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From: Rick and Corliss Davis <>
Subject: Browns
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 00:16:25 +0000


The Fairfax (VA) MM records in Volume 6 of Hinshaw clarify the various
Browns listed by Cheska Wheatley and Sarah Shaw Tatounova.

Richard Brown (born 3-31-1693) was the son of William Brown, immigrant, by
his second wife Ann (Mercer). Richard married:
(1) 11-6-1717, Hannah Reynolds (this matches the witness list for
Richard's half-sister Mary's wedding to William Reynolds).
They had four children: Richard, Henry, William, and John.
(Hinshaw gives birth dates)
(2) 2-9-1731, Rachel Beeson. No mention of any children by this wife.
(3) 10-24-1733, Mary Norton, daughter of Edward, deceased, of
Armagh, Ireland. They had three children: Richard, Joseph,
and Mercer. The first two died young, but Mercer (born
7-7-1740)is shown as mou to Sarah

The same MM records show this same Mercer Brown has being married mou "by a
priest in Carolina" and dis 5-31-1764. They were reinstated by request
9-26-1770. Mercer Brown, his wife Sarah, and their children Richard, Sarah,
Ann, margaret, Phebe, and Mercer were gct to Bush River MM on 11-25-1784.

So, to answer Sarah's question: yes, the Mercer Brown listed as a
Wrightsboro resident was the son of Mary Brown's half-brother Richard.

The children of Mercer and Sarah Brown are as Cheska listed them, except I
have another Mercer Brown, born 8 January 1780. This child must have died
in infancy, for the surviving Mercer Brown was born 8-20-1781. I got this
information from the International Genealogical Index.

Mercer and Sarah Brown are my 4gg-parents. I am descended from their son
Mercer, who married Mary Smith of Union Co., SC, and moved first to Preble
County, Ohio, then to Vermilion County, Illinois.

Finally, Cheska, yes, the Richard Brown married to Mary (born 5-27-1769) was
indeed the son of the above Mercer Brown. Mary was Mary Embree, and their
marriage is shown in the Elk MM (Preble Co., OH) records in Hinshaw's Volume
5.

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