Mercy PATTERSON

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She was admitted to full connection in Waltham Church, 9 April 1724, and he 21 March, 1724-5. They were both dismissed from Waltham to Leicester Church, 18 February, 1738-9, about which time they removed to Leicester, where they resided in may, 1742. they removed from there to Stockbridge, where, in 1749, at the death of Rev. (?) they, and the families of their son, Samuel Brown, Jr., and son-in-law, Deacon John Chamberlain were three of the only twelve English families in town. He was a deacon of the church, and had a large share of the municipal offices and business of Stockbridge while it was a precinct and after it was incorporated as a town. He was a member of the provincial Congress in 1775. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His will, dated 1782, making son Samuel sole executor, was proved 2 March, 1784. He willed all his estate, real and person, to his grandsons, Joh Isaac, Abram, Joseph, and Lemuel, sons of Captain Abraham Brown. She died in Stockbridge, 6 March, 1774, and he died 7 February, 1784.

Mercy married Deacon Samuel BROWN in 1721. Samuel was born about 1702; died on 17 Feb 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Beulah BROWN was born in 1736 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 10 Aug 1816.
2. Abraham BROWN was born on 8 Feb 1740 in Leicester, Massachusetts.
3. Mary BROWN was born on 3 Nov 1742.

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He was a tailor, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, as early as the beginning of 1701. He bought of Edward Harrington, 19 March, 1701, "one mansion house with twelve acres of orchyard, meadow, and arable land, situate, lying and being in Watertown aforesaid." He married first in Sudbury, 22 September, 1701, Mercy Goodenow, born in Sudbury, 1680, daughter of Captain John Goodenow of Sudbury. She died in childbirth, 1 September, 1710, and he married (second) Mary (?). She died and he married (third), 19 November, 1724, rebecca, widow of James Livermore, and daughter of John and Elizabeth (Trowbridge) Myrick of Newton. She was born 20 April, 1687, and married 5 october 1718, James Livermore, of Weston, who died 20 August, 1720. (Bond's "History of Watertown," pp. 374 and 392). In 1714 he was constable or collector of Watertown. He had by small purchases at different times, acquired a good farm, which is said to have included the top of Prospect Hill, about half a mile west of Waltham Plain. The date of his death is not now known, but his will was executed 15 November, 1736, and offered for probate 14 February, 1736-7.

Joseph married Mercy GOODENOW on 22 Sep 1701 in Concord, Massachusetts. Mercy was born in 1680 in Sudbury, Massachusetts; died on 1 Sep 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Captain John Goodenow of Sudbury