There aren't many records about this couple and their children but I do have a few facts to share with you. Samuel was born in 1689 and Hannah was born in 1690. They were married in 1704 in the state of New York. I only know of one of their children, named Mary, who is our ancestor. Mary was born in about 1732 in Rye, Westchester, New York. We could then say that this small family probably lived in Rye, Westchester County, New York in the early 1730s.
Colonial Rye was a small farming community, but its position along the Westchester Path (later, the Boston Post Road) made it an important post and stagecoach stop. The post from New York to Boston started in 1673 and took 14 days. By 1722, stagecoaches were traveling over the road (known as the King’s Highway) and stopping in Rye. The center of Rye moved from the Long Island Sound area to the King’s Highway, aided by Strang’s Tavern at what is now the corner of the Post Road and Rectory Street and the Square House. Both taverns were the center of colonial life, providing local residents and travelers with food, drink, shelter, entertainment, news and politics.
I like to picture in my mind little Mary Brown, with her parents,visiting some of the places along this King's Highway.
Samuel died in 1750, at age 61. Hannah lived to be 94. She died in 1784.
SAMUEL BROWN
BORN: 1689
MARRIED: 1704 in ,New York
DIED: 1750
HANNAH RUNDLE
BORN: 1789
DIED: 1784
SOURCES: FamilySearch.org's Ancestral File: TXTP-FH; FamilySearch.org's Ancestral File: GC3C-F9 re vital records of Samuel and Hannah Rundle Brown. Rye Historical Society: Some history of the colonial years in Rye.
