Samuel Brown
1779 - 1864

Copied with permission from Mrs. Oscar Bergman's paper by Pearl Brown "The following was told to me by Manly Brown."

(My Grandfather,) Samuel Brown was Born in Broadalbin, Montgomery County, New York on Dec 20, 1779; was married Oct 25 1800 to Susanna Rouse of Broad Albin, who died May 27 1808. To them was born two sons: Samuel II and Peter.

On Nov 27 1808 he was married to Diantha Foster of Broad Albin and to them was bon 14 children.

Grandfather and Grandmother, having decided to go to ohio, left Broad Albin in the spring of 1817 and came to the Genesee River where they stayed two years. Diantha was pregnant when they started, Solomon was born Aug 17, 1817.

They left the genesee River in 1819 and came through the woods to Olean with a yoke of oxen hitched to a long wooden sled on which the carried their belongings and on which they sometimes rode. They also had two cows. Diantha was pregnant again with a daughter, Diantha was born july 14, 1819.

At Olean, Grandfather Built a raft or float an the Allegheny River and on this he put his wife and 6 younger children, his tools with which he used to make chairs, and what other few belongings they had. Samuel II was then a boy of 18 years, who was described as large and strong. He helped his father with the float, while Peter and Eunice drove the oxen and cows along on the bank of the river.

In September 1819, they landed at the upper end of a small flat containing a few acres of land at Dunns Eddy, about two miles below Irvin, Warren County, Pa on the Alleghney River. This was their home for many years.

From there they moved to York Hill, also in Warren County, which was their home until they came to make their home with their son William, near Sanford, about 3 miles from Grand Valley.

The courage and spirit of they grandparents was displayed when they made the trip from the Genesee River through the woods with a family of nine children, the youngest, a small baby. When they landed at Dunns Eddy, winter was close at hand and no food for the family but Grandfather had his tools to make chairs. He was an expert workman and that winter he made chairs and traded them for corn. There were settlers along the Alleghney River and all raised corn.The wooden sled mentioned in the story had long poles for runners and these were shod with shoes made of small poles fastened on with wooden pins so that new shoes might be put on as needed. for the posts of the chairs he made, he used green birch and maple. Rounds and slats were made of white-ash seasoned. Splints for the bottoms were of white oak and black birch. The story is that he could go to the woods, cut material for the posts and make 4 chairs between daylight and dark in the winter time and bottom them in the evening."

Aunt Rose added this... (Rose is the daughter of Samuel and Diantha's daughter Polly. She married James Green and they had 8 children- 4 boys & 4 girls.)

"As I remember my Grandfather, he was a small mad who used a long cane or staff which he carried partly in front of him with both hands.

My Grandmother was an unusually large woman, nearly or quite 6 feet tall and heavy. I remember my father (James Green) went to Warren to get a casket for her burrial. He got the largest he could find and then had the carpenters who were building our house build it as it was not deep enough.

Grandmother was of Scotch descent and my mother (Rose Brown Green) said related to Queen Mary. When she visited us, we children were sure to be "all mended and darned." I rather liked to get a hole in my stocking. I thought Grandmother's darning so pretty. She always wore a lace cap and smoked a clay pipe. If she thought the pipe was getting strong, she went to the stove, pulled out some live coals, put the pipe in them and it came out white and clean."

Aunt Roses part is signed by Helen Thompson Renolds. Helen fits into the family this way:

Samuel & Diantha Brown Adaline(12th child) married Enos Thompson Wilfred Thompson married Ada Wisner Helen Thompson married Everett Reynolds

Therefore Helen was Samuels great-grandaughter.

Descendants of Samuel Brown IV

First Generation

1. Samuel Brown IV ^{1, 2} was born on 20 Dec 1779 in Mayfield, Fulton Co., New York. He died in 1864.

Samuel married (1) Susanna Rouse on 25 Oct 1800. Susanna died on 27 May 1808.

They had the following children:

Samuel also married (2) Diantha Foster ^{1, 2} on 27 Nov 1808. Diantha was born on 25 Jul 1792. She died in 1874.

Age 55

They had the following children:

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