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.