James Brown (Y-DNA)
Contents
Status summary
Completed as of October 6, 2020:
- Recruiting additional descendants of James Brown for further SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)
- Predicted to fall under R-L2 based on 111 STR marker test of a descendant.
Still to do as of October 6, 2020
- NGS/WGS test for subclade under R-L2.
Biography
Parentage of James Brown
John Brown(e)[1] was born about 1591[2] and died at Rehoboth 10 Apr 1662.[3] He married by about 1616[4] to Dorothy _____ who died at Swansea 27 Jan 1673/4 "being the ninety and eighth year of her age or thereabouts"[5]. They had three children (daughter Mary and sons James & John).
First Generation
James Brown was born before 1627[6] and died at Swansea 29 Aug 1710. He married about 1655 to Lydia Howland. They had three[7] children: James (1655), Dorothy (1666) and John (1668).
Second Generation
(Lieut.) James Brown (II) was born Rehoboth 4 (or 21) May 1655 and died prob. at Barrington (now part of RI) 15 May 1718. He married Swansea 5 Jun 1678 Margaret Denison and they had twelve children (prob. in that part of Swansea now Barrington): Lydia (1678/9), Mary (1680), Margaret (1682 dy), Anne[8] (1684), James (1685 m Elizabeth BOWEN Hunt), Margaret (1687), Peleg (1688/9 dy), William (1690 m Elizabeth ___ & Rebecca Follett), Benjamin (twin, 1694 m Keziah Brown & Abigail Paine), Dorothy (twin, 1694), Mercy (1699) and Isaac (1702 m Mary Brown & Esther Bowen).
Jabez Brown was born Swansea 9 Jul 1668 and died in what is now Barrington, RI in Jul 1747. He married twice, first Jane/Genne ____ and second Barrington (now part of RI) 17 Feb 1740/1 Abijah Wheaton. By his first wife, Jabez had two children: Peleg (d 1747 unm) and Daniel (1726/7 dy). By his second wife, he had three additional children: Esther (d bef 1746), Mary (1730/1) and Thomas (1733 m Ruth ____ & Hannah Jones).
- ↑ Anderson, The Great Migration I:420-429
- ↑ based on estimated date of marriage.
- ↑ Published Rehoboth VRs p. 804
- ↑ The Great Migration I:426
- ↑ Published Swansea VRs, p. 26
- ↑ He appeared on the Able to Bear arms list of 1643, so was at least age 16 at that date.
- ↑ Many sources, including the George Bowman files, list more children, but none of the others were mentioned in the will of either their father or their maternal grandmother.
- ↑ Birth record had Lydia, but all other records had Anne
DNA Results R-L2
Previous Y-DNA testing
The Brown-Browne-Braun DNA Study Project (Group No. 048) had one individual who claims his Most Distant Known Paternal Ancestor (MDKPA) was John Brown 1579-1662.[1] None of the individuals have done any Y-SNP testing and FTDNA simply predicts they fall under R1b-M269. One individual has done 111 Y-STR testing and plugging in his values in the Nevgen Haplogroup Predictor tool comes up with a possibility of the family falling somewhere under R-P312>>U152>L2, but with a low probability score (between 45.85% for the most likely to much less than 1% for others). In addition, the tool stated there is a 43.6% the family falls under an "unsupported clade".
- ↑ this group has other close STR matches who list various MDKPAs, but all are somehow closely related to each other.
NGS/WGS testing
NGS testing of Y-DNA descendants of John Brown (and ideally descendants of his son, James) would refine the placement of this family.
