Brown, Joseph (7)
Brown, Joseph (1)
an English Baptist minister, was born in Coventry, in June 1730. He was educated under Dr. Doddridge, at Northampton, who appointed him as his assistant in his lectures on experimental philosophy. For all branches of natural sciences he had a special aptitude, and throughout life cultivated his taste for the mechanic arts. He afterwards became a Baptist and was ordained, his first settlement being at Downton, in Wiltshire, and his second at Fair Street, Horsley Down. After several removals he finally accepted a call to the Church at Deptford. For many years Mr. Brown was secretary to the General Assembly of the Baptists. He died May 21,1803. See Wilson, Hist. of the Dissenting Churches, 4:262, 263. (J.C.S.) an English minister of the Society of Friends, was born at Lothersdale, West Riding, Yorkshire, in 1751. His occupation, for many years, was that of constructing dry stone fences. With his utmost efforts, he found it hard to earn enough to support his large family. In the thirty-first year of his age “he came forth in the ministry,” and labored to the best of his ability, chiefly in his own immediate vicinity. In 1795 he was committed to York castle, and subsequently was thrown into prison because of his refusal to pay tithes for the support of the Established Church. He was discharged at the end of two years, and was able afterwards to comfort others in like circumstances “with the comfort wherewith he had been comforted of God.” He died a peaceful death, June 28, 1803. See Piety Promoted, 3:318-20. (J.C.S.).
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Brown, Joseph (3)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in Robeson County, N.C., August 17, 1795. He was educated at Philadelphus, N.C., and at the Union Theological Seminary of Virginia, and was licensed by the Fayetteville Presbytery in 1830. In 1838 he was installed pastor of Hopewell Church, S.C., in Harmony Presbytery, and died there, May 19, 1859. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1860, page 67.
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Brown, Joseph (4)
a Congregational minister, was born in Chester, England, and’ preached in that country. After arriving in America, he was settled as pastor of the Second Church in Exeter, N.H., November 20, 1792, and remained in that position until 1795. In January 1796, he was installed pastor in Shapleigh, Maine, and remained there until May, 1804. The following year he was installed pastor in Alfred, November 13, and was dismissed in 1809. In the same year he was installed pastor at Deer Isle; and he died in September 1819. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 2:211.
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Brown, Joseph (5)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born in 1802. He was converted at the age of twenty, soon after became a zealous local preacher, and entered the itinerancy in 1828. He died December 31, 1832. He was a young man of studious habits, modesty, piety, faithfulness in labor, and resignation in affliction. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1833.
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Brown, Joseph (6)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, September 24, 1809. He was licensed by Lexington Presbytery, October 17, 1835; and ordained by the same at Augusta Church, Oct. 28, 1836. He graduated at Washington College in 1830, after which he spent two years in teaching; entered Princeton Seminary in 1832, and graduated in 1835. He accepted calls, September 7, 1837, from the two churches Spring Creek and Oak Grove, and was installed as their pastor by the Presbytery of Greenbrier. Here he labored until 1847. This was his first and only pastorate. Most of his ministerial work was of a missionary character, usually in frontier settlements and among the colored population. He spent six years in preaching to the colored people in Mississippi. He taught in Little Levels Academy and Lewisburg Academy, and as assistant in a parochial school, Memphis, Tennessee; a grammar-school near Natchez, Mississippi; and as principal of Locust-lawn School for Females. From 1868 to 1879 he resided in Florida at Clearwater Harbor, where he gradually gathered, watched over, and supplied the Andrews Memorial Church. He, in 1879, removed to Bryan, Texas, where he died, February 14, 1880. Mr. Brown was a devout, self-sacrificing man, clear in his convictions and a thorough-going Presbyterian. See Necrological Report of Princeton Theol. Seminary, 1880, page 19.
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Brown, Joseph (7)
a Baptist minister, was born at Wickford, R.I., and graduated from Yale College in 1841. For some time he was a teacher in the Pittsburgh Female Seminary, and subsequently was ordained at Gallipolis, Ohio, over a Church organized by himself. For ten years he had charge of a Church in Springfield, Ohio, and in 1860 he became pastor of the Church in Terre Haute, Ind. He removed, in 1870, to Indianapolis, and for five years was the corresponding secretary of the Indiana State Convention. After a protracted illness, he died August 11, 1878. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. page 146. (J.C.S.) a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, was born in Surry County, N.C., August 2, 1772. In 1788, his father, colonel James Brown, attempted to move his family from North Carolina to the Cumberland country by boat. Young Joseph was in the company. The boat was attacked by Indians, his father was killed, he was taken prisoner, and it was determined to kill him also, but he was spared for the sake of an expected ransom. After remaining a captive eleven months an exchange of prisoners restored him to freedom.
In 1794 he was guide to an expedition against the Indians, which resulted in the destruction of their towns. During the Creek War of 1812 he accompanied general Jackson as aide-de-camp and interpreter, with the rank of colonel. He subsequently had an opportunity to avenge his father’s death by the capture of his murderer, Cuttey Otoy, but mercifully spared his life. In 1796, after the close of the Indian war in which he suffered his captivity, he settled on White’s Creek, near Nashville, Tennessee, and became a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. Occasionally, through life, he had paroxysms of bodily jerking, while engaged in prayer one of the remarkable phenomena of the revival of 1800, in which he was an active participant. In 1806 he settled on Lytle’s Creek, Maury County, Tennessee. Until about 1823 he was a successful business man, but in that year became connected with the Elk Presbytery as a minister, and was a member of that body until 1835, when he assisted in the organization of the Richland Presbytery. He travelled extensively: throughout the Southern States, preaching the Gospel. He died February 4, 1868. See Beard, Biographical Sketches, 2d series, page 217.