Thomas Brown, of Chowan

Thomas Brown

• Born about 1672
• Died about 15 Dec 1718 in Chowan County, North Carolina, USA
• Likely the son of John Browne & his 1st wife
• Husband of Christian (not Maule)
• Father of Sarah Brown, Thomas Brown, Edward Brown, William Brown and James Brown

Thomas Brown removed several miles southwest into North Carolina a few years later. When his daughter Sarah married Daniel McDaniel, he and wife Christian gifted them the following:

Thomas Brown of Chowan and wife Christian to Daniel McDaniel 19 July 1715, gift to son in law 100 ac adj Old Tree Swamp. wit. Jacob X Lewis. Val X Brasswell [4]

Note on His Parentage

Some have speculated that the John Browne (son in law of William Boddie/Body of Isle of Wight) was the father of the William and Thomas Browne that I discuss in this compilation… I disagree. Below is a deed witnessed in 1708/9 in IOW which discusses a sale to one Mr. Sawyer. The land in question was originally granted to Mr. Boddie in 1668. This land is clearly in Newport Parish, IOW and is considerably further north than the Kingsale property that I mention and map. I purport that the John Browne mentioned in this deed is indeed the son in law of Mr. Boddie. This begs the question… how to explain one John Browne in IOW and another in North Carolina? This is clearly two different men. I also propose that the body of circumstantial evidence I detail leans to the John Browne of Kingsale as the father of William and Thomas Browne of North Carolina. [1]

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Will

From https://andersonnc.wordpress.com/daniel-mcdaniel/

He is named as a son in the will of Thomas Brown. Will of Thomas Brown 1718

April 1718… Albermar County… sick & weak

… to Christian… my wife… plantation whereon I now live beginning at the corner tree above the inden parth so running down the Line to potocati Creeke and so including six hunderd ackers of Land and Like wise six hunderd ackers of Litwood Land for the use of the sd plantation and for the maintanance of his children beginning? at Thomas Conners corner tree and Line and so running to bells branch and so up ye sd…

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… wife c all my moveabel estate within and withoute untell hirr children come of age or marries then if can be spend_______? to have to cowes and calfs a peace Except my son Thomas brown when he is of age or maners? marries? the to him three cowes and calfs if they can be spard and my dafter Sarah mackdaniel I give unto her twenty shilings and every one of my children _______? or ______? as they come of age if (any?)(they?) can be spend … unto son Thomas… to hunderd eakers and twenty eakers of land being and lying upon potacati Creeke … son William the half of the upper sirveys beginning at the ____? tree swamp … son Thomas… other half of ye sd sirveye … son John and Edward Brown my Land that Lies on ye South side of meharin Creeke and (land that is left of the Land that I sould to George Stevins) … son Howell and James… the sd plantation and all the land belonging after my wifes deses…

Thomas (X) Brown Judeth (X) Perry Thomas (X) Perry [1

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Browne-346

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GEDCOM Note

Ancestor 2M3(6F6)7F
<p>Person # 1438</p>