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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Birth: 08 May 1738 / Lehigh / PA Death: 04 Mar 1806 / Northampton / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Captain John Santee. Second Battalion, Northampton County Militia
Paid 1781 Supply Tax at Bethlehem Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Additional References:
Published Pennsylvania Archives, Series 5, Volume 8, pg 125-126, 150-151
Tax and Exoneration Lists, 1762–1794. Microfilm roll: 331. Series No. 4.61. Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, U.S, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2011
John Adam Brown, Sr. was born 8 May 1738 at Cedar Creek, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a son of Christian Brown, Sr. He settled at Bethlehem Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1760. He married Juliana Catharine, whose family name is not known, about 1761. This area of Bethlehem Township later became Nazareth Township via a December 1787 petition made to the Northampton County Court. The petition to divide a portion of Bethlehem Township into Nazareth Township was granted at a June 1788 session of the court.
John Adam Brown appeared in the company of Captain John Santee of the Second Battalion of the Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Militia, on a company list dated May 1780 as Adam Braun, and also a company list dated 4 September 1781 as Adam Brown. In both company lists, Brown appeared in the first class of the company.
Brown also provided Patriotic Service by paying the 1781 Supply Tax at Bethlehem Township.
The Last Will and Testament of John Adam Brown, of record at Will Book 4, Page 229, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, was made 6 August 1803. Brown signed his name as Adam Brown. In the Will, he named his wife, Juliana Catharine, and the following children: [Anna] Catharina intermarried with Michael Spengler, John, Margareth intermarried with Henry Sensebach, Magdalene intermarried with Peter Everhard, [John] Adam, Barbara intermarried with Philip Walker, David, Elizabeth intermarried with George Dehly, Abraham, and Hannah intermarried with Philip Gross.
John Adam Brown died 14 March 1806 at his homestead at Nazareth Township. He was laid to rest at the cemetery of the Dryland Union Lutheran Church at Hecktown, Pennsylvania, of which he was a member. The records of baptism of Brown’s children are found in the pages of the church’s registers.
Juliana’s date of death and place of burial is not known, as she did not have an estate of record at Northampton County, nor was a record of her burial found at the Dryland Union Lutheran Church. The last document of record at Northampton County involving Juliana is a Release of Dower, dated 28 April 1806.
References:
History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Pg. 156.
History of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Pg. 259.
NSDAR RC# 954460 A015240 – John Adam Brown
Published Pennsylvania Archives, Series 5, Vol. 8, Pg. 125-126, 150-151.
Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762–1794. Series No. 4.61; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General,
Deed Book B3, Pg. 143-144, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
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