Family:Samuel Erwin and Jane Brewster (1)

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10.Samuel Irvine, b. February 1760, married Jane/Jennet Brewster.

Edward and Mary Curry Erwin had a son Samuel, who if family legend is accurate could well be properly identified, were it not for Margaret Logan Morris’ insistence that her ancestor Samuel, and the Rev. Benjamin Irvine were brothers. Clearly Edward and Mary’s son Benjamin, who married Jane Hagood in TN, was not the Rev. Benjamin.

An uncle of Morris told stories he heard as a teenager of how his grandfather, Samuel above, spoke of his brothers and sisters and their homes on Mossy Creek, near Miller’s Iron Works. Edward Erwin, Jr. probably first lived on the land he sold to Miller for the “iron works” and his Samuel cannot be positively identified elsewhere.

Another family “tale” recounted by Morris is that her grandfather, Samuel W., the son of Samuel and Jane/Jennet Brewster recalled a visit by an uncle, who was a Presbyterian minister, to the family home in Madison Co., KY, where both Samuel and the Rev. Benjamin then lived. Would not the husband of his mother’s sister be called Uncle? This Samuel’s wife was a sister to Sarah Brewster, the wife of the Rev. Benjamin.