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• Christened	14 Nov 1736	1st Church of Stonington,Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Birth	26 Sep 1744	Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 Jan 1814	Bridgewater,Madison Co.,New York
  Buried	West Winfield Cemetery,West Winfield,Herkimer Co.,New York
  Person ID	I34191	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	09 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Eleazer BROWN, Jr., b. 4 May 1698, Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Mother	Mary
  Family ID	F14544	Group Sheet
  Family	Experience MORGAN, b. 22 Jul 1749, Groton,New London,Connecticut
  Married	Abt 1770
  Children	> 1. Experience BROWN, b. 17 Nov 1771, Groton,New London,Connecticut   2. Peleg BROWN, b. EST 1773, Groton, New London, Connecticut > 3. John BROWN, b. 1775, Groton, New London, Connecticut > 4. Timothy BROWN, b. 29 Feb 1776, Leyden,Hampshire Co.,Massachusetts > 5. Eleazer BROWN, b. 17 Nov 1779, Leyden,Hampshire Co.,Massachusetts   6. Deborah BROWN, b. Abt 1781, Leyden,Hampshire Co.,Massachusetts   7. Jesse BROWN, b. 19 Aug 1783, Leyden,Hampshire Co.,Massachusetts > 8. Samuel BROWN, b. Abt 1785, Leyden,Hampshire Co.,Massachusetts   9. Benjamin Franklin BROWN, b. Abt 1787, Leyden,Hampshire Co.,Massachusetts   10. Gustavus Adolphus BROWN, b. Abt 1789, Leyden,Hampshire Co.,Massachusetts
  Family ID	F14545	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Sources: Barbour's CT births and marriages, film 2,898; 1790 census;Broome County, N.Y., land records; Brown Genealogy, v1 & 2; ContinentalArmy Lineages Book; Record of Service of Connecticut Men..., 974.6, M2ca;History of Herkimer County, N.Y.; An Intimate History of Winfield byTimothy Smith; Congregational Church of North Stonington records, film 5081; Stonington vitals, Vol. 3,film 1,309,972, Item 2, and film 1,309,871, Item 2; History of Leyden,Mass., (974.422/L2, H2a); DAR cemetery record; 1790 Census. Church: Peleg, son of Eleazer Brown and wife Mary, baptized 16 Dec.1744. Stonington vitals, both films: Born 26 Sept. 1744. CT births: Born 26 Sept. 1744. Stonington vitals, v3, p69. [Doesn'tjibe with tombstone. See Eleazer II notes for mention of this problem.] History of Leyden: Peleg Brown was an early settler--"1st settler nearW. Leyden mill site" on the River Road. Earliest he could have come toLeyden would be 1775, the book indicates. He was listed in the 1790census for Leyden, MA., and the 1800 New York census for Otsego County, NY. The areawhere he bought property in 1797 is now West Winfield, Herkimer County. DAR cemetery list from Gen. Winfield Scott Chapter in 1928 says Pelegis buried in an old overgrown cemetery in the southern part of the townof Winfield, in a dense grove near the old Lewis Day homestead. Tombstone information: Mr. Peleg Brown, d. Jan 26, 1814, ae 71 yrs. Experience Brown, w. of Mr. Peleg Brown, d. June 16, 1852, ae 95 yrs. [This indicates Peleg was born about 1742. Brown says he was born 26Sept. 1744, and Wheeler says 26 Sept. 1749. Various vitals say 1744 andchurch baptismal date is 14 Dec. 1744. This indicates the tombstone ageof death is off a couple of years. [Peleg has been confused with Peleg Brown of Stonington (not NorthStonington), a native of Rhode Island who married Mercy/Marcy Denison.This Peleg, who died 13 April 1796, was an officer during theRevolutionary War, while my Peleg was a private.] Also buried in West Winfield is son Eleazer Brown III, who died in1866, and his wife, Martha "Patty" Clark, who died in 1825. Eleazer IIIand Experience were named to administer Peleg's will. In 1810 Pelegapparently had three sons at home: two 16-26 and one 26, according to thecensus that year. The cemetery property is now owned by the Tennessee Gas Co. It hasbeen cleared of all but one tombstone, Peleg's. His was left at theinsistence of the DAR because he was a Revolutionary War veteran, thetown historian said. Peleg served only a six-month hitch, July 1 to Dec.31, 1780, in the 5th Connecticut Regiment, Capt. Joseph Wright's company.Peleg was a private. The Continental Army Linages book says the 5th Connecticut was in the2nd Connecticut Brigade when the brigade was relieved Nov. 27, 1780, fromthe Main Army and assigned to the Highlands Department. Perhaps this iswhy Peleg was mustered out early on Dec. 13, 1780. Record of Services: List of levies in the 5th Regiment, ConnecticutLine, in 1780 says Peleg Brown enlisted 1 July 1780 and was discharged 13Dec. 1780. Land records say three sons--Benjamin F. Brown (wife Polly), GustavusA. Brown (wife Sophonia), and Jessie* Brown (wife Hannah)--along withwife Experience sold some of Peleg's property after his death. Thisindenture very confusing re Gustavus' name. First mention says GustavusA., second says Augustus A. and the third Gustavus A. again. BrownGenealogy, Vol. II, says his name is Adolphus. Also mentioned in theindenture is Benjamin F. Brown, while B.G. says Franklin. Assume thenames are Gustavus Adolphus Brown and Benjamin Franklin Brown. *In other sources all references are to various Jesse Browns. The Eleazer Brown in Winfield "in 1792" (cited in History of HerkimerCounty, 1879) has to be Peleg's son, Eleazer III. The date must be anerror. Timothy Smith's book, "An Intimate History of Winfield", saysEleazer III came to W.W. about 1800. He would have been about 21 then.Harden's History of Herkimer County says Eleazer was one of the firstsettlers in West Winfield. Both history books and Brown Genealogy, Vol.II, say Eleazer III had a son Hiram, a grandson Hiram C. and agreat-grandson H.C. Brown. Peleg's half-brother, Elder Eleazer, was 21 years older than Peleg,never moved to New York and died in 1795. Therefore, he could not be the1792 Eleazer. He was minister of the First Baptist Church in Stonington. His son, Elder Eleazer Brown, also a minister, moved to Brookfield(which is near West Winfiedl and now is in Madison Co.), N.Y., andfathered a distinguished line. Lineage Book XXVI, National Society, Daughters of the AmericanRevolution, Page 161, says Peleg and Experience were married Dec. 14,1802. Must be an error since their third child was born in 1770 or 1775and first child was named Experience, making it improbable that Experience wasPeleg's second wife. Film 1,023,771: Sale of land Dec. 7, 1797, by Thomas R. Clark ofRichfield, Otsego County, N.Y., to Peleg Brown, Richfield, for $1,050.The 107 acres, located in Richfield, was part of the Schuyler Patent andMorgan's Purchase. Before 1816 the territory now embracing the town of West Winfield wasa part of the towns of Richfield and Plainfield, Otsego County. In 1816county boundary lines were changed and West Winfield wound up in HerkimerCounty. This makes land sale records confusing. A sale executed in OtsegoCounty before the 1816 change often was not recorded until many yearslater--in Otsego County. So a sale of property in Otsego county in 1815would be recorded in 1820 in Otsego County records even though theproperty was then in Herkimer County. ******* Checking records in Leyden involves several jurisdictions. Leydenoriginally was in Bernardston, but it was set off as the town of Leydenin 1784. At that time it was in Hampshire County, Mass. In 1811, however,Franklin County, was formed from Hampshire County, with Leyden winding upin Franklin County. History of the Town of Bernardston, Vol. 1, p252 (974.22/Bl, H2h):Elisha Clarke and Peleg Brown appeared on the Bernardston town rate in1781--each one poll., and each living in the area that later becameLeyden. Batch #: 7505211, Sheet #: 98, Source Call #: 935364. Batch #: 7450311, Source Call #: 002898 Mary Rogness's - Spouse of second cousin 7 times removed