IMMIGRANT William Brown^{[1, 2]}

1658 - 1746  (88 years)

• Name	William Brown
  Title	IMMIGRANT
  Born	29 Mar 1658	Puddington, Northamaptonshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Jun 1746
  	Prob. Chester, PA
  Person ID	I547445723	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of William Brown
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family 1	Dorothy Presnell,   b. Est 1657, Colonial Maryland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Joseph Brown,   b. 12 Apr 1682, ENGLAND ,   d. 1716, Colony of America  (Age 33 years)
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2015
  Family ID	F518494646	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Ann Mercer,   b. Abt 1662, Virginia Colony ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Mercer Brown,   b. 27 Feb 1685, Colonial Virginia ,   d. Abt 1733  (Age 47 years) + 2. Ann Brown,   b. 1 Oct 1687, Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. John Brown,   b. 3 May 1691, Pennsylvania or Delaware ,   d. 1715  (Age 23 years) + 4. Richard (13) Brown,   b. 31 Mar 1693, Chester County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 10 Apr 1745  (Age 52 years) + 5. Thomas Francis Brown,   b. 17 Nov 1694, Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2023
  Family ID	F2220	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Catherine Williams,   b. Abt 1675,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	2 Oct 1699	Concord, Chester, Pennsylvania
  Children	+ 1. Mary Brown,   b. 29 Apr 1706, Chester Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 19 Nov 1738, Chester Co., Pennsylvania  (Age 32 years) + 2. Hannah Brown,   b. 29 Apr 1706, East Nottingham, Chester Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 12 Feb 1731, West Nottingham, Pennsylvania  (Age 24 years) + 3. Samuel Brown,   b. 12 Aug 1700, Maryland or Pennsylvania ,   d. 20 Jan 1746  (Age 45 years)
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2023
  Family ID	F3572	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 4	Mary Matthews
  Married	1711
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2023
  Family ID	F518494648	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Histories

  Browns of Nottingham Pennsylvania Bowns of Nottingham, Penna.pdf

  
  

• Notes

  http://archive.org/stream/genealogyofbrown00brow/genealogyofbrown00brow_djvu.txt In Hotten's List oi Pilgrims to America, 1600-1700, we find under date of Feb. 16, 1632, in a list of the living and dead, the names of Christopher Browne, William Browne, Weston Browne, Nich. Browne, and Robert Browne. The name, John Browne, appears three times. The name of Wm. Broun is mentioned in King James I's second charter to the Treasurer of the Virginia Company, dated May 23, 1601). Wm. Broun whs Burgess for Surrey County in the Virginia Assembly of 1660. ++++++++++++++++ https://archive.org/stream/originallistsofp00hottuoft/originallistsofp00hottuoft_djvu.txt Full text of "The original lists of persons of quality; immigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England" http://archive.org/stream/genealogyofbrown00brow/genealogyofbrown00brow_djvu.txt Fort James on the Chicahomany River, in James City County, was ceded to Thomas Rolfe, the son of Pokahontas. Following is tin: caption of a deed for the aforesaid Fort, recorded in James City County Court: "This indenture made 1st Oct., 1698, between John Boiling, of the County of Henrico, and Parish of Varina, Gent., son and heir of Jane, late wife of Robert Boiling, of Charles City County, Gent., which Jane was the only daughter of Thomas Rolf:, dec'd; and William Brown of Wilmington Parish, in the County of James City, for one thousand acres of land, commonly called "The Fort" on Chickahominy River, as per patent granted to Thomas Rolfe. (Signed) JOHN BOLLING." http://archive.org/stream/genealogyofbrown00brow/genealogyofbrown00brow_djvu.txt One of these may have been the pioneer ancestor of the family in America, hut in the absence of proof it would be meere guess work and idle speculation to assume that such is the case. William Brown, the earliest ancestor of whom we have definite information, resided in Stafford County, Virginia. A search of the records reveals t tie fact that Leonard Barker conveyed to William Brown, by deeds of lease and release bearing date of April 20th and April 18th. 1726 a tract of 21 2| acres of land on Powell's Run and the branches thereof, m the County of Stafford, (now Prince William). Virginia. Following is the history of the formation of Stafford, Prince William and Fauquier Counties hereafter referred to: In the year 1618 the Colony of Northumberland was formed, (at first called Chickawane, or Chickown), and declared by an act of that year to contain the "Neck of land between Rappahannock River ami Potomack River." Westmoreland was formed from Northumberland in 1058. Stafford was formed from Westmoreland in 1075. Prince William was formed in 1730 from Stafford and included all the territory now embraced in Prince William, Fairfax, Fauquier and Loudoun. The District of Columbia was formed from Fairfax after that County was cut off from Prince William. Fauquier County was formed from a portion of Prince William in the year 1759. By his will, bearing date of December 29, 1732, Wm. Brown devised this land to his son, William Brown, Jr., also of Prince William Count, Virginia. Careful and painstaking research has failed to reveal the place and date of his birth or death. The records show, however, that he and his wife were both buried in the family burying ground comprising one acre of the above mentioned land set apart for that purpose, near what is now the Post Office of Independent Hill, a few miles south of Manassas, Virginia. The name of his wife has not been ascertained, but that she lived for some years after his death seems probable, for on July 24th, 1744, their three orphan boys, William Brown, John Brown and George Brown were placed under the guardianship of George Byrn and Cuthbert Harrison, gentlemen, as evidenced by the following bond: (Will Book C., page 511, Prince William County Records). "Know all men by these presents that we, George Byrn and Cuthbert Harrison, gent., are held and firmly bound unto Robert Souers, Richard Blackburn, Benjamin Grayson, John Wright, gentlemen, Justices of the County of Prince William, their heirs and successors, in the sum of five hundred pounds sterling to the which payment well and truly be made we bind ourselves, our heirs, and administrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals, dated this 21th day of July in the year of our lord 1744. The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bound George Byrn, Guardian of William Broun. Jno Brown arid George Brown, his heirs, executors and administrators do and shall well and truly pay unto these orphans all such, estate and estates as now is or hereafter shall come into the hands or the possession of the said George Byrn so soon as the said orphans shall attain to lawful age or when thereunto required by the aforesaid Court of Prince William and shall also well and truly save harmless and indemnified the said Justices their heirs and successors from all trouble and damage that shall or may be about the said estate. Then the said obligation to be void and of no effect or else to remain in full force and virtue.

  
  

• Sources

  [S100] Internet Source, http://martisgenes.info/p87.htm#i1023. Warren E. Pickett, John Piggott Sr. (1680?-1738) of Susquehannah Hundred in Cecil County Maryland together with some account of the Browne and Clayton Families from whom his wife Margarey Brown Piggott descended.Page 15 & 17 ~William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, p. 473, 686. James E. Bellarts, The Quaker Yeoman, A Quarterly Newsletter of Quaker and Related Genealogy. Warren E. Pickett, John Piggott Sr. (1680?-1738) of Susquehannah Hundred in Cecil County Maryland together with some account of the Browne and Clayton Families from whom his wife Margarey Brown Piggott descended.Page 15 & 17 ~William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, p. 473, 686. James E. Bellarts, The Quaker Yeoman, A Quarterly Newsletter of Quaker and Related Genealogy. [S126] United States Archives, https://archive.org/stream/originallistsofp00hottuoft/originallistsofp00hottuoft_djvu.txt. THE under-written names are to be transported to Virginia imbarqued in the Primrose Capten DOUGLASS, Mr. Certificate under ye Ministers hand of Gravesend, being examined by him touching their Conformitie to the Church Discipline of England The Men have taken the oaths of allegeance f Supremacie. W M BROWNE 19 [S230] Memoir, The Browns of Nottingham. Mrs. Patterson has proven to be a most intersting as well as interested help. Besides much of the early Brown material, that on the Elgers came from her and she referred me to "The Six-Quaker Clockmakers." Her husband, Henry C. Patterson is a descendant of William Brown and his third wife Catharine Williams.