ISABELL BROWN

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    Isabel Browne
    
      Children Sex Birth
    Isabel Hoskins  F 16 May 1657 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   
    John Hoskins  M 14 Oct 1659 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   
    Robert Hoskins  M 6 Jun 1662 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   
    Anthony Hoskins  M 19 Mar 1664 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   
    Grace Hoskins  F 28 Jul 1666 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   
    Rebecca Hoskins  F 3 Dec 1668 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   
    Jane Hoskins  F 30 Apr 1671 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   
    Thomas Hoskins  M 14 Mar 1672 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   
    Joseph Hoskins  M 28 Feb 1674 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   
    
    
    
    QESTIONABLE MAYFLOWER TIE
    Peter Brown was born 1632 in Plymouth, Massachusetts (same say England), and died March 9, 1692 in Windsor, Connecticut. He married Mary Gillette in 1658.
    
    Rosenberg shows Peter Brown's father as the Pilgrim founder Peter Brown who signed the Mayflower Compact. I guess ``descent from the Mayflower'' is one of the snobbish goals of genealogy and for many years we thought we had it, but I have since learned that this connection is not accepted by the experts. The parents of both Peter Browns are regarded as unknown; about the only thing experts agree on is that the one Peter was not the other's father.
    
    The proof that Peter Brown (1632 - 1692) and his sister Isabel were not children of Mayflower Peter seems to be based on a list of children the latter provided (in his will?). The list includes no Peter or Isabel. But Peter and Isabel were born in the last year of Mayflower Peter's life, or possibly even after his death, so maybe the experts are wrong after all.
    
    Captain John Brown was born November 4, 1728 in Windsor, Connecticut and married Hannah Owen (1740 - 1831) in 1758. He was chosen Captain of the West Simsbury (later named Canton) ``train band'' at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War and joined the forces of the Continental Army.
    
    A marble monument in the graveyard at Canton Centre contains the following inscription: ``In memory of Captain John Brown, who died in the Revolutionary Army at New York, Sept. 3, 1776. He was of the fourth generation in regular descent from Peter Brown, one of the Pilgrim Fathers, who landed from the Mayflower at Plymouth, Mass. Dec 20, 1620.'' The mistaken Mayflower connection is thus quite old (assuming it is a mistake).
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