Hon. David Brown and Jannett Broadfoot

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Husband Hon. David Brown ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 7 Sep 1777 - Belfast, Ireland 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 26 Nov 1824 or 1825 4 5
         Buried:  - Sugar Grove, Warren Co, PA

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         Father: David Brown (      -      ) 6
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 7 Nov 1802 or 1803 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 4 5

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Wife Jannett Broadfoot ⁷

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            AKA: Jeanette Broadfoot,5 Jennet Broadfoot 4
           Born: 4 Nov 1781 - Edinburgh, Scotland 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 4 Jun 1841 4 5
         Buried:  - Sugar Grove, Warren Co, PA

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         Father: John Broadfoot (1745-1823) 8 9
         Mother: Barbara [Unk] (1752-1810) 8

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Children

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1 F Mary Brown ⁵

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           Born: 1807 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 5
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1887
         Buried: 

         Spouse: James Jagger (1802-1866) 10 11

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2 F Barbara Brown ^{12 13}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 1840 - Sugar Grove, Warren Co, PA 14
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Noah Bird Langdon (1803/1803-1882) 13 15

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3 F Catharine "Kittie" Brown ⁵

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1887
         Buried: 

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4 M John B. Brown ^{5 14}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 1883 14
         Buried:  - Warren, Warren Co, PA

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5 F Agnes H. Brown ^{5 14}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1887
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Walter Fish (      -Bef 1887) 16

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6 M James Brown ^{5 16}

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1851 14
         Buried:  - Sugar Grove, Warren Co, PA

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7 M Hon. William D. Brown ⁵

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           Born: 6 Sep 1823 - Sugar Grove, Warren Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1887
         Buried: 

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. David Brown

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He and his wife were mar­ried at Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, and settled in Warren, Pennsylvania, and in 1809 settled in Sugar Grove, where he built a log house. He also built the first frame house in the town in 1816. They had a family of seven children, four of whom were still living in 1887. He established the first tannery in the town, and was a prominent man of Warren County. He was at one time a justice of the peace.

He probably did more to build up the village of Sugar Grove, Warren County, Pennsylvania, than any other man. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1802. He resided in Franklin, Venango County, for a short time, at which place he married Jennet Broadfoot. Soon after his marriage he removed to Warren, and was for a time in the employ of the Holland Land Company, living in the block-house built by that company on the bank of the Conewango Creek. He was the purchaser from the Commonwealth of a large number of the town lots in Warren borough. He owned land in what became Sugar Grove village as early as 1806, and moved there in 1807, or 1808, or possibly as late as 1809. There he made his permanent home. He erected one of the first framed dwelling houses (by some said to be the first) in Warren County, on the north side of the road from the village to Lottsville, a few rods west of Stillwater Creek, and on the site of the present residence of James C. Hamilton. His farm had already been partly cleared by John Dickinson. In that house all his children, with the exception of his eldest daughter, were born. Near to the house was a spring noted among the early settlers for its abundant supply of clear, cold water. Near to his dwelling house Mr. Brown erected, and, to the time of his death, in connection with a farm, carried on a tannery, said to be the first started in the county.
In a lecture on the early history of Warren county, one who knew David Brown well, said: “He was well educated, wrote an elegant hand, and had an easy and flowing style of composition. He possessed the impulsive feelings peculiar to his nation; was hospitable and generous to a fault. The needy never sought aid of him in vain when it was in his power to relieve them, and he frequently did so to his own pecuniary injury. These estimable qualities were concealed beneath a stern, sedate exterior. He was retiring and diffident, and seldom smiled.”

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General Notes: Wife - Jannett Broadfoot

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She was born at Wig­ton, Scotland, and had the solidity of character, the energy, the quiet resoluteness of purpose, and the tenacious adherence to religious convictions that characterize Scotch Presbyterianism. Attacked by disease that baffled the skill of local physicians, she sought medical treatment at Philadelphia, going the entire distance on horseback, and returning to her home after a few months restored to health. A few years later her husband died, leaving her with limited means to care for a family of seven children, the eldest eighteen years of age. With Christian fidelity, with patient, self-deny­ing love, she met the responsibilities cast upon her. She gave her children such education as was possible with the scanty means at her command, and by precept and example she sought to lead them in the way of Christian liv­ing. She was a friend to the poor, she sympathized with the sorrowing, and her ministrations of love to the sick and the dying were so universal, so con­stant, and so cheerfully rendered, that the benediction of all who knew her rested upon her.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 443.

2 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 421, Bios xl, Bios l.

3 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 455.

4 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 421.

5 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg l.

6 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 428.

7 Gilbert Adams Hays, Samuel Hays (Sewickley, PA: Self-published(?), 1928), Pg 22.

8 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 457.

9 Gilbert Adams Hays, Samuel Hays (Sewickley, PA: Self-published(?), 1928), Pg 18.

10 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 425.

11 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Bios l.

12 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 423, BP l.

13 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 352.

14 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 423.

15 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 423, BP lvi.

16 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 423
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