Empson Brownfield

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Husband Empson Brownfield ¹

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         Father: Charles Brownfield (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Betsey Burd (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Empson Brownfield

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He took up 295 acres of land on the waters of Georges Creek, but near the waters of Redstone Creek, partly on the dividing ridge and on the road leading from the gap of the mountain to Cheat River, in Georges township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. This land was surveyed Dec. 23, 1785, "by virtue of certificate from the Commissioners of Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties for 400 acres of land on the waters of Redstone Creek, to include his settlement made in 1770."
In the year 1776, Empson Brownfield's name appears in the list of purchasers of lots in Uniontown, or Beesontown. In 1784 he purchased a lot in Uniontown, upon which he later built and kept a tavern. It is said that he was the first to start a store in Uniontown, for which he brought the goods over the mountains on pack-horses. After a few years he, too, removed with his family to Kentucky.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 681.