Brief Life History of Ebenezer
When Ebenezer Brown Sr. was born on 29 March 1767, in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Brown, was 43 and his mother, Elisabeth Conant, was 44. He married Keziah Nixon in November 1788, in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died in March 1818, in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 51.
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- Eben. Brown, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ebenezer Brown - Published information: death: March 1818; Concord, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
- Ebenezer Brown in entry for Keziah Nixon, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New Hampshire is 9th state.
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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