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Ancestors of John David Roberts

Generation No. 6

      40. James Pearce, born in London, England. He married 41. Lucy Parker.

      41. Lucy Parker

Children of James Pearce and Lucy Parker are:

	i.	Alice Pearce, married Williams.
	ii.	General Thomas Pearce
	iii.	Eliza Georgianna Pearce, born May 12, 1837; died August 13, 1918; married Josephus Gilbert Shermer August 28, 1863; born December 21, 1836 in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA; died January 4, 1915.
20	iv.	Walter Frederick Pearce, born June 27, 1848 in England; died 1912 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA; married Nellie Brown September 8, 1869 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA.

      42. Rev. Dr. John Newton Brown², born June 29, 1803 in Waterford, New London, CT; died Bet. May 14 - 15, 1868 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA. He was the son of 84. Charles Benjamin Brown and 85. Hester Darrow. He married 43. Mary Skinner.

      43. Mary Skinner, born Abt. 1803 in Hudson, Columbia, NY.

Notes for Rev. Dr. John Newton Brown:

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the
Nineteenth Century.
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography
page 158

BROWN, JOHN NEWTON, clergyman, was born June 29, 1803, in New
London, Conn. In 1833 he moved to Boston, where he edited the
Encyclopdia of Religious Knowledge, which was republished in
England. He died May 15, 1868, in Germantown, Pa.

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DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, VOL II, PART I
Š1929, 1930 American Council of Learned Societies
ŠRenewal 1957, 1958
Page 139

BROWN, JOHN NEWTON (June 29,1803 - May 14, 1868), Baptist clergyman, was the son of Charles and Hester (Darrow) Brown. His early home was in New London, Conn., where he was born. He graduated from Madison College (now Colgate) in 1823, standing at the head of his class. The next year he was ordained to the Baptist ministry at Buffalo, N. Y., and he preached there for a year before going to New England for his principal pastorates. In 1827 he was settled at Malden, Mass., and two years later went to Exeter, N.H., for a ministry of nearly ten years. During that time he compiled a single-volume religious encyclopedia, Fessenden and Company's Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (1837). It has been superseded by later and larger works, but for a time it was used widely. In 1838 Brown's scholarly attainments brought him the appointment of professor of theology and church history in the Academical and Theological Institution of New Hampton, in central New Hampshire, where he remained for seven years. In 1845 ill health sent Brown south, and he became pastor at Lexington, Va., for four years. At the end of that time he was made editorial secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society, and also editor of their journals, the Christian Chronicle and National Baptist. A number of books notable in their time were published under his direction, including the works of the English Baptists, Bunyan and Fuller, and Fleetwood's Life of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ (1866). Brown was himself the author of Emily and Other Poems(1840), and he translated the medieval hymn Dies Irae. His most permanent work was the preparation of the New Hampshire Confession of Faith in i833. Nearly a century earlier the Philadelphia Association of Baptist churches had adopted a confession based on a seventeenth-century confession of English Baptists, which itself was adapted from the famous Westminster Confession of the English Presbyterians. This was strongly Calvinistic in character, and, while it suited most of the American Baptist churches, it was not entirely satisfactory as au expression of Baptist theology, especially where the Baptists were in contact with the Freewill Baptists of northern New England. Brown was appointed one of a committee to draw up a briefer statement which would be more moderately Calvinistic. This was accepted by the New Hampshire convention as a satisfactory declaration, and came into general use in the North by a denomination that has had little liking for creeds. Brown's part in the work appears to have been most constructive, and his name remains associated with its history. Never very robust in body or in spirit, he was inclined to mysticism in his religion. The New Hampshire Confession has been characterized as "like the mild Dr. Brown."

[Wm. Cathcart, Bapt. Encyc. (1881); L. C. Barnes and others, Pioneers of Light (1924), P. 301; Wm. Hurlin and others, The Baptists in New Hampshire (1902) The First Half Century of Madison Univ. 1819-69 (1872); obituaries in the Press and Pub. Ledger of Phila., May 18, 1868; Conn. Vital Records, State Lib., Hartford.] H. K. R.Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the
Nineteenth Century.

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The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton
pgs 433 - 434

2694. JOHN NEWTON7 BROWN (Charles B.6 Sarah5 William4 John3 John2 Samuel1), born Jan. 20, 1802, married Mary Skinner, of Hudson, N. Y. While a mere boy, he was the writer of many poems. A volume of them, called "Emily and Other Poems," was dedicated to his sister Emily, a girl of great promise, who had died at an early age. He was a Baptist clergyman, and widely known as a writer of Baptist polity, editor of "The Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge" and the author of the New Hampshire "Confession of Faith," which was largely adopted by Baptist churches in this country (Am. Baptist Pub. Soc., "The Watchman," Boston, Dec. 17, 1885). He died in 1868. No children, but adopted several. They cared for upwards of thirty children, some from boyhood to the self-supporting age.

Children of John Brown and Mary Skinner are:

Nellie Brown, born December 7, 1848 in Possibly Lexington, VA area; Adopted child; married Walter Frederick Pearce September 8, 1869 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA.

      44. John Bowden, born July 26, 1818 in Marblehead, Essex, MA. He was the son of 88. Joshua Orne Bowden and 89. Elizabeth Selman Stanley. He married 45. Rebecca Goodwin February 12, 1843 in Marblehead, Essex, MA.

      45. Rebecca Goodwin, born Abt. 1821.

Children of John Bowden and Rebecca Goodwin are:

22	i.	John Bowden, born May 8, 1846; died 1892 in Beverly, Essex, MA; married Persis Hannah Swett June 11, 1874 in Marblehead, Essex, MA.
	ii.	Joseph G Bowden, born May 3, 1847.
	iii.	Lydia Bowden, born November 4, 1849.

      46. William Benjamin Swett, born August 13, 1825; died 1884. He was the son of 92. Belus M Swett and 93. Persis Brown. He married 47. Margaret Harrington Bet. 1849 - 1850.

      47. Margaret Harrington, born 1826 in Cloumel, Ireland; died 1907.

Children of William Swett and Margaret Harrington are:

	i.	James Swett, born 1851; died 1864.
23	ii.	Persis Hannah Swett, born February 22, 1852 in Henniker Township, Merrimack, NH; married John Bowden June 11, 1874 in Marblehead, Essex, MA.
	iii.	Ellen Harrington Swett, born December 4, 1854 in Henniker, NH; died March 30, 1904 in Beverly, Essex, MA.
	iv.	Addie Swett, born 1862; died 1864.
	v.	Lucy M Swett, born 1864; married George Thomas Sanders December 10, 1891 in Beverly, Essex, MA; born Abt. 1860; died 1938 in New York City, New York.

      56. Daniel Wifek, born Abt. 1819 in Gross Tabor, Schlesian, Prussia, Germany. He married 57. Elisabeth Jelinek July 17, 1840 in Tabor Wielki, Poznanskiego, Poland.

      57. Elisabeth Jelinek, born in Gross Tabor, Schlesian, Prussia, Germany.

Children of Daniel Wifek and Elisabeth Jelinek are:

	i.	Joseph Wifek, born August 16, 1850.
	ii.	Paul Wifek, born October 31, 1852.
	iii.	Carl Wifek, born July 17, 1854.
	iv.	Marie Wifek, born June 28, 1857.
	v.	Elisabeth Wifek, born February 2, 1863.
	vi.	Caroline Wifek, born June 26, 1866.
28	vii.	Mattias Wifek, born February 28, 1869; married Pauline.

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