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!