I am searching for the ancestry of my grgrgrandfather John Brown (so called). He came to Newport, RI in 1806 according to his Naturalization papers, but the name of his birth place in Portugal is crossed out. He married Mary Chase in Freetown, Bristol Co., 4 Feb. 1810, and lived there until his death 24 Jan. 1876. My father wrote John's true name as Jean Braun on the back of a photo of him. In the 1850 & 1860 U.S. Census, his birth country was listed as Italy. He was a mariner.
Bob Brown