Person:Empson Brownfield (1)

14 Apr 1780 Land Survey for Empson Brownfield on the Waters of Georges but near the Waters of Redstone Creek on the Road that leadst from the Gap of the Mountains to Cheat River in George Township, Fayette County (PA) [Pennsylvania State Archives] [3]

neighbors were: Thomas Headdy [who will go to Nelson Co. KY] Obadiah Truax [kinsman to Thomas Headdy whose family also goes to Nelson Co. KY] Edward Brownfield (brother to Empson) Henry Conrad Moses Carr [whose family also comes to old Nelson Co. KY]

Dec 1783 Fayette Co. PA Quarter Session minutes - petition of residents of Fayette Co. representing the public road from Union Town to the southern boundary (or Mason and Dixon's line) to meet a road laid out by order of the court of Monongalia County Virginia to the said line near John McFarlane's ford on Cheet River - requesting the same be laid out ordered Empson Brownfield, Henry Beeson, Capt. James Neal, John Sweringen, Aaron Moore and Philip Jenkins to view the country from Union Town to near John McFarlane's and lay out the nearest road or way and report to the next court.

March 1784 Fayette Co. PA Quarter Session minutes - Jonathan Reece & Empson Brownfield ordered supervisors of the highway in George Twp.

June court, 1801 - Empson Brownfield gets certificate for 400 acres in Hardin Co. KY. The same day he also registered his mark. [Hardin Co. KY Court Order Bk A p. 289]

1. ↑ The Monongahela of Old or Historical Sketches of Southwestern Pennsylvania to the Year 1800.

   http://www.genealogymagazine.com/sompenin17.html
   
   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, ...

2.   Hunt, Royce Miller. Descendants of Robert Brownfield
   [1].

   Was born in Virginia, lived in Pennsylvania, and moved to that part of Kentucky known as Nelson County, now LaRue County, in 1783 along with his father, Robert Brownfield, and three of his brothers, William, Edward, and Richard. Was the only one of the 7 brothers who did not fight in the Revolutionary War.

3. ↑ About Empson Brownfield
   [2].

   About Empson Brownfield
   ID: I10161
   
   Name: Empson BROWNFIELD
   
   Sex: M
   
   Birth: ABT 1742 in Virginia
   
   Death: ABT 1801 in Hardin Co, KY
   
   Note:
   
   In 1772 & 1773 he appeared on the Bedford Co, PA tax list.
   
   He owned property at 47 Elbow St in Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA in 1776.
   
   Empson BROWNFIELD opened a tavern in 1785. He had purchased March 7, 1780, lot 39 [in Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA] lying between John COLLINS' house and the old mill race, but had not occupied it and it does not appear that he was a resident in the village for his name is found as a supervisor of highways in Georges township in 1784. But in 1785 having asked and received a license to keep a public house, he opened a tavern on his lot adjoining COLLINS and continued to keep it until 1790.
   
   Empson Brownfield took up 295 acres of land on the waters of Georges Creek, but near the waters of Redstone Creek, partly on the dividing ridge and on the road leading from the gap of the mountain to Cheat River, in Georges township. This land was surveyed Dec. 28, 1785, "by virtue of certificate from the Commissioners of Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties for 400 acres of land on the waters of Redstone Creek, to include his settlement made in 1770."
   
   In the year 1776, Empson Brownfield's name appears in the list of purchaseres of lots in Uniontown, or Beesontown. In 1784 he purchased a lot in Uniontown, upon which he later built and kept a tavern. It is said that he was the first to start a store in Uniontown, for which he brought the goods over the mountains on pack-horses. After a few years he, too, removed with his family to Kentucky.
   
   Head of household in 1790 census living in Union Township, Fayette County, PA with 2 males over 15, 2 males under 16, & 3 females.
   
   1
   
   Father: Charles BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1713 in Scotland
   
   Mother: Elizabeth "Betsy" BIRD b: 15 SEP 1718 in New Castle, Delaware
   
   Marriage 1 Charity ASHCRAFT
   
   Married:
   
   Children
   
   William BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1773 in Pennsylvania
   George BROWNFIELD b: 23 OCT 1773 in Fayette Co, PA
   Charles BROWNFIELD b: ABT 1780 in Pennsylvania
   Sources:
   
   birth, death, spouse from worldconnect.rootsweb.com, database = "jeanray"
   
   http://easternusresearch.com/easternusresearch/faye/TavernKeepers.html
   
   1790 census for PA, Fayette Co, Union Twp, p 110
   
   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