Jemima Broyles Gen. 4, id #46, Keith #33 Edited 20140525
============== Dau of Adam Broyles & Mary ( ) |[1]
Born: 1765 VA, Culpeper |
Died: 16 Jan 1860 GA, Dahlegona |
Marr: 1) Joseph Brown
m: 1782 TN, Washington |[1]
b: 30 Oct 1760 |[124]
d: 28 Oct 1800 GA, Franklin |[124]
Son of Joseph Brown & Mary Porter |[124]
+---born----+---------------++---died----+---------------+
1. Elizabeth 21 May 1783
2. William 21 May 1785
3. Hugh 8 Aug 1787 8 May 1814
4. Aaron 15 Nov 1789 21 Jul 1853
5. Mary 13 Feb 1792 5 Sep 1822
6. Ebenezer K. 14 Apr 1794 21 Jan 1859
7. Mackey 11 Feb 1797 24 Mar 1874
8. Edna 3 Aug 1799 Aug 1887 GA, Cherokee
Marr: 2) John Robertson
m: 1818 GA, Franklin |[1]
d: c. 1825 SC, Pendleton Dist. |
9. Neety Caroline
Jemima and her older sister Anne married brothers, Joseph and
Hugh Brown. They all moved, along with their brothers, to
Pendleton Dist., SC.
c. 1780 - Her father moves the family from Virginia to
Tennessee.
May 1782 - She is named in her father's will, Washington Co.,
TN. As daughter Mima Broyles she inherits 60 pounds currency.
Since she is not given as "Mima Brown", it appears she married
latter paft of 1782.
- They move to Pendleton District, SC, near the
Saluda River.
1797 - They are living in Franklin Co., GA.
17 Jan 1810 - In his will, Joseph Brown Sr. mentions Jemimah, the
widow of his son Joseph Brown. The will was witnessed by Aaron
Broyles. No probate date given. Pendleton Dist., SC. [38]:48
5 Mar 1845 - While a resident of Lumpkin Co., GA, Jemima applies
for a pension on the basis of her first husband's service in the
Revolutionary War.
14 Dec 1846 - Joseph Williams of Polk Co., TN, age 67 makes an
affidavit that Joseph Brown was indeed a veteran of the
Revolution. Williams married Brown's eldest daughter Elizabeth
in Oct 1799. He further states that Jemima remarried to John
Robertson after the death of Brown. After her second husband
died c. 1826, she moved to Habersham Co., GA, where she lived
until she moved to Lumpkin Co., GA, where she lived with her son
Aaron. [123]14:889
- Another affidavit, this time from Violet Reed, 79
years old, of Hall Co., GA, states that Joseph Brown was a
private in the Revolutionary War, being drafted and served his
first tour in the year 1777 in his 17th year, deponent
recollecting that the young men were put on the muster-rolls at
age of 16 years and that said Joseph Brown (who she says was her
brother) drafted the evening of the same day that he was entered
on the muster-roll having just "turned" 16 years of age...he was
in the battle at Brier Creek on Savannah River in Georgia as he
informed her on his return home; that said soldier entered the
war from Guilford Co., NC, where he and the remainder of his
father's family resided eight miles from Guilford Court-house.
She says they removed from Guilford Co., NC, and settled in what
is now the State of Tennessee on the Chucky River, after which
said Joseph served two or three more tours of duty, being in the
battle at Kings Mountain in 1780 (as she was so informed by him
on his return), serving a part of his time in said tours under
Capt. Moore in Col. Sevier's regiment. That said Joseph was
married in 1782, and about the close of the war removed to
Pendleton Dist., SC, and settled within two miles of Saluda River
where he lived some eight or ten years, thence moving and
settling on the Tugalo River in then Franklin Co., GA, where he
died in 1799, leaving the applicant Jemima as his widow; that
said Jemima afterwards married a man named Robertson who died
about 1825-26, leaving Jemima a widow the second time, and that
the said Jemima has since remained a widow, now residing in
Lumpkin Co., GA. [123]14:889
20 Mar 1855 - Mrs. Jemima Robertson, age 90 years, made her
declaration in Lumpkin Co., GA, to obtain bounty land as the
widow of a Revolutionary War soldier, and deposed that she was a
resident of said county and is the widow of John Robertson who
died in Pickens Dist., SC, about 1824, and that she was formerly
the widow of Joseph Brown who was a private in the Rev. War and
that he "was of N.C." and that she is now a pensioner under the
Act of Congress of Feb. 2, 1848 drawing $60 per annum by virtue
of the services of said Joseph Brown; ... that she was Jemima
Broyles before marriage. [123]14:890
Sources:
[1] Keith, Prof. Arthur Leslie, "The Broyles Family", typescript reprinted in [4]
[4] Broyles, John K., Sr., "The Broyles Family Newsletter" (periodical), self-published, 1982-2000
[124] Family Bible of Joseph Brown, [123]14:890
[123] "Georgia Genealogical Magazine" (periodical)
[38] Alexander, Elliot, Willie, "Pendleton Dist. & Anderson Co., SC, Wills, Estates and Inventories, ..."
[HOME] [NAME INDEX]