• General Notes

  WFT Vol. 11, No. 2630
  
  PETER BROWN of Plymouth and Dorchester, Mass., born in England about 1600; died in Plymouth, Mass., 1633; was one of the Signers of the Compact on board the Mayflower, 1620, was one of the seven which remained of all the Company of the Mayflower, able either to nurse the sick or to bury the dead, took charge of digging the graves and burying the dead of the Mayflower. Married (first) about 1623, Martha Ford, a widow and had 2 children, viz.: Mary and Priscilla; married (second) about 1628, Mary, and had 2 children, viz.: Peter and John.
  
  He was admitted a freeman in 1633. Mary and Martha Brown, probably his wife and elder daughter, had divisions of cattle with him in 1627. It is supposed that his first wife was Martha, and that Mary and Priscilla were her daughters and the two mentioned by Governor Bradford as married in 1650. In 1644, the daughters were placed in the care of their uncle, John Brown, a leading citizen of Duxbury. Peter Brown died in 1633, before October 10, and his estate was settled by the court, Nov. 11, 1633. Administration was granted to the widow Mary. He had several children, among whom was Peter mentioned below: 

Details of Peter's family with Martha (Ford)

Details of Peter's family with Mary Unknown