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Elihu Deering Brown of Kittery, Maine

7/10/2016

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The gravestone of my 4th Great Grandparents, Elihu D Brown and Jane C (Fernald) Brown. It is located in Orchard Grove Cemetery in Kittery, Maine. Also on the stone is Elihu's first wife Martha C Fernald, as well as his brother Thomas Brown (b.12/2/1796, d. 1/1/1863), who lived with him at Locke's Cove in Kittery.  

I am not sure when the Orchard Grove cemetery was started, but was probably not in operation when Martha Brown died in 1837. Was she buried in a home plot, and later moved here, or was that the case with all of them?  Perhaps this stone was inscribed after they were all deceased, or maybe they once had separate headstones. There are still 5 children (see family register at bottom) who died young, and no stones have been found for them in Kittery.

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On the 1856 map of Kittery, Maine (at right), the land of "E. Brown" is highlighted. The 1872 map (below) also shows the property being in the possession of Elihu, but it would later be owned by his son James W Brown, following his return from Malden, MA.
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See blog on James W Brown for more on the family:
http://www.mynewenglandancestors.com/blog/brown-lockes-cove-kittery

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ELIHU DEERING BROWN, the son of Capt James and Sarah (Fernald) Brown, was born in Kittery, Maine on 4 Nov 1800, and died there on 16 Feb 1879. He married first to MARTHA C FERNALD, a first cousin, on 29 Apr 1824 [Kittery VR, pg 280]. She was born in 1791, the dau of Samuel and Elizabeth (Chandler) Fernald, and died on 22 Oct 1837 [Old Kittery, pg 396]. He secondly married, on 17 May 1838 [Kittery VR, pg 292], to JANE CHANDLER FERNALD, also a first cousin. The daughter of Elihu and Hannah (Chandler) Fernald, she was born 9 May 1804 in Kittery, and died there on 16 June 1882.

​In the 1850 census, Elihu was listed as a laborer, and was a mariner by 1860. In the 1870 census, he was now a "retired mariner".​
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1860 Kittery, York, Maine census (pg 38)
​The children of Elihu D Brown, the latter three by second wife Jane.
i. THOMAS SULLIVAN BROWN, b. 5 Jan 1825; d. 11 Nov 1826
ii. SARAH ELIZABETH BROWN, b. 30 Sept 1826; d. 17 Sept 1827
iii. THOMAS BROWN, b. 3 Nov 1827; d. 19 Sept 1830
iv. MARTHA BROWN, b. 3 Aug 1829; Marr JOHN WILLIAMS 
v. SAMUEL FERNALD BROWN, b. 1832; d. 1881 in California (went west during the gold rush)
vi. JAMES FERNALD BROWN, b. 14 Sept 1839; d. 10 Oct 1840
vii. JAMES WILLIAM BROWN, b. 28 Dec 1841; marr EMILY A WAITE
viii. LYDIA MARGARET BROWN, b. 30 Aug 1845; d. 21 Oct 1846
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Henry Wyman of Madison, Maine

7/9/2016

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My 6th Great-Grandparents, Henry Wyman and Sarah H Tuttle. They are buried in Jewett Cemetery, Madison, Maine. "A revolutionary Soldier", he served from Jan 1781 to Nov 1783 in the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment, under Col John Greaton (and later Col Mellen and Col Michael Jackson). At the time of his discharge, Henry was encamped at West Point, New York. His service records show his name on the rolls of a couple of companies, under Capt Crocker and Capt John Hobby. In the "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors" book, he is likely the Henry Wyman listed on a Worcester County account, dated 9/3/1781 by the selectman of Petersham, for the payment of bounties and mileage for men enlisted to serve the Continental Army for 3 years.

In 1818, Henry applied for a pension. He was living at that time in Madison, Maine, a farmer.


The location of the Jewett Cemetery, on Rt 43 in Madison. It is unclear to me where Henry and his family lived in town.

HENRY WYMAN, the son of the Rev William and Margaret (Holmes) Wyman, was born in Bedford, NH ca 1762. He died in Madison, Somerset, Maine on 17 July 1837. He had married, in Goffstown, NH on 21 Feb 1793, to SARAH TUTTLE. She was born ca 1770 in Goffstown, NH, and died 30 Sept 1856 [gravestone].

The following list of children comes from the pension papers of Henry, who were all living with him when the estate schedule was filed in Nov 1820. Years of birth calculated from their ages given on the pension document. Descendants not yet researched, except for Sarah (my 5th great-grandmother)

i. MARY WYMAN, b. ca 1794
ii. JOHN WYMAN, b. ca 1800
iii. MARGARET WYMAN, b. ca 1801
iv. HENRY WYMAN, b. ca 1803
v. SARAH WYMAN, b. 11 Jan 1805; d.  6 Sep 1877 in Solon ME. Marr LOVELL SHATTUCK, 16 Mar 1826.
vi. ELIZA WYMAN, b. ca 1807
vii. RHODA WYMAN, b. ca 1809
viii. WILLIAM WYMAN, b. ca 1811
ix. JOSEPH WYMAN, b. ca 1813
x. CHARLOTTE WYMAN, b. ca 1815
xi. ALICE (ALLICE on pension) WYMAN, b. ca 1818
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