1784 - 1857

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• Birth	4 May 1784	Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	1857	Otsego Co.,New York,aged 73 years
  Person ID	I42750	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	09 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Eleazer BROWN, b. 4 Jul 1757, Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Mother	Edith PALMER
  Family ID	F14547	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Lucinda OLIVER
  Married	1811	New York
  Children	> 1. Duane BROWN, b. Abt 1813, Bridgewater,Madison Co.,New York > 2. William Leroy BROWN, b. 14 Mar 1817, Otsego Co.,New York   3. Laura BROWN, b. Abt 1819, Otsego Co.,New York > 4. James Oliver BROWN, b. Abt 1821, Otsego Co.,New York
  Family ID	F18710	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Mary
  Children	1. Elizabeth BROWN   2. Lucinda BROWN
  Family ID	F18711	Group Sheet

• Notes

  THE BROWN GENEALOGY, Vol. II, by Cyrus Henry Brown, pages 268. Prentice Brown followed a blazed trail from Stonington, Conn.through New York State into Otsego County. He was a blacksmith. page 269. Note -- While it is said that Prentice Brown was born atStonington, I am inclined to believe that it was his father, Eleazer, whoblazed the trail into New York State when it was comparatively one vastwilderness, in the last half of 1700. Eleazer, with Simeon Brown, Jr., ismentioned as a pioneer to New York State in this same connection in 1791.Therefore I believe that Prentice Brown was born in Madison Co., NY.Stonington, Conn., at this time, one hundred years after the three Brownbrothers made their settlement in this wilderness, had become verythickly settled, and every acre of available land was unter cultivation,and the same spirit of adverture crowded these sons of Elder EleazerBrown from their home town, Stonington, to seek new and cheaper land andmore productive in the west -- "out west, " it was then called. It was with much difficulty and long research that the compilerlocated these brothers, -- Eleazer, Benjamin, and Luther, -- for norecords are left of where such adventurers fled to.