Camden County GaArchives Biographies.....Brown Sr., Hugh 1749 - 1812
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Marguerite Marree Mathews mmevans@att.net October 4, 2007, 5:20 pm

Author: Marguerite Marree Mathews

Hugh Brown Sr., son of Robert Brown, was born in VA, married a girl named Sarah
(maiden name unknown), moved to South Carolina where he owned land.  He was a
Capt. during the American Revolution, supported independence but felt their
measures would reduce hard-earned rights.  He turned to the Loyalist cause, his
lands were confiscated and he was banished to British East FL.  During the
Second Spanish Period in East FL, rather than embrace Catholicism and swear
allegiance to the King of Spain, he left the St. Johns River area for Camden
County.  There, Hugh Brown Sr. applied for and received vast acres in the Sand
Hills where he cultivated rice (this property is presently called Ivanhoe
Plantation).  His property bordered the Satilla River where it crossed at Browns
Ferry to the town of St. Patrick (near Jeffersonton).  He was one of the early
settlers in Camden County, voted in the first election, he along with Alexander
Young, was elected the first Justice of the Peace in 1789.  He was elected
member to the General Assembly, was one of five men commissioned to purchase
land and build a courthouse at Jeffersonton.  In 1796, Capt. Hugh Brown Sr. was
stationed at Burnt Fort, and was one of the eldest Militia officers in the
county.  His son, Hugh Brown Jr., born in Camden County and married Elizabeth
Dean, was a man of great intellect, added to his fathers lands, served as
Justice of Inferior Court, was Representative and a Senator from Camden County.
 He applied for Letters of Administration on his fathers Estate.  Hugh Brown Sr.
and Sarah were my ancestors.

Additional Comments:
Brown History and Lineage, by Marguerite Marree Mathews in Library of Congress.
 LC Control No. 99232439
LC Call No. CS71. B88 1996

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