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1.  Your kit number ________75978__

2.  Your name ________Living___

3.  Why did you join the Lost Colony project? 

There is a possibility that our family could have come from the coastal area of North Carolina and Brown/Browne are names that you have listed as settlers. The earliest we have traced our family is to the far western part of NC in what is now Haywood County – was formerly Indian Lands and then Buncombe County.

4.  How is your Y-line DNA line connected to the colonists, the surnames, Native people or the location?

1. By surname.  2. Location. 3. Our tradition has always said that there is Indian (Cherokee) blood in the family.  We just found, several days ago, that the name of William Hamilton Brown, grandson of our patriarch, David Brown, was on the Guion Miller Application roll. The records have been ordered from the National Archives (NARA) but will take upwards of 6 or 8 weeks to be mailed to us.  Hopefully this is the correct person and that some useful information is there.

The 3 sections of the website are divided into genealogy, research and history.

Genealogy – typically this would be the specific genealogy of the line listed here on the site….so the mtdna for you. 

I am including a mini-genealogy form below for you to complete which should help you to document your maternal ancestry.  Alternatively, you can upload a gedcom to either your personal results page at Family Tree DNA or mitosearch and let us know that you have done so.

5.  Please provide a brief writeup (2 paragraphs to one page in length) on your line! 

See the following website for a descendancy report on our Brown family:

http://users.bscn.com/~harryv/brown1.htm

This should give you what you need but I can send a more complete GEDCOM file if that is necessary.

David Brown, the patriarch of our family, was born ca. 1795 in western NC, probably in Indian territory which is now Haywood County, NC.  He married Rhoda Chastain in about 1826. She was no doubt born in the Old Pendleton District of SC, not far from the Browns in NC. Their first three children were born in NC.  They moved to Georgia in 1833 and settled in Union County (1840 census).  They were in Cherokee County, GA, in the 1850 census.  Their remaining eight children were born in GA.

Rhoda died shortly after the 1850 census was taken.  The family moved to Murray County, GA, for several years before moving to Arkansas.  While in Murray County, David, remarried to Catherine Sullivan, widow of John Martin. They had a son, George C. Brown.

The family, less one daughter who married and remainded in GA, moved to Poinsett County, AR, in 1858.  David died there about a year later. That part of Poinsett County is now Jonesboro, Craighead County, AR.

6.  Mini-Genealogy From Participant to Oldest Ancestor (completeform below)

Completing the form below, enter the current generation’s name in line 1 and add each generation on subsequent lines through your oldest ancestor.  You don’t need to provide personal info for living individuals, just a placeholder name. 

7.  Do you have a family website that includes this line?  If so, please provide the link.

No.

Research – this would include such items as papers you’ve written about the family, deeds you’ve extracted, or other things relevant to your particular line.

8.  Do you have research items to contribute?  If so, paste here or send separately.

No.

History – this would include any general history of the area or a tribe or something not included above.

9.  Do you have history to share?  If so, paste here or send separately.

No.

10.  Are you willing to have your e-mail address and first name listed as a contact for your kit?  If so, what is the e-mail you want listed?

 Use Don my e-mail address which is [email protected] .   

11.  Are you willing to be a coordinator or resource for any of the Lost Colony surnames?  If so, which ones?

No, thank you.

Thank you very much,

Roberta Estes

Lost Colony Project Volunteer Administrator