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“ [18] virtue. I have heard my grandfather tell of her cooking always just what the children needed, and no more, and they always ‘licked their trenchers,’ when they had done with knife and fork. They all grew up to respectability. Their average age was considerable, that of five of them being seventy years, and I forget how much more.”

Of the sons of these parents, John — afterwards known as Deacon Brown--lived many years in New Hartford, and died there. Abiel lived and died on the old homestead in Canton, Connecticut, while Frederick and Owen both lie buried in the State of Ohio.


Maternal ancestry of John Brown.

Owen Brown, the last named of these sons, and the father of Captain John Brown, the greatest and most heroic of the race, married the daughter of Gideon Mills, “who was himself an officer in the revolutionary army, and was intrusted with the command who had in charge a large portion of the prisoners comprising ‘Burgoyne's army: thus proving that John Brown ’ inherits his military spirit through a patriotic ancestry.”

A very brief record of John Brown's maternal ancestry, (all that it is now possible to write,) will prove that his descent was as honorable and patriotic by his --mother's family, as from Peter Brown, the Puritan of the Mayflower.

Peter Miles was an emigrant from Holland, who settled at Bloomfield, Connecticut, near the confines of Windsor Plain. He had seven sons, was a tailor by trade, and died in 1754, at the age of eighty-eight.

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