1729 Preserve Brown, son of Preserve Brown Jr and Mary (nee French) Brown, was born on 26 of month 6. [1] [2] [3] [4]
1748 Preserve Brown and Elizabeth Till were married on October 2, 1748 in Christ Church Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
1749 "Preserve Brown, Jr., and Elizabeth Giselin produced papers, acknowledging their breach of Discipline in Marriage." Dated 31st of First month, at the Philadelphia Meeting. [10] [11] [12]
1752 Testimony against Preserve Brown Junior was read [at the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting] ... disowned for Debt & c. [13]
1753 Preserve Brown, of Nottingham Twp, Monmouth County, sold land to Joshua Horner. Dated September 20. [14]
1755 Preserve Brown was named a freeholder of Nottingham. Dated 11 of month 3. [15]
1760 Testimony from the Monthly Meeting of Chesterfield for Friend Preserve Brown reported [16]:
He was son of Preserve and Mary Brown, of Mansfield in the County of Burlington, he was a diligent attender of our religious meetings for worship and discipline and exemplary in plainess both in speech and apparel and kind to Friends: he stood as an Elder some few years and after a short illness departed this life the 22nd day of the 5th month in the year 1760 and was buried in Friends burying ground at Bordentown.
1760 An obituary stated [17] [18]:
Preserve Brown was the son of Preserve and Mary Brown, of Mansfield Burlington County. His parents, being valuable Friends, endeavored to train him up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and the good effects thereof were in him very apparent. As he grew up he was brought, through the baptisms of the Holy Ghost, into a preparation for usefulness in the church. He was diligent in his attendance to all his religious duties, was exemplary in plainness both of speech and apparel, and was of a kind an hospitable disposition. He was an elder of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting. He deceased fifth month, 22d, 1760.
Research Notes:
1748 Administration of the will of Benjamin Brown of Burlington City, carpenter, was granted to Preserved Brown, Jun'r of Springfield, yeoman. Dated February 10. [19]
We seek clarification about the death date of Preserve Brown, Jr.
1758 Preserve Brown Jr died on 1 of month 9. [20] [21] [22] [23]
1760 Richard Brown was the executor for Preserve Brown, who died 5 mo., 22, 1760. [24]
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[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Untitled: Chesterfield Births and Deaths, 35, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 13.
[4] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 205, [HathiTrust].
[5] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 8. (Marriages to 1810, Volume 1) (1880, Reprinted 1896), [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[6] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 205, [HathiTrust].
[7] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 8. (Marriages to 1810, Volume 1) (1880, Reprinted 1896), 32, [HathiTrust].
[8] Pennsylvania, Compiled Marriage Records, 1700-1821, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Pennsylvania, Compiled Marriage Records, 1700-1821, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] "Early Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 9 (1926), 247.
[11] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1745-1755, 81, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1745-1755, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[13] "Early Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 10 (1927-1929), 56-60, 123-132, 238-241, at 128.
[14] Monmouth County, New Jersey Deed, M-539, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[15] Trenton Historical Society, Nottingham Township, New Jersey Minute Book 1692-1710; 1752-1772 (1940), 18, [World_Cat], [GoogleBooks], [FHLFilmCatalog].
[16] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Minutes, 1700-1775, 221, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
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[19] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 66, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
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[21] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 205, attributes this death to Preserve Brown, son of Preserve Brown and Mary French, [HathiTrust].
[22] U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[23] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[24] John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 3 (1914), 131, [InternetArchive].