© January 2005

Compiled by Teresa Martin Klaiber

22937 Long Branch Road, Rush, KY 41168

tklaiber@deliverancefarm.com

Little is known about Alexander Brown, born in Ireland, he apparently married several times. Conjecture is that one wife was Mary Bradford. This has been repeated by many recent researchers.

Grace Kelso Garner, author of Early Settlers of Western Frederick and Eastern Hampshire County wrote that Nancy was the daughter of James Caudy, Jr. She stated that Nancy married 30 October 1781 to George Alexander Brown establishing a home in Hampshire where George Alexander Brown died in the year 1816. She then cites the children of our Alexander Brown. However, this researcher has not found any document of Alexander’s utilizing the name George in Hampshire County. In 1995, author, Wilmer L. Kerns wrote in Frederick County Virginia Settlement And Some First Families of Back Creek Valley that Garner was erroneous.

At least three of Alexanders’ s sons were said to have been born in Ireland. Adam was born 16 August 1767. Samuel was born about 1770 and Isaac Newton Brown who was born 16 April 1771. In all Alexander had ten children.

In 1791 Alexander Brown purchased property fro William Linegar. He settled at the mouth of the North River of the Great Cacapon on the wagon road leading from Romney to Winchester. It is not clear how Wilmer Kerns ascertained that Alexander was a blacksmith unless through directives in his will.

Alexander wrote his will on the fourteenth day of August 1816. No wife is mentioned in the will. He gave a slave each to son Adams and Samuel. He left blacksmith tools for his grandson William Day stating that these were the tools that he had set up William’s father with. Alexander then requested that his plantation be sold and the sums divided among the children.

The children of Alexander Brown appointed son Isaac, living in Perry County, Ohio as their sole attorney to act in their behalf.