Brown, Simeon (1)

a Baptist minister, was born at North Stonington, Connecticut, January 31, 1722. He was converted under Whitefield's preaching in 1745, but left the "standing order," and became a Baptist in 1764. He assisted in the organization of the Second Baptist Church in North Stonington, in March, 1765, was ordained its pastor, and remained such for fifty years, having:an assistant for a part of the time. He died November 24, 1815. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. page 148. (J.C.S.)