Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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John Brown and Unknown




Husband John Brown 1 2

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           Died: 1 May 1685 1
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   Other Spouse: Marion [Unk] (      -      ) 1 2



Wife Unknown

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Children
1 F [Unk] Brown

           Born: Abt 1680
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General Notes: Husband - John Brown


John Brown, the "pious carrier," of Muirkirk parish, Ayrshire, Scotland, was captured by Graham of Claverhouse and his troop on the first of May, 1685, and ordered to take the oath of conformity, which he refused to do. Claverhouse bid him go to his prayers, because he had but a few minutes to live. He did pray with such power that when Claverhouse ordered his men to fire upon him they refused, and with a pistol and an oath he blew his brains out, and then turned to the widow and said, "What thinkest thou of thy husband now?" She answered, "I ever thought meikle of him; but never sae meikle as I do this day." He said, "It were but justice to lay thee beside him." She answered, "If you were permitted I doubt not but your cruelty would go that length; but how will you answer for this morning's work?" "To man I can be answerable, and as for God I will take Him into my own hand," he replied, and rode away.
She laid down her child, tied up her husband's head with her apron, stretched out his limbs, covered him with her plaid, and sat down and wept long and bitterly. Without means, without a friend to help, and liable to be persecuted, she was at her wits' end. But God cared for her and removed her to Ireland, where she found friends and married again. From this second marriage sprung the late James W. Weir, cashier of the Harrisburg bank. John Brown left a daughter five years old by a former marriage, and by his second wife, Marion, (one historian calls her Isabel,) an infant and a posthumous child. These latter came to America; and were John and James. It is not known which was the elder of the two.

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Sources


1 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 47.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 168.


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