Empson Brownfield

ID: I10161

Name: Empson BROWNFIELD

Sex: M

Birth: ABT 1742 in Virginia

Death: ABT 1801 in Hardin Co, KY

Note:

In 1772 & 1773 he appeared on the Bedford Co, PA tax list.

He owned property at 47 Elbow St in Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA in 1776.

Empson BROWNFIELD opened a tavern in 1785. He had purchased March 7, 1780, lot 39 [in Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA] lying between John COLLINS' house and the old mill race, but had not occupied it and it does not appear that he was a resident in the village for his name is found as a supervisor of highways in Georges township in 1784. But in 1785 having asked and received a license to keep a public house, he opened a tavern on his lot adjoining COLLINS and continued to keep it until 1790.

Empson Brownfield took up 295 acres of land on the waters of Georges Creek, but near the waters of Redstone Creek, partly on the dividing ridge and on the road leading from the gap of the mountain to Cheat River, in Georges township. This land was surveyed Dec. 28, 1785, "by virtue of certificate from the Commissioners of Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties for 400 acres of land on the waters of Redstone Creek, to include his settlement made in 1770."

In the year 1776, Empson Brownfield's name appears in the list of purchaseres of lots in Uniontown, or Beesontown. In 1784 he purchased a lot in Uniontown, upon which he later built and kept a tavern. It is said that he was the first to start a store in Uniontown, for which he brought the goods over the mountains on pack-horses. After a few years he, too, removed with his family to Kentucky.

Head of household in 1790 census living in Union Township, Fayette County, PA with 2 males over 15, 2 males under 16, & 3 females.

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Father: Charles BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1713 in Scotland

Mother: Elizabeth "Betsy" BIRD b: 15 SEP 1718 in New Castle, Delaware

Marriage 1 Charity ASHCRAFT

Married:

Children

William BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1773 in Pennsylvania

George BROWNFIELD b: 23 OCT 1773 in Fayette Co, PA
Charles BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1780 in Pennsylvania
Sources:

birth, death, spouse from worldconnect.rootsweb.com, database = "jeanray"

http://easternusresearch.com/easternusresearch/faye/TavernKeepers.html

1790 census for PA, Fayette Co, Union Twp, p 110

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~beeson/utownplat.html

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/bedford/taxlist/1773-tax.txt

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/taxlist/1772taxl... (

History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (1882) from Ancestry.com