Dorothy (Rice) Brown (1757 - 1856)

Born 1757 in New York Colony

Wife of Alexander Brown UE — married 1783 in Canning Parish, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada

Descendants

Died 5 Aug 1856 at about age 99 in Penniac, York, New Brunswick, Canada

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Biography

Dorothy (Rice) Brown lived in New Brunswick, Canada.

Dorothy Brown was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Undetermined
Date: Undated

Dorothy Rice was born in 1757 in New York, the daughter of Mr. Rice and Unknown mother. Legend (unproven) has her as an adopted daughter of Mohawk leader Joseph Brant Chief Joseph Brant. Dorothy married Alexander David Brown Sr about 1782, in York, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 5 August 1856 ^[1] at Nashwaak, St Marys Parish, New Brunswick, Canada in Saint Marys, York, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 99.^[2][3][4]

Dorothy and Alexander came to New Brunswick after the Revolutionary war. In 1786, they recieved a grant of land on Grand Lake in the Parish of Canning, Queens County. In 1803, Alexander purchased the Dugald Campbell lot in the Lyman Grant on the Nashwaak, just below Taymouth. ^[2]

Children of Alexander Brown and Dorothy Rice:

• William Brown1784–1851^[2]
• Thomas Brown1785–1871^[2]
• Mary Ann Brown1788–1862^[2]
• Isaac Brown1789–1861^[2]
• David Brown1791–1871^[2]
• Alexander Brown1793–1877^[2]
• John D Brown1796–1877^[2]
• Samuel Brown1796–1883^[2]
• Jacob Barker Brown1798–1871^[2]
• Benjamin Brown1800–1870^[2]
• Elizabeth Brown1803–1902^[2]

Residence

• 1851 York, New Brunswick^[5]

Research Notes

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Notes by Maxwell-12665

Was Dorothy Mohawk?

You could easily get a headache trying to sort out truth from falsehood as regards the families of several prominent United Empire Loyalist Mohawk leaders.

It is strongly possible that someone, somewhere, has attempted to fabricate a connection to Mohawk leader Chief Joseph Brant. I believe that if this is the case, they've chosen to use his sister, Christina, as a gateway, nevermind that the most reputable genealogy of New York Mohawks at the time of the Revolutionary War says that it’s likely that she died in infancy?^[6] In the many mutations of initial fabrication that present themselves online genealogy websites, Christina didn’t die in infancy, variously married to “unknown Mohawk man,"^[7], "unknown Tuscarora man,"^[8], or even James Rolleston,^[9][10][11] supposed to be the father of Catherine Rollston, supposedly of New Jersey, providing a further tribal connection to Chief George Martin, himself outfitted with a fabricated father ^[12] in order to connect him to George Martin and Susannah West of Virginia. (I didn't know that a wholly European couple could produce a wholly Mohawk child. Genetics is so fascinating.) Finally, with whatever husband is fancied, Christina is purported to have had a daughter, Dorothy Rice, who was allegedly “an Indian princess”^[13] “of the Rice Clan," the fact that the Mohawk don't have a Rice Clan notwithstanding?^[14] Well, heck, it sure sounds nice.

These stereotypes are not only inaccurate, not only increasingly transparent to savvy amateurs, they’re detrimental.^[15] They do a disservice to every ancestor involved, whether Mohawk or European, and, worse, to the entire discipline of genealogy. Needless to say, there is no evidence that Christina Brant survived into adulthood, much less that she had any particular husband, much less that she was the mother of Dorothy Rice of Prenniac, NB. In lieu of further evidence, Dorothy's parents remain unknown. However, there's no reason that she couldn't have been Mohawk, but there's no conclusive evidence for it at all. Notes by Maxwell-12665

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Sources

1. ↑ Source, Province of New Brunswick Archive, Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital StatisticsDeath
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12} Province of New Brunswick Archive MC80/1214 Book: 1785-1885 NASHWAAK FAMILIES; Ina Dodds-MacLaggan and Faye Stewart ;Published by Nashwaak Bicentennial Association (1986) ISBN 10: 0969164726 ISBN 13: 9780969164722
3. ↑ Saint Marys’ families Compilation of families who lived in the Parish of Saint Mary's York County, New Brunswick, Canada. New Brunswick Provincial Archives MC80/1728 Marilyn Evans’ Stewart-35389 Saint Marys’ families.
4. ↑ Source: New Brunswick Genealogical Society First Families
5. ↑ Year: 1851; Census Place: York, New Brunswick; Schedule: I; Roll: CSCAN1851_NBYKQU1851; Page: 96; Line: 3 1851 census
6. ↑ Sivertsen, Barbara J. Turtles, Wolves, and Bears: A Mohawk Family History. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2006. ISBN-10 0788404849. Can be read online here (requires free account). Pg. 61, "Christina, [born about] 1741; [baptised] 28 January 1941/42; [sponsors] Lot Thoroghyonge, Esther Kanoghscrightha, Maria." Pg. 165, "As Joseph Brant's biographer Isabel Kelsay discovered, Joseph Brant's parents were Peter Tehonwaghkwangeraghkwa and Margaret, whose children Jacob and Christina... baptised at Fort Hunter in the early 1740s... [probably] died in infancy" (pg. 61)... all of Margaret's children appear to have died in infancy or in early childhood" (pg. 166).
7. ↑ Roaix, James Robert. "Unknown MOHAWK MAN." RootsWeb, February 10, 2004. Link. "Called a Mohawk chief who was killed in the War."
8. ↑ Roaix, James Robert. "Dorothy RICE (Kiwesnakisutumeeha)." RootsWeb, February 10, 2004. Link. "She was the niece of Joseph BRANT, the Mohawk Chief (her mother being the younger sister of Joseph), and an unknown Tuscarora man."
9. ↑ “Sir James Teyonnhehkewea Rolleston.” Ancestry. Ancestry, May 15, 2021. Link.
10. ↑ “James Rolleston++.” FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Accessed May 15, 2021. Link.
11. ↑ Griffith, R. Peter. “James Rolleston.” Geni. MyHeritage, May 5, 2019. Link.
12. ↑ “George Ohyeatea Martin.” FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Accessed May 15, 2021. Link.
13. ↑ “Dorothy Kiwesnakisutumeeha of the Rice Clan++.” FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Accessed May 15, 2021. Link. "Title of Nobility: Indian Princess."
14. ↑ “Mohawk Culture.” Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte Kenhteke Kanyen’kehá:Ka. Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte Kenhteke Kanyen’kehá:Ka. Accessed May 15, 2021. Link. "The Peacemaker created a new clan system, with nine clans—Turtle, Bear, Wolf, Heron, Hawk, Snipe, Beaver, Deer and Eel—that would be found across the confederacy. In this way, the Peacemaker reasoned, members of the same clan would develop familial ties, regardless of which nation they were from... Clans within the Mohawk nation are the Bear, Turtle and Wolf."
15. ↑ “Indian Princess.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, April 23, 2021. Link. "The Indian princess is usually a stereotypical and usually inaccurate representation of Native American or other Indigenous woman of the Americas. The term 'princess' was often mistakenly applied to the daughters of tribal chiefs or other community leaders by early American colonists who mistakenly believed that Indigenous people shared the European system of royalty. Frequently, the 'Indian Princess' stereotype is paired with the 'Pocahontas theme' in which the princess 'offers herself to a captive Christian knight, a prisoner of her father, and after rescuing him, she is converted to Christianity and live with him in his native land.' The phrase 'Indian princess,' when used in this way, is often considered to be a derogatory term and is deemed offensive to Native Americans."

See also:

• McNeil sourced Family Tree, Ancestry Family Tree 11422786 by Marilyn Stewart-Evans Stewart-35389, Dorothy Rice
• MacLaggan, Ina, and Faye Stewart. 1785-1885 Nashwaak Families. Nashwaak Bridge, NB: Nashwaak Bicentennial Association, 1986. ISBN-10 0969164726; ISBN-13 9780969164722.see also:Province of New Brunswick ArchiveMC80/1214 Ina MacLaggan et. al. Nashwaak families 1785-1885, pages 12-15:
• Province of New Brunswick Archive MC1/Brown #14, 80 pages: file contains The Brown Family by Dow White, and Honor thy father and thy mother: A genealogy of sorts by R.W. Manzer:
• Province of New Brunswick Archive, MC80/1728 Marilyn Evans’ Saint Marys’ families: see also MC315
• Province of New Brunswick Archive Nashwaak Bicentennial Association fonds, MS13/3 Brown(e) 1687-1902, 5 pages which says it was David Brown b. c1768 s/o George Paget Brown and Nora O’Neill who married Dorothy/Dolly Rice:
• Province of New Brunswick Archive MC1396 George Hayward genealogical fonds, MS1C The Hayward collection, A649, 2 pages; MS1E, B502, 1 pg:
• New Brunswick Museum Vertical files RS184 , Brown family: microfilm F11079, 6 pages: see also MC80/2838 R.W. Manzer’s Honor thy father and thy mother: A genealogy of sorts, 1972 (a cleaned-up version), pages 4-22.

Acknowledgements

• Profile created by Marilyn Stewart-Evans Stewart-35389