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Note: N118395 ! Abram Browne, b. at Swan Hull near Bury St. Edmunds, England ; he was one of the first settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, and was admitted Freeman, 6th March 1631-1632; d. in Watertown, 1650; m. Lydia surname unknown, who d. there 27th September, 1686. George Norbury Mackenzie, editor, Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol VI, Seaforth Press, Baltimore, MCMXVII., p. 312. Google Books online.
!Abraham Browne, the immigrant, son of Thomas (8) and Joan, was born at Swan Hall about 1590, and was one of the first planters at Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1631-2. where he was selectman 1636-43. In 1634 he and Robert Selley were appointed to survey all the lots that were granted, and they were made conservators of all the timber trees, none of which could be cut without their consent. He was one of seven freeman who in 1635 were appointed "to divide every man his property of meadow and upland that is ploughable, the rest to be commoan." He was highway surveyor the same year, and laid out many of the highways, some of which are still in use. He was appointed, October 7, 1641, on a committee to lay out a thousand acres granted to the military company of Boston at its organization. His will was proved October 1, 1650. His first homestall was east of Mt. Vernon, between the present town of Watertown and Harvard Square. His second homestall was bounded by the present Harvard street, Main street and Pleasant street, and was lately and may be now the only case where land granted to the first settlers in Watertown is still held by lineal descendants. There is an engraving of the old house published in Bond's Watertown history. His widow Lydia married, November 27, 1659, Andrew Hodges, of Ipswich. She died at Watertown September 27, 1686.
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