John B. Browning

John Browning settled at the foot of Aaron's Mountain, near Laurel Mills, now in Rappahannock Co, VA, on the plantation given him by his father-in-law, Capt John Strother. At the beginning of the Revolution he enlisted and was at Valley Forge; he served through the eight years of the War, refusing a discharge offered him on account of broken health, and was in the Yorktown Campaign. When the flag-staff was shot in two, while he was carrying it, he raised it again aloft and carried it to the end of the Battle (Yorktown). He was buried in the family burial ground at his home place. After his death his widow came to Logan Co, KY, where she died and was buried. (From D P Browning to the complier of The Strother Family, 1920)

NSDAR: #120952, Mrs Virginia Yates Weatherhead, DAR Patriot Index, Vol. 121, p 295, 1918. John enlisted at the first call for troops and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of lieutenant and was with the Army at Valley Forge and siege of Yorktown. He was born and died in Culpeper Co, VA. NSDAR: #109005, Miss Ethel Virginia Heaford, DAR Patriot Index, Vol 110, p 2, Same. Also #91345. DAR Lineage Book, Vol 92, p 111-112, 1912, Mrs Elizabeth Barrett (Browning) Smith: also #77463, ibid, Vol 78, p 179, 1910, Mrs Jenneye D (Anderson) Brown.

F L Burdette states the official record read: Browning, John, 8th Company, 2nd Regiment in Continental Army, Col Spotswood--1st private, 2nd ensign, and 3rd lieutenant.

NSSAR Patriot Index: Service as Lt, AL #00260 lists wife and children Sarah, Lucy and George S Browning and their spouses.

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John Browning settled at the foot of Aaron's Mountain, near Laurel Mills, now in Rappahannock Co, VA, on the plantation given him by his father-in-law, Capt John Strother. At the beginning of the Revolution he enlisted and was at Valley Forge; he served through the eight years of the War, refusing a discharge offered him on account of broken health, and was in the Yorktown Campaign. When the flag-staff was shot in two, while he was carrying it, he raised it again aloft and carried it to the end of the Battle (Yorktown). He was buried in the family burial ground at his home place. After his death his widow came to Logan Co, KY, where she died and was buried. (From D P Browning to the complier of The Strother Family, 1920)

NSDAR: #120952, Mrs Virginia Yates Weatherhead, DAR Patriot Index, Vol. 121, p 295, 1918. John enlisted at the first call for troops and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of lieutenant and was with the Army at Valley Forge and siege of Yorktown. He was born and died in Culpeper Co, VA. NSDAR: #109005, Miss Ethel Virginia Heaford, DAR Patriot Index, Vol 110, p 2, Same. Also #91345. DAR Lineage Book, Vol 92, p 111-112, 1912, Mrs Elizabeth Barrett (Browning) Smith: also #77463, ibid, Vol 78, p 179, 1910, Mrs Jenneye D (Anderson) Brown.

F L Burdette states the official record read: Browning, John, 8th Company, 2nd Regiment in Continental Army, Col Spotswood--1st private, 2nd ensign, and 3rd lieutenant.

NSSAR Patriot Index: Service as Lt, AL #00260 lists wife and children Sarah, Lucy and George S Browning and their spouses.

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The first Browning family arrived in the colonies in Jamestown, VA 1622