Capt. Matthew Brown

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Husband Capt. Matthew Brown ^{1 2}

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1 M [Unk] Brown

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Matthew Brown

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The ancestors of this family came from Scotland with numerous other Covenanters, after the confiscation act of King James, settling in county Donegal, Ireland. Matthew Brown was a captain in Colonel George Walker's famous Derry Regiment which rendered valiant service to the cause of civil and religious liberty at the siege of Londonderry, and at the battle of the Boyne. His sword was still preserved as a precious relic by his descendants in Pittsburgh as late as the early 1900s.

The Brown ancestor came from Scotland and emigrated to Ireland under the "Confiscation Act." There was in the possession of one branch of the family a sword that, tradition said, did service at Bothwell Bridge, and was last drawn in defense of Protestant liberty by Captain Matthew Brown, one of Colonel George Walker's famous Derry regiment, who on that memorable first of July, 1689, on the hills of Meath, by the banks of the Boyne, fell in the struggle while leading the regiment to victory.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 169.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 736.