Nathaniel BROWN & Mary __?_

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Nathaniel BROWN
Mary __?__

Warning: I'm not convinced this couple exists (see Sources below).

Husband: Nathaniel BROWN
Birth: ca. 1680s
Father questionably: Nathaniel BROWN
Mother questionably: Rhoda __?__

Marriage:

Wife: Mary __?__

Children:

. Benjamin BROWN, b. ca. 1710

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; USA, US, United States, Massachusetts

Sources:

1. Marriage Index: Massachusetts, 1633-1850 (Broderbund CD-231):

Brown, Nathanell Wheller, Mary Jun 4, 1685 Rowley Essex Co.

Could this be our couple?

2. Adelos Gorton. 1907. The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton, the Founders and the Founding of the Republic, a Section of the Early United States Hisory, and a History of the Colony of Providence and Rhode Island Plantations, in the Narraansett Indian Country, of the State of Rhode Island, 1592—1636—1677—1687, with a Genealogy of Samuel Gorton's Descendants to the Present Time. G.S. Ferguson Co. Printers, Philadelphia, PA. 966 pp. (online at Ancestry.com; boldface and color added):

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#217 333. SARAH⁵ GORTON (William⁴ John³ John² Samuel¹), born Dec. 31, 1746, died March 10, 1835, married, January 4, 1770, Charles Benjamin Brown, born 1742, probably in Groton [New London Co.], Conn., died December 20, 1816, son of Benjamin and Deborah (Wheeler) Brown, grandson of Nathaniel, Jr., and Mary Brown, great-grandson of Nathaniel and Rhoda Brown. Charles was Chaplain in the First Connecticut Regiment, War of the Revolution. Nathaniel's wife, Rhoda's, family name may have been Allen. One of her sons, Allen Brown, married, May 19, 1796, in Coventry, R.I., Mahala⁶ Brown (Elnathan⁵ Samuel⁴ Samuel³ John² Samuel¹ Gorton)...

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#280 855. MAHALA⁶ BOWEN (Elnathan⁵ Samuel⁴ Samuel³ John² Sam'l¹), born February 16, 1773, married, May 19, 1796, Allen Brown, son of Nathaniel and Rhoda Brown, of Foster, R.I. She died February 14, 1851; he died January 8, 1860; both in New York City.

Mahala's maiden name was BOWEN, not BROWN, as shown in her own entry.

There is a serious time issue here. Allen BROWN (b. ca. 1769) married Mahala BOWEN (b. 1773) in 1796. How can he possibly be our subject's brother? Some sources show Nathaniel & Rhoda, parents of Allen, as born 1739. That's fine, but if so, then Allen's father cannot possibly be the great-grandfather of Charles Benjamin (b. 1742).

If Gorton made errors as big as these, then his credibility is shot. So... how hard do I work to support his claims for the identities of Benjamin's parents and grandparents? Is the reason I've so far been unable to document them due to the fact that they don't exist?

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