1750. A "Chapel of ease" was ordered at the Little Fork, and the vestry agreed to meet at or near the old muster-field at the forks of the road, to choose the site, and contract with Thomas Brown to undertake it. (Source: Historical Notes on Culpeper County, VA...St. Mark's Parish; Green Notes) The Brown Family (source same as above) 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 The land was surveyed by Major Philip Clayton, and it adjoins the land of Thomas Howison and William 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. William Brown was the contractor for an addition to Buck Run Church. These are the ancestors of the late Armistead and Daniel Brown ad their families. June