He married a second time, as his first wife died young, and moved back to the United States.

[2][4][6] The Browns moved to New Zealand and settled in a farming community on the Eyre River near Christchurch.

[5] Brown contested the Ashley electorate in the 1871 general election against Albert Charles Gray and William Miles Maskell.

[15] Brown announced several months before the 1879 general election that he would not stand again for Ashley, but that he may consider contesting another electorate.

[20] Brown contested the St Albans electorate in the 9 December 1881 general election with J. L. Wilson and A. W. O'Neill.

[5] John Evans Brown, the youngest son, died only five days later on 10 February 1877, aged 11 months.

[33] Henry Richard Webb married one of the Peacock sisters in 1857 in Sydney and emigrated to New Zealand in 1868.

[27] He succeeded John Thomas Peacock in the Lyttelton electorate in 1873, and held the seat until the end of 1875.

[34][35] Francis James Garrick (1833–1890), from Sydney, married Theresa's oldest sister, Elizabeth.

[6] Brown remarried on 20 December 1883, to Jane (Emily) Martin, at St Peter's Church in Wellington.

They left Lyttelton on 30 August 1884 (the same year as his father died) on board the Tongariro, sailing for Rio de Janeiro.

His daughter Kate Elizabeth married at Asheville on 18 November 1892, had three children and died in New York.