The Chad Browne memorial, consisting of genealogical memoirs of a portion of the descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne; with an appendix, containing sketches of other early Rhode Island settlers, 1638-1888 . he College of RhodeIslaiul at Providence. In 1790 he initiated his son and son-iu-law in the business of cotton manufacture at Pawtucket, R. I.,under the firm name of Almy, Brown & Slater. He was instru-mental in inducing the late Samuel Slater, an English mechanicand inventor, to employ his skill in working the first waterfrciDus in America. Up to this time no carding or spinningnuichi
The Chad Browne memorial, consisting of genealogical memoirs of a portion of the descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne; with an appendix, containing sketches of other early Rhode Island settlers, 1638-1888 . he College of RhodeIslaiul at Providence. In 1790 he initiated his son and son-iu-law in the business of cotton manufacture at Pawtucket, R. I.,under the firm name of Almy, Brown & Slater. He was instru-mental in inducing the late Samuel Slater, an English mechanicand inventor, to employ his skill in working the first waterfrciDus in America. Up to this time no carding or spinningnuichinery had been successfully operated, and none at all bywater. All obstacles were at length overcome, and the greatindustry of cotton spinning by water power was successfullyinaugurated. He executed his last will and testament at the great age ofninety-six. Time had spared his intellectual faculties, and dur-ing his final illness of two weeks, he awaited with Christiancomposure the summons that was to unite him Avitli the familyand friends from whom he luul so long been separated. Hemarried, Jan. 1, 1764, Anna Brown, who died Feb. 5, 1773, inher 29th year. Of their three children one died in Fifth Generation. 39 His daiTghter, Sarah (Brown) Almy, an estimable woman, diedin her 30th year. Obadiah, my beloved son, in my old age,on whom I was looking to lean, died in his 52d year. Hemarried, second, March 4, 1779, Mary Olney, who died Jan. 10,1798, at the age of 54. He married, third, May 2, 1799, PhebeLockwood. She died Oct. 19, 1808, in her 61st year. Therewas no issue except by the first marriage. These successive bereavements, in the language of the lateProf. William Goddard, took away from the aged pilgrim hisstaff and the companions of his journey, but they taught him tolean with more confidence upon an Almighty arm and to lookforward with a more sustaining hope, to a communion with thesociety of Heaven. Around his fireside he could, it is true, sum-mon neither wife
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