Family:BrownTwiford and Mary Brown (1)

The Twiford/Twyford, Brown, and White families all were associated with Francis Asbury's visits and to the Methodist movement when they went to Ohio about 1801. The probate of James Brown's will was probably a major factor in the timing of the migration.

1.   will of James Brown, in DeValinger, Leon. Calendar of Sussex County, Delaware probate records, 1680-1800. (Dover, Delaware: Public Archives Commission, 1964)
   Arch vol A60 pp 1197-1198 Liber E Folio 12-13, 27 Nov 1794.

   James Brown will Calendar of Sussex County Delaware probate records 1680-1800
   made 22 Sep 1787 Heirs: wife Priscilla Brown; sons James, Thomas and White Brown; daus. [Rebecca] Brown, Elizabeth Dawson, Priscilla Smith, Mary Twyford and Sara Riggin; grandson James Brown; Granddau Henrietta Brown. Exec’rs wife Priscilla Brown and Thomas Brown. Wit Thomas White, Charles Twyford, Bumphries Brown.
   Prob 27 Nov 1794 Arch vol A60 pp1197-198 Reg of Will Liber E folios 12-13.
   [page 198 shows the estate was settled by [Lucretia]Brown D.B.N, in right of Thomas W Brown

2.   The will of James Brown allows the incorrect inference that his daughter "Mary Twyford" is married to the witness Charles Twyford. Examination of probate records of Caroline County, MD show that to be impossible and show it probable the Brown Twiford was widow Mary Twyford's husband and the father of Clement, her heir. Mary's administrator is her sister Rebecca Brown who is also administrator of Brown Twyfords estate, which has been "swallowed up" in that of Mary Twyford.