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| Birth: | 1646 in Penryn, Cornwall, England 1 |
| Death: | 31 Oct 1729 in Boston, Suffolk Co, MA 1 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | John DROWNE b. About 1620 |
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| His life: See notes |
| Burial: Copps Hill, Boston, Suffolk Co, MA 1 |
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| Elizabeth ABBOT\ABBOTT (Wife) b. About 1654 in Portsmouth, Rockingham Co, NH
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| Marriage: | 1675 in Portsmouth, Rockingham Co, NH |
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 Solomon DROWNE b. 23 Jan 1680/81 in Kittery (Sturgeon Creek), York Co, ME
 Susanna DROWNE b. 1684 in Kittery, York Co, ME
- Thomas DROWNE b. About 1690
- Samuel DROWNE b. 7 Mar 1675/76 in Kittery (Sturgeon Creek), York Co, ME
- Shem DROWNE b. 18 Apr 1683 in Kittery, York Co, ME
- Simeon DROWNE b. 8 Apr 1686 in Kittery, York Co, ME
- Mary DROWNE b. 1693 in Kittery, York Co, ME
- Elizabeth DROWNE b. 2 Nov 1699 in Kittery, York Co, ME
- Sarah DROWNE b. 20 May 1702 in Kittery, York Co, ME
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Individual:
Stephen Drown:
HR DROWNE "Leonard Drowne. the progenitor of the family recorded here, was born on the 'West Coast' of England, probably in the Parish of Penryn, Cornwall, in 1646, and came to America in 1660 at the age of 14 years. We first find him serving as an apprentice to a ship-builder. After having served his apprenticeship, he established a ship building business in Kittery, in the Province of Maine. He was one of the founders of the First Baptist Church, in that Province, for which activity he was driven from the Province. We find the following record of that activity: 'Humphrey Churchwood, a member of the Baptist Church of Boston, Mass., but a resident of Kittery, addressed a letter to the Brethren in Boston on January 3rd 1682, asking that a church be planted in Kittery and that Mr. Wm. Scriven be ordained to preach the Gospel. The letter declared that a competent number of well established people were ready to form a church. On the following 25th of September, Rev. Isaac Hull of Boston, organized a Baptist Church at Kittery with Wm. Scriven, Elder; Humphrey Churchwood, Deacon, and John Morgrage, Robt. Williams, Richard Cutts, Timothy Davis, Leonard Drowne, Wm. Adams, Humphrey Axell, George Litten (Lydson) and several women members.'
Leonard Drowne married in or near Portsmouth, N.H. about 1675, Elizabeth, daughter of Walter and Sarah Abbott. They settled at Sturgeon's Creek, ME. where they continued to live until 1699 when the Indian Wars compelled him to abandon his home and ship yard and remove to Boston, where he again engaged in the building of ships, an occupation which he followed until he became blind in 1722. Elizabeth died in 1704 and he married (Mrs.) Mary (Abbott) Caley, a sister of his first wife. This marriage was performed by the Rev. Cotton Mather in Boston, November 4th, 1707. Leonard Drowne died in Boston, Mass., October 31st 1729 and was buried in Copp's Hill Burial Ground. The following inscription, still legible after more than two hundred years, was copied from his grave stone: Here lies interred the body of Mr. Leonard Drowne, Who departed this life, October ye 31st, 1729 in ye 83rd year of his age.
IGI - uses the 1675 marriage date and place MARRIAGE: Madelyn Roberts - married Mary Abbott in the Baptist church in Kittery in 1682. His 2nd wife was his first wife's sister; they married 11/4/1707 by Rev. Cotton Mather in Boston.
Earlist LDS ordinances from Group Record - Wayne W. Waldron, Samaria, ID (DD) for Leonard and family
The following is from the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (by Noyes, Libby and Davis):
Leonard, by trad. (tradition?) Welsh, (app. West Welsh, meaning Cornish or British, b. abt. 1647, shipwright (Aut. in 1720 Drowne, Suff. Ct. files)(640). First app. 29 Mar 1670 paying the fines of Mr. Henry Sherborne and w. in ct. for quarreling. In 1672 they deeded him land at Sag Creek. In 1677 with w. Elizabeth (Abbott 5), he sold house and land there having had a 60 a. gr. at Sturgeon Creek, Ehet (?) where he had a shipyard. Orig. memb. of the Baptist ch. formed in Kit. He withdrew from Indian dangers and was taxed in Boston 1689. His w. d. 5 May 1706; he m. 2nd 4 Nov. 1707 Mary, wid. of Robert Colley of Malden and was liv. there when he went bonds for her in court. Soon he was liv. with his d. in Charlestown. In 1715 he brought ejectment against Gen. Brawn for Sturgeon Creek land. He was blind for 7 yrs. bef. his d. 31 July 1729, ag 83 (grst. in Copp's, Boston). His widow of Boston, age over 80 in 1736, told of her childhood at Pehaquid Gt. Falls, liv. in part of John Ridgeway's house. A geneal. letter written in 1776 by his grs. Tho., b. 14 Dec 1715, gives but 4 sons and 2 daus. who m. Johnson and Kettle.
In the Genealogy of the Family of Solomon Drown, M.D. , it adds that Leonard came to America 'on the accession of Charles the Second'.
HISTORICAL EVENTS AROUND THE TIME HE WAS LIVING:
1622 Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25)
1651 Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland
1660 1st entry in Samuel Pepys' diary
1660 General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London
1660 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York
1672 Jean Racine's "Bajazet" premieres in Paris
1673 Regular mail delivery begins between New York & Boston
1675 Don Carlos de Gurrea/Aragón becomes Spanish land guardian of South Netherlands
1689 Pro-James II-Earl of Danby occupies York
1700 Protestant West-Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar
1700 Russia replaces Byzantines with Julian calendar
1701 Great Britain & Ireland union is in effect, creating United Kingdom
1707 Jacob V succeeds his father Pedro II as king of Portugal
1739 J B C Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica
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- Title: Drown, Ancestors of Stephen Drown - Stephen Drown - popsdrown@earthlink.net
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