Moses
BROWN
(b.
23 September 1738
,
Providence, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
d.
6 September 1836
,
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
)
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Moses BROWN was born 23 September 1738 in Providence, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Moses BROWN was the child of James BROWN and Hope Tillinghast POWERMoses BROWN died 6 September 1836 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
m. Anna Brown (m. 1764 – d. 1773)
Mary Olney (m. 1779 – d. 1798)
Phoebe Lockwood (m. 1799 – d. 1808)
Moses Brown was an American abolitionist and industrialist from New England, who funded the design and construction of some of the first factory houses for spinning machines during the American industrial revolution, including Slater Mill. wikipedia
BROWN, Moses, 1738-1836, Maine, Providence, Rhode Island, abolitionist, industrialist, philanthropist, educator, Quaker. A slaveholder who released his own slaves in 1773. His brothers continued to own slaves. One of Rhode Island’s principal abolitionists. Helped lobby bill before U.S. Congress to outlaw the provisioning of slave ships at any U.S. port. Vice president and founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, December 1833. Co-founder of Brown University. Co-founded Providence Society for Abolishing the Slave Trade in 1789. familysearch
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