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Subject: [BROWN] Re: BROWN-D Digest V02 #129
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 19:25:10 EDT
In a message dated 5/8/02 12:03:12 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
writes:
<< Does any one on this list have any Browns in Albany NY circa 1850? >>
I had Browns living in Albany County (Caleb Brown b in Stephentown, Albany,
NY is 1753). The name of the County S/town was in changed to Rensselaer
during Caleb's lifetime. I'm trying to find if Caleb and family came from RI
or CT or what. But........thing is: even though my Browns migrated up to
Lewis County, NY before 1882, our ROOT Brown line may be the same or similar.
See if any of this look familiar to anyone:
Caleb Brown (no more info)
Caleb Brown b 1753 Stephentown, Albany, NY m Sarah Elwell (Caleb fought in
the Revolutionary War)
John C Brown b 1781 Stephentown, Rensselaer, NY, died 1835 Greig, Lewis, NY m
Zada Mead.
Caleb Brown b 1817 Nassau, Rensselaer, NY, d 1882 Greig, Lewis, NY m Sarah
Ann Vary.
John Henry Brown b 1846 Greig, Lewis, NY, d 1909, same, m Ella Hubbard, b
1853 Turin, Lewis, NY, d 1923 Boonville, Oneida, NY
That first Caleb at the top of the list is my brickwall. Word has it that
many people from the Stonington CT/Westerly RI area helped settle
Stephentown; or it could be another RI lineage altogether or even a line from
western MA or CT. I should be grateful that at least they didn't migrate all
over the country......but NY is bad enough. As one of my friends says "It's
the black hole. You ancestors go in and they never come out or are heard
from again!" but then hers then went on to MI, as did so many. At least
mine stayed put.
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