Edith Brownson

1655 - 1687  (33 years)

• Name	Edith Brownson
  Birth	Abt. 1655
  Christening	22 Apr 1655	Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft. 1687
  Person ID	I312684225232	Oswald Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	Richard Brownson,   b. 23 Jul 1615, Earls Colne, Essex, England d. 26 Sep 1687, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America (Age 72 years)
  Mother	The Second-of-Richard's-Three-Wives   d. Abt. 1665, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
  Family ID	F1602	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  NOTE:Name also given Edith. NOTE:Name also given Edith. This individual has the following other This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Richard /BROWNSON,/ (AFN:GG7F-9H) and Abigail /WILBOUR/ (AFN:GG7F-BN) This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Richard /BROWNSON,/ (AFN:GG7F-9H) and Abigail /WILBOUR/ (AFN:GG7F-BN) This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Richard /BROWNSON,/ (AFN:GG7F-9H) and Abigail /WILBOUR/ (AFN:GG7F-BN) Ancestral file Dec 1991 Ancestral file Dec 1991 Daughter of second wife (name unknown). Source: The American Genealogist Vol. 38 article “The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl’s Colne, Essex, England, - Connecticut, and South Carolina” (pp 204-08) by John Insley Coddington, pub in 1962/3. Source: The American Genealogist Vol. 38 article “The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl’s Colne, Essex, England, - Connecticut, and South Carolina” (pp 204-08) by John Insley Coddington, published in 1962/3. This source is considered the definitive bio of Richard Brownson, according to the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford. According to Timothy Lester Jacobs, Genealogist with The Society (from the Society web site as of Jan 2020): "There are several genealogies dealing with Richard Bronson, none of which can be recommended due to numerous confusions between the children of Richard and his brother John, and the maintenance of a myth that the three Bronsons of Hartford were children of a Richard Bronson. The only definitive work on the Bronsons is that of John I. Coddington in “The American Genealogist” Vol. 38 article “The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl’s Colne, Essex, England, - Connecticut, and South Carolina”. This extraordinary work, which was intended to be continued, ceased after 1963’s Volume 39. In 1987 he had deposited his papers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston." https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/richard-bronson/ TRANSCRIPTION from this source: He [Richard Brownson] married, first ... ca 1642-3, ___ (whose given name is usually stated to have been Abigail) Weyborn or Wyborne, apparently youngest child of John Wyborne of Wrotha, co Kent, England, yeoman, by an unknown wife ... There is, in fact, no actual proof known to the contributor that the given name of the first wife of Richard Brownson was "Abigail" ... so far as is known, her name does not appear in New England records. Richard Brownson (Bronson, Brunson) married secondly, perhaps ca 1646-7, ___, whose name is completely unknown, and who probably died at the birth of her son Samuel at Farmington in 1665. He married, thirdly, ca 1666, Elizabeth ___ (Carpenter) Orvis, widow of David Carpenter (d 1652) and of George Orvis (d 1665) ... Children of Richard Brownson by his first wife: i. ABIGAIL², b. prob at Hartford 8 Sept 1643; bapt at Farmington 30 May 1659 "aged abt 15"; d. at Suffield, Conn, 27 Mar 1710, intestate ... She m. at Farmington, 16 May 1666, Jonathan² Winchell, then of Windsor, later of Suffield ... ii. JOHN, b. at Hartford or Farmington in Aug 1645; bapt at Farmington 20 Feb 1658/9 ae abt 12; d. at Waterbury, Conn, in 1696. Children of Richard Brownson by his second wife: iii. CORNELIUS, b. prob at Farmington ca 1647/8; bapt at Farmington 19 July 1653 ae abt 5; d. at Woodbury, Conn, May 1732. iv. HANNAH, b. at Farmington ca 1649/50, bapt there 19 July 1653 "aged abt 3," d. shortly before 5 Feb 1712; m. 16 Apr 1674 (not 16 Aug 1674), Samuel² Sanford ... v. ELIZABETH, b. at Farmington ca 1651-2; bapt there 19 July 1653 "aged abt 1;" not mentioned in her father's will and prob d. young. vi. EDITH, bapt at Farmington 22 Apr 1655 as Eade ... vii. MARY, bapt at Farmington "abt 12 Feb 1658;" unmarried when her father's will was made, 27 Feb 1684/5 ... viii. SAMUEL, b. prob at Farmington in 1665; d. at Wethersfield, Conn, 23 Jan 1741/2, aged 76. This individual has the following other This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Richard /BROWNSON,/ (AFN:GG7F-9H) and Abigail /WILBOUR/ (AFN:GG7F-BN) 1 _IFLAGS 0 This individual has the fol 1 _IFLAGS 0 This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Richard /BROWNSON,/ (AFN:GG7F-9H) and Abigail /WILBOUR/ (AFN:GG7F-BN) This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Richard /BROWNSON,/ (AFN:GG7F-9H) and Abigail /WILBOUR/ (AFN:GG7F-BN)