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Note for:   Reuben Browning,   31 Mar 1759 - 21 Sep 1844         Index

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     Date:   Sep 1844
     Place:   Browning Cemetery, Logan, Kentucky

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     BIRTH-DEATH: "Desc. of William Duncan the Elder"; FHL #929-273 D912r; p.58-59. Logan County, Kentucky Cemeteries, p.143, FHL 976.976 V3l, "first proprietor of this farm."

PROBATE: Logan County,Kentucky Wills, 1838-1856, p. 31, FHL #976.976P28ab; Browning, Reuben, book G, pages 472-473, To Nancy Sutton, daughter, 1/3 of tract of land he now lives on. To Millie Inghram, relationship not given, 1/3 of above tract of land; to Isaac, son, same; David Browning, son, owes estate 160.00; to Reuben, son, 1 Negro. Balance to be devided among all children equally. Written 6 Jul 1844. Exec.: Isaac and Reuben Browning. Wit.: John B. Dunn, Jesse Williams. Signature is written. Date of probate 28 Oct 1844.
Ibid., p.42,: Browning, Reuben, Bk G, pg. 576-577, Division of land. Dated 25 Jan 1847. Surveyed by Constant A. Wilson. Shares are given to Thomas D. Sutton, Isaac Browning, and Griffin Ingram.

MIGRATION: Culpeper County, Virginia Deeds Abstracts, 1792-1794, Vol 14, p.95, FHL #975.53.92 R2s; Indenture made 25 March 1793, REUBEN BROWNING & SARAH his wife of County of Culpeper, Virginia to Joseph Brackney of Frederick County, Virginia for Twenty five pounds, 207 acres situated in Culpeper County & Bromfield Parish in the Little Fork of Rappahannock River the same being a tract of land granted to JOHN BROWNING by the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax by deed fifth month called May 1754, now belonging to Reuben Browning. Deed proved 16 Sep 1793 by the parties . . . said Sarah was privily examined as the law directs. Signed Reuben Browning & Sarah Browning

Ibid., p.96, made 25th Mar 1793 REUBEN BROWNING & SARAH his wife of County of Culpeper in the state of Virginia of the one part and Joseph Brackney of County of Frederick & state of Virginia of other. In consideration of Ninety pounds . . . doth sell unto Joseph Brackney a certain tract of land containing one hundred and nine acres in County of Culpeper on the head Brances of Battle Run . . . . signed: Reuben Browing & Sarah Browning. Proved in Culpeper Court 16 day of Sep 1793.

Bourbon County, Kentucky Tax Record, 1787-18 , 1795 Reuben, Francis, Francis Browning listed, 1796 Reuben, Isaac, Ia, Micajah, Thos., William, Franc's listed, 1797, Jesse, Thos., Reuben, Isaac, Francis, William, Isaac listed. Reuben not listed after 1797.

Logan County,Kentucky Taxation Record, FHL F#0008122, 1799 October, Reuben Browning listed, no property recorded at that time . . . 1801, Reuben Browning 355 acres on Muddy River . . . 1807, Reuben Browning 345 acres

Logan County, Kentucky Deed Book, 1792-1813, FHL #976.976 R28m, p. 37, 10 Oct 1803, James Duncan & Rubin Browning purchase 1,200 acres (420 pd's) on Muddy River from Wm. Roberts. p.47, 10 Nov 1804 James Duncan and wife Bathsheba Duncan sell to Reuben Browning 405 acres on Muddy River for 150 pds.
Ibid., p. 47: 20 Nov 1804, Reuben & Sally of first part and James Duncan on other . . . for 50 pounds, 245 Acres.
Ibid., p.84: 12 Jun 1809, Reuben Browning & Sally, James Duncan & wife Bathsheba Duncan, of one part . . . & Elizabeth Duncan, widow of Benjamin Duncan, dec'd . . . also heirs of s'd Benjamin Duncan, dec'd, by names . . . Malinda Duncan, Squire Duncan, Ann Duncan, Abner Duncan, Julia Duncan, legal heirs of s'd Benj, of the other part, for 70 pds . . . tract on Alston Creek & Muddy River containing 250 acres . . .

CENSUS: 1810 Logan County, Kentucky. 1820 Logan County, Kentucky. 1830 Logan County,Kentucky

CHURCH: Logan County, Kentucky Records, vol.1, p.22, FHL #976.976 H2m: Listed in the first minutes of the Mount Pleasant Church (March 1822), . . . Wm. F. Browning, Geo. S. Browning, Gillian C. Browning, Thos D. Sutton, Nancy Sutton, Squire G. Duncan, Elizabeth Duncan, Rosean Duncan, Julia Duncan, Nancy Duncan, Jesse Williams, Lucy Williams, . . . Lewis Mauzy, Elizabeth Mauzy, Peggy Mauzy, Milly Ingram, Nicholas Wilson, Sally Wilson, Henry, a man of color . . . . The faithful souls met for organization in a temple of the branches of an Oak tree, at the home of John Hynes. the minutes also state that they opened a door and recieved by experience, the following day; Chastity, a woman of color, Nancy, a woman of color . . . Francis S. Browning, John Hynes, Almeda Inman. The first Pastor of the Church was Jacob Bowers, the first Clerk John Strother Browning. They met at the home of their members until March 1825 when they met for the first time in their new log meeting house at Terry's. This building was destroyed by a cyclone,later rebuilt on the Hynes place, later the building was moved to Lewisburg. . . In Oct. 1830 Brother Tatum was succeeded by Bro. John B. Dunn, Nov. 1837. He served until Nov. 1857, He resigned to move to Missouri. . . . The deacons of the Church have been; Jesse Williams and Hall Shelton 1825. S.G. Duncan and Samuel Ely 1833, H.S. Arnold and S.M. Duncan 1863, R.A. Page 1877, C.R. Browning and P.M. Kennerly 1880, M.T. Gibbs, John W. Duncan, D.P. Browning 1892 . . . other members mentioned; Polly Arnold, James Arnold, Wilson Arnold, Hetty Arnold, . . . John B. Dunn . . . Elijah Browning . . . James Dunn . . . Quinton Browning, Mary Browning . . . G.F. Sutton, Jr., Deloache Sutton, Celia Sutton Browning. . . . A majority of the member were descendants of the original seventeen who organized the Church. Among the original members of Mount Pleasant Church; The Suttons were descended from Baptist preacher and missionary John Sutton. Missionary to Nova Scotia. He and three brothers, all Baptist preachers, traveled through Penn., Va., Ohio, Ky., and Tenn., establishing churches and moving on. Rev. John Sutton's wife was Ruth Stout, gdau. of Col. Joseph Stout, son of Jonathan Stout, son of Richard and Penelope Stout, first English settler in New Jersey. Jonathan constituted Hopewell Baptist church, Hopewell, New Jersey. An old progenitor, William Sutton, a Quaker came to America ca 1836. Ruth Stout was also a descendant of Capt. Jas.Bolen, from Hingham England and first Secretary of Providence, New Jersey. The Duncans, Brownings and Mauzys came from Culpeper, Virginia. Some of them had been married in Culpeper by Lewis Conneran honored Baptist Preacher and a worthy soldier, who fought alongside their fathers in the American Revolution. Nancy Sutton was the sister of Wm. F. Browning, children of Reuben Browning Esq.

FAMILY LETTER: Descendants of William Duncan the Elder, (Nancy Reba Roy), p.60, FHL #929.273 D912r. From a letter dated 6 Apr 1829 from Reuben and Sally Browning - addressed to Mr. George Strother near Milton, Gallatin County., Kentucky (Note: George Strothers md. Mary Duncan 18 Feb 1796, Culpeper County,Virginia, she the daughter of James Duncan and Asenith Browning.)
Dear Nephew and Niece,
       I received your letter dated Oct. 25th last. It appeared to be doubtful with you whether I was your wife's uncle, or not; it need be no dispute for the time to come, for it is a fact that I am your wife's uncle. I have arrived at the age of 70 years, the last day of last month.
       My eldest son has been married ? years her name was Sallie Sutton, has no children. My second son is a Baptist, he has been married near 20 years, her name is Hooper, he has seven children, four sons and three daughters. My 3rd son has been dead ever since Hopkin's campaign against the Indians. My 4th son Reuben, is married to my brother James' youngest daughter, Maria, they have three sons; he is living in Washington County, he is also a Baptist.
       My eldest daughter, Milly, is married to a man by the name of Griffin Ingram, a Baptist, also. They have 3 sons and a daughter. My 2nd daughter, Sallie, married William Browning - Big Frank Browning's eldest son, they have two sons and two daughters. My youngest daughter, Nancy, married a man named Thomas Sutton - they have one son and four daughters, a Baptist, also.
       David Browning, Griffin Ingram and William Browning have all moved to Missouri.
       You and I have a great many relatives in this neighborhood; my wife's brother, Benjamin Duncan's widow, lives about 3 quarter of a mile from here. George S. Browning, my brother John's oldest son, a Baptist Preacher, lives one mile from me, he married Gillie Covington.
       James Duncan, my wife's brother, has been dead 6 or 7 years, his wife and all his wife's family, but two, his oldest daughter Polly and his youngest son John is still living.
       My sister Molly's oldest daughter Polly lives about 3 fourths of a mile from me. My brother James, is dead more than a year since. Old Mr. Mauzey lives about 1/2 miles from me.
      You wrote about your relations, Philip Kennerly - he lives about 4 miles from me, - his oldest son John Kennerly married Malinda Duncan, Ben Duncan's oldest daughter. He was a Methodist. His second son, James Kennerly has gone south to one of his uncles - from information is a smart physician. There is another son Philip, but young yet. Old John Kennerly was a smart man. Signed: Reben Browning & Sally Browning