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Title: A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844- Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Kentucky -- History Kentucky -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Pres-byterian. He left his fathers farm as ayouth and located in the city of London, Eng-land, where he entered the employ of a to-bacco merchant. Later he became a factor forLondon merchants in the colony of Virginia,where both he and his wife, whose maidenname was Ann Holt, continued to reside untiltheir death. William Brown, third son of James andMary (Thompson) Brown, was the grandfa-ther of the subject of this sketch. On the 27thof May. 1782, this worthy ancestor, in com-pany with his brother Patrick, set forth fromHanover county, Virginia, for Kentucky.They came by the way of Boones trace or theWilderness road, and arrived at Harrods-burg. Kentucky, on the 29th of the followingJuly. There they met their brother James,who left them the following day on an expedi-tion, and the next time they saw him he wasamong the dead on the battlefield of the BlueLicks, where the sanguinary battle was foughtbetween the Indians and the whites on thei8th of August, 1782—a conflict in which the
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