Husband James Brawley 1 2
Born: - Lycoming Co, PA
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Father: Roger Brawley ( - ) 3
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Marriage: 1800 2
Wife Mary Glenn 1 2
Born: - Lycoming Co, PA
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Father: William Glenn ( - ) 4
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1 M William R. Brawley 2
Born: - Randolph Twp, Crawford Co, PA
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Spouse: Sarah Eliza Curry ( -Abt 1842) 5
Marr: 1833 5
2 M Francis Brawley 1
Born: 16 Feb 1806 - Crawford Co, PA 1
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Died: Aft 1885
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Spouse: Eleanor Stewart (1806- ) 1
Marr: 1838 1
3 M James Brawley, Jr. 1 5
Born: 1808 - Randolph Twp, Crawford Co, PA 5
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Died: Aft 1899
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Spouse: Abbie Byham ( - ) 3
Marr: 20 Mar 1895 3
4 F Nancy Brawley 6
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Spouse: William Dean ( - ) 6
5 F Harriet Brawley 1
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Died: Aft 1885
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Spouse: Henry Randolph ( - ) 5
6 F Sarah Brawley 1
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7 M Charles Brawley 5
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Died: Bef 1899
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8 M Jackson Brawley 5
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9 F Mary Brawley 5
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Spouse: William Henderson ( - ) 5
General Notes: Husband - James Brawley
Of Irish descent, he and his wife came to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, about 1800, and nine of their children grew up, four of them were still living in 1885. He was in the War of 1812.
He was the second pioneer of Randolph township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. In 1797 or 1798, accompanied by his brother John, who remained only a short time, he left his home in Lycoming County, and built a cabin on Tract 199. Clearing a small piece of land, he planted it with potatoes, procuring the seed at Franklin and carrying it on his back through the woods up French and Sugar Creeks along an Indian path. He then joined a surveying party in Erie County, and in the fall returned to dig his potatoes. He found his cabin occupied by Indians, who supposing it abandoned had dug and eaten his potatoes and were preparing to depart. They opened their packages, and in compensation each shared with him his furs and dried meat. With the proceeds of these he purchased wheat, which he sowed and then returned to Lycoming County. The following spring, accompanied by his mother's family, he returned to his new home, arriving in June. The journey lasted six weeks and like all pioneer emigration in those times was attended with great difficulties. They made their way through the woods with an ox-team, driving before them several cows, the milk from which was placed in a churn and converted into butter by the motion of the wagon. When the destination was reached he had only 25 cents in money, and this was expended in the purchase of a quart of salt. No mills were accessible and the family subsisted for some time on frumenty. He learned in the fall that a mill had been erected by the Holland Company on Pine Creek near Titusville, and putting four bushels of wheat upon an ox, he started for the mill through the trackless forest with only a pocket compass for a guide. Six days were consumed in the trip. At night he removed the load from the ox and turned it out to browse, while he built a fire beside which he encamped, and to which the ox would come when it had appeased its hunger.
He was Justice of the Peace for many years. He and Alexander Johnson took the contract to carry the mail once a week between Meadville and Mayville, New York. The journey they performed alternately on horseback, and commencing as early as 1818, continued for a number of years. He died at the age of seventy four, leaving nine children, five of whom survived in 1885. [HCC 1885, 596]
He built the first saw-mill in Randolph township. It stood on his farm and obtained its power from a small branch of Sugar Creek.