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- Notes for ANNA BROWN:
Anna was the sister of Leah Brown, who married Thomas Fletchall. Thomas Brown, a SC Loyalist, is thought to be their relative.
Janet Zemanek says that Anna/Anne married Ambrose in Randolph Co., NC.
In 1785, a Thomas Brown, Loyalist, lost 200 acres in Craven Co., NC., to John Davis for $135. The land was confiscated.
Received from Sue McLaughlin (sueca@sierratel.com):
Hi, Sandy, I have Anna b abt 1747 d about 1805 and married about 1764 so that marriage is way off from Russel and Polly's. In the Ancestry of Columbus Mills by Mary nancy Mills, she says that
she looked at Thomas Brown, the Indian Trader who owned lands at Cayce,SC and doesn't know if he is Anna's father or not. She looked at Thomas Brown, Indian Agent of Savannah, GA and rejected him. She has Anna born about 1734 in Chester Co, SC. The mention of Thomas Stone probably
comes in as father to Mourning. It could be either William or thomas Stone and the mother was probably Esther Phalby which explains where the name Phalby comes in later on in the Mills line. She has Mourning Stone dying about 1756 in the Indian Wars.
For the first time I have read an account that Ambrose and Mourning had more than one son (William) and that the children were with her in a stagecoach on her property when it was attacked by Indians and the only child to survive was William. After Ambrose was hung to death, Anna (Brown) Mills remarried to John Carrick who was a member of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. After her death, he remarried, to Elizabeth Edwards apparently.
This author mentions 1782 Rutherford Co, NC court minutes and a petition of John Russell against Ambrose Mills and other enemies of the state, judgment by default. Ambrose was long dead by then, but there's John Russell again.
Also of interest in this account is that of the Waltons. It seems that jesse Walton was instrumental in hanging Ambrose Mills and that he had a brother named William. William Walton Jr wed Milly Mills, who was sister to Col. Ambrose. She had first wed William Lavender by whom she
had her children. As the author points out, this made for very difficult relations between the Mils, Lavender and Walton families and that for the first time in a century, one of the Lavenders and a Mr. J (this is from a private diary) ...probably an relative of Mildred Mills,
met and were friendly.
Received from Janet L. Zemanek (JZem@uwyo.edu): From "The Fletchalls, Early Settlers on American Frontiers," by Gale Frederick Fletchall:
pg. 42. "But in the back country of Georgia the Liberty boys of Augusta were also active. As a result Thomas Brown was also caught up in the competition between the two opposing factions for the allegiance of the back country ... when the Liberty boys threatened to 'drag him by force to Augusta' unless he subscribed to their Association, Brown retreated to his house and armed himself to resist. He withstood the whig party until he was rendered unconscious by a blow from a rifle barrel on his head. Then, according to Brown, they carried him about five miles, tied him to a tree, and "applying burning torches of lightwood to the soles of his feet." A friend then furnished Brown with a horse and his Whig guard allowed him to escpae.
"Burning with desire for revenge, Brown immediately proceeded to South Carolina and joined Fletchall's party in organizing the loyalists of the back country. He arrived in the up country just in time to help oppose and hamper the efforts of a group of commissioners sent into the interior by teh Charleston Council of Safety.
pg. 43. "They were all to meet later at Fair Forest, the residence of Col. Thomas Fletchall ... Drayton spoke to a large audience with apparent success until Thomas Brown and Robert Cunninghap arrived. Brown countered Drayton's effort ..."
pg. 44 "Brown, the spokesman for the group, was very abusive and insulted Drayton ... A duel between the two men was only averted by the intervention of Fletchall ... The initiative in positive action by the loyalists was generally provided by Cunningham, Kirkland, Robinson, and after his flight from Augusta, Brown. These men, as Drayton and Tennent testified, had great influence over Fletchall, but they were never able to make him the vigorous leader they would have liked. In fact, it appeared to Brown that Fletchall was more interested in retaining his good standing with the Revolutionary leaders of Charleston than in providing positive leadership for the Loyalist party. In bitter exasperation, Brown went so far as to state that Fletchall's "interested views and treachery even at the time he corresponded with Campbell were well know" to the Loyalists.
pg. 45: "To Brown, Cunningham and many of their followers this treaty was a disgracefull surrender. Brown believed that Fletchall had been hoodwinked by Drayton's deployment of his troops into thinking that Drayton had the loyalist force at his mercy. He accused Fletchall of being drunk at the negotiations and of allowing Drayton to draw up the treaty without consulting anyone. The treaty, however, was far more rational than Brown thought ...
pg. 47: "Brown's name is not mentioned in connection with any of the events of November and December in the backcountry. yet it is unlikely that he went directly from Charleston to St. Augustine as some writers have evidently asumed. When Brown's passage through Dorchester on his return to the backcountry was reported to the Provincia; Congress on Nov. 9 ... The Congress immediately issued a warrant for his arrest ... hot pursuit was begun to prevent Brown's junction with Patrick Cunningam's force ... there was no place of safety in South Carolina. Brown was in Savannah, Ga., on Dec. 26, 1775, so it is possible that he escaped the dragnet by crossing the Savannah River into Georgia. He apparently reached St. Augustine in early January of 1776.
pg. 60 (from William Henry Drayton and the American Revolution, Univ. of NM Press, Albuquerque)
"Shortly before the outbreak of hositilities in 1775, the disaffection of the piedmont people of SC and GA stirred to higher pitch by Thomas Browne. Browne was a Scottish Indian trader who had been bold as to critize and ridicule the Patriot party. He was captured and taken to Augusta, Ga., where he was told to recant and swear allegiance to the Patriots on pain of being tarred and feathered. He refused and was not only subjected to the torment that he had been promised, but had his bare feet burned. At last he was released, and thereafter he was an implacable enemy of the American revolutionists ..."
SC Will Book B, Janet found this on p. 84 for a THOMAS BROWN. "....dearly beloved wife Winifred Brown....two sons George and Thomas Brown...dau. Netty Goodman wife of Joseph, dau. Elizabeth Brown, dau. Hannah. Will dated 8 May 1797. Estate filed 22 July 1797. I did not copy it, just took that info down. [2]
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1748 - 1790 (42 years)
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