Person:Lowe Brown (1)

Will Transcript

In the name of God Amen. I Low Brown being frail of body but sound of mind do make this my last will & testament and revoke all others. I give unto my three daughters Cinthy, Jane & Elizabeth my Negro boy named Frank to live with them year about after this year.

This year he is to remain with my daughter Cinthy for the purpose of raising a crop.

I also give unto four of my sons Joseph, Andrew, George & Low, one dollar each out of the proceeds of my estate, also to my daughter Sarah I bequeath one dollar of my estate.

I also will unto my grandson Henry McGranahan one red cow with a white back.

I also will unto my son William my desk and book case, and unto my son John I bequeath my cupboard.

The balance of my property after paying all my just debts and reserving a sufficiency to have me decently intered, I will to my five daughters Polly, Martha, Cintha, Jane & Elizabeth to be equally divided between them, I do also appoint my two sons William & John as my executors of this my last will & testament given under my hand & seal in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & fourty one. January 18th.

(Signed) Low x Brown [His Mark]

Teste. John Tiffany, John Harris, Leroy Harris Virginia, in Tazewell County Court Feb. 7, 1841.

The last will & Testament of Low Brown deceased was proven by the oath of John Tiffany & John Harris subscribing witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded.

Teste. Geo. W.G. Browne

[Source: Tazewell County Will Book 2 page 179].

American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 1, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Brown, Low - entered service 1774 in Montgomery County, Virginia, for service in Indian Wars; entered service there later for Revolutionary War; granted Pension age 76 in Tazewell County, Virginia, 1832. R373.

Revolutionary War Pension Application

On this 25th day of September 1832 personally appeared before the circuit superior court of law and chancery for the county of Tazewell aforesaid Low Brown a resident of the said county of Tazewell and State of Virginia aged seventy six years, who brings first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the Illinois regiment of the Army of the United States in the year 1779 with Capt. Jesse Evans, and served in the said Illinois regiment under the following manner affirms Captain George Rogers Clark, Lieutenant Col. John Montgomery, in the company of Captain Jesse Evans, that he remained in the service as an enlisted soldier for the term of eighteen months in the revolutionary war, and that he left the service on the first fay of August in the year 1780 as appears from a discharge of that date, which is produced by him in court and inspected, and believed to be genuine, by which it appears to be under the hand of Lieutenant Col. John Montgomery certifying that his time of enlistment which was eighteen months had expired at that time; that at the time of his enlistment he was a resident of the county of Montgomery in the state of Virginia, and enlisted in said county; that he marched through the country at present, the State of Tennessee and Kentucky by water from the mouth of Big Creek, which empties into Holston to the mouth of Tennessee river, and from there to Kaskaskia in Illinois; that he went from there to the opost on the Wabash, from there to the Iron Banks on the Mississippi, and then he was discharged. That previouss to the above enlistment, in the spring of 1774 while he was a citizen of Montgomery he enlisted under Lieut. John Draper, that he served in Capt. Russel company under Co. Christie* [Col. Christian] and General Andrew Lewis, that he was marched from Montgomery to the big levels of Greenbriar, and there met Gen. Lewis army, and from there to the mouth of Elk on the Kennawha and remained there a few days until canoes were made to transport the provisions down the river, and were then marched down the river to the point* and that he was then in the batle called the Shawnee battle which was fought on the 10 day of October 1774. from there he was marched toward the Shawnee towns and met with Governor Dunmore near the towns, and was by his order dismissed sometime in the month of November 1774 but received no discharge. That sometime between the two terms of enlistment above stated, he was by the order of Col. Preston to Capt. James Moore, apponted by said Capt. Moore an Indian spy. and that he acted as such for two years on the waters Bluestone, Clinch, and New River and was in company with William McGuire, Dana English, and Joseph Turner. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annunity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension role of any agency in any State; Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforsaid.

(Signed) Low x Brown [His Mark]