BROWN

Ref:

Bishop's Transcripts for Holberton, Devon
The Ancestry of Sarah MIller 1755- 1840- Davis, p.49

bpt. March 1619 Holberton, Devon
d. 1696 Boston, MA

Andrew received from the Lygonia government 29 Sept 1651 along with William Smith 500 acres at Black Point, Scarborough, east of Dunstan close by what was called Harmon's Landing.(1) When the adjacent 500 acres of Mr. Henry Watts' was given to Andrew Jr., Andrew Sr. & Jr. owned 1000 acres. Each of them petitioned Gov. Andros for 500 acres.(2) He was on the jury in 1665, the grandjury in 1667, constable in 1670 and a selectman in 1682,1686, and 1687.(6) He took the oath of allegience to Massachusetts 13 July 1658 at Spurwink.(3)

On 30 Oct. 1675 Capt. Scottow wrote that Capt. John Wincoll and 60 men went up "to guard the house of Andrew Brown at Dunstan" and on 4 Nov. Scottow ordered Wincoll "to forthwith repair with all the town soldiers to the house of Andrew Brown there to give war to the Indians." Andrew was listed as "Living three muskett shot from garison" at Black Point on 12 Oct. 1676 his house having been destroyed by the Indians in 1675.(4)

"To ye Honrd Governor & Counsell now Assembled at Bostone: The Humble Petition of Andrew Browne Sinr Sheweth That wheras yr Petitioner had all his houses Burned to Ashes; and his Catle Destroyed by ye Barbarrous Enimys soe that yor poore subplicant is in a very Low Condition having 9 Smale Children whereof 7: of them and himselfe is not any way Capable nor able this 2 years to procure A Livlihood: neither has he been any way Chargable to Towne nor Country; But yor poore petitionr and his wife and 7 smale Children was Mantayned and withoulden from perishing by two Sonns of yor Petitionr namly Andrew Browne and John Browne they both was Impressed here at Bostone in September Last to goe to Kenebecke under ye Command of Capt. Thomas Moore and ye Capt. Thomas Moore at his Returne then from Kenebecke ye abovesaid Andrew Browne and his Brother John Browne both then was Left at Black point Garrison where they ever since Continued. Therefore ye poore Petitionr Humbly Intreats yor worships seriously to Consider of his helplesse Condition by ordreing that his two Sonns be discharged from ye Garrison of Black point for there is 9 in yor Petitionrs family that hath there Dependence upon the Labours of ye said Andrew And John Browne/ 2d That yor Petitionr intreats yor worships to Consider yt 9: or 10 months is a Longe tim to Continue In Garrison; 3d That few of any hath Continued soe Long in Garrison: soe yor petitionr hopes that these Considerations will move yor worships to Grant yor petitionr an order for ye Discharging of his two Sonns, which wilbe a meane to preserve yor poore petitionr from Perishing, soe yor petitionr with his wife and Children shall have great Cause to pray for yor health and Happynesse,

Andrew Brown Sinr"(5)

This request was granted in July 1677. In 1681 he was back in Scarborough and was assessed for 90 acres of marsh, 410 acres of land, 2 oxen, 3 cows, 2 two year olds, 2 steers, 3 yearlings and one horse. He was selected to collect the taxes in 1685/6 and on 26 July 1684 he was appointed one of the trustees by President Danforth to a trust of common lands.

Andrew was a refugee in New Castle where in 1694 he mortgaged his farm to Robert Eliot for £30. He also signed a petition to the king with other inhabitants of Great Island asking for a general Governor and military supplies. In 1696 he was in Boston living with his son William. In March 1695/6 he sold to his grandsons John & Samuel Brown his land in Scarborough where he had lived before the Indian War.

Issue-

Ref:

(1) York Deeds- VII, 186-7
(2) York Deeds- VI, 165
(3) Pioneers on Maine Rivers- Wilbur D. Spencer p.232
(4) History and Genealogy of the Stackpole Family- Everett S. Stackpole, p.76; Original at N.E.H.G.S.
(5) The Ancestry of Sarah Miller 1755-1840- Davis,p.51
(6) Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire- pp.113-4

Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England- Savage, Vol.I, p.264
The Libby Family in America: 1602-1880- Libby, pp.25,30,32
Pioneers of Maine & New Hampshire- Pope, pp.25-6

b.c. 1657
m.1. ANN (6) ALLISON
    2. 23 Jan. 1709/10 Sarah Hill (m.1. Lt. Pendleton Fletcher 2. William Priest, living 1726)
d. 4 July 1723 Arundel, ME

Andrew settled on a 150 acre farm on Mill Creek near Oak Hill which included an Indian mill for grinding corn. This farm was sold to Robert Elliot in 1699.

In 1675 Andrew and his brother John while in Boston were impressed to go on an expedition to the Kennebec with Capt. Thomas Moore and upon their return they were assigned to garrison duty at Black Point where they stayed nine or ten months being released in July 1677 when the garrison was abandoned and went to Boston. He was back in Scarborough in 1681 where he was taxed 2/. In 1687 he received 500 acres at Black Point from Henry Watts and petitioned Governor Andros to have his grant surveyed and laid out to him again.(1)

In 1690 war again broke out with the Indians and the French and Andrew was sick with small pox, his home being defended by his father and friends after most of the settlers had left. After he recovered he moved to Chebacco (Essex), MA staying for several years.

From the paper of Edward Randolf of about 1680: "Men that are enemies to M Gorges interest, living in the province of Mayne... Andrew Brown of Black Point... these are men of indifferent estates and are led by maj Pembleton & of the same independant way, understanding but little but what he tells them in law or gospell."(2)

Andrew probably came to York in connection with the military protection of the town soon after the massacre. On 10 Aug. 1696 he bought 17 1/2 acres on the north side of the York River from Henry and Sarah Wright of Boston.(3) In 1699 he sold 150 acres in Scarborough to George Vaughan and 172 acres to William Cotton Sr.(4) Andrew bought land on Cooper Lane in 1699 in partnership with Lewis Bane and two years later they divided it.(5) Andrew lived in a garrison house from 1697 until 1713 on the northeast side of the York River on Cooper Lane on the west side of the road leading to the Mills.(6) By order of his Excellency Governor Joseph Dudley, a committee was directed to make a survey of all the frontier garrison houses in Maine in 1711 and they reported the following for Andrew's garrison with the assignments of persons to repair to each in time of danger or alarm: "Yorke... No. 10 Andrw Browns... Families 4, Men Inhab 4, Souldiers 1, Souls 22."(7) In 1701 he was assigned a "hind seat in the gallery" of the church.(8)

Andrew moved to Saco in 1717 and then to Arundel in 1719. He sold his property in York in 1719 to Diamond Sargent.(9) While in Saco he bought 100 acres at Cape Porpoise "the ancient seat of Rowland Young" from Samuel Hill of Charlestown and in 1720 with Thomas Perkins he bought 50 acres "being the south-west corner of Montague's neck". Joseph Storer and Andrew built a mill in Arundel and was listed as a proprietor on 22 June 1721.(10) On 1 Aug 1721 Andrew and Sarah gave to their sons Andrew and Allison 40 acres of land, 4 acres of marsh, 1/3 of his interest in the saw mill and undivided lands, mill privileges and common lands in Arundel.(11)

Andrew was an Ensign in 1687 and was called Lieutenant in the town records. He was a selectman in 1684, 1687, 1688, and in 1719, he was on the grand jury in 1698, 1699, 1704, and 1705.(12)

The inventory of his estate was filed 2 Apr 1726 and on 9 May 1726 John & Elizabeth Stagpole, Samuel and Mary Carr, and John and Katherine Lassell released all their rights in their father's lands to their brother Allison Brown.(13)

Issue-

Ref:

(1) Doc. Hist. of Maine- VI, 184
(2) Ibid- IV, 314-5; Maine Pioneer Settlements: Old York- Herbert Milton Sylvester, Boston, 1909, p.289
(3) York Deeds- VI, 110
(4) Ibid- VI, 72; XII, 1, 24
(5) Ibid- VI, 109-10
(6) History and Genealogy of the Stackpole Family- Everett S. Stackpole
(7) MA Archives- Vol.71, pp.871-6
(8) History of York, Maine- Banks, Vol.I, p.277
(9) York Deeds- IX, 165
(10) Ibid- VIII, 266; IX, 209; X, 271; XII, 14
(11) Ibid- XI, 71; XIII, 72
(12) Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire- p.114
(13) York Probate- No.1992-3

The Ancestry of Sarah Miller 1755-1840- Walter G. Davis, pp.54-8
The York Militia Co. 1642-1672- John D. Bardwell, 1972
History of Biddeford and Saco- Folsom, p.203
Scarborough Becomes a Town- Dorothy Shaw Libbey, 1953
Col. Banks' notes- York Historical Society

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