MS 225
Horticulturalist’s diary, 1788-1808.
[137] p.
Hopkinton, New Hampshire farmer.
Originally from Sudbury, Massachusetts, Brown was a Quaker horticulturalist. He moved to Hopkinton before the Revolution and became a successful farmer who gave special attention to his fruit stock. He had extensive apple orchards as well as plum and peach trees. Most of the primitive orchards in the town and in surrounding towns were the products of his stock. He died on April 23, 1812 aged 65.
Brown recorded his principal activities in brief entries in the handmade diary, which consists of ten fascicles sewn together.