Person:Charles Brownfield (2)

Some Pennsylvanians in 1772: Settlers in Fayette, Greene, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties

From James Veech's The Monongahela of Old or Historical Sketches of Southwestern Pennsylvania to the Year 1800 (Pittsburgh, 1910 edition)

In 1772, and until Westmoreland County was established in 1773, Bedford County encompassed all of southwestern Pennsylvania.

All of present Fayette County — east of a straight line from the mouth of Redstone to the mouth of Jacob's Creek — consisted of two townships, Springhill and Tyrone. Here, the division line was Redstone Creek, from its mouth to where it was crossed by Burd's Road, and from Burd's Road to Gist's, then Braddock's Road to the Great Crossing. That part of Fayette County, northwest of Redstone to the mouth of Jacob's Creek, was a part of Rostraver Township.

The counties of Greene and Washington, west of Fayette, were evidently included in Springhill.

SPRINGHILL TOWNSHIP ... Robert Brownfield, Edward Brownfield, Empson Brownfield, Charles Brownfield, ...

CHARLES BROWNFIELD, b. Abt. 1717, Scotland; d. Abt. 1787, Louisville or Larue County, KY; m. ELIZABETH BIRD, Abt. 1730, New Castle County, DE; b. 15 Sep 1718, New Castle County, DE; d. Abt. 1783, Fayette County, PA.

Notes for CHARLES BROWNFIELD:
Charles came to America with his parents and settled first in Chester County, PA. Sometime after 1739 and his fathers death, he moved to a farm near Winchester, VA. They sold that farm in 1769 and moved to Fayette County, PA. They owned land there in 1783. During this year, he moved with four of his sons, William, Edward, Richard and Empson, to that part of KY known as Nelson County, now Larue County. With his four sons, he aquired extensive holdings along Nolinn Creek between Baffalo and Hodgenville. The remaining sons stayed in PA; they were Thomas, Benjamin and Robert. All of Charles' sons fought in the Revolutionary War, except Empson. Burial of Charles is at Phillips Fort, Hodgenville, KY.

About Charles Brownfield
ID: I4309

Name: Charles BROWNFIELD

Sex: M

Birth: ABT 1713 in Scotland

Note:

Charles Brownfield? was born in Scotland and came to Winchester, Virginia, but soon after joined the pioneer stream emigration to the fertile lands of the Ohio Valley. In 1760 he arrived in what is now South Union township, where he located on three hundred acres of land. Warrant number 3456, dated June 14, 1769, was issued to him for this tract. In 1783 Charles Brownfield sold this farm to his son, Benjamin Brownfield, and removed to the "Dark and Bloody" hunting grounds of Kentucky.

The Brownfields of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, are of English, Scotch-Irish blood. They were originally natives of Scotland, where the father of Charles Brownfield, the emigrant, was born. They settled in Ireland and were members of the Scotch Presbyterian church. The Scotch family trace to George Brownfield, a native of England, who was a soldier under Cromwell, and after the revolution fled to Scotland.

Charles Brownfield was born in Ireland, where he grew to manhood. Prior to the American revolution he emigrated to America with other members of the family, settling near Winchester, Virginia, finally coming to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, being persuaded to this latter step by Colonel Burd (his sister's husband), the builder of Burd's Fort and Burd's Road in Western Pennsylvania, the fort being built at the mouth of Redstone creek. Charles Brownfield built his cabin on his own land, where stands Brownfield station on the Southwest Pennsylvania railroad; was several times dislodged and driven off by the Indians, but at last fixed his abode in peace and safety. The first title in fee simple given for land in Fayette county is that of Charles Brownfield to George Troutman, dated November 21, 1783. He married and had sons, Robert, of whom further, and Thomas (q. v.).

He came to America with his parents & was in Chester County, Pennsylvania, by 1739. Sometime after that & his father's death, he moved to a farm on Apple Pie Ridge near Winchester, Virginia. They sold their farm in 1769 & about that time he moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They owned land there in 1783.

Charles received land warrant # 3456 June 14 1770, Fayette County, Pa Vital Records, 1750-1890.

The first Brownfield settler of Fayette Co, was Charles Brownfield (the 2nd generation in America). He had 8 sons who settled around him in south Union & Georges Twp. Four of the sons later accompanied their father to KY in the 1780's, leaving no descendants in Fayette Co.

(This from a book "250 Years of the History of One Branch of the Brownfield Family of Fayette Co, Pa." by Todd Alan Brownfield.)

In 1772 & 1773 he appeared on the Bedford Co, PA tax list.

He owned property at 21 Elbow St in Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA in 1776.

He appeared on the tax lists of Nelson Co, KY in 1785.

Charles Brownfield was a native of Scotland, who, with his brother James, emigrated to this country and livied for a time near Winchester. His wife was Betsey, the sister of Col. James Burd, and when they came to this township they located on a tract of land containing 300 acres, which, in a deed of later years, is described as "near Laurel Hill, on one of the head branches of the Redstone, including my improvement made in the year 1769." Warrant No. 3456, dated June 14, 1769, was given for this land, and the survey was made in September of that year. In 1783, Mr. Brownfield sold this property and removed to Kentucky. Alexander McClean made a second survey ot it at this time, and one entry upon the records says, "Said Brownfield removed to the Kentucky country, having sold the above part to Benjamin Brownfield, his son, and the residue to Moses Sutton and George Troutman." In the same connection he further says of this survey, that he "resurveyed the same as by the different purchsers."

Charles Brownfield had eight sons - Edward, Charles, Robert, Thomas, Empson, Richard, William, and Benjamin. There was but one daughter Sally, who married Raphael Naylor, of Philadelphia, whither she went to reside, and where she died.

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Father: Robert BROWNFIELD b: 14 JUN 1670 in Northern Ireland

Mother: Joan

Marriage 1 Elizabeth "Betsy" BIRD b: 15 SEP 1718 in New Castle, Delaware

Married:

Children

Edward BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1734 in Virginia
Charles BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1736 in Virginia
Sally BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1738 in Virginia
Robert BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1740 in Virginia
Empson BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1742 in Virginia
Richard BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1744 in Virginia
Thomas BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1746 in Virginia
William BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1748 in Virginia
Benjamin BROWNFIELD b: 1 MAY 1755 in Winchester, VA
Sources:

birth, spouse from Fayette County, Pennsylvania Vital Records, 1750-1890 from Ancestry.com

Gresham & Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA from PA GenWeb archives at ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/fayette/bios/gresham/bobios.txt

From: Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania, Vol I (published 1912)

worldconnect.rootsweb.com, databases "vhhawk" "jeanray"

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~beeson/utownplat.html

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/bedford/taxlist/1773-tax.txt

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/taxlist/1772taxlist.txt (

History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (1882) from Ancestry.com

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/nelson/taxlists/taxes/nelson2.txt

December 1773 A township beginning at John Main's on Jacob's Creek thence to Jesse Bayles thence to BENJAMIN HARDENS, thence to the same direction to the line of Wharton Twp. thence by the same till opposite CHARLES BROWNFIELD'S, thence by BROWNFIELDS, THOMAS GADDIS and the Widow McCLELANDS and the residue of the line of Union Twp. to the head of Jenning's Run, thence by the lines to German Township to the beginning hereafter to be known by the name of Georges Twp.