1680 William Brown, son of Nicholas Brown, was married and was taxed at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. [1] [2]
4 WILLIAM BROWN, son of Nicholas Brown, i, married. He was taxed, in 1680, at Portsmounth, R. I., 4s. 2d.
Issue15 Martha Brown
16 Jane Brown, born 1677.
17 Tobias Brown
1691 The will of John Woodruff senior, of Elizabeth Town, was dated on April 27. Wife Mary, sons John, Jonathan, Benjamin, Joseph, David, Daniel, daughters Elizabeth, Sarah, Ilanna. Real and personal estate. Executors: sons John, Jonathan, David and Joseph with John Herriman, Jonathan Ogden and John Parker as overseers. Witnesses: Isaac Whitehead, William Browne (perhaps this one). Proved May 11, 1691. [3]
1694 William Brown was named as a son in the will of his father, Nicholas Brown. [4]
A note about the family of William reported information about a possible second marriage of William's widow [5], which was not given in the original research by Austin [6]:
Brown (Nicholas, page 28). William (2nd column) had daughters Martha and Jane and a son Tobias. Evidently Martha married John Sims and Jane married John Rogers. The will of John Bailey of Newport, dated 8 May 1733, proved 2 Feb. 1735/6. mentions "daughter-in-law Martha Sims and daughter-in-law Jane Rogers" (Newport Town Council, Probate Records). In Jan. 1714/15, Tobias Brown of Portsmouth (son of William) sold land in Newport to John Bayley. From this it would appear that the widow of William Brown married secondly, John Bailey of Newport, as his second wife.
[1] John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 3 (1914), 131, [InternetArchive].
[2] William S. Hornor, This Old Monmouth of Ours (1932, reprint 1974), 206, [FHLBook].
[3] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 186, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[4] Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families, Vol. 1 (Little Compton, Rhode Island: 1967), 73, [AncestryImage].
[5] G. Andrews Moriarty, "Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island," The American Genealogist 30 (1954), 121-125, at 124, [AmericanAncestors].
[6] John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Comprising Three Generations of Settlers (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), 28, hand-written note cites this TAG note, [GoogleBooks].