The Browns of Wintonbury
Subtitle: makers of Brown drums
By: Frederick A. Hesketh.
Publisher: Wintonbury Historical Society
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Bloomfield, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Brown family.; Drum -- Connecticut -- Wintonbury.; Connecticut -- Genealogy.
Genres: Genealogy.
First sentence: In the late spring of 1999 the Town of Bloomfield and the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce announced plans for the inaugural edition of a planned annual Drum Festival.  The wintonbury Historical Society was asked to prepare documentation on the historhy of the Brown Drum FActory that producecd drums in times past.
Description: Traces the Brown Family from their roots in Windsor. Connecticut to the parish of Wintonbury, later to become the town of Bloomfield, and the family family members who constructed and sold the famous Brown Drums, of whom many have said, "A Brown Drum is to a drummer what a Stradivarius is to a violinist."
Notes: The book also includes a genealogical analysis of the descendants of Peter Brown (1623-1692), inclouding the familhy of drum makers for seven (7) generations, six (6) of which resided in Bloomfield.
Table of contents: label: ii
title: Frontispiece
pagenum: ii