Judith _____1

#20176, (say 1616 - circa 1644)

Family

James Browne b. c 1603
Children 1.John Browne1 (1637 - )
 2.Mary1 Browne1 (c 1639 - )
 3.James1 Browne Jr.1 (1642/43 - 1643)
On the name and parentage of James Browne's first wife, quoted liberally for emphasis:
- "The name of his ?rst wife is uncertain, as she is called Judith in the town birth records, but Elizabeth in the church records.... There may be a hint in the fact that John Brown, son of the immigrant, named a daughter Judith. Great Migration Begins, p. 254.
- James Brown, glazier, married as his first wife Judith Cutting. Thomas B Wyman, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, I:136.
- "James Browne, of Charleston, Newbury and Salem, glazier, born about 1605; married 1st, about 1637, Judith Cutting (Capt. John), who died about 1650; 2d, about 1650-52, 5 Sarah 2 Cutting (sister of Judith)." David W. Hoyt, "The Cutting–Browne Family of Newbury," Historical Collections of the Essex Institute XLVIII:85 (1912).
- Savage in First Settlers of New England (I:268) names 1. James Brown of Charlestown, marr. Elizabeth ----- and had John (bapt. 1639) and Mary (1640); 2. James Brown of Charlestown, marr. Judith ---- and had John (1638), James (1643), James again (1647) and Nathaniel (1648); 3. James Brown of Newbury, glazier, son of Joseph, arrived on the James, marr. Sarah, daughter of Capt. John Cutting, and had six children (as given in this genealogy). Savage notes the "difficulty of discrim[inating] betw. the many of this name...insurmount[able]."
- "It is my belief that James Browne, glazier, of Charlestown, marrried Judith, her surname not known, had John...James...and possibly other children; that Judith died and James Browne married Sarah Cutting..." Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts, p. 85. Davis explains why he disagrees with Wyman, citing prohibitions against marrying a deceased wife's sister and the content of Capt. John Cutting's will.2 
Judith _____ was also known as Elizabeth.3 
Her married name was Browne.1 
Birth*say 1616She was born say 1616.1 
Marriage*say 1636She married James Browne say 1636.1 
Death*circa 1644She died circa 1644.1 

Citations

  1. [S292] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), online AmericanAncestors.org, pp. 252-253.
  2. [S520] VWH.
  3. [S292] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, pp. 254, noting that she is called Judith in town records and called Elizabeth in church records.