Ninth Generation

322. Nathaniel BROWN.⁸⁵⁰ "Nathaniel Brown was a Charlestown innkeeper calling his inn "The Three Cranes Tavern" . He petitioned for a divorce from his wife Abigail, on June 7, 1748, his complaint implicating Richard Butler, and perhaps Nathaniel married second Mary Fox of Woburn.
Nathaniel Brown, as father-in-law of Captain Abiel Lovejoy, was often identified with the latter. Probably Nathaniel put up some or all of the money to help Captain Abiel get his start in business in Maine, and it is also probable that Nathaniel's Tory sympathies were in part to blame for Captain Abiel's difficulties with a small minority of his neighbors in Sidney and Vassalboro late in the Revolution. However, it is also said that Nathaniel Brown's house was the first fired by the British when they burned Charlestown, but, again almost in contradiction, it is said Nathaniel was obliged to move from Charlestown when his public house was boycotted and stoned by the mobs calling themselves patriots."Nathaniel BROWN and Abigail COLESWORTHY were married on 12 Dec 1738. They were married by Rev. Peter Thacher

323. Abigail COLESWORTHY.⁸⁵⁰Children were:

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Mary BROWN.