Thomas Browne II

Thomas Browne II
Thomas Browne II
Born	before 1648
Died	1715
Spouse(s)	Catherine Summerland
Children	Joshua Browne Sr. (1698–1774), Hannah Browne, John Browne, Valentine Browne Sr. (1692–1770)
Parent(s)	Thomas Browne, William Hopkins (stepfather)[1]
Relatives	John Browne (uncle)

Thomas Brown II (1648–1715) was an early settler of Maryland.

Early life

Thomas Browne II was an early settler of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in regions now part of Howard County, Maryland. He was frequently referred to as "Thomas Browne, the Patuxent Ranger" for settling lands West of the Chesapeake Bay along the Patuxent River.[2] [3]

Brown's uncle, John Browne, who was involved in the Battle of the Severn, left his estate property to Thomas Brown II in a 1668 will. The first such property granted to him was "Browne's Peace" of Anne Arundel in 1676.

Thomas was commissioned to explore from the Snowden plantation westward upstream to the limits of the Patuxent River. His plantations formed the southern boundaries of Charles Carroll the Settler's Doughoregan Manor.[4]

Some of the early land grants Browne patented include Friendship, Increase, Browne's Folly, Browne's Chance, Addition, Browne's Adventure, Diamond, Browne's Forest, Browne's Increase, Ranter's Ridge, and Clink.

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References

Richardson, Hester Dorsey (1913). Side-Lights on Maryland History, Vol. 2. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Company. pp. 287–292. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
Maryland Archives, volume 3, folio 339.
Diggs, Robert Schnepfe (November 26, 1937). The early history of Elkridge Landing. p. 3. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
Warfield, Joshua Dorsey (1905). The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. Baltimore: Kohn & Pollock. p. 338. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

External links

"History – Mt. Pleasant". www.howardnature.org. Howard County Conservancy. Retrieved March 25, 2020.

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[1] Richardson, Hester Dorsey (1913). Side-Lights on Maryland History, Vol. 2. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Company. pp. 287–292. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

[2] Maryland Archives, volume 3, folio 339.

[3] Diggs, Robert Schnepfe (November 26, 1937). The early history of Elkridge Landing. p. 3. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

[4] Warfield, Joshua Dorsey (1905). The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. Baltimore: Kohn & Pollock. p. 338. Retrieved 15 February 2016.