Lieutenant Lieutenant John BROWNING, Sr.^[1]

1749 - 1818  (69 years)

• Name	Lieutenant John BROWNING
  Prefix	Lieutenant
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	16 Apr 1749	Culpeper Co., VA.
  Christening	F864B8184E76468292D0D6F1039B039D1F25	6 Apr 2009
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Sep 1818	Laurel Mills, Culpeper Co., VA.
  	Age: 69y 5m 9d
  Burial	Family Burial Ground At His Home Place.
  Person ID	I1337	The Skaggs-Files
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2009

  
  

  Father	Francis Browning, III,   b. 10 Feb 1724, Culpeper, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 10 Sep 1761, Culpeper, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 37 years)
  Mother	Frances Eman Norman,   b. 17 Jan 1725, Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 10 Nov 1791, Culpeper, Virginia, United States (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	1741	Culpeper Co., VA.
  Family ID	fam562229661	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Betty,   b. 18 Jan 1758, Wakefield, Culpeper Co., VA. d. 01 Oct 1823, Logan Co., KY. (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	1774	Culpeper Co., VA.
  	Type: Religious Marriage
  Children	1. Mary Wade BROWNING,   b. 1775, Virginia d. Yes, date unknown   2. Mary Elizabeth BROWNING,   b. 09 May 1776, Culpeper Co., VA. d. Yes, date unknown   3. Lucy BROWNING,   b. 24 Apr 1778, Culpeper Co., VA. d. 16 Sep 1858, Logan Co., KY. (Age 80 years)   4. Fannie,   b. 05 Apr 1780, Culpeper Co., VA. d. Logan Co., KY.   5. Elizabeth BROWNING,   b. 25 Jan 1783, Culpeper Co., VA. d. Logan Co., KY.   6. Nancy BROWNING,   b. 01 Oct 1784, Culpeper Co., VA. d. 1822, Logan Co., KY. (Age 37 years)   7. Millie,   b. 27 Dec 1786, Culpeper Co., VA. d. 24 Feb 1854, Knox Co., OH. (Age 67 years)   8. George Francis Strother Browning,   b. 07 Mar 1789, Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia, United States d. 31 Dec 1849, Lewisburg, Logan, Kentucky, United States (Age 60 years)   9. John Dabney BROWNING, Jr.,   b. 25 Feb 1791, Culpeper Co., VA. d. 24 Dec 1844 (Age 53 years)   10. Sarah Strother "Sally" BROWNING,   b. 29 Dec 1793, Culpeper Co., VA. d. Abt 1849, Logan Co., KY. (Age 55 years)   11. William Winston BROWNING,   b. 24 Dec 1794, Culpeper Co., VA. d. 13 Nov 1864, San Jose, Santa Clara Co., CA. (Age 69 years)   12. Charles Dabney BROWNING,   b. 27 Apr 1796, Culpeper Co., VA. d. Yes, date unknown   13. Oliver Winston BROWNING,   b. 16 Dec 1799, Culpeper Co., VA. d. 21 Mar 1880, Springfield, Sangamon Co., IL. (Age 80 years)   14. Francis Strother BROWNING,   b. 09 Apr 1805, Culpeper Co., VA. d. 09 Dec 1884 (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F1176	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Served in the Revolutionary War. At the beginning of the Revolution he enlisted and was at Valley Forge; he served through the eight years of the War, refusing a discharge offered him because of broken health, and was at Valley Forge and in the Yorktown Campaign. When the flagstaff was shot in two, while he was carrying it, he raised it again aloft and carried it to the end of the battle. THE CULPEPPER CLASSES Copyright 1999 by John Blankenbaker THE LIST OF THE CLASSES IN CULPEPER COUNTY FOR JANUARY 1781 FOR RECRUITING THIS STATE'S QUOTA OF TROOPS TO SERVE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY John Browning is listed in the Culpeper Classes #56 page 18. Birth about 1752 ?? Settled at the foot of Aaron's Mtn., near Laurel Mills, now in Rappahannock Co., VA. on the plantation given him by his father-in-law, Capt. John Strother. His official Army record read: Browning, John, 8th Company, 2nd Regiment in Continental Army, Col. Spotswood-1st Private. 2nd Ensign & 3rd Lieutenant. NSSAR Patriot Index: Service as Lt., AL#00260 lists wife & children Sarah, Lucy & George S. Browning and their spouses.

  
  

• Sources

  [source4071140163] Darlene Berchtold, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hearts2&id=I1312, (Publication Date: 07 FEB 2011 Media: Website / URL). ID: I1312 Name: Frances Eman NORMAN Given Name: Frances Eman Surname: NORMAN Sex: F Birth: 17 Jan 1723 in Spotsylvania, Gloucester, Virginia Colony Death: Bef 17 Sep 1792 in Culpeper Co., VA. Burial: Prob. Virginia _UID: 25CF294E11E14049AF9166BB529C9FB084B1 Change Date: 12 Mar 2010 at 21:11 Note: Frances' brother Courtney C. Norman married her husband "Frank's" sister, Mary Frances Browning. In her will dated Nov. 16, 1791 she left everything to her son, Shadrach. Probated September 17, 1792 in Will Book D, page 60. From History of the Culpeper County Normans: Descendants of this family of Frances Norman and Francis Browning married into the families of Strother, Browning, Willis, Menefee, White, Pendleton, Smith, Duncan, Yates, Bruce, Kerfoot, Lillard, and others. "Greenfield" the ancestral home, in what is now Rappahannock County, has remained for years in possession of the descendants of Frances Norman Browning. John Armistead Browning, Jr. whose mother was Mary Lewis Willis, a great-granddaughter of Betty Washington, is said to have been the last Browning to have lived there. The late Justice George L. Browning of Orange, former member of Virginia Supreme Court, is said to have been the last survivor of the Brownings who were born at "Greenfield." Father: Isaac **** NORMAN b: 1 Feb 1682 in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co., Virginia Colony c: 1 Feb 1682 in Abingdon Episcopal Church - Gloucester Co., VA. Colony Mother: Frances C. **** COURTNEY b: 17 Jan 1686 in Spotsylvania, Gloucester, Virginia Colony Marriage 1 Francis "Frank" BROWNING b: 1724 in Orange Co., VA. (Now Culpeper Co.) Married: 1741 in Culpeper Co., VA. Change Date: 16 Sep 2008 Children Has Children William Lloyd BROWNING b: 1741 in Orange Co., VA. Has Children Sarah Frances BROWNING b: 1742 in Culpeper Co., VA. Has Children Shadrach BROWNING b: 1743 in Culpeper Co., VA. Has Children Mary "Mollie" BROWNING b: 1744 1758 in Culpeper Co., VA. Has Children Charles H. BROWNING b: 20 Aug 1746 in Culpeper Co., VA. Has Children James BROWNING b: 1748 in Culpeper Co., VA. Has Children John BROWNING b: 16 Apr 1749 in Culpeper Co., VA. Has Children Reuben BROWNING b: 31 Mar 1750 in Culpeper Co., VA. Has Children Isaac Norman BROWNING b: 1754 in Culpeper Co., VA. Has No Children Francis BROWNING b: 1756 in Culpeper Co., VA. Has Children Elizabeth R. "Betsey" BROWNING b: 1760 in Culpeper Co., VA. Marriage 2 Francis "Frank" BROWNING b: 1724 in Orange Co., VA. (Now Culpeper Co.) Married: Change Date: 12 Mar 2010 Children Has Children James BROWNING b: 1745 in Culpeper Co., VA. e-mail: dberchtold35@msn.com