Archibald Brown, born 1720-1740?. Died in 1795, .probably left Isle of Jura or mainland  Argyll, western Scotland. Married Agnes Drake ? They and son, Andrew  Brown, Sr., daughter Ann (who married William Hughes) arrived in central North Carolina 1765-1780, farmed on Lick  Creek in Chatham County, NC.( now in Lee Co, NC) Andrew Brown, Sr (about 1760-1819) married Mary McLaughlin/McLachlan,     Children of Andrew Brown, Sr & Mary McLaughlin: Nancy (married Abner Harrington) Mary (married Joseph Parham) Elizabeth (married William Wicker) James (married Susannah Higton) Archibald (married Patsy Brewer, 2nd married Rebecca Kelly) William (no marriage listed) Alexander (no marriage listed) Andrew Jr (married Nancy Hinton Minter) Sarah (married Major John Thomas) Matthew Drake ( no marriage listed) Eleanor (married Wesley Thomas)   Children of Andrew Brown Jr & Nancy Hinton Minter (supposedly my great great grandparents)   Eliza Jane (married Richard S. Marks—2nd married Charles G. Harrington) William Lewis John (married Susan McCormick) Mary Antoinette (married Robert Edward Rives, 2nd married Presley John Snipes, 3rd married Larkin Morelin, 4th married _____Harrington) Burwell W, (married Laura H. Cross) Louisa (married Duncan McCormick) Alexander Hinton (married Mary Elizabeth Cross) Alexander served in CSA—Co H, 30th NC Infantry Regiment—wounded at Battle of Kelly’s Ford, Va—POW and was in the “Immortal 600” – Confederate prisoners used by the Yankees as human shields during CSA attacks and bombardment.     Other children of Andrew Brown Jr & Nancy Hinton Minter:   Permelia (married John Campbell)  Anna (married Thomas W. Harrington)   Parents of Nancy Hinton Minter – William Lewis Hinton & Temperance Williams.   In her 1st marriage to Joseph Minter,  Nancy had at least two children…names unknown.   Andrew Brown Jr (1803-1883 had a twin brother named Alexander who seems to just disappear after birth…but there is no record in Chatham Co, NC of his death. I think my GG great grandfather, named Alexander Brown (born about 1825 in NC, died in Lincoln or Drew Co, Ark about 1874) may have been the son of Andrew Brown Jr or his twin, Alexander, but have no proof.    These Browns were related, in Chatham, Moore, Harnett and possibly other NC counties to McCormick, Cross,  McLeod, Wicker, Hinton, Thomas, Marks, Harrington, Lawrence, McLeod, and others.   Bill Brown – Richardson, Texas