in Scarborough,Cumberland Co,ME Death: 4 JUL 1723 in Arundel,Kennebunkport,York Co,ME Note: !Children - D. B. Robinson 1. Elizabeth Brown 2. Mary Brown 3. Catharine Brown b: ABT. 1689 in Arundel, York Co., ME 4. Allison Brown b: 1687 in Kittery, York Co., ME 5. Andrew Brown b: 1691 6. Matthew Brown

Father: *Andrew BROWN b: MAR 1619 in Holberton,Devon,England

Marriage 1 Sarah HILL b: 7 APR 1661 in Saco,York Co,ME Married: 23 JAN 1709/1710 in Scarborough,Cumberland Co,ME

Marriage 2 Anne_#1 ALLISON b: 1660 in Kittery,York Co,ME Married: 1679 in Scarborough,Cumberland Co,ME Children Elizabeth BROWN b: 1695 in Scarborough,Cumberland Co,ME

Lt Andrew Brown Jr and Anne Allison had the following children:

child + 16 i. Mary3 Brown was born 1688.

child + 17 ii. Katherine Brown was born c1689.

child + 18 iii. Andrew Brown was born 1691.

child 19 iv. Lt Matthew Brown (#9361) was born in Scarborough, Cumberland, ME 1693.(53) Matthew died bef 1734 in Shapleigh, York, ME.(54) Abstract from MMF by Davis, V 1, p 234:

Matthew; died s.p. in his father's lifetime but after 1720, when he witnessed deeds in York

Abstract from History of Kennebunkport by Bradbury, pp 229-230:

3. Lieut. Matthew Brown, the third son of Andrew sen. died before 1734, and left no children.

child + 20 v. Elizabeth Brown was born 1695.

child + 21 vi. Lt. Allison Brown was born 1697/8.

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