War of 1812 Pension Applications claiming bounty land for the service of her husband.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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Her maiden name is possibly Beggs/Biggs/Boggs or even Baggs. A small book entitled "The Book O'Beggs" explores the name (dont have the current notes about it). She is attributed as the source for several stories of the family history by her grandson, Mitchell Matthews Brown in his 1897 brief history beginning with Nathan Brown(1731/6-1779). In that history, he mentions her father - John Beggs and her mother Eleanor White Beggs as arriving in Hamilton (Rossville) Ohio in 1805 with the party of 42 people from Newberry County, South Carolina. They died and were buried in Hamilton within a couple of years, and the cemetery was obliterated over time. Because I have yet to find other records listing her parents, I have not created entries for them. She(Betty) and her father John also are part of the 'Baggs manuscript' (actually a transcript, not the original) from some of the Brown descendants in 1936 that is printed as an aappendix in Marsha Hoffman Rising's 500+page 2010 "Descendants of Nathan Brown c. 1731 ...." Rising uses 'Baggs' as the family name based on the handwriting of a clerk who entered the Pension application for War of 1812 surviving family on behalf of Elizabeth Beggs Brown; and possibly also due to handwriting in the 1936 family manuscript (original not made accessible to me)