Known as Preston Mann. Graduated from Brown University in 1776, and became a medical doctor in Newport. He married first, Mehetable Clark, February 2, 1782. She was born in 1766 in Jamestown, Newport County, RI, and died in 1803. Mehetable is also buried in this cemetery. They had no children.
He married second, Ann Scott (1763-1839 or 1764-1841), daughter of of George Scott and Mary Ayrault, and widow of William Robinson (1758-1804). They had one (adopted) daughter, their niece Ann Scott Mann, who married Thompson Skinner Brown.
The youngest son of Thompson and Ann Brown, John Preston Brown, died a few months before John Preston Mann at the age of 1 day and is buried with him in the same plot. They share a tombstone.
From the memoirs of his nephew, Gen. Horace Mann:
On the corner of Mann Avenue and Broadway, once the fashionable part of Newport, stands today an old manor house (erected about the year 1760), the home of a family once potent here, and whose memory among the oldest inhabitants is still highly revered. Those who can record the epoch of two or three generations ago, will see the old mansion not as now surrounded by limited grounds, but in the midst of acres {some 400) under high cultivation, and the place the abode of a profuse and elegant hospitality, which the great wealth and social position of the family allowed them to maintain. Here were entertained the first citizens of the Republic. Washington and Lafayette were frequent visitors during the stirring times of the Revolution; and the first families of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore as they passed through the State in their carriages (railroads then being unknown) invariably stopped to pay their respects to its inmates"-
The reputation for culture and refinement that Newport has so generally enjoyed is largely due to the blue blood possessors of this old mansion, at the head of which family in its generation was the courtly and elegant Preston Mann, M.D. a graduate of Brown university, a noble and upright man.
As a medical doctor he was only "de jure" -- his great wealth rendering practice unnecessary -- but he was consulted upon all critical cases.
He married second, Ann Scott (1763-1839 or 1764-1841), daughter of of George Scott and Mary Ayrault, and widow of William Robinson (1758-1804). They had one (adopted) daughter, their niece Ann Scott Mann, who married Thompson Skinner Brown.
The youngest son of Thompson and Ann Brown, John Preston Brown, died a few months before John Preston Mann at the age of 1 day and is buried with him in the same plot. They share a tombstone.
From the memoirs of his nephew, Gen. Horace Mann:
On the corner of Mann Avenue and Broadway, once the fashionable part of Newport, stands today an old manor house (erected about the year 1760), the home of a family once potent here, and whose memory among the oldest inhabitants is still highly revered. Those who can record the epoch of two or three generations ago, will see the old mansion not as now surrounded by limited grounds, but in the midst of acres {some 400) under high cultivation, and the place the abode of a profuse and elegant hospitality, which the great wealth and social position of the family allowed them to maintain. Here were entertained the first citizens of the Republic. Washington and Lafayette were frequent visitors during the stirring times of the Revolution; and the first families of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore as they passed through the State in their carriages (railroads then being unknown) invariably stopped to pay their respects to its inmates"-
The reputation for culture and refinement that Newport has so generally enjoyed is largely due to the blue blood possessors of this old mansion, at the head of which family in its generation was the courtly and elegant Preston Mann, M.D. a graduate of Brown university, a noble and upright man.
As a medical doctor he was only "de jure" -- his great wealth rendering practice unnecessary -- but he was consulted upon all critical cases.
Known as Preston Mann. Graduated from Brown University in 1776, and became a medical doctor in Newport. He married first, Mehetable Clark, February 2, 1782. She was born in 1766 in Jamestown, Newport County, RI, and died in 1803. Mehetable is also buried in this cemetery. They had no children.
He married second, Ann Scott (1763-1839 or 1764-1841), daughter of of George Scott and Mary Ayrault, and widow of William Robinson (1758-1804). They had one (adopted) daughter, their niece Ann Scott Mann, who married Thompson Skinner Brown.
The youngest son of Thompson and Ann Brown, John Preston Brown, died a few months before John Preston Mann at the age of 1 day and is buried with him in the same plot. They share a tombstone.
From the memoirs of his nephew, Gen. Horace Mann:
On the corner of Mann Avenue and Broadway, once the fashionable part of Newport, stands today an old manor house (erected about the year 1760), the home of a family once potent here, and whose memory among the oldest inhabitants is still highly revered. Those who can record the epoch of two or three generations ago, will see the old mansion not as now surrounded by limited grounds, but in the midst of acres {some 400) under high cultivation, and the place the abode of a profuse and elegant hospitality, which the great wealth and social position of the family allowed them to maintain. Here were entertained the first citizens of the Republic. Washington and Lafayette were frequent visitors during the stirring times of the Revolution; and the first families of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore as they passed through the State in their carriages (railroads then being unknown) invariably stopped to pay their respects to its inmates"-
The reputation for culture and refinement that Newport has so generally enjoyed is largely due to the blue blood possessors of this old mansion, at the head of which family in its generation was the courtly and elegant Preston Mann, M.D. a graduate of Brown university, a noble and upright man.
As a medical doctor he was only "de jure" -- his great wealth rendering practice unnecessary -- but he was consulted upon all critical cases.
He married second, Ann Scott (1763-1839 or 1764-1841), daughter of of George Scott and Mary Ayrault, and widow of William Robinson (1758-1804). They had one (adopted) daughter, their niece Ann Scott Mann, who married Thompson Skinner Brown.
The youngest son of Thompson and Ann Brown, John Preston Brown, died a few months before John Preston Mann at the age of 1 day and is buried with him in the same plot. They share a tombstone.
From the memoirs of his nephew, Gen. Horace Mann:
On the corner of Mann Avenue and Broadway, once the fashionable part of Newport, stands today an old manor house (erected about the year 1760), the home of a family once potent here, and whose memory among the oldest inhabitants is still highly revered. Those who can record the epoch of two or three generations ago, will see the old mansion not as now surrounded by limited grounds, but in the midst of acres {some 400) under high cultivation, and the place the abode of a profuse and elegant hospitality, which the great wealth and social position of the family allowed them to maintain. Here were entertained the first citizens of the Republic. Washington and Lafayette were frequent visitors during the stirring times of the Revolution; and the first families of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore as they passed through the State in their carriages (railroads then being unknown) invariably stopped to pay their respects to its inmates"-
The reputation for culture and refinement that Newport has so generally enjoyed is largely due to the blue blood possessors of this old mansion, at the head of which family in its generation was the courtly and elegant Preston Mann, M.D. a graduate of Brown university, a noble and upright man.
As a medical doctor he was only "de jure" -- his great wealth rendering practice unnecessary -- but he was consulted upon all critical cases.
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