Essex

BROWN, Benjamin

Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, p 964

Benjamin BROWN, born in Wellfleet [Barnstable County], Massachusetts, was 
bred a sailor, and for some years commanded merchant-men, and visited 
different foreign ports; but coming a convert to the Methodist tenets, he 
left the sea, and became a traveling preacher. After delivering his message 
(like Jonah as he often remarked), in 1825 he purchased the farm and mills 
formerly occupied by Ithiel CARGILL, rebuilt the mills, and settled among this 
people. He remained in town [Brunswick, Essex County, Vermont], occasionally 
preaching to the people, until 1854, when he disposed of his estate, and left 
the country. [Excerpt from a section on the history of Brunswick, Essex 
County, Vermont.]

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