412 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



George Clinton our Captain General and Governour in Chief of our Province of 

 New York and Territories therein depending in America Vice Admiral of the 

 same and Admiral of the White Squadron of our Fleet At our Fort in our City 

 of New York the twenty-second day of August in the Y"ear of our Lord one 

 thousand seven hundred and fifty-two and of our reign the twenty -sixth 



Clarke JtrN r 



In the preceeding Certificate and Letters Patent the following Eraisures &c ap- 

 pear page 449 line 11 (Smith) wrote on Eraisure line 15 and 16 (the first of which 

 Tracts) obliterated last line of same page (the) obliterated page 452 between the 

 second and third lines (begins) between 10 and 11 lines (first) inter! 1 Line 20 (the) 

 obliterated and page 453 line 19th (purpose) wrote on Eraisure Exam d and 

 Corup' 1 with the Original By me. Geo. Bantar D. Secr'y. 



I do hereby Certify the preceding Certificate 

 and Patent to be true Copies of their respective 

 Original Records, word Petitioners 15th line 

 page 451 on Razure. Compared therewith by 

 me Louis A. Scott, Secretary." 



James Brown, Esq. (attorney-at-law) one of the above Patentees was 

 an early inhabitant of Norwalk, for among " the estates of Commonage 

 of that place presented and accepted by the town, January 3, 16S7, oc- 

 curs the name of ' James Brown, ^50. s.oo. */.oo.' 5 The origin of this 

 family is a little uncertain ; they were probably, however, a branch of 

 the Brown's of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, a house of ' no little 

 repute.' Their monuments still speak of their fame ; the Church of All 

 Saints, standing on the north side of the Red Line Square, in the old 

 English town, was the gift of John Brown, who was an alderman of the 

 city in 1462, and in the Church of St. Mary's can now be seen brass 

 figures of Wm. Brown and his wife. A hospital, also, founded in the 

 reign of the third Richard, is still a monument here to the humanity of 

 this Wm. Brown." c In 1708, as we have already seen, James Brown 

 was one of the first proprietors of Ridgefield f? and in 1729, had one 

 hundred acres of land set off to him on the west side of the Oblong, on 

 or near the Parsonage Lands. He must have died in February, 1769, 

 leaving by his wife Joanna two sons and five daughters. The will of 

 James Brown bears date 31st of July, 1766. 



a Book of Patents, Albany, p. 4. r >l to 457, 



b E. Hall's, Norwalk, 1650-1800, p. 84. 



c Huntington's hist of Stamford, pp. 910. Among the early settlers of New England, was 



James the son of Joseph Brown, who came from South Hampton, Eng-., and was one of the 



of, Newberry. — Farrin r* Jinjixtcr. The will of James Brown' of Colchester bears 



date May 10, 1709, sons James and John", IS'ew London, Probate Eec, Inventory June 8, 1704. 



d nis lot, as one of the twenty-nine proprietors, in Kirtgeliekl, is now owned by Philip Bar- 

 hite and Francis A. Rockwell. The coat armor of Maurice Brown, Sheriff of Hampshire and 

 Surrey, 4th Henry, viz. : sa three lions passant gardant betwixt '2 bends governors, arg. 



