1.  Sir John Bernard Burke.  1996.  "Burke's American Families with British Ancestry." Pages 2529-3022 from Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry (1939, Burke's Peerage, London).  Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD:

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BROWNE formerly OF TOLETHORPE MANOR and STAMFORD ROLLIN BROWNE, of New York, N.Y... Lineage.—The BROWNES were established in the County of Lincoln from early medieval times, and attaned great prosperity in the wool trade. The first of whom definite record has been traced is JOHN BROWNE [I], of Stamford, Co. Lincoln, b. ca. 1330... he had issue, a son, JOHN BROWNE [II], of Stamford, the father of JOHN BROWNE [III], of Stamford, Alderman...