Ann (Brown) Lancaster (1772 - abt. 1794)

Born 13 Mar 1772 in Waterford, Loudoun, Virginia

Ancestors

Died about 23 Mar 1794 at about age 22 in Georgia, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Ann was a Friend (Quaker)

Fairfax MM Virginia

Ann was born on 13 Mar 1772 at Waterford, Virginia, shortly after her parents Mercer Brown and Sarah were received into the Quaker Fairfax Monthly Meeting.^[1] Her father had earlier been a member of the Meeting before conceiving a child out of marriage and then marrying out of unity, for which he was disowned in 1764.

Wrightsborough MM Georgia

In 1784, when Ann was aged 12, her parents applied for a Certificate of Removal from the Fairfax Meeting^[2] to travel south to the Wrightsborough Meeting in Georgia. They eventually arrived at their destination in early 1785 after a detour that took them to the Bush River Meeting in South Carolina first, their not being sure of a meeting still operative in Georgia.^[3].

The Hinshaw Quaker Archives mistakenly stated that Ann died in the 1780s but an accompanying note to the transcription indicated that the original record was damaged and the last number was missing. As Ann had a child in the 1790s, it has to be assumed that the transcribers made an error in the second to last numeral, misrepresenting her age at death.^[4]

Mercer Brown's Will dated late 1802, indicated that his daughter Ann was deceased and that her son Benjamin Lancaster was to receive her full share of his estate.^[5] There are no records to date but it can be pieced together that Ann had married John Lancaster in, or prior to, 1794, the assumed date of her son's birth. Sometime after 1802, Ann's son Benjamin appears to have moved with her mother, Sarah Brown, and the rest of the extended Brown family to Preble County, Ohio.

Sources

1. ↑ * Birth: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
   Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2189 #1107386540 (accessed 6 June 2022)
   Ann Brown born in 13 1777, child of Mercer & Sarah, in Loudoun, Virginia.
2. ↑ * Certificate: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
   Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2189 #1107094689 (accessed 14 February 2022)
   Name: Ann Brown; Event Type: Removal; Residence Date: 28 Aug 1784; Residence Date on Image: 28 Eighth 1784; Residence Place: Loudoun, Virginia; Father: Mercer Brown; Mother: Sarah Brown; Monthly Meeting: Fairfax Monthly Meeting; Religion Sect: Pre-Separation/Hicksite; Yearly Meeting: Baltimore Yearly Meeting; Meeting State: Virginia; Meeting County: Loudoun.
3. ↑ * Certificate: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
   Guilford College; Greensboro, North Carolina
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record QuakerMeetMins #3528388 (accessed 13 February 2022)
   Name: Ann Brown; Event Type: Admittance; Residence Date: 5 Mar 1785; Residence Date on Image: 5 Third 1785; Residence Place: McDuffie, Georgia; Father: Mercer Brown; Mother: Sarah Brown; Monthly Meeting: Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting; Yearly Meeting: North Carolina Yearly Meeting; Meeting State: Georgia; Meeting County: McDuffie.
4. ↑ *Family Record: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
   Guilford College; Greensboro, North Carolina
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2189 #3528864 (accessed 7 June 2022)
   with error stating Ann Brown died on 23 Mar 1781 in McDuffie, Georgia, USA.
5. ↑ * Probate: "Georgia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1742-1992"
   Estate Records, 1788-1940; Author: Georgia. Court of Ordinary (Columbia County)
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8635 #1557032 (accessed 13 February 2022)
   Benjamin Lancaster probate.