Notes for Comfort BROWN

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1809 – 1894

Notes for Comfort BROWN

Comfort BROWN (Nathaniel BROWN , Nathaniel BROWN , Charles ) was born 4 Oct 1718 in Groton, New London Co., Connecticut. He died Dec 1790 in No. Groton, New London Co., Connecticut.

THE BROWN GENEALOGY, Vol. 2, by Cyrus Henry Brown, pp. 413.

Sources: Brown Genealogy; Mrs. A.M. Stewart of North Stonington's Morgan
Library; CT births & marriages, film 2,897..
B.G., v1, cites the New London probate records, Vol. G, p. 170; Dec. 2,
1757. Vol. 2 says born 4 Oct. 1718. Married (1) Margery Morgan, (2) Temperance Brown. Died December 1790 in North Groton, CT. [Did he and brother Nathaniel marry Morgan sisters?]
CT vitals: Comfort Brown, son of Nathaniel and Anna, born 11 Oct. 1718.
Groton vitals, v1, p118.

Comfort married (1) Margery MORGAN, daughter of William MORGAN, about 1743 in Groton, New London Co., Connecticut. Margery died 1745/1746 in Groton, New London Co., Connecticut.

dau of William Morgan, 1st wife

Source: Brown Genealogy, v2.
BG: Margery Morgan, daughter of William Morgan.

They had the following children:

81 F i Margery BROWN was born 1744 in No. Groton, New London Co., Connecticut. She died Sep 1784.

Source: Brown Genealogy, v2.
BG: Margery Brown, born 1744, died September 1784. Married Abel Newton.

Margery married Abel NEWTON.

+ 82 M ii Comfort BROWN Jr. was born 1746 and died 17 Nov 1822.
83 M iii David BROWN.

Source: Brown Genealogy, v2.
BG: David Brown. [Probably died young.]

Comfort also married (2) Temperance BROWN, daughter of Eleazer BROWN Jr. and Temperance HOLMES, about 1750 in Connecticut. Temperance was born 15 May 1731 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut and was christened 14 Nov 1736 in 1st Church of Stonington, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut. She died 24 Oct 1805 in Leyden, Hampstead Co., Massachusetts.

Temperance was christened 14 Nov 1736.

VITAL RECORDS OF STONINGTON, CT, Vol. 3, page 69.

Sources: Brown Genealogy, v.2, p. 266; Congregational Church of North
Stonington records, 5,080, It. 1 and 5,081; Mrs. A.M. Stewart of North
Stonington's Morgan Library; Stonington vitals, Vol. 3, film 1,309,972, Item 2, and film 1,309,871, Item 2, page 69; CT births & marriages, film 2,898; Leyden Town Records (town clerk's records), film 886,466
Stonington vitals, both films: Temperance Brown, born 15 May 1731.
CT births: Temperance Brown, born 15 May 1731. Stonington vitals, v3, p69. Church: Baptized 14 Nov. 1736.
Leyden Records: "Widow Temperance Brown died 24 Oct. 1805 in the 75th year
of her age."

[Temperance and Comfort Brown had a son Amos who moved to Leyden,
Mass. Leyden town records (film 866,466), page 250, records births of six
children of Amos and Esther Brown, one of them a son named Comfort, born
September 1797. And page 204 notes the death of widow Temperance Brown 24 Oct. 1805 "in the 75th year of her age." It looks, perhaps, that Temperance was cared for by her son, Amos. Also Temperance's half-brother Peleg was in Leyden until about 1797.]

They had the following children:

+ 84 M iv James BROWN was born 22 Apr 1751.
+ 85 M v Nathaniel BROWN was born 1753 and died 17 Jan 1821.
86 F vi Elizabeth BROWN was born about 1755 in No. Groton, New London Co., Connecticut.

Sources: Brown Genealogy, Vol. 2; Mrs. A.M. Stewart of North Stonington's
Morgan Library.

Elizabeth married Timothy MORGAN, son of Timothy MORGAN Sr. and Deborah LEEDS "Polly". Timothy was born 8 Feb 1753 in Groton, New London Co., Connecticut.

Sources: A History of James Morgan; Genealogical and Biographical Record
of New London, Conn., by Beers; Brown Genealogy; Mrs. A.M. Morgan of North
Stonington's Morgan Library.
B.G.: Removed West, probably died unmarried, but Mrs. Morgan says he married
Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Comfort Brown and wife Temperance (Brown) Brown.
"History of Leyden" records a Timothy Morgan in Leyden in 1781. It says he
was the forebear of Dr. Morgan, pioneer Leyden physician. It is probable that
these Timothys are the same man. Experience Morgan Brown, sister of Timothy
Jr., was in Leyden at the same time with her husband Peleg Brown and family.
And Peleg and Experience Brown named one son Timothy. A Timothy Morgan is not
listed in the 1790 Leyden census, but it lists a Benjamin Morgan.

+ 87 M vii Amos BROWN was born 20 Sep 1761.
88 M viii David BROWN was born in No. Groton, New London Co., Connecticut.

David married Catherine AVERY, daughter of Richardson AVERY and Sarah PLUMB. Catherine was born 12 Feb 1754 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. Found in the DAR Library, Washington DC. Page 343.
She married David Brown, son of Comfort and Temperance Brown of Groton. (David Avery ms.).

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