Born in Kingsbury, New York
Ancestors 
Daughter of Jesse Brown UEL
and Hannah (Leeds) Brown
Sister of
Nathaniel Brown UEL [half], Israel Brown, Nathan Brown UEL, Rebecca (Brown) Tompkins, Hannah (Brown) Campbell, Dorothy (Brown) Landon, John Brown and Sanford Brown [half]
Wife of
John Chester UE
— married
about 1785 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Hannah Chester, Catherine Chester, Thomas Chester, Mary (Chester) Miner, Elizabeth (Chester) Wilcox, John Chester, Michael Chester, John Ruggles Chester, Jesse Chester and Ursula (Chester) Powers
Died about
at about age 48
in Montague, Lanark, Upper Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 8 Apr 2015
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Biography
PHEBE BROWN, born in Kingsbury, N.Y.,1768. Her parents were : Jesse Brown, born in Stonington, New London
John and Phebe were buried at McGuigan Cemetery in Merrickville, Ontario, Canada.
Sources
- 1798 Upper Canada Land Petitions
- Petitioner: Phebe Brown Chester
- She was the wife of John Chester of the Township of Montague;
- Daughter of the late Jesse Brown of the town of William Henry in the Province of Lower Canada - a loyalist who joined the Royal Standard before 1783.
- Asks for 200 acres.
- Petition Dated: May 27, 1798
- 2nd Petition Dated: Montague, 22nd February 1808
- Said she had an Order in Council for 200 acres of land on 30 July 1798.
- Library and Archives Canada Film C-1648, vol 92, Bdle C4, Petition 44 (starts on page 825/972)
- ........
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Phebe by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Phebe:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Phebe by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Phebe:
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Marjorie (Sapinsky) Toews 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A307365 [compare], Ancestry member Marjorie_Toews
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~1.56%
Dave Ford :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member dave4402
+
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
Lorraine (Robertson) Anderson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A556307 [compare], Ancestry member Wander10983
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~0.78%
Cayla Dorman :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A424088 [compare], Ancestry member crakd
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Lawrene Toews :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A162066 [compare], Ancestry member Lawrene_Toews
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Twyla (Sanford) Lapointe :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A737089 [compare], Ancestry member Twyla_Lapointe
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Categories: McGuigan Cemetery, Merrickville, Ontario | Montague Township, Upper Canada | Kingsbury, New York