Ellis-Ellsworth-Giddings Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameChad Browne 
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Misc. Notes
Sources & information:
The following is from: "The CHAD BROWNE MEMORIAL consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a portion of the descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne with an appendix containing sketches of other early Rhode Island settlers, 1638 - 1888. Compiled by a descendant, Printed for the family. Edition of three hundred illustrated copies, of which this book is no. 190., Brooklyn, N.Y."
1. Of the parentage, birthplace and early history of Chad Brown nothing is now known. Accompanied by his wife Elizabeth and son John, then eight years of age, and perhaps his younger sons, he emigrated from England in the ship Martin, which arrived in Boston, Mass., July, 1638. A fellow passenger, Sylvester Baldwin, of Aston Clinton, Bucks Co., Eng., died during the voyage, and Chad Brown, soon after his arrival, witnessed the nuncupative will. Of this Savage give the following account:
"On the main ocean, bound for N. E., his nuncupative will was made 21 June, and proved 13 July of that year, before Dep. Gov. Dudley, by oaths of Chad Brown, Francis Bolt, James Weeden and John Baldwin."
It is probable that his religious views were not in harmony with those of the Massachusetts settlers, as he soon removed to Providence, where he became at once a leader in the colony and one of its most valued citizens. According to tradition, he was an exile from Salem "for conscience sake." His Coming to Providence was the same year of his arrival, and there, with twelve others, he signed the following compact: "We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for the public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and such others as they shall admit into them, only in civil things."
In his capacity as surveyor, he was soon after appointed on a committee to compiled a list of the Home Lots of the first settlers on the "Towne Streete" and the meadows allotted to them. It is to this important work that we are indebted for our knowledge of these properties. His home Lot fronted on the "Towne Streete," now South Main and Market Square, with the southern boundary to the southward of College and South Main Streets. It was about one hundred and twelve feet wide and extended eastwardly to the "Highway," now Hope Street. The College Grounds of Brown University comprise a large portion of this lot.
In 1640 he served on a committee with three others regarding the disputed boundary line between Providence and Pawtuxet. They reported in July that they had given the matter serious and careful consideration. "We have gone the fairest and equallest way to produce our peace."
The following is from: "The CHAD BROWNE MEMORIAL consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a portion of the descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne with an appendix containing sketches of other early Rhode Island settlers, 1638 - 1888. Compiled by a descendant, Printed for the family. Edition of three hundred illustrated copies, of which this book is no. 190., Brooklyn, N.Y."
1. Of the parentage, birthplace and early history of Chad Brown nothing is now known. Accompanied by his wife Elizabeth and son John, then eight years of age, and perhaps his younger sons, he emigrated from England in the ship Martin, which arrived in Boston, Mass., July, 1638. A fellow passenger, Sylvester Baldwin, of Aston Clinton, Bucks Co., Eng., died during the voyage, and Chad Brown, soon after his arrival, witnessed the nuncupative will. Of this Savage give the following account:
"On the main ocean, bound for N. E., his nuncupative will was made 21 June, and proved 13 July of that year, before Dep. Gov. Dudley, by oaths of Chad Brown, Francis Bolt, James Weeden and John Baldwin."
It is probable that his religious views were not in harmony with those of the Massachusetts settlers, as he soon removed to Providence, where he became at once a leader in the colony and one of its most valued citizens. According to tradition, he was an exile from Salem "for conscience sake." His Coming to Providence was the same year of his arrival, and there, with twelve others, he signed the following compact: "We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for the public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and such others as they shall admit into them, only in civil things."
In his capacity as surveyor, he was soon after appointed on a committee to compiled a list of the Home Lots of the first settlers on the "Towne Streete" and the meadows allotted to them. It is to this important work that we are indebted for our knowledge of these properties. His home Lot fronted on the "Towne Streete," now South Main and Market Square, with the southern boundary to the southward of College and South Main Streets. It was about one hundred and twelve feet wide and extended eastwardly to the "Highway," now Hope Street. The College Grounds of Brown University comprise a large portion of this lot.
In 1640 he served on a committee with three others regarding the disputed boundary line between Providence and Pawtuxet. They reported in July that they had given the matter serious and careful consideration. "We have gone the fairest and equallest way to produce our peace."