Display Patriot - P-123427 - Nathan BROWNSON

Nathan BROWNSON

SAR Patriot #: P-123427

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State of Service: GA Qualifying Service: Surgeon

Birth: 14 May 1742 Woodbury / / CT
Death: 06 Nov 1796 Riceboro / Liberty / GA

Additional References:

Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998

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Children:

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Burial:

Midway Cemetery_(C-0371610)

Location:

Midway / Liberty / GA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

35348

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

31.806090 / -81.431257

Find A Grave Memorial #:

7178706

Marker Type:

SAR Granite

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

10 Jul 2022

Comments:

Marked by the Athens Chapter, Blue Ridge Mountains Chapter and Marshes of Glynn Chapter Georgia Society SAR
photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Midway Cemetery is on US Highway 17 in Midway, Georgia directly across the street from the Historic Midway Church
Take I-95 to exit 76 - at end of ramp turn west on U.S. 84 and travel 3.7 miles to U.S. 17 - Turn right and travel less than 1 mile to the Historic Midway Church on right and cemetery on left

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Author: William Foye Ramsaur

Nathan Brownson was born on 14 May 1742 in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

He was a physician in St. Johns Parish, and he attended the first Georgia Provincial Congress in 1775. In 1777, he was commissioned a Surgeon in the Georgia Continental Line. Also, in 1777, he was elected Georgia's Delegate to the Continental Congress, necessitating travel to Philadelphia.
In 1778, Major General Robert Howe appointed him Surgeon and Deputy Purveyor General for the Southern Department Continental Line, and he served outside of the State of Georgia for three years. Major General Nathanael Greene selected him to command the Georgia Militia in 1781, but the newly reestablished Georgia House of Assembly elected him Governor of Georgia.

Governor Brownson urged Georgians in exile "to return and defend their state or incur a treble tax on their real estate." He also confiscated the property of Tories to purchase military supplies and food for the troops and citizens. After his one-year term as Governor expired, Nathan Brownson resumed service as Deputy Purveyor General of the Southern Department Continental Line Hospitals. He had six brothers who also served in the Revolutionary War, three in Connecticut, two in Vermont, and one in Pennsylvania.

Author: Kenneth Scott Collins

Nathan Brownson b. 1742 d. 1796 LIBERTY COUNTY, GEORGIA

He served as a Surgeon, as a Deputy-Surgeon-General for Southern hospitals, and as a Captain in the Georgia Troops. He was a member of the Provincial Congress and served as Governor of Georgia.

Buried: Midway Cemetery.

See: (1) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 24, 209.

(2) Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of Liberty County, Georgia, p. 211.

Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.

A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.

Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.

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