Margaret (Wiggins) Brown (1786)

Born 1786 in Ackerson (Sharp) Farm, White Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of John Brown — married 1805 in E. Mahoning Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania

Biography

It was in the year 1796 that John Brown, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, arrived in Pennsylvania from Virginia with his wife and three children, two sons and one daughter, John, Jeremiah and Elizabeth. His wife's maiden name was Anna Wilson. They settled on land one mile from where Jacksonville, Indiana county, is now located, which land was patented to him March 14, 1796. John Brown, Jr., eldest son of John and Anna (Wilson) Brown, married Margaret Wiggins; Elizabeth, the daughter, married James Thompson; Jeremiah Brown, the younger son, married Elizabeth Cummins. Jeremiah Brown, as stated, married Elizabeth Cummins, who was also of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Jeremiah Brown and his wife lived on his father's farm until the year 1815, at which time Joseph, their fourth son, was four years old. They then moved to and made a clearing in the backwoods about sixteen miles north of the town of Indiana, on the place known for many years as the Jerry Brown farm, afterwards as the John Craig farm and now as the Hugh Pollack farm; Mrs. Craig was a daughter of Jeremiah Brown, and Mrs. Pollack is a daughter of John Craig and granddaughter of Jeremiah Brown.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Indiana County Pennsylvania, her people, past and present;Embracing a History of the County Compiled by Professor J. T. Stewart; And a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families; p. 1402; http://archive.org/stream/indianacountypen02stew/indianacountypen02stew_djvu.txt