William was born in 1783. He is the son of Jacob Brown and Mary Armfield. According to the Deep Creek, Yadkin County, North Carolina notes of meetings of Friends, William "departed this life" 20 April 1791.
William Brown in the U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943
Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
Original data:
Hinshaw, William Wade, et al., compilers. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. 6 vols. 1936–1950. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991–1994.
Hinshaw, William Wade. Marshall, Thomas Worth, comp. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Supplement to Volume 1. Washington, D.C.: n.p. 1948.
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