Moses Brown


Region Occupation Born Died
North America, New England Businessman 1738 1836

One the Providence-born principals with his three brothers in Nicholas Brown & Company. Participant in the financing of slavetrading ventures in the 1750s and 1760s, but later became actively opposed to slavery and the slave trade.

Sources

Robert A. McCaughey
Browns of Providence Plantations; Colonial Years (1952)

Images

Moses Brown

Public Domain Source

Related People

Obadiah Brown
Nicholas Brown
John Brown
James Brown
Joseph Brown

Related Ships

Wheel of Fortune (1759)
Sally (1764)

External Additional Sources

http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/sally/

Compiler

Peter Richards