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Sacramento L82 - 121Recap Joseph Brown, brother. John Brown Francis, grandnephew. Signature. Moses Brown (September 23, 1738 – September 6, 1836) was an American abolitionist and industrialist from New England who funded the design and construction of some of the first factories for spinning machines during the American industrial revolution, including the Slater Mill ...
Died: 1836. Moses Brown (1738-1836), a prominent Providence merchant, reformer, and philanthropist, was one of the five Brown brothers, a group that included John, Joseph, Nicholas, and James, the eldest, a twenty-six-year-old ship captain when he died at sea in 1751.
Obadiah Brown died in 1762, and Moses Brown served as executor of his estate. Shares in the company were divided between Moses Brown and his three brothers, Nicholas, John and Joseph; it was renamed as Nicholas Brown & Co.
Born as a subject of the British King George II, Moses Brown lived to receive a visit from U.S. President Andrew Jackson and Vice President Martin Van Buren before his death in Providence on September 6, 1836, a week before his ninety-eighth birthday. His body lies in the North Burial Ground’s Quaker cemetery, which he had established through ...
Mary Brown Vanderlight died while visiting her brother Moses at his home in what is now Providence’s East Side neighborhood of Wayland Square. She was memorialized with a stone in Providence’s North Burial Ground, like most of her family.
Anna died just nine years after their marriage leaving Moses with a son and daughter. It was the children’s tutor, Job Scott, who convinced Moses to convert and become a member of the Society of Friends (also known as Quakers).
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Moses Brown died on September 6, 1836. He rests in the North Burial Ground’s Quaker cemetery, a parcel of land that Moses Brown formerly owned. Facts: In 1769, the four Brown brothers were active in efforts to move Rhode Island College (now Brown University) to Providence from the town of Warren.
