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From: Bill Blackburn <>
Subject: Re: Browns & MERCER
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 02:38:33 -0700

copy of message semt earlier today (Sunday):

I am interested in the connection of your Mercer Brown with my MERCER
family.
I am descended from Patience Mercer born 1731, who had a sister Ann born
1720.
Their father Thomas Mercer born 1690-94 also had a sister Ann. I have
not
previously seen any BROWN connection, so any tie-in you can make will be
appreciated.

My MERCERS are from Northamptonshire England, and associated family
names are
Greenaway, Pennell, and Taylor.

Please let me know if you want more information.

Best Wishes,

Bill Blackburn
Mt. Shasta, CA
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Rick and Corliss Davis wrote:

> 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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