When Esther Brownell was born on 29 March 1759, in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, John Brownell, was 29 and her mother, Susannah Borden, was 21. She married Lawrence McLouth III in 1778, in Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
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The first Jewish Synagogue in America was built in Newport, Rhode Island in 1763. It still stands today, making it the oldest synagogue in the United States.
On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) brown hill or corner of land’, from Middle English brun(e), broun(e) + hil ‘hill’ or hale ‘nook, corner’ (Old English brūn + hyll or halh), or a habitational name from any of various places so named, for example in Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire.
History: Thomas Brownell came from England to Little Compton, RI, c. 1650.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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