Matthew Brown, Ancestry and Descendants
th :i -r; » b; ZL -«¦ I«# cs a; ft .• ' /• c a » ®M*L "(rV \ v~ ,~\ »•' . N \ \ \ \ t V s 0 ,^ / \^ \. i > \O r *• \ \ j X^ ¦\ V \ f :S -" v ,./ ! t MATTHEW BROWN, Ancestry and Descendants COMPILED BY ROBERT SHANNON. 41 BROOKLYN, N. Y. 1900. V ,fl«\* .¦* \ V> \ v,-2> 1: 2*7 During the progress of his labors on the present work, the author has been I fortunate in having the cosperation and assistance ofa number of gentlemen, eminent in history and inliterature, who are now numbered with the dead : MR. JOHN F. MEGINNESS, Williamsport, Pa. ; MR. LEANDER J. McCORMICK, Chicago, 111. ; MR. ANSEL J. McCALL, Bath, N. Y.; REV. JAMES BROWN SCOULLER, D. D., Newville, Pa. Their aid in the work is gratefully remembered, and lotheir memory this volume is reverently inscribed. The author desires especially to return his acknowledgments to the following gentlemen, who have rendered valuable assistance :Rev. James Kerr, D. D., Glas gow, Scotland ;Mr. John W. Pritchard, editor of Christian Nation, New York, N. Y. ;Rev. John Brown, Kinclaven, Perthshire, Scotland; John T. Campbell, Esq., Rockville, Ind. ;Mr. A. L. Brown, Eustis, Fla. ;Mr. Charles M. Foresman, Madi son, Wis. ;Mr. Gilbert M. McMaster, Coraopolis, Pa. ;and Mr.W. S. Blackwood, Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland. And to his relatives, the descendants of Matthew Brown, upon whose encourage ment and coSperation depended the completion of the work, he returns his sincere thanks. GRAVE OF JOHN BROWN, OF PRIESTHILL. INTRODUCTORY. As the progenitor of the Brown Family was a Scotch Cove nanter, and as the ancestors of a large proportion of those who by marriage are made subjects of the present work were Scotch and Scotch-Irish, who suffered persecution on account of their religion, it is deemed expedient to recur to events relating to their history.
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