Mary Brown

1771 - 1844  (72 years)

• Name	Mary Brown  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	19 Mar 1771	Middle Island, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [2, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Birth	19 Mar 1771	Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Burial	Head of the Harbor (Mills Graveyard), Smithtown, Suffolk, NY   [2, 6]
  Burial	Smithtown, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Death	26 Jan 1844	Smithtown Cemetery, Smithtown, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Name	Polly
  Death	26 Jan 1844	Mills Pond, Head of the Harbor, Smithtown, Suffolk Co., NY   [1, 2, 6]
  Burial	Mills Pond (Mills Pond Cemetery), Head of the Harbor, Smithtown, Suffolk Co., NY   [1]
  Person ID	I11508	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Capt Gersham Brown, >,   b. 28 Jan 1747, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America d. 22 Sep 1801, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Mary Miller, >,   b. 1746, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 1 Nov 1802, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1768	Suffolk, New York
  Family ID	F5155	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Samuel Bailey,   b. 24 Apr 1770, Mills Pond, Head of the Harbor, Smithtown, Suffolk Co., NY d. 3 Mar 1841, Mills Pond, Head of the Harbor, Smithtown, Suffolk Co., NY (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	19 Jun 1791  [2, 3, 7]
  Children	1. Benjamin Brown Bailey,   b. 16 Mar 1806, Mills Pond, Head of the Harbor, Smithtown, Suffolk Co., NY d. 5 Sep 1874, Mills Pond, Head of the Harbor, Smithtown, Suffolk Co., NY (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F5158	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S13] Long Island Genealogy Surname Database, online [http://longislandgenealogy.com ], http://longislandsurnames.com/getperson.php?personID=I05971&tree=Brown. [S13] Long Island Genealogy Surname Database, online [http://longislandgenealogy.com ], http://www.longislandsurnames.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I10561&tree=Tuttle. [S420] Frederick Kinsman Smith, The Family of Richard Smith of Smithtown, Long Island, Ten Generations (The Smithtown Historical Society, Smithtown, Long Island, New York, 1967), p. 229. Samuel, child of Charity Smith and John Bailey, married Polly (Mary) Brown, 19 June 1791. [S332] Compiled by Gary Robert & Lynn (DiClemente) Brown, "Brown Family of England and Brookhaven,"; , Personal Collection (copy), . 5. Gersham Brown, s. of Benjamin Browne by his 1st w. Mary Tuthill, b. in Oyster Ponds (Orient) cir. 1746; d. in Middle Island, Sept 22, 1801 in 55th year of his age. Buried Middle Island Cemetery. M. Mary Miller of Miller's Place, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, N.Y. She was b. Jan 1746; d. Nov 1, 1802, as 56 years, 10 m. Owned and lived on the land willed to him by his father Benjamin. He signed the "Association" in Brookhaven Town, in support of the Provincial Congress of New York and the Continental Congress, thus entitling his descendants to join the Sons of the Revolution or the Daughters of the Revolution. Children as named in his will: 1. George, b. Sept 17, 1779, ancestor of the Robinsons, Hamlyns, and other old Bellport families through marriages of his daughters into these families. 2. Benjamin, b. Sept 25, 1784; drowned off Old Inlet, Nov. 5, 1813 3. Mary, who m. Baily or Bayles 4. Martha, who m. Bryant Davis; d. Jan 25, 1862, æ. 89-3-20. 5. Dorothy, who m. s Randall 6. Sabra ("Sabery") probably d. unmarried. He (Gersham) seems to have been the first one of his line to have dropped the final e from his name, spelling it just plain Brown. [S13] Long Island Genealogy Surname Database, online [http://longislandgenealogy.com ], http://www.longislandsurnames.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I4579&tree=Tooker. [S1311] Norman O'Berry, Author: LIST OF ABANDONED GRAVEYARDS IN THE VILLAGE OF HEAD OF THE HARBOR, "Mills Graveyard (Mills Pond Cemetery)," database, Long Island Genealogy (http://LongIslandGenealogy.com : accessed ), ., December 2010; http://longislandgenealogy.com/Cem/MillPond.html. [S1311] Norman O'Berry, Author: LIST OF ABANDONED GRAVEYARDS IN THE VILLAGE OF HEAD OF THE HARBOR, "Mills Graveyard (Mills Pond Cemetery)," database, Long Island Genealogy (http://LongIslandGenealogy.com : accessed ), ., December 2010; http://longislandgenealogy.com/Cem/MillPond.html. "widow of Samuel Bailey"