Matthew Brown

Abt 1735 - Aft 1773  (39 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 24 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Matthew Brown  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1735	Londonderry, Éire
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1773	Greencastle, Franklin CO, Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I195057	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2001

  
  

  Father	NN Brown,   b. Abt 1700, Londonderry, Éire d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F79480	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. David Brown, Sr,   b. 13 Jul 1758, Londonderry, Éire d. 23 Jan 1841, or near New Alexandria, Huntingdon CO, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 82 years) + 2. John Brown, Sr,   b. 1759, Londonderry, Éire d. 18 Sep 1835, Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong CO, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 76 years)   3. Andrew Brown,   b. Abt 1761, Londonderry, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   4. Samuel Brown,   b. Abt 1763, Londonderry, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   5. Mary Brown,   b. Abt 1765, Londonderry, Éire d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F79451	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2001

  
  

• Notes

  1. The Brown family, with other Covenanters, because of the Confiscation Act of King James' government, left Scotland and settled in County Donegal, on the northern coast of Ireland. The Covenanters were supporters of the Scottish Covenant of 1638, which was a national protest against the ecclesiastical innovations in the Scottish Church imposed at Edinburgh and subscribed to by various nobles, ministers, and burgesses. Those who signed the Covenant, which was initially neither anti-royalist nor anti-Episcopalian, though it became both, declared that they would defend their religious beliefs against any changes not mandated by free assemblies and the Scottish Parliament. The term was also applied to their spiritual heirs who opposed the reintroduction of episcopacy in 1662. Some Covenanters were also signatories of the Apologetical Declaration which declared war on all established political officials, soldiers, judges, conformist ministers, and informers. This document, however, provoked a response upon the part of the authorities which became known as the Killing Times: during 1684-85, at least 78 persons were summarily executed for refusing to retract their allegiance to the declaration, and many others were executed after trial. Despite often brutal repression, especially during the period between 1678 and 1685, the excluded ministers, supported by the local aristocracy and independent peasantry, maintained an underground church in the south-western parts of Scotland. 2. Matthew's grandfather, Matthew, was a captain in Colonel George Walker's famous Derry Regiment, of memorable record for its achievements at the siege of Londonderry and the Battle of the Boyne. His sword was a priceless family heirloom, and, in 1919, was in the possession of Howard and William Brown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 3. William, a noted Covenanter of Paxton settlement, the uncle of Rev. Dr. Matthew Brown, for forty years the president of Washington and Jefferson College, returned to Ireland in 1773, returned with certain of his relatives and religious compatriots, and this party, including Matthew, came to America, landing in New Castle, Delaware December 13, 1773. Historical note about the Paxton Boys in Frontier Pennsylvania, ca 1763: Insecurity in the Pennsylvania frontier led to a raid on Indians by men from Paxton and Donegal, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Assembly ordered the arrest of the "Paxton Boys" who proceeded to march east toward Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin persuaded them to forgo battle, allowed them to issue a formal complaint and obtained greater representation for frontier settlements in the legislature.

  
  

• Sources

  [S615] Old and New Westmoreland, Vol. 3 - Judge John B. Steel Biography, (1918), pages 33 - 35 (Reliability: 2).