Category: Cambridge

Brow, John

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Battle:Battle of Worcester in Worcester, Worcestershire, England
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Published: 08 Jan 2019
Updated: 29 Mar 2020
Researchers: Jennifer Bartlau, Katie Jardine, Teresa Rust
Editor: Teresa Rust

“John Brow“, on the John and Sara Passenger List
Likely the John Brown identified in a deed as a Scotsman.

“John Brow”…probably Brown? as listed on the John and Sarah Passenger List.

First Generation in the New World

1. JOHN BROW[N], was born, presumably, in Scotland about 1631 and died at Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts in 1696.1 He married at Boston on 24 Apr 1655, ESTER/HESTER MAKEPEACE.23 She is the daughter of, THOMAS MAKEPEACE, of Boston.

Biographical Notes:
There were two men named John Brown living in Middlesex County, Massachusetts at the same time, one in Redding and one in Cambridge (the Scotsman).1 “JOHN, Cambridge, call[ed]. a Scotchman, m[arried]. 24 Apr. 1655, Esther, d[aughter]. of Thomas Makepeace, and in her f[ather].’s will, eleven y[ea]rs. after, is call[ed]. of Marlborough. He had Joseph, b. 8 Feb. 1656, k[illed]. casual at 15 yrs.; Elizabeth 26 Mar. 1657; Sarah, 18 July 1661; Mary, 19 Dec. 1662; all at C. and at M. had John, 27 Nov. 1664; Esther, 1667, d. soon; Thomas, 1669; Daniel, 1671; Deborah, 1673; Abigail, 9 Mar. 1675; and Joseph, 1677; next yr. he rem. to Falmouth, and prob. at the sec. destruct. of that town was driv. away, and came to Watertown, there dates his will 20 Nov. 1697, in wh. w. Esther, s. John, Thomas, Daniel, and Joseph, d. Deborah of Jeremiah Meacham, and s.-in-law John Gustin, wh. had m. 10 Jan. 1678, Elizabeth; John Adams, Thomas Darley, or Darby, and John Hartshorn, are ment.” Savage (Shared by Katie Jardine.)

Children of John and Ester (Makepeace) Brown:
2. i. JOSEPH BROWN, born 08 Feb 1655.4
2. ii. ELIZABETH BROWN, born 26 Mar 1657.4
2. iii. SARAH BROWNE, born 18 Jul 1661.4
2. iv. MARY BROWNE, born 19 Dec 1662.4
2. v. JOHN BROWNE, born 27 Nov 1664.4
2. vi. HESTER BROWNE, born 11 Dec 1667.4
2. vii. “RUTTH” [RUTH] BROWN, born 8 Dec 1668.4
2. viii. THOMAS BROWNE, born 15 Mar 1670/1.4
2. ix. DEBORAH BROWN, born 20 Apr 1673.4
2. x. “ABIGAL” BROWN, born 9 Mar 1674-75.4

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Sources:
On 1st Feb 2019, Jennifer Bartlau, shared:
This is what Savage has to say about John Brown, possibly the John “Brow” from the Unity list. If he married in 1655, he certainly didn’t work out his 7 years, but that was not unheard of either:
“JOHN, Cambridge, call[ed]. a Scotchman, m[arried]. 24 Apr. 1655, Esther, d[aughter]. of Thomas Makepeace, and in her f[ather].’s will, eleven y[ea]rs. after, is call[ed]. of Marlborough. He had Joseph, b. 8 Feb. 1656, k[illed]. casual at 15 yrs.; Elizabeth 26 Mar. 1657; Sarah, 18 July 1661; Mary, 19 Dec. 1662; all at C. and at M. had John, 27 Nov. 1664; Esther, 1667, d. soon; Thomas, 1669; Daniel, 1671; Deborah, 1673; Abigail, 9 Mar. 1675; and Joseph, 1677; next yr. he rem. to Falmouth, and prob. at the sec. destruct. of that town was driv. away, and came to Watertown, there dates his will 20 Nov. 1697, in wh. w. Esther, s. John, Thomas, Daniel, and Joseph, d. Deborah of Jeremiah Meacham, and s.-in-law John Gustin, wh. had m. 10 Jan. 1678, Elizabeth; John Adams, Thomas Darley, or Darby, and John Hartshorn, are ment.”

Images:

Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016).
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7781/294/22287424

Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7781/294/22287424
  1. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Case Subject: Brown Family History, Case No: M041713H-4, Report prepared by Meaghan E. H. Siekman, Ph.D., a member of the NEHGS research staff. [↩] [↩]
  2. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.
    https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21174/221/426916166 [↩]
  3. Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection). Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800 and The Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston, 1630–1822. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB530/i/14226/3989/38010334 [↩]
  4. Ibid. [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩]

Anderson, David

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Published: 01 Nov 2018
Updated: 18 Mar 2020
Researchers: Teresa Rust, Kenneth Whittemore
Editor: Teresa Rust

Anderson, David. 1

First Generation in the New World

1. DAVID ANDERSON, was born presumably in Scotland and died likely in Massachusetts.

Biographical Notes:
1. On 11 Jun 1657, a David Anderson is a witness in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Abstract of Court Records, 1643-1674. “John Bush Planter of Cambridge acknowledges debt to Nicholas Davison” 2 If this is the David Anderson SPOW then he is living in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1657.
He is listed on the John and Sarah Passenger List. He is also listed in Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations by David Dobson c. 1983.
3. Could he be the Anderson who died at Saugus in 1661.”

Sources and Notes:

Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Files, 1649–1675. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), (Unpublished abstracts by Thomas Bellows Wyman, “Abstract of Middlesex court files from 1649,” n.d.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB432/i/12380/112/138351173

GDMNH

GDMNH

Unsure about the following, may not relate to David Hamilton, SPOW:

“1657. June 11. John Bush Planter of Cambridge Acknowledges Debt to Nicholas Rawson? Witness. Ephraim Childs, David Anderson.” Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Files, 1649–1675. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), (Unpublished abstracts by Thomas Bellows Wyman, “Abstract of Middlesex court files from 1649,” n.d.)
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB432/i/12380/95/138350220

1661: Administrator of Anderson estate: “Samuel Harte trained John Clarke as a blacksmith.” “Anderson died at Saugus in 1661 and the administrators of his estate were two other Scots, blacksmith John Clarke and Allester Grime, both Dunbar captives.“
From: Social and Economic Networks in Early Massachusetts: Atlantic Connections By Marsha L. Hamilton, page 44 and 112.

1667: New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21174/34/426874761
  1. “Scotch Prisoners Sent to Massachusetts in 1652, By Order of the English Government”Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/rd/21065/379/1425475638 [↩]
  2. Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Files, 1649–1675. (Unpublished abstracts by Thomas Bellows Wyman, “Abstract of Middlesex court files from 1649,” n.d.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB432/i/12380/95/138350220 [↩]

Monrow, William

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A list of the passengers aboard the John & Sara of London bound for New England:
Monrow, Hugh. NEHGR, SD
Monrow, John. NEHGR, SD
Monrow, Robert. NEHGR, SD
Monrow, [_____]. NEHGR, SD [We assume this is William Monrow.]
Name Variations: Monrow, Monroe, Munroe, Munro
Resided: Charlestown, Cambridge, Lexington, Massachusetts

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First Generation in the New World

1. WILLIAM¹ MONROW, was born, presumably in Scotland and died at Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts on 23 Jan, 1718.1 He married, first, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, by 1665/6, MARTHA GEORGE.2 He married, second, in Charlestown by 1673, MARY BALL.3 He married, third, in Massachusetts about 1693, ELIZABETH (JOHNSON) WYER, the widow of EDWARD WYER. She died at Lexington on 14 Dec 1714.4

Biographical Notes:
1. William Munroe (American Soldier) at Wikipedia

Children of William¹ and Martha (George) Munroe:
2. i. JOHN² MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 10 Mar 1666.5
2. ii. MARTHA² MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 02 Nov 1667.6
2. iii. WILLIAM² MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 10 Oct 1669.7
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Children of William¹ and Mary (Ball) Munroe:
2. i. DANIEL² MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 12 Aug 1673.6
2. ii.
2. iii. MARY² MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 28 Jun 1678.6
2. iv. DAVID² MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 06 Oct 1680.6
2. v. ELINER² MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 24 Feb 1682/3.5
2. vi. SARAH MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 18 Mar 1684.5
2. vii. JOSEPH² MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 16 Aug 1687.5
2. viii.
2. ix. BENJAMIN² MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 16 Aug 1690.5
2. x. MARY² MUNROE, (William¹), was born at Cambridge on 03 Apr 1699.8

Here Lyes ye Body of Mr. William Munroe Aged about 92 Years Dec’d Jan 27, 1718.

Published on: 09 Dec 2014
Updated: 25 Mar 2020
Researcher: Teresa Rust
Editor: Teresa Rust

Sources and Notes:

Married third, the widow of Edward Wyer, Elizabeth (Johnson) Wyer

William Munroe at Heather Wilkenson Rojo’s blog

Story about Mary (Munroe) Sanderson and the Man in Her Bed at the blog Boston 1775:

The following is an excerpt from
Rapaport, Diane. “Scots for Sale, The Fate of the Scottish Prisoners in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts,” (New England Ancestors. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000-2009.) (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.)

RE: William Monrow

According to local and family tradition, William was a Scottish survivor of the Battle of Worcester, although his name does not appear specifically on the John and Sara transport list. (A “Monrow” on the document whose first name was torn or obliterated is believed to have been William.)[13] Other Munro prisoners accompanied William on the John and Sara, including a John, Robert and Hugh “Monrow,” but apparently they were not close kin, and the other men served their indentures far away from William in Plymouth Colony.[14]

William began his indenture in the Menotomy area of Cambridge, Massachusetts (now the town of Arlington) for millwright John Adams.[15] Later William worked for and rented land from Joseph Cooke of Cambridge[16] (whose brother Thomas coincidentally fought for Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester).[17]

William remained single for the first thirteen years after his arrival in Massachusetts, finally marrying about 1665. His bride was Martha George, whose father once worked for Massachusetts governor John Winthrop but now faced trouble with Puritan authorities for founding an illegal Baptist church in Charlestown.[18] Martha died a few years later, leaving William to raise four young children.[19] He remarried, to 20-year-old Mary Ball of Watertown, a woman with a troubled past. (Her parents were in and out of court on charges of beatings and neglect, amid hints that the mother was insane, and Mary herself had suffered judicial sanctions for an out-of-wedlock child.)[20] William brought stability to Mary’s life; married twenty years, they had ten children together.[21] His third wife was Elizabeth Johnson Wyer (widow of a Scots tailor from Charlestown).[22]

Gradually William purchased small pieces of land in Cambridge Farms, and by 1695 joined with sons and a son-in-law to purchase 100 acres;[23] his area of town came to be known locally as “Scotland.”[24] With increased landholdings came greater status in the community. He was made a freeman, chosen as one of the town Selectmen, and admitted as a member of the church.[25] When he died on January 27, 1718, he was one of Lexington’s most respected citizens.[26]

Other Scots from the John and Sara settled near William Munro, but some were not so fortunate.

  1. “William, Jan. 23, 1718.” Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/13776/189/245578202 [↩]
  2. MUNROE, William1 (?1625-1718, ca 92) & 1/wf Martha [GEORGE], dau John; by 1665/6; Charlestown/Cambridge/Lexington” New England Marriages to 1700. Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/rd/21175/1048/426896709 [↩]
  3. MUNROE, William1 (-1718) & 2/wf Mary [BALL] (1651, 1640?-1692, ae 41); by 1673; Charlestown/Cambridge/Lexington {Reed (1956); McCormick-Hamilton 102, 598, 773; Charlestown 51, 681; Lexington 2:449; Fallass 189; Fish Anc.; Warren (,5) 154; Blake-Glidden 29 New England Marriages to 1700. Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/rd/21175/1049/426896710 [↩]
  4. “William’s wf., Dec 14, 1714.” Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/13776/189/245578202 [↩]
  5. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7674/506/22250520 [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩]
  6. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7674/505/22251338 [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩]
  7. “William, s. of Will[ia]m and Martha, Oct. 10, 1669.” Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/rd/7674/507/140971403 [↩]
  8. “Mary, d. of W[illia]m and Mary, Apr. 3, 1699.” https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7674/506/22250520 [↩]