Source: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, published by the Society, Boston, 1926, vol 80, p 74: The marriage is given in the parish registers of High Wycombe as that of "Chaddus Browne and Eliz. Sharparowe" (REGISTER, vol 65, p 84, from Phillimore's Buckhamshire Parish Register Marriages, vol 6, p 11). He married in High Wycombe, co. Bucks, England, September 11, 1626. Presumably several other children besides John were born in England between 1626 and 1638, and either died young or were left behind in the mother country.
Arrived in Boston in the early part of July 1638, in the ship Martin, accompanied by his wife Elizabeth and his son John, aged 8. In the same year he proceeded to Providence, where he was associated with Roger Williams and was a signer of the famour Compact which denied religious interference in civil affairs. In 1642 he was ordained as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Providence, the mother church of that faith in America.
The home lot of Chad Browne was at the corner of the present Market Square and College Street in Providence, and Brown University now occupies part of the lot. He was buried on his own ground (a spot now occupied by the Court House), whence his remains were removed in 1792 to the North Burial Ground, where the gravestone then erected may still be seen.
