Mary Fox was the second wife of Nathaniel Brown (following his divorce from Abigail Colesworthy).
Mary Fox was the daughter of Col. Jonathan Fox (1716-1790) of Woburn and his wife Ruth Carter (1720-1786).
Jonathan Fox's grandfather, Edward Tyng, was appointed governor of Annapolis, Nova Scotia; he was captured by the French and carried to France, and there died.
Note: "After the fall of Port-Royal in 1690, when Massachusetts claimed Acadia or Nova Scotia, Tyng was selected as its governor. He visited Port-Royal in 1691, in a vessel owned and commanded by John Nelson, a Boston merchant and the chief heir of Sir Thomas Temple. But finding that the inhabitants would give him no guarantee against Indian attacks, he declined to remain. On the way back to Boston, Nelson’s vessel called at Saint John, where it was captured by a French frigate, Soleil d’Afrique, commanded by Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure. Joseph Robinau de Villebon, the new French governor of Acadia, was on board this ship. Tyng, Nelson, and young William Alden were held as hostages, while John Alden took the ketch on parole to Boston with a letter to the governor requesting an exchange of prisoners. Satisfactory arrangements not being made, Tyng was subsequently sent to Quebec, to be transferred later to France, where he died in captivity at La Rochelle."
Mary Fox was the daughter of Col. Jonathan Fox (1716-1790) of Woburn and his wife Ruth Carter (1720-1786).
Jonathan Fox's grandfather, Edward Tyng, was appointed governor of Annapolis, Nova Scotia; he was captured by the French and carried to France, and there died.
Note: "After the fall of Port-Royal in 1690, when Massachusetts claimed Acadia or Nova Scotia, Tyng was selected as its governor. He visited Port-Royal in 1691, in a vessel owned and commanded by John Nelson, a Boston merchant and the chief heir of Sir Thomas Temple. But finding that the inhabitants would give him no guarantee against Indian attacks, he declined to remain. On the way back to Boston, Nelson’s vessel called at Saint John, where it was captured by a French frigate, Soleil d’Afrique, commanded by Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure. Joseph Robinau de Villebon, the new French governor of Acadia, was on board this ship. Tyng, Nelson, and young William Alden were held as hostages, while John Alden took the ketch on parole to Boston with a letter to the governor requesting an exchange of prisoners. Satisfactory arrangements not being made, Tyng was subsequently sent to Quebec, to be transferred later to France, where he died in captivity at La Rochelle."
Mary Fox was the second wife of Nathaniel Brown (following his divorce from Abigail Colesworthy).
Mary Fox was the daughter of Col. Jonathan Fox (1716-1790) of Woburn and his wife Ruth Carter (1720-1786).
Jonathan Fox's grandfather, Edward Tyng, was appointed governor of Annapolis, Nova Scotia; he was captured by the French and carried to France, and there died.
Note: "After the fall of Port-Royal in 1690, when Massachusetts claimed Acadia or Nova Scotia, Tyng was selected as its governor. He visited Port-Royal in 1691, in a vessel owned and commanded by John Nelson, a Boston merchant and the chief heir of Sir Thomas Temple. But finding that the inhabitants would give him no guarantee against Indian attacks, he declined to remain. On the way back to Boston, Nelson’s vessel called at Saint John, where it was captured by a French frigate, Soleil d’Afrique, commanded by Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure. Joseph Robinau de Villebon, the new French governor of Acadia, was on board this ship. Tyng, Nelson, and young William Alden were held as hostages, while John Alden took the ketch on parole to Boston with a letter to the governor requesting an exchange of prisoners. Satisfactory arrangements not being made, Tyng was subsequently sent to Quebec, to be transferred later to France, where he died in captivity at La Rochelle."
Mary Fox was the daughter of Col. Jonathan Fox (1716-1790) of Woburn and his wife Ruth Carter (1720-1786).
Jonathan Fox's grandfather, Edward Tyng, was appointed governor of Annapolis, Nova Scotia; he was captured by the French and carried to France, and there died.
Note: "After the fall of Port-Royal in 1690, when Massachusetts claimed Acadia or Nova Scotia, Tyng was selected as its governor. He visited Port-Royal in 1691, in a vessel owned and commanded by John Nelson, a Boston merchant and the chief heir of Sir Thomas Temple. But finding that the inhabitants would give him no guarantee against Indian attacks, he declined to remain. On the way back to Boston, Nelson’s vessel called at Saint John, where it was captured by a French frigate, Soleil d’Afrique, commanded by Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure. Joseph Robinau de Villebon, the new French governor of Acadia, was on board this ship. Tyng, Nelson, and young William Alden were held as hostages, while John Alden took the ketch on parole to Boston with a letter to the governor requesting an exchange of prisoners. Satisfactory arrangements not being made, Tyng was subsequently sent to Quebec, to be transferred later to France, where he died in captivity at La Rochelle."
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