Southern Biographies and Genealogies, 1500s-1940s The Brown Family. There lies before me a patent for land in the South Fork of the Gourdvine River, from Lord Fairfax, proprietor of the Northern Neck, to John Brown; he paying every year the free rent of one shilling sterling for every 50 acres, on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. It is dated 22d June, in the 20th year of our Sovereign Lord George II., by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, and Defender of the Faith, A. D. 1749. (Signed) FAIRFAX. This land was surveyed by Major Philip Clayton, and it adjoins the land of Thomas Howison and Wm. Brown. It appears in the vestry-book that Daniel Brown was sheriff and collector of the parish levy. Coleman Brown was clerk and lay reader in the church. Thomas Brown was undertaker of a chapel in the Little Fork; and Capt. Wm. Brown was the contractor for an addition to Buck Run Church. These are the ancestors of the late Armistead and Daniel Brown and their families Southern Biographies and Genealogies, 1500s-1940s Armistead Brown, Peggy Collins, 1792; Ezekiel Brown m.Sarah Long, 1786; Dan. Brown m. Peggy Covington,1794; Jno. Brown m. Phoebe Brown, 1787; Chas. Brown m. Nanny Hall, 1794; Henry P. Brown m.Hannah Butler,'98; Nich. Brown m. Nancy Cardwell, 1799; Evans Brown,Mary Anne Williams,1802 Jas. Brown m. Sallie Jett, 1803; Wm. Brown m. Mary Griffin, 1807; Jas. Brown m. Mary Smith, 1804; Jno. Brown m. Caty Ramey, 1804; Jno. Pow. Brown,Isabel. Thompson,'11; Enoch Brown m. Sallie Yates, 1800; Norman Brown m. Gracy Reesee,'18; Jas. Brown m. Kitty Morris, 1814; Robertson Brown m Nancy Bishop,'22; Wm. Brown m. Sarah Ficklin, 1816 June