Brown, Philip (1789-1854)

Name:: Brown, Philip (1789-1854)
Title:: Selectman, Town of Hopkinton, NH 1817-1819
Moderator, Town of Hopkinton, NH
Member, New Hampshire House of Representative
Founder, Merrimack Agricultural Society
Treasurer, Londonderry Branch Turnpike
Treasurer, Hopkinton Academy, 1828
Overseer, Academical and Techological Institution, New Hampton, 1837-1839
Born:: 02/10/1789
Birthplace:: Hopkinton, NH
Died:: 04/05/1854
Death Location:: Concord, NH
Residence:: Hopkinton, NH, 1789-1843
Concord, NH, 1843-1854
Nationality:: American
Occupation:: Silversmith
Goldsmith
Clockmaker
Watchmaker, 1810, 1815-1823
Land speculator
Saw mill operator
Father:: Brown, Abraham
Mother:: French, Sarah
Spouse:: Currier, Lavinia, m. 1811
Notes:: Won $25,000. in the Union Canal Lottery of 1815.

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968), 168.

Charles C. Lord, Life and Times in Hopkinton, N.H., In Three Parts. (Concord, New Hampshire: Republican Press Association, 1890), 505, 538-539.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 86.

Advertisement, New Hampshire Patriot, Concord, NH, August 7, 1810, 3.

Death Notice, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, NH, April 12, 1854, 3.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives