1 BlackAll2nd.FTW.

2 Hare Descentants.FTW.

3 Black Descendants.FTW.

4 119510.GED.

5 McKeesport Daily News, Saturday Evening, April 11, 1891.

6 Flack Descendants.FTW.

7 US Government, McKeesport, PA, 1st ward, NA Film Number T9-1088, Page Number 340D.

8 (As told to Laurel Black Morris from Erda Ruth Kaiser Black).

9 Minnesota. Hennepin County, 1860 U.S. census, population schedule, (Washington: National Archives), Asa C. Brown household, town of Richfield, page 144, dwelling 1282, family 1194; Microfilm publication M653, roll 570.

10 Family data, Asa Clark Brown Family Bible, New Edition Bible, (Hartford, Connecticut: Windham Press, 1850).

11 Pennsylvania. Lawrence County, 1850 U.S. census, population schedule, (Washington: National Archives), Asa Brown household, Neshannock Township, page 213, dwelling 469, family 469; NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 375.

12 Mabel Hilton, "Letter to Virginia Larsen, 9 October 1957", page 2.

13 Pennsylvania. Venango County, 1840 U.S. census, population schedule, (Washington: National Archives), Asa C Brown household, Scrubgrass Township, page 2, line 22; NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 497.

14 History of Western Pennsylvania, 807.

15 Ibid.

16 TomLancaster.FTW.

17 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998).

18 Wilhelm.ged.

19 wilhelm.FTW.

20 (Douglas Watson (watsondsh@netzero.com) is the grandson of Robert Wills Watson, who has done some ancestry research on the Lancaster, Winter and Brawner surnames of which they descend. Robert is the grandson of Lydia Brawner Watson and Jehu Watson.)

21 Will Book O, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, page 268.

22 Will Book 1, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, page 14.

23 Will Book 16, Frederick County, Virginia, page 25.

24 Mabel Hilton, "Letter to Virginia Larsen, 9 October 1957", page 4.

25 Vital Records of Woodstock 1686-1854, (Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1914), page 197, FHL Book 974.645/W2 V2w.

26 Connecticut. Woodstock town clerk, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, v.1-5 1686-1929, (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983), Asa Brown birth entry, page 81; FHL Film 1376372.

27 Layman Cemetery, Cemetery Records, ca. 1853-1926, (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983), Asa C. Brown index card.

28 State of Minnesota. Division of Vital Statistics, "Lorenzo D. Brown death certificate, 1918, no. 22231, registration no. 156".

29 "War of 1812 pension file of Asa Clark Brown", Letter from Asa C. Brown to the Commissioner of Pensions, dated 27 Feb 1856.

30 Mabel Hilton, "Letter to Virginia Larsen, 9 October 1957".

31 Minnesota. Morrison County, 1900 U.S. census, population schedule, (Washington: National Archives), David C. Brown household, Buckman Township, enumeration district [ED] 96, supervisor's district [SD] 6, sheet 8, dwelling 111, family 111; NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 776; microfilm no. 1240776, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

32 Minnesota. Hennepin County, 1880 U.S. census, population schedule, (Washington: National Archives), William C Brown household, city of Minneapolis, enumeration district [ED] 247, supervisor's district [SD] 2, stamped page 359, dwelling 178, family 189; NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 622.

33 Massachusetts. Worcester County, 1800 U.S. census, population schedule, (Washington: National Archives), Nathan Brown household, town of Charlton, page 325, line 16; NARA microfilm publication M32, roll 16.

34 Massachusetts. Worcester County, 1810 U.S. census, population schedule, (Washington: National Archives), Nathan Brown household, town of Charlton, page 511, line 19; NARA microfilm publication M252, roll 22.

35 "War of 1812 pension file of Asa Clark Brown", Application for bounty land, dated 24 May 1855.

36 Pennsylvania. Venango County, 1820 U.S. census, population schedule, (Washington: National Archives), Asa Brown household, Allegheny Township, page 10, line 32; NARA microfilm publication M33, roll 114.

37 Venango County. Recorder of Deeds, Deeds 1805-1889; Deed Index 1800-1925, (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971, 1982), D: 321; FHL Film 864540.

38 Ibid, F: 359, 360; FHL Film 864541.

39 "War of 1812 pension file of Asa Clark Brown", Bounty land application dated 22 Jun 1852.

40 Research Publications, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota City Directory, 1865, (New Haven, Connecticut: Research Publications), page 15; BYU Film E 154.5 .C57x.