Nathaniel Browne (1654) / Eleanor (Watts) Browne

Name: Nathaniel Browne

Birth: c. 1625, England (GMB)

Emigration: To Cambridge, Mass. 1633; to Hartford, Conn. in 1636; to Springfield, Mass. c. 1648 (SAV); returned to England briefly about 1652 (MAN); removed to Middletown. Conn. in 1654 (FFS).

Death: Before August 26, 1658 (MAN)

Occupation & Public Service: Unknown

Marriage: m. Eleanor Watts, December 23, 1647, Hartford, Conn. (b. about 1625, England; d. September 28, 1703, Middletown, Conn. She was the daughter of Richard Watts of Hartford, Conn. (MLR)

Children: 6 children between 1648-1659. (SAV)(BCVR) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).