Lieut. Andrew Brown

     Lieut. Andrew Brown was born circa 1657 in Scarborough, Maine, which was at that time in York County.¹ He was the son of Andrew Brown.² He married first Anne Allison, daughter of Ralph Allanson and Anne Dixon.³ He married second Sarah Hill, widow of Lieut. Pendleton Fletcher who died an Indian captive in Canada, and of William Priest, in January 1709/10.⁴ He died on 4 July 1723 in Arundel, York County, Maine.⁵ He was buried in Arundel: "Here lyes Buried y^e Body of Lieu^t Andrew Brown Who Died July 4^th 1723 Aged 66 Years."⁵
     
     As young men Andrew Brown and his brother John saw much service in King Philip's War. In Boston in 1675, perhaps on a coasting vessel, they were impressed to go on an expedition to Kennebec under Capt. Thomas Moore. On their return they were assigned to garrison duty at Black Point, as related in their father's petition to the General Court, and remained there nine or ten months. With their father, they were listed as living three musket-shot from the Scottow garrison in October 1676. By the granting of the petition they were released from duty in July 1677, and when the garrison was abandoned, Andrew Brown went to Massachusetts, presumably Boston, with the other refugees.¹

     In 1681 the Browns were back in Scarborough where Andrew paid a tax of 2s. He was a selectman, serving at the same time as his father, in 1686, and in 1687 he was given a commission as ensign in the town's military company.¹

     Andrew and Anne married either during the family's exile in Massachusetts or soon after their return to Maine. Anne was a grandniece of Henry Watts, who in 1687 deeded to Brown the 500 acres adjoining the Brown property at Black Point in consideration of life support.^7,6

     In 1690 hostilities again broke out between the English settlers and the French and Indians, and Scarborough, a frontier community, was abandoned. It was perhaps at this time, as related in a deposition by Brown's granddaughter, Lieut. Andrew Brown, that he was sick with smallpox and was defended at his home by his father and friends after most of the inhabitants had fled. When he had sufficiently recovered he and his family reached Chebacco (now the town of Essex) in Massachusetts in safety, remaining there several years.⁸

     Sometime before 1696 Brown settled at York where he purchased seventeen and a half acres of land from Henry and Sarah Wright of Boston on the northeast side of York River on 10 August 1696.⁹ He was a selectman of York in 1697, and a member of the county grand jury in 1698 and 1699. In 1699 he sold 150 acres of the Watts land in Scarborough to George Vaughan and 172½ acres to William Cotton, Sr., the deeds showing that Watts had disposed of 37 acres to John Pickering before his death.¹⁰ In partnership with Lewis Bane he bought land on Cooper Lane from Sarah Wright, who held a power of attorney from Philip Cooper, in 1699, and in 1701 Brown and Bane divided it.¹¹ In 1701 he was assigned a "hind seat in the gallery" of the church, "provided he seat it conveniently full of people." He was successively an ensign and a lieutenant in the town company, and his house was a garrison for four families of 22 persons, one soldier being assigned as guard.

     By 1717 the Browns had moved to Biddeford, where Lieut. Brown was selectman that year, but they were finally settled in Arundel in 1719 when he sold his York property to Diamond Sargent.¹² While at Winter Harbor (Biddeford) he had purchased 100 acres at Cape Porpoise "the ancient seat of Rowland Young" from Samuel Hill of Charlestown, and in 1720, in partnership with his neighbor Thomas Perkins, he bought from John Watson, Jabez Dorman and James Tyler fifty acres, "being the south-west corner of Montague's neck." He also bought a sawmill in partnership with Mr. Storer of Wells. He was elected in 1719 selectman of Arundel, this being the fourth town in which he had held that office. In 1720 he and Mr. Perkins settled their boundaries by two deeds.¹³ On 1 August 1721, Andrew and Sarah Brown executed two deeds giving to each of his sons Andrew and Allison forty acres of land, about four acres of marsh, one-third of the Brown ownership in the Brown-Storer sawmill and one-third of his rights in undivided lands, mill privileges and common lands in Arundel.¹⁴

     The inventory of the estate of Andrew Brown, late of Arundel was filed 2 April 1726, and two days later Allison Brown filed his bond as administrator. On 9 May 1726, John Stagpole of Biddeford, yeoman, and Elizabeth his wife, Samuel Carr of Arundel, fisherman, and Mary his wife and Joshua Lassell of Arundel, husbandman, and Katherine his wife released to their brother Allison Brown all their rights in their father's lands.¹⁵ Allison Brown died before he had settled his father's estate, and in 1729, John Treworgy, who married his widow, was appointed administrator, the three sisters and their husbands renouncing their rights. Treworgy made his final division on 19 July 1730.¹⁶