I have no information on Garfield Brown prior to 1742. He is mentioned in Louisa county several times in the 1742 - 1746 time frame. I find him next in Culpeper county and dying there in 1796. In the past I checked with the Library of Virginia regarding Gaffield possibly being Garfield. They stated the name on the revolutionary records were clearly for Gaffield. I did find that the records for Carfield Brown were clearly for Garfield. As far as a "living" male descendant goes, I am a direct descendant of Garfield. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [VACULPEP] Information on Armstead or Armistead Brown > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.culpeper/2900.2.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > There is one (and only one) post on the Internet about a Henry Brown and > his wife Elizabeth who were supposedly the parents of four Brown sons in > Middlesex Co., VA in the real early 1700s. One of those four men is shown > in that post as "Gaffield" Brown (born 1707), but some have questioned if > that was actually "Garfield" Brown. As I recall, one or two other records > that I found on the Internet show that this Henry Brown was supposedly > married to an Elizabeth Coleman, but we KNOW that a different man named > Daniel Brown (from Essex Co., VA) was married to an Elizabeth Coleman. As > such, it is unclear if the above Henry Brown was REALLY married to an > Elizabeth Coleman, and it also unclear if this Brown family in Middlesex > was "blood related" to the "Essex Co., VA Brown family" (which also had > several men in it named Henry Brown). The above-mentioned Daniel and > Elizabeth (Coleman) Brown from Essex Co., VA moved to the > Spotsylvania/Orange Co., VA area that became Culpepper Co.! > , VA, so some connection to your Garfield Brown is at least possible, it > would seem. > > Do you have any idea if the above "Gaffield" Brown in Middlesex was > actually the same man as your "Garfield" Brown? Is there a living Brown > male in Garfield's line who would/could join the Brown DNA testing project > (we finally have a known representative from the "Essex Browns" currently > in that testing project to whom such a man's results could be compared). > Thanks! > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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