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I have a copy of the Brown family history that was researched and written in Greene Co. Ohio. It gives the description of Godfrey Brown who was born in Brunswick Co in the mid 1700’s. He married Chaney Banks and they had 13 or 14 children. Samuel, his son married Ann Branham, their son Samuel Jr who was born in Ohio married Jenny Stewart and they had 10 or so children with one being my dad’s mom Allyne Vastie Brown. We all have a small pox scar in the middle of our foreheads, yet I have never had pox!! I know some of you who live in Virgina may have more information , I would love to know if anyone has a clue. I need to go to Brunswick to search but was told that there probably wasn’t any record of who Godfrey’s parents or family was. I know that there are many others who are looking for those mysterious Browns.
Any help would be appreciated!!!!!!!
tasheaka
Greetings Linda,
Seems there isn’t anyone responding regarding the Brown’s. I recall someone awhile back mentioned a Brown tie. I will keep looking.
tasheaka
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Greetings Linda,
Seems there isn’t anyone responding regarding the Brown’s. I recall someone awhile back mentioned a Brown tie. I will keep looking.
tasheaka
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My mother is from a tri-racial community in Brunswick called Greentown. I will post your question on the Greentown yahoogroup to see what response I get.
Barry Carter
hello. I live in Brunswick county, and am about 7 miles from the courthouse. They do have records dating back a ways. Can I help in any way? I search extensively for native american artifacts on the meherrin river here in brunswick co., and am very interested in learning about and preserving the past.
Robert amasai123@hotmail.com
my great-great-grandparents were brown’s. gggrandpa — david b brown (1820-1865). his parents were john (1785-1838) and mary (maiden name unknown) brown (1801-past1870? & b4 1880) — but are in alabama in 1820s, then arkansas b4 movin’ to chickasaw nation in south-central oklahoma. they married into the richey family and my richey’s were the ones from virginia (ri(t)ch(ie)ey, wayland, wood/s, dickson or dixon). my browns were related to gist/guess/t & looney cherokee surnames, & by extection others, old settler & chickamaugan surnames. we still live here in oklahoma.
unfortunately, brown is a very common surname and it is hard to trace. for instance, on reservation and emigration rolls (both begun in 1818) of cherokee you find the name “john brown” six times! good luck.
vance hawkins
hi Linda,
No I don’t know Airy Dixon. John Richey (1797-1861) married Mary (Polly) Wood (1801-1870s?). Mary’s father married a “Dickson” girl. But I’ve seen the Richey name spelled so many ways, each census taker spelled it differently it seems(Richey, Richie, Ritchie, Ritchey and perhaps others I haven’t seen yet
) — and I’ve seen both Wood and Woods for my Wood(s) line, too. So when I saw the “Dickson” surname, I just thought somewhere it was probably converted to Dixon, but I have not seen it in my line like that, but then I only have one Dickson I know of as an ancestor, born about the time of the Revolutionary War or slightly before it started. We know nothing about her family or parents. We only know a little about the Wood(s) because future generations of Richey’s also married Wood’s people also.Yes, I’d like to know more about Airy Dixon. Thank you.
vance hawkins
I’ll have to dig up his address and sent it in an email. He’s a professor in Ithaca New York, a Saponi descendant who has done a great deal of high quality research. Remind me if I don’t get it tomorrow.
Linda, you asked me to remind you . . . you can write me at cwyhawkins@yahoo.com if you like, about Airy Dixon.
again, thanks
vance
Three Eagles,
Funny what a small world we live in, I have sisters and brothers who live in and around Zanesville. Do you recall a place called Putnam Hill? My family in that area are Goins, Gibson, Anderson’s and Tate. You are right about the names in the area’s where “OUR” people live being the same as some in NC and VA. The family’s settled and called their new home area by names of their original homes. Many do not know that southern ohio has quite a large number of ndn people hidden in small communities scatter among the border of Wayne National Forest itself, looking at the Ohio map you will see what a large area WNF covers.
tasheaka
Three Eagles,
As I had mentioned before it is very hard for the NDN people of Ohio. I personally try to maintain a relationship with all our people, Ohio, Virgina, North Carolina, South Carolina and especially those in New York and Canada. The last two states in particular have opened their arms to our people because they know us and recognize us, they include us, share knowledge with us as family should do. It does’nt matter to them that our families migrated from one state to the other because they KNOW Why this was!!! Once again I say that Ohio is not a good state for our people, period.
tasheaka
Three Eagles:
The Gibson/Gipson folks were among my Collins tribe that migerated to the Flatt River (Granville Co.NC) about 1755.
Brenda
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