Brown, Thomas (4)

a missionary of the Church of England, was the only child of the Reverend G. Brown of Oxford. He graduated at St. Alban's Hall; was ordained deacon, September 23, 1754, and soon after came to America with the Twenty-seventh Regiment, it is supposed, of which he was chaplain. This regiment participated in the reduction of Martinique, in February 1762. Shortly after he must have resigned his commission. Having returned to England, he was ordained priest, and, July 8, 1764, was appointed missionary to North America. Until 1768 he was rector of St. Peter's Church, Albany, N.Y., when he went South, and, May 30, 1772, was appointed rector of Dorchester, Maryland, where he died, May 2, 1784, aged forty-nine years. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 5:135.