Eleventh Generation

1912. Thomas BROWNELL³⁵⁰ was born on 5 June 1608 in St. Mary's, Rawmarsh, Yorkshire, England. He died on 24 September 1664 at the age of 56 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI. Thomas and his brother, George, went to London where they probably worked as drapers for their uncle, Thomas Wilson. Wilson was a prosperous cloth worker or fabric merchant in London.

Thomas and Anne arrived on the ship Whale in 1638. They settled first in Mt. Wollaston, later known as Braintree. Thomas was a planter (farmer).

He was killed by running into a tree while riding his horse in Portsmouth, RI. He resided in Portsmouth. He had a 40-acre farm on the Narragansett Bay side of Portsmouth.

For information on the English Brownells, see The American Genealogist, no. 142, April 1960, page 126. They came to America on the "Whale" from St. Mary Cole, London. They initially went to Braintree and then to Portsmouth. Cause of death: He died as the result of hitting his head on a tree while engaged in an impromptu horse race with Daniel Lawton on the lands of William Wodell. Ann BOURNE and Thomas BROWNELL were married on 20 March 1637 at Church of St. Benet's in St. Paul's Wharf, London, England.

1913. Ann BOURNE was born on 16 February 1607 in Essex, England. She was born after 16 February 1607 in St. Michael's, Cornhill, London, England. She died on 24 October 1666 at the age of 59 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI. Info on Bourne family can be found in "The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex..." by Philip Morant, chelmsford, 1816, Vol. 1, page 147, and in "Pedigrees of the Family of Bourne," second edition, edited by J. Harvey Bloom, page 5.See "Pedigrees of the Family of Bourne," second edition, edited by J. Harvey Bloom, page 5.

Children were:

	i.	Mary BROWNELL was born in April 1639. She was born on 8 December 1639.
	ii.	Sarah BROWNELL was born in 1641. She died on 6 September 1676 at the age of 35 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI. She died in September 1676 at the age of 35.
	iii.	Martha BROWNELL was born on 1 May 1643. She was born on 1 May 1643. She was born in May 1643 in Newport, Newport Co., RI. Martha died on 15 February 1744 at the age of 100 in Newport, Newport Co., RI.
	iv.	Ann BROWNELL was born on 2 April 1647. She died on 4 May 1729 at the age of 82.
444	v.	Thomas BROWNELL.
	vi.	Robert BROWNELL was born in 1652. He was born about 1652. He died on 12 July 1728 at the age of 76 in Little Compton, RI. They lived on the west side of Long Highway nearly opposite Quicksand Pond.
956	vii.	William BROWNELL.
447	viii.	Susanna BROWNELL.
	ix.	George BROWNELL was born in May 1646. He was born in 1646. He died on 20 April 1718 at the age of 71.