My Brown ancestor was in Sumner County TN with descendants to Stewart County. Have you associated a Walter Brown with your family? 1820 United States Federal Census - VIRGINIA Name: Walter Brown Township: New Canton County: Buckingham State: VA Males: 1001 Females: 1001 Slaves: 0 Year: 1820 Roll: M33_132 Page: 143 Image Number: 115 1820 Census of Sumner Co TN, Walter is not listed. 1830 Census of Sumner Co TN Brown, Walter males 000001 females 21101 1838 - Scholastic Population, 1838, District 4, Sumner County, TN, Cairo, June, 1838, A List of the Scholastic population between the ages of 6 and 16 years in District (No. 4), Sumner County, Tennessee. http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/scdist4.htm Source: Loose Records Microfilm, Miscellaneous Category, Item 39, Sumner County Archives - Transcribed and submitted by Linda Carpenter, Danene Vincent & Diane Payne Names of Parents/Guardian: Walter Brown District 4, # of children: 4 ***So, 1838, Sumner County TN District 4, Scholastic Population Schedule lists Walter Brown with 4 children between the ages of 6 and 16 years old. ********************* 1840 Census of Sumner Co TN Brown, Walter males 0100001 females 311101 So it looks like Clarissa had some older sisters. 1850 & Prior - No Sumner County marriage record located. 1850 Census Sumner Co. TN District 4 4/156/414 Walter Brown 57 m Miller VA Sophy 49 f VA Clarissa 18 f TN (born about 1832) Mary 15 f TN Margarett 12 f TN Matilda 8 f TN James P. 5 m TN Joseph 16 m farmer TN 1860 Sumner Co. Census - Family not located. 1870 Census of Sumner Co TN, in District 17, Walter Brown is living very near John and Clarissa Myers in the household of his son. BROWN, James 21, TN wife Mary 18 dau Martha 3 months father Walter 84, VA, widowed 1880 Sumner Co. TN - Families not located. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1880 Census Sumner Co - do not find James and Mary Brown. ***************************************************** [email protected] wrote: I am researching the Joel BROWN family and am interested in a daughter named Peggy who may be the Margarette BROWN who married William PAYNE abt 1821. This is what I know. Joel BROWN b. between 1730-1740 (based on 1830 census) in NC; d. abt 1835; wife has been listed as Mary SEAY b. 1750-1760 in NC; d between 1830-1840 They started out in NC. They married about 1776 and lived in Bertie NC. All children appear to be born in NC and are spread between the years 1777 and 1801. There were a total of 5 sons 3 of whom may have stayed in NC. They may have moved westward to Randolph co, NC, before arriving in TN after 1801. Joel BROWN wrote a will (Will Book 1788-1842 Sumner Co., TN) dated 4 March 1834 and proved 1835-6. The synopsis lists eldest son John Brown. Second son Stephen Brown. Daughter Polly Acrey. Son John Brown. Daughter Peggy Payne. Daughter Raney Laseter. Appoints Jesse Laseter and John Brown executors. The daughter Polly (Mary) was born between 1774-1790 and it has been listed as b. 1777. She may be the wife of John ACREE also of Bertie NC. They moved to TN and lived in Stewart Co. "Raney" is Lourana b. 1796 and she married Jesse LASSITER in 1826. She lived until 10 July 1870 according to one website, although she was listed on the census just 2 days before that in Stewart Co. I cannot nail down which John BROWN may have been the son. Nor can I find a Stephen BROWN living in TN at the time of Joel's death. I am trying to place Margarette BROWN in this family, possibly as the daughter "Peggy" who was born between 1794 and 1804. My Margarette BROWN was born about 1801 in NC and she married William PAYNE abt 1821 in Davidson Co, TN. According to the Christian Advocate she died in 1853 at the age of 52. She named her PAYNE children Robert, Greenwood, William, Mary Malvina, Martha Margaret, and Priscilla and one female died as a child. They lived in Davidson County in 1830 and 1840 census and are in Sumner County (with half the farm in Robertson Co ) in the 1850 census. I welcome your checking your database for any of these names and appreciate any help you listers can give me. Thanks a bunch. Ida Deal ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.