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Note for: John Browning, ABT 1736 - 1778 Index

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Note for: Miss Duncan, 1737 - Index

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THIS INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM: Ancestor Chart; FRANCIS MARION JORDAN FAMILY RESEARCH, by Harley Buntin Neal, 5/21/1998, Compiler: Harley Buntin Neal, 1716 Post Ave. Rockford Illinois., Phone (815) 968-6240 5/21/1998 Edited by: James Franklin Kirkman, 2658 Browning Ave. Clovis, CA 93611 .

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Note for: John Browning, ABT 1702 - ABT 1778 Index

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REA-MIDYETTE GENEALOGY: John Browning III was born about 1702 in Virginia, married and had three sons. He died after 1778 being 76 years old ath that time. His brother, Francis Browning, Sr., deeded to him, in1741, a part of the land which he had patented in 1735. On May 1, 1750, he was granted with his brother, James, by a patent from Lord Fairfax, 207 acres lying in the Little Fork of Rappahannock River, on Hickman Mountain Culpeper County. This was a portion of the land granted to Francis Browning, Sr., in 1747. His brother, Edmund Browning, acted as his attorney. In 1750, he was deeded by Francis Browning, Jr., 90 acres on the headwaters of Battle Run, Culpeper County, Va. In 1755, he is named among the foot soldiers who were paid for services on the Virginia frontier. On Dec. 30, 1760, he was a subscribing witness to the will of Francis Browning Jr. In 1770, he gave power of attorney to his brother.
THIS INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM: Rea-Midvette Genealogy, Public Library, Benton, Illinois. Brownin, Edward Frank. The Brownings in America, 1621 - 1908, page 443, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. *1809 Tom Jordan Fort, Near Thomasville Illinois, lived: John, Mary Ann and William Browning. Compiler: Harley Buntin Neal, 1716 Post Ave. Rockford Illinois., Phone (815) 968-6240 5/21/1998 Edited by: James Franklin Kirkman, 2658 Browning Ave. Clovis, CA 93611 .

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Note for: Eliza A. Bryant, 1707 - Index

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Note for: John Browning, 1676 - Index

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REA-MIDYETTE GENEALOGY: John Browning Sr. was born about 1643 in Jamestown, Virginia. Was married ca. 1665-75 and had one son, John Jr. born in 1666. He is mentioned October 6,1682 as connected with the Somers Island Company, and as having signed a petition to the Governor of the Somers Islands. John Jr. was married about 1699, and he had at least seven sons, and may have had more.
THIS INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM: Rea-Midvette Genealogy, Public Library, Benton, Illinois. Brownin, Edward Frank. The Brownings in America, 1621 - 1908, page 443, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. *1809 Tom Jordan Fort, Near Thomasville Illinois, lived: John, Mary Ann and William Browning. Compiler: Harley Buntin Neal, 1716 Post Ave. Rockford Illinois., Phone (815) 968-6240 5/21/1998 Edited by: James Franklin Kirkman, 2658 Browning Ave. Clovis, CA 93611 .

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Note for: John Browning, ABT 1643 - AFT 1682 Index

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REA-MIDYETTE GENEALOGY: John Browning Sr. was born about 1643 in Jamestown, Virginia. Was married ca. 1665-75 and had one son, John Jr. born in 1666. He is mentioned October 6,1682 as connected with the Somers Island Company, and as having signed a petition to the Governor of the Somers Islands.
THIS INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM: Rea-Midvette Genealogy, Public Library, Benton, Illinois. Brownin, Edward Frank. The Brownings in America, 1621 - 1908, page 443, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. *1809 Tom Jordan Fort, Near Thomasville Illinois, lived: John, Mary Ann and William Browning. Compiler: Harley Buntin Neal, 1716 Post Ave. Rockford Illinois., Phone (815) 968-6240 5/21/1998 Edited by: James Franklin Kirkman, 2658 Browning Ave. Clovis, CA 93611 .

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Note for: William Browning, ABT 1615 - AFT 1646 Index

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REA-MIDYETTE GENEALOGY: William Browning was born about 1615 in England, coming to America with his father. He settled in Jamestown, Virginia. He married in Jamestown about 1638. He had at least one son, John Browning, born ca. 1646. He received from his father 250 acres of land, in 1646. He purchased from the crown (George II) 400 acres in Amelia County, Va., on the upper side of the Buffalo River.
THIS INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM: Rea-Midvette Genealogy, Public Library, Benton, Illinois. Brownin, Edward Frank. The Brownings in America, 1621 - 1908, page 443, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. *1809 Tom Jordan Fort, Near Thomasville Illinois, lived: John, Mary Ann and William Browning. Compiler: Harley Buntin Neal, 1716 Post Ave. Rockford Illinois., Phone (815) 968-6240 5/21/1998 Edited by: James Franklin Kirkman, 2658 Browning Ave. Clovis, CA 93611 .

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Note for: Captain John Browning, 1588 - 1646 Index

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NOTE: The earliest known ancestor is believed to be John Browning, born cNOTE: The earliest known ancestor is believed to be John Browning, born ca. 1370/80 in England, he was married to Elinor Fitz-Nicoll.
REA-MIDYETTE GENEALOGY: Captain John Browning was born in England in 1588, Came to America in the good ship Abigail in 1622, having sailed from Gravesend, England, and landed on Collegelands and settled in Elizabeth City, Virginia. He married in England in1644, and had a number of children. He served as a Burgess (a representive of the lower house of the colonial legislature) of Elizabeth City, in 1638. In the same year he purchased all lands of Thomas Grindon lying in Morris, Pa., together with 3,000 lbs. of tobacco.
REA-MIDYETTE GENEALOGY: The earliest form of the name Browning, according to the poet Robert Brownin, was "DeBruni", one of the ancient Germanic tribes inhabiting the nothern part of Germany around the shores of the Baltic Sea. According to the scholar, John Aaron Browning, the form of the word in high German was Brauning. The name came to England with the migration of the Angles and Saxons to that island, and has been widespread there ever since. Bruening, Browneing, Brininge, Brownine, etc.
Both Browning and its German antecedent, Bruning, refer to the color brown, and the inference seems to be that the tribe De Bruni may have had brown hair, which differentiated them their nordic neightbors who were blonde, probably as a result of the infusion of non-nordic blood from the mediteranean areas.
After the decline of Roman power in Britain, northern Germanic tribes, including the De Bruni, descended upon the uprotected Celts of ancient Britain, conquered them, and settled in their lands. The expedition migration of the Angles and Saxons was led by Hersa and Hengist, and they settled in the southern and eastern lands of present-day England. The De Bruni seem to have settled primarily in what is present-day Kent. The resultant English Browning Family have been widespread and prolific, and while most of them followed farming and agriculture, some were in the learned professions, and modern times have produced the poet, Robert Browning, and alson the man who invented the Browning machine gun.
In the early 1600s, when the Church of England was silencing non-conformist ministers, the Puritan migration to Massachusetts took place, and also early migration to Virginia. There were Brownings in both migrations. Our particular line came to Virginia, and is popularly known among Browning researchers as "The Southern Line". The best coverage of the Southern Line to date has been made by Edward Frank Browning in his book, THE BROWNINGS IN AMERICA, 1621-1908 a copy of which is in the Congessional Library.
THIS INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM: Rea-Midvette Genealogy, Public Library, Benton, Illinois. Brownin, Edward Frank. The Brownings in America, 1621 - 1908, page 443, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. *1809 Tom Jordan Fort, Near Thomasville Illinois, lived: John, Mary Ann and William Browning. Ancestor Chart; FRANCIS MARION JORDAN FAMILY RESEARCH, by Harley Buntin Neal, 5/21/1998, Compiler: Harley Buntin Neal, 1716 Post Ave. Rockford Illinois., Phone (815) 968-6240 5/21/1998 Edited by: James Franklin Kirkman, 2658 Browning Ave. Clovis, CA 93611 .

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Note for: Elizabeth Dameron, ABT 1588 - Index

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Note for: John Browning, 19 MAY 1781 - 13 JUN 1857 Index

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REA-MIDYETTE GENEALOGY: As a youth he went to Tennessee and about the year 1804 to the Illinois territory. For ten years he lived at the old Jordan Fort near the present site of the Liberty Methodist Church. For some years he guarded the mail from Shawneetown to Kaskaskia. He was the father of James K. Browning, the first white child born in Franklin County. During a hunting trip, John Browning discovered a hill overlooking the valeey of the Big Muddy. There was a spring at the foot of the hill and here on the hill he established his homestead in 1814. He was a man of strong religious convictions, who was primarily responsible for the establishment of the Mt. Pleasant Church is1829.
THIS INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM: Rea-Midvette Genealogy, Public Library, Benton, Illinois. Brownin, Edward Frank. The Brownings in America, 1621 - 1908, page 443, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. *1809 Tom Jordan Fort, Near Thomasville Illinois, lived: John, Mary Ann and William Browning. Compiler: Harley Buntin Neal, 1716 Post Ave. Rockford Illinois., Phone (815) 968-6240 5/21/1998 Edited by: James Franklin Kirkman, 2658 Browning Ave. Clovis, CA 93611 .

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Note for: Nancy Kitchen, 12 OCT 1783 - 7 OCT 1855 Index

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Note for: Elisha Browning, 1785 - Index

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Note for: Sallie Gee Dupree, - 1867 Index

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Note for: Kinchen Browning, 1785 - Index

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Note for: William Browning, 1 MAY 1790 - 1817 Index

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THIS INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM: Rea-Midvette Genealogy, Public Library, Benton, Illinois. Brownin, Edward Frank. The Brownings in America, 1621 - 1908, page 443, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. *1809 Tom Jordan Fort, Near Thomasville Illinois, lived: John, Mary Ann and William Browning. Compiler: Harley Buntin Neal, 1716 Post Ave. Rockford Illinois., Phone (815) 968-6240 5/21/1998 Edited by: James Franklin Kirkman, 2658 Browning Ave. Clovis, CA 93611 .THIS INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM: 1. Latter Day Saints, Family History Center, 220 N. Peach Ave., Clovis, CA 93612. 2. JORDAN, NEAL, WEBB, BUNTIN, CRAIN, AND COPPAGE, FAMILIES IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, ILLINOIS. (First Edition) Copyright, October 20,1997, by Harley Buntin Neal, 1716 Post Ave. Rockford Illinois., Phone (815) 968-6240. 3. Compiled and Edited: By Larry Jordan, P.0. Box 7 Badger, CA 93603 and Frank Kirkman, 2658 Browning Ave., Clovis, CA. 93611.