----- Original Message ----- From: <cosgenealogy@united.net> To: <TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:58 AM Subject: [TNBEDFOR] Re: Need help please!!!!!!!! Daniel Brown died 1834 Bedford County Virginia > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Brown, Leftwich, Yates, Hall, Moore, Dent, Mitchell > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IhB.2ACI/568.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Tanya, > > Strangely, Browns from Bedford Co, VA came to Bedford Co, TN. And, there > is a book in the TN State Library and Archives with a section about this > Brown family, Mead Relations by A. M. Prichard. This family is full of > Daniel Browns, beginning with Daniel Brown born maybe about 1720 in New > Jersey, who had a son Daniel who married Lucy Leftwich, perhaps daughter > of Augustine Leftwich (some of this family came to Bedford Co, TN). > > This Daniel Brown was father of a Shadrack Brown. There were two Shadrack > Brown marriages in Bedford Co, VA: 1787 to Hannah Mitchell and 1799 to > Tabitha Hall. I have seen it said they were both the same man. I am not > sure that is correct. At any rate the Shadrack Brown who married Tabitha > Hall definitely came to Bedford Co, TN and stayed, raised a large family > here and Tabitha lived long enough for her will to be one of the earliest > that survived the courthouse fire. > > Other Daniel Browns: Henry (brother of Daniel b. 1720) had Daniel b. > 1770, married Mary Hancock in 1803 and Daniel, son of Samuel (another son > of Henry) and Mary Moore Brown who married 1798 (so this Daniel born after > 1798). > > Another Brown family from Bedford Co, VA to Bedford Co, TN--if connected > to those above, I don't know how: Hezekiah Brown, under 18 when his > father made his will in Aug 1795 in Bedford Co, VA. Joseph Brown and wife > Elizabeth (thought to be Elizabeth Dent) were parents of Hezekiah. I > believe he was the Hezekiah who came to Bedford Co, TN because this family > was associated with the John Yates family in Bedford Co, VA. > > > > > > ==== TNBEDFOR Mailing List ==== > Visit the Bedford County Archives at Rootsweb: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tn/bedford.htm > > Please contribute! > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >