Whipple Database
Database of the Whipple One-Name Study (WONS)
Nicholas Brown
1721 - 1793 (72 years)-
Name Nicholas Brown Birth 24 Feb 1720/1721 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Gender Male Death 12 Oct 1793 Person ID I15447 Whipple Descendants Last Modified 18 Nov 2009
Father Jabez or Jabesh Brown, b. 30 Dec 1683, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 29 Jan 1763, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 79 years) Mother Mary Whipple, b. 3 Nov 1699, Attleborough or Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Marriage 18 Nov 1718 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Family ID F6344 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Hopestill "Hope" Whipple, b. 28 Apr 1723, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island d. 12 Oct 1793, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 70 years) Marriage 22 Apr 1744 Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island Children + 1. Ichabod Brown, b. Abt 1745, prob, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island d. 16 Sep 1828, Farmington, Ontario, New York (Age ~ 83 years) + 2. Jeremiah Brown, Lieutenant, b. 1747 d. 1796 (Age 49 years) + 3. Nicholas Brown, Jr., b. 22 Dec 1749, of, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island d. 21 Jul 1833, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 83 years) + 4. Levi Brown, b. 3 Aug 1752, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island d. 1823, Utica, Oneida, New York (Age 70 years) + 5. Mary Brown, b. 1753, of, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island + 6. Elizabeth "Betty" Brown, b. 10 Jan 1754, , , Rhode Island d. 17 Feb 1842, North Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 88 years) + 7. Hopestill Brown, b. 1757, of, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island d. 13 Apr 1800, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 43 years) + 8. Abiel Brown, b. 1760 Family ID F328 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map Birth - 24 Feb 1720/1721 - Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Marriage - 22 Apr 1744 - Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - !SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to the Whipple Web Site, January 1998, citing Capt. John Whipple (1617-1685) and his Descendants by Clair A. Newton Hemmenway, p. 65. Gives name as Nicholas Bacon. In follow-up email, Joanne reports that Claire Newton's information IS wrong. James Arnold's Vital Records of Rhode Island: Smithfield Marriages, p. 78 lists "Whipple, Hope and Nicholas Brown April 22, 1744."
!SOURCE: Email from Doug Tucker (email hidden) to the Whipple Web Site, 19 Feb 1998, states that Richardson family records give Nicholas' surname as Brown. Follow-up email received 5 Mar 1998.
!SOURCE: Carl Boyer, Helen H. Lane, Elaine Varley, New England Colonial Families, Vol. 1 (Newhall, Calif.: Carl Boyer, 1981), p. 26.
!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 3, Smithfield, Part 6 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 21.
!SOURCE: "Records of Old Smithfield," in The Narragansett Historical Register: A Magazine Devoted to the Antiquities, Genealogy and Historical Matter Illustrating the History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, ed. by James N. Arnold (Hamilton, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co.; Central Falls, R.I.: E.L. Freeman) Vol. VIII (1889), p. 214-215. Extracted by Beth Hurd and submitted to the Whipple Website 21 Mar 2003. Records marriage of "Whipple, Hope, and Nicholas Brown; Apr. 22, 1744."
- !SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to the Whipple Web Site, January 1998, citing Capt. John Whipple (1617-1685) and his Descendants by Clair A. Newton Hemmenway, p. 65. Gives name as Nicholas Bacon. In follow-up email, Joanne reports that Claire Newton's information IS wrong. James Arnold's Vital Records of Rhode Island: Smithfield Marriages, p. 78 lists "Whipple, Hope and Nicholas Brown April 22, 1744."