"Captain John", who arrived in College Lands, Va. in 1622 from Gravesend, England with at least two sons, William 8 and George 7 , and moved to Elizabeth City County. He was the brother of William Browning who came here in 1611 to College Lands, now called Jamestown, and was mentioned as one of the principle men of the colony in 1623. Captain John was a Burgess of Elizabeth City in 1629, a Burgess of Morris Bay in 1632, and a Burgess of Elizabeth City in 1635. He bought and was deeded many hundreds of acres of land.
John's son (not brother) William Browning was born in England in 1615. He arrived with his Dad to what is now Jamestown in 1622 at age 7. He married in Jamestown in 1645 and had at least one son, probably in 1646, named John. Wiillian Browning received 250 acres of land from his father, Captain John Browning, in 1646. He purchased from the Crown (King George the Second) 400 acres of land in Amelia County, on the upper side of Buffalo River.
John Browning, was the son of William Browning. He had at least one child, a son named John Jr. born in 1665 or 1675.
John Jr., married in Jamestown about 1696, and had 7 sons at least, one of whom was Frances Sr, born 1700.
Frances, Sr.was born in Caroline County, Va., and lived to be 75. He was deeded 250 acres in Spottsylvania County in 1724. In 1735, he was granted 40 acres in St. Mark's Parish in the county of Orange in the Dominion of Virginia, by George the Second "of Great Britain, France and Ireland". A part of Old Orange County became Culpeper County in 1749 and in 1833 a part of Culpeper County became Rappahannock County. The lands patented as above stated were afterwards known as the Browning district. They were located at the headwaters of Battle Run, and on the north side of Gourdvine Creek, parts of the Rappahannock River. In 1747 he was granted 2 tracts: of 100 acres in North Little Fork and 430 acres in Culpeper County. He married Elizabeth Lloyd of Maryland in 1723 and they had a baby every two years for the next 20, a total of 9 children. The first was named Francis Jr.--born right away, in 1724. The rest were Nicholas, John, Jacob, Edmund, Caleb, Ruth, and Mary.
Jacob Browning, born about 1736 in Culpeper, married Eizabeth Bywaters in 1758, had 14 children, born a year apart except for a one-year break between the two oldest girls, Mary and Sarah. Jacob Browning was one of the nineteen men enrolled with his brother, John, in the militia of Culpeper County Va., as a foot soldier in March 1756. His father, Francis Sr., supposedly served in the Revolutionary War, too, and managed to accumulate over 900 more acres in his 40-some years -- he had children to give it to. He deeded land to his son Francis Jr. in 1740, in 1741 to his brother John, in 1748 to his sons Francis Jr. and Nicholas, and to his daughters Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Duncan. If son Jacob Browning got anything, he had 14 children to set up.His third son, Edmund, was Deanne's great-great-great-great-grandfather.
Edmund was born in Culpepper County in 1761 and married Sarah Allen of Pottawatamie County, Iowa in 1790. They had 7 children--David, Allen, John, Nancy, Clarissa, Jonathan and James Green. David, born in 1791. Edmund was a farmer who moved to Tennessee and had and raised his kids there. He lived to be 75 years old and was noted as a fine violinist. One of his sons, Jonathan, moved to Salt Lake City and was the father of John Moses Browning, the inventor of the Browning machine gun and so many other weapons -- he's got more patents for weaponry than any body else (still).Jonathan was a friend of young attorney Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln stayed with him when he had a case in Quincy, Illinois, where Jonathan lived with cousins as a justice of the peace and inventor gunsmith himself. (Source:Stallcup Family records,Eliz. Stallcup was his third wife. obtained from LDS archives in Salt Lake City.
The above, less Jonathan, is all in The History of the Southern Brownings by Edmund Browning, M.A. on the website of "The Herstal group" (in comic book form) , owners of Browning guns, in Su. Or Le. Himmings Statistics at large --Vol.VII p.22: Vol.III, p.128: and Vol.1, pp.139 and 148, as penned in her approved application for DAR status by a great-granddaughter of Jacob Browning, and in "The Chronicles of Border Warfare" by Alexander Scott Withers. Sui.
David Browning, married Vasti West in 1811 and they had 13 children. Mary A. was born in 1828. Mary A. Browning married Emmanuel Lionberger in 1847, at the age of 19. They had 8 or 9 girls ,Alice being the last one.At least one girl died young and a sister born 4 years later was given her name.
Alice died around 1926.
Alice married Charles Henry Young, son of Benjamin Young, a retired Great Lakes steamer captain from the Green Mountain area of Vermont. Charles Henry was born in Ontario, but grew up in Manistee, Michigan in the woods. While young he worked for a rich banker, but wanderlust drove him to wander the country as a schoolteacher after getting a college degree. He met and married Alice in Arkansas, and they had 5 children. One,aul Holden Young, was born about 1890.
Charles Henry was often gone and Alice tried hard to make ends meet, but her youngest child recalls his first 5 years in a house with a roof that leaked and that Alice had pots and pans all over the house to collect the water. She at one point had to let out rooms to boarders and often boarded preachers for tent revivals held across the street, even though they were not the same religion as her. She leaned on her eldest child, son Paul, to father the little boy, Cy, who was born when Paul was 12; Paul had to go fetch the doctor to "hatch" Cy, the father being " missing". Paul taught Cy to hunt and fish. The other three children lived with "Aunt Lenna", a Lionberger sister. Cy brags that he saw Paul kill a rabbit on the run at 30 yards with a deer rifle. Paul amazed him with his knowledge of plants, bugs, and animals. Alice's memos along with Cy's are what I am plundering for my information and it is at this bend in the family fortune that Alice had to muddle through and the gentlewoman rails against her poverty by trying to find proof she is related to Robert Browning, the poet, as she has always been told. A very religious woman, all she finds is that she's descended from the grandfather of John Moses Browning, inventor of the machine gun and other weapons. Whoops-- not what she wanted to find, although it must've comforted her to discover she qualified as a DAR. In her writings, she brags about the sheepskin deeds signed by Lord Fairfax in the Lionberger Family's possession, and how the Lionbergers got here early in the 1600's and owned vast tracts of land. She is no doubt doubly proud that the Brownings did the same exact thing. She uses both names always in her name, probably quite ashamed of the Young name, that way that boy is treating her. She heralds past achievements of ancestors to prove she's not stupid or a slacker. (All of the above is in Alice's memoirs, available online soon. Much also mentioned in memoirs of historian Eva Ferrier, sister of Charles Henry Young, and a twice-contibutor to Michigan History , by The Michigan Historical Commission, incl. Vol. 36, No. 1, March 1952 ) Today Paul's rods sell at collectible prices and his name is on a plaque in every canoe rented out by every livery on his beloved Au Sable River (hundreds of canoes) asking canoers to be mindful of fly fishermen, courtesy the Paul H. Young Chapter of Trout Unlimited.
His son Paul Anthony Young recalls that Paul H. would carve at a peach pit while standing around talking to you and then toss you the carving as he walked away--marvelous little monkeys with tails wrapping around an otherwise hollowed-out pit, with little heads on top and two little monkey hands clutching the tail to the mouth. Paul took a correspondence course in taxidermy because the things he found in the woods interested him. He modified the bamboo rod so that his sons could take them overseas on the plane with them in WW2 by designing a rod of 5 strips of Tonkin cane glued together in such a way as to withstand the pull of salmon and Florida bonefish, not just trout. For traveling, this rod could be broken down into two parts and carried in a metal cylinder--8'5" rods being hard to fit on planes safely. He also invented the strawman nymph fly.
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