Excerpt from Brown Memorial: Family of Benjamin Brown, M. D This pamphlet is intended to trace the ancestry and descendants of Benjamin Brown, himself a descendant of Chad Brown, the friend and colaborcr of Roger Williams. I have undertaken this work from a feeling that the memory of such ancestry as ours should t be allowed to die out among us, but should be remembered and cherished, and be to us a constant incentive to reach the same high standard of mental and moral worth. The difficulties I have had to contend with have been very great, as there has been great carelessness in keeping records, both private and public, in some cases, and great misfortune, as by fire, in others, so that much of value has been lost. The first representative of the Brown (or, as some believe, Drowne) family in this country was Chad Browne, of Providence, R. I. Of his parentage, birthplace, and early history thing is w kwn. Accompanied by his wife Elizabeth and son John, then eight years of age, and perhaps by his younger sons, he came from England in the ship Martin to Boston, Mass., landing there in July, 1638. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.