Biography
Joel was born to William and Hannah (Moon) Brown on January 29, 1769, in a Quaker community in Orange county, North Carolina. At that time Orange county included what are now Orange, Alamance, and Chatham counties. Their home was evidently alongside Cane Creek in what is now Chatham county. Joel grew as the next to youngest child in a family of thirteen children, all of whom lived to adulthood and got married. Joel worked as a blacksmith and lived nearly 85 years.
In 1786, Joel moved to what is now Greensboro, North Carolina, where his grandmother Ruth Brown lived, as well as many of his relatives. There he was received into the New Garden Friends Meeting. In 1789 he returned to Orange county and was part of Cane Creek Friends Meeting. On July 14, 1792, Joel was married to Ann Barnes, who was from a Quaker family of the region. Anne was several months pregnant and they married rather hurriedly, without waiting for a period and gaining the approval of the Quaker elders at Cane Creek Monthly Meeting. As a result, on Dec 1, 1792, Joel was “dismissed for marrying out of unity.” By 1799, they had four children. On March 1 of that year, Joel confessed his sin of marrying out of unity with the elders and was received back into the community. On May 1, 1802, Joel was granted a certificate to transfer to Back Creek Monthly Mtg in Randolph County, which is just south of Guilford County. The next month Joel, Ann, and their six children were received into the Back Creek Quaker community.
The 1800 census finds Joel and his family living in the census region called “Hillsborough.” At the time Hillsborough was the main town in the region, but the census region so called extended to most of central North Carolina. At the time, Quakers had settled along the Eno River and Haw River and going west along the Cane Creek . That same year Joel’s father William died, leaving him executor of the estate.
The war of 1812 had stopped migrations west across the Appalachian mountains because the British had armed bands of native Americans to kill settlers. But in 1814, after the 1812 war had ceased, Quakers began migrating in earnest from the slave states of the South to the fertile farmlands of Indiana, settling in Morgan and Washington counties. Joel and Ann requested from Cane Creek Monthly Meeting a certificate of transfer to White Water Monthly Meeting near what is now Richmond, Indiana, and this was granted on July 30, 1814. So Joel, Ann, and their 14 children set off on the long trip to Indiana, on foot and horseback. They would have traveled west to the mountains and then taken the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Pass and well into Kentucky. They would then have branched northwesterly on the Logan Trace, until they crossed the Ohio River at Louisville into Indiana.
They went on to Washington County and acquired land in Washington Township, namely the NE¼ of Section 31 of Township 3N R4E, about four miles north of Salem. The Highland Creek ran by it (see map). Just half a mile away to the west the Quakers established the Highland Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, which was part of the Blue River Quarterly Meeting. Not long after the Browns arrived, some of their older daughters got married.
In August 1824, Joel traveled back to North Carolina and sold property along the Cane Creek in Chatham county. (At that time the northern Chatham county line was further north, and Cane Creek wove in and out of both Chatham County and Orange County. That part of Orange County was later split off to become Alamance County.)
Washington county had been settled in large part by Quakers, but the “Second Great Awakening” was sweeping many people, including many Quakers, into the evangelical Christianity of the Methodist and Baptist churches. Worship in these churches was characterized by preaching, revivalism, and hymn-singing, and they did not have the strict rules of the Quakers’ Book of Discipline. This drew some people away from the Quaker communities. Then in 1828 the Quakers were split by schism between the “Orthodox,” who regarded the Bible as authoritative, and the “Hicksites,” who regarded one’s inner light as more authoritative than the Bible. The Hicksites gained control of Blue River Meeting and excluded the orthodox Quakers. On April 4, 1829, the Blue River meeting “disowned” Joel for meeting with the orthodox Quakers. In the midst of all this the Brown families left the Society of Friends.
On 15 Sept 1832, Joel and Ann Brown, together with their son William and his wife Susannah, sold their farmland in Washington county for $350 and moved to Warren county, Indiana. On September 16, 1834, Joel purchased 80 acres from the federal government located at the E½ of SE¼ of Section 32 of Township 22N Range 8W in Liberty Township of Warren County (see map). On March 13, 1837, he bought 80 more acres at W½ of NW¼ of Section 12 of T22N R8W.
In 1845 Ann passed away, and the 1850 census found Joel living with his youngest son, Allen, there in Warren county. He was still working as a blacksmith. On Nov 27, 1853, Joel Brown made his last will and testament, and on Dec 19, 1853, he passed away and was buried in Goodwine Cemetery.
Joel and Ann had the following children in addition to those shown in the links below:
Hannah Brown Sluder (1799-abt 1858)
Lerenah Brown (1803-)
Sarah "Sally" Brown Maudlin (1814-1844)
Last Will and Testament of Joel Brown, 27 Nov 1853
In the name of God Amen. I Joel Brown of the County of Warren and State of Indiana being weak in body but of sound and sane memory and mind do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time made or verbally expressed. First. I do will and direct that after my decease that my body be decently interred and that my funeral be conducted in a manner corresponding with my situation and circumstances in life. Secondly. I do will and direct that out of the first available moneys that may come into the hands of my Executor hereinafter named out of the proceeds of my Personal or Real Estate all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid. Thirdly. I do will and direct that my real estate to wit: The East half of the South East quarter of Section Thirty two (32) in Township Twenty two (22) North of Range Eight (8) West in the district of lands offered for Sale at Crawfordsville Indiana containing Eighty Acres more or less be sold by my Executor hereinafter named for the best price that the same will bring to such person or persons as my said executor may choose to sell the same and on such terms and conditions as to giving time for payment to the purchaser of said land as my said Executor may think most judicious and advisable and I do further and fully empower my said Executor after the sale of said land and after payment is made by the purchaser of the Same to make to said purchaser or purchasers proper Deeds of Conveyance for the same in as full and ample a manner as I might if living do the same
Fourthly. I do will and direct that after my Said Executor shall nave converted all my real estate, rents and personal property into money and after the expenses costs and debts are all paid off that he my said Executor shall pay said balance of said proceeds of said sale equally among my children that is to Say one equal full share to my children that survive me and one equal child’s share to the children together of my deceased children that is each set of my grand children shall be entitled to one equal share with my own Children that survive me. Fifthly I direst that all my real estate and personal property be fairly appraised by two disinterested appraisers before the same is sold by my said Executor and that said appraisement and sale bills of said property be filed away in the Clerk's office of the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county Indiana and that my estate be settled up if possible without going into Court which is my Will and Wish.
Sixthly. I do nominate and appoint my worthy son, Isaac Brown, as Executor of this my last will and testament to carry into effect the provisions of the same given under my hand and seal this 27 day of November AD 1853.
Joel Brown Seal
The above and foregoing will was signed by the testator Joel Brown in our presence after the same was carefully read over to him and by the said Joel Brown declared to be his last will and testament in his presence and in also in our presence November 27 1853
Geo. H. Nodwift
John Harmon
Joel was born to William and Hannah (Moon) Brown on January 29, 1769, in a Quaker community in Orange county, North Carolina. At that time Orange county included what are now Orange, Alamance, and Chatham counties. Their home was evidently alongside Cane Creek in what is now Chatham county. Joel grew as the next to youngest child in a family of thirteen children, all of whom lived to adulthood and got married. Joel worked as a blacksmith and lived nearly 85 years.
In 1786, Joel moved to what is now Greensboro, North Carolina, where his grandmother Ruth Brown lived, as well as many of his relatives. There he was received into the New Garden Friends Meeting. In 1789 he returned to Orange county and was part of Cane Creek Friends Meeting. On July 14, 1792, Joel was married to Ann Barnes, who was from a Quaker family of the region. Anne was several months pregnant and they married rather hurriedly, without waiting for a period and gaining the approval of the Quaker elders at Cane Creek Monthly Meeting. As a result, on Dec 1, 1792, Joel was “dismissed for marrying out of unity.” By 1799, they had four children. On March 1 of that year, Joel confessed his sin of marrying out of unity with the elders and was received back into the community. On May 1, 1802, Joel was granted a certificate to transfer to Back Creek Monthly Mtg in Randolph County, which is just south of Guilford County. The next month Joel, Ann, and their six children were received into the Back Creek Quaker community.
The 1800 census finds Joel and his family living in the census region called “Hillsborough.” At the time Hillsborough was the main town in the region, but the census region so called extended to most of central North Carolina. At the time, Quakers had settled along the Eno River and Haw River and going west along the Cane Creek . That same year Joel’s father William died, leaving him executor of the estate.
The war of 1812 had stopped migrations west across the Appalachian mountains because the British had armed bands of native Americans to kill settlers. But in 1814, after the 1812 war had ceased, Quakers began migrating in earnest from the slave states of the South to the fertile farmlands of Indiana, settling in Morgan and Washington counties. Joel and Ann requested from Cane Creek Monthly Meeting a certificate of transfer to White Water Monthly Meeting near what is now Richmond, Indiana, and this was granted on July 30, 1814. So Joel, Ann, and their 14 children set off on the long trip to Indiana, on foot and horseback. They would have traveled west to the mountains and then taken the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Pass and well into Kentucky. They would then have branched northwesterly on the Logan Trace, until they crossed the Ohio River at Louisville into Indiana.
They went on to Washington County and acquired land in Washington Township, namely the NE¼ of Section 31 of Township 3N R4E, about four miles north of Salem. The Highland Creek ran by it (see map). Just half a mile away to the west the Quakers established the Highland Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, which was part of the Blue River Quarterly Meeting. Not long after the Browns arrived, some of their older daughters got married.
In August 1824, Joel traveled back to North Carolina and sold property along the Cane Creek in Chatham county. (At that time the northern Chatham county line was further north, and Cane Creek wove in and out of both Chatham County and Orange County. That part of Orange County was later split off to become Alamance County.)
Washington county had been settled in large part by Quakers, but the “Second Great Awakening” was sweeping many people, including many Quakers, into the evangelical Christianity of the Methodist and Baptist churches. Worship in these churches was characterized by preaching, revivalism, and hymn-singing, and they did not have the strict rules of the Quakers’ Book of Discipline. This drew some people away from the Quaker communities. Then in 1828 the Quakers were split by schism between the “Orthodox,” who regarded the Bible as authoritative, and the “Hicksites,” who regarded one’s inner light as more authoritative than the Bible. The Hicksites gained control of Blue River Meeting and excluded the orthodox Quakers. On April 4, 1829, the Blue River meeting “disowned” Joel for meeting with the orthodox Quakers. In the midst of all this the Brown families left the Society of Friends.
On 15 Sept 1832, Joel and Ann Brown, together with their son William and his wife Susannah, sold their farmland in Washington county for $350 and moved to Warren county, Indiana. On September 16, 1834, Joel purchased 80 acres from the federal government located at the E½ of SE¼ of Section 32 of Township 22N Range 8W in Liberty Township of Warren County (see map). On March 13, 1837, he bought 80 more acres at W½ of NW¼ of Section 12 of T22N R8W.
In 1845 Ann passed away, and the 1850 census found Joel living with his youngest son, Allen, there in Warren county. He was still working as a blacksmith. On Nov 27, 1853, Joel Brown made his last will and testament, and on Dec 19, 1853, he passed away and was buried in Goodwine Cemetery.
Joel and Ann had the following children in addition to those shown in the links below:
Hannah Brown Sluder (1799-abt 1858)
Lerenah Brown (1803-)
Sarah "Sally" Brown Maudlin (1814-1844)
Last Will and Testament of Joel Brown, 27 Nov 1853
In the name of God Amen. I Joel Brown of the County of Warren and State of Indiana being weak in body but of sound and sane memory and mind do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time made or verbally expressed. First. I do will and direct that after my decease that my body be decently interred and that my funeral be conducted in a manner corresponding with my situation and circumstances in life. Secondly. I do will and direct that out of the first available moneys that may come into the hands of my Executor hereinafter named out of the proceeds of my Personal or Real Estate all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid. Thirdly. I do will and direct that my real estate to wit: The East half of the South East quarter of Section Thirty two (32) in Township Twenty two (22) North of Range Eight (8) West in the district of lands offered for Sale at Crawfordsville Indiana containing Eighty Acres more or less be sold by my Executor hereinafter named for the best price that the same will bring to such person or persons as my said executor may choose to sell the same and on such terms and conditions as to giving time for payment to the purchaser of said land as my said Executor may think most judicious and advisable and I do further and fully empower my said Executor after the sale of said land and after payment is made by the purchaser of the Same to make to said purchaser or purchasers proper Deeds of Conveyance for the same in as full and ample a manner as I might if living do the same
Fourthly. I do will and direct that after my Said Executor shall nave converted all my real estate, rents and personal property into money and after the expenses costs and debts are all paid off that he my said Executor shall pay said balance of said proceeds of said sale equally among my children that is to Say one equal full share to my children that survive me and one equal child’s share to the children together of my deceased children that is each set of my grand children shall be entitled to one equal share with my own Children that survive me. Fifthly I direst that all my real estate and personal property be fairly appraised by two disinterested appraisers before the same is sold by my said Executor and that said appraisement and sale bills of said property be filed away in the Clerk's office of the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county Indiana and that my estate be settled up if possible without going into Court which is my Will and Wish.
Sixthly. I do nominate and appoint my worthy son, Isaac Brown, as Executor of this my last will and testament to carry into effect the provisions of the same given under my hand and seal this 27 day of November AD 1853.
Joel Brown Seal
The above and foregoing will was signed by the testator Joel Brown in our presence after the same was carefully read over to him and by the said Joel Brown declared to be his last will and testament in his presence and in also in our presence November 27 1853
Geo. H. Nodwift
John Harmon
Biography
Joel was born to William and Hannah (Moon) Brown on January 29, 1769, in a Quaker community in Orange county, North Carolina. At that time Orange county included what are now Orange, Alamance, and Chatham counties. Their home was evidently alongside Cane Creek in what is now Chatham county. Joel grew as the next to youngest child in a family of thirteen children, all of whom lived to adulthood and got married. Joel worked as a blacksmith and lived nearly 85 years.
In 1786, Joel moved to what is now Greensboro, North Carolina, where his grandmother Ruth Brown lived, as well as many of his relatives. There he was received into the New Garden Friends Meeting. In 1789 he returned to Orange county and was part of Cane Creek Friends Meeting. On July 14, 1792, Joel was married to Ann Barnes, who was from a Quaker family of the region. Anne was several months pregnant and they married rather hurriedly, without waiting for a period and gaining the approval of the Quaker elders at Cane Creek Monthly Meeting. As a result, on Dec 1, 1792, Joel was “dismissed for marrying out of unity.” By 1799, they had four children. On March 1 of that year, Joel confessed his sin of marrying out of unity with the elders and was received back into the community. On May 1, 1802, Joel was granted a certificate to transfer to Back Creek Monthly Mtg in Randolph County, which is just south of Guilford County. The next month Joel, Ann, and their six children were received into the Back Creek Quaker community.
The 1800 census finds Joel and his family living in the census region called “Hillsborough.” At the time Hillsborough was the main town in the region, but the census region so called extended to most of central North Carolina. At the time, Quakers had settled along the Eno River and Haw River and going west along the Cane Creek . That same year Joel’s father William died, leaving him executor of the estate.
The war of 1812 had stopped migrations west across the Appalachian mountains because the British had armed bands of native Americans to kill settlers. But in 1814, after the 1812 war had ceased, Quakers began migrating in earnest from the slave states of the South to the fertile farmlands of Indiana, settling in Morgan and Washington counties. Joel and Ann requested from Cane Creek Monthly Meeting a certificate of transfer to White Water Monthly Meeting near what is now Richmond, Indiana, and this was granted on July 30, 1814. So Joel, Ann, and their 14 children set off on the long trip to Indiana, on foot and horseback. They would have traveled west to the mountains and then taken the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Pass and well into Kentucky. They would then have branched northwesterly on the Logan Trace, until they crossed the Ohio River at Louisville into Indiana.
They went on to Washington County and acquired land in Washington Township, namely the NE¼ of Section 31 of Township 3N R4E, about four miles north of Salem. The Highland Creek ran by it (see map). Just half a mile away to the west the Quakers established the Highland Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, which was part of the Blue River Quarterly Meeting. Not long after the Browns arrived, some of their older daughters got married.
In August 1824, Joel traveled back to North Carolina and sold property along the Cane Creek in Chatham county. (At that time the northern Chatham county line was further north, and Cane Creek wove in and out of both Chatham County and Orange County. That part of Orange County was later split off to become Alamance County.)
Washington county had been settled in large part by Quakers, but the “Second Great Awakening” was sweeping many people, including many Quakers, into the evangelical Christianity of the Methodist and Baptist churches. Worship in these churches was characterized by preaching, revivalism, and hymn-singing, and they did not have the strict rules of the Quakers’ Book of Discipline. This drew some people away from the Quaker communities. Then in 1828 the Quakers were split by schism between the “Orthodox,” who regarded the Bible as authoritative, and the “Hicksites,” who regarded one’s inner light as more authoritative than the Bible. The Hicksites gained control of Blue River Meeting and excluded the orthodox Quakers. On April 4, 1829, the Blue River meeting “disowned” Joel for meeting with the orthodox Quakers. In the midst of all this the Brown families left the Society of Friends.
On 15 Sept 1832, Joel and Ann Brown, together with their son William and his wife Susannah, sold their farmland in Washington county for $350 and moved to Warren county, Indiana. On September 16, 1834, Joel purchased 80 acres from the federal government located at the E½ of SE¼ of Section 32 of Township 22N Range 8W in Liberty Township of Warren County (see map). On March 13, 1837, he bought 80 more acres at W½ of NW¼ of Section 12 of T22N R8W.
In 1845 Ann passed away, and the 1850 census found Joel living with his youngest son, Allen, there in Warren county. He was still working as a blacksmith. On Nov 27, 1853, Joel Brown made his last will and testament, and on Dec 19, 1853, he passed away and was buried in Goodwine Cemetery.
Joel and Ann had the following children in addition to those shown in the links below:
Hannah Brown Sluder (1799-abt 1858)
Lerenah Brown (1803-)
Sarah "Sally" Brown Maudlin (1814-1844)
Last Will and Testament of Joel Brown, 27 Nov 1853
In the name of God Amen. I Joel Brown of the County of Warren and State of Indiana being weak in body but of sound and sane memory and mind do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time made or verbally expressed. First. I do will and direct that after my decease that my body be decently interred and that my funeral be conducted in a manner corresponding with my situation and circumstances in life. Secondly. I do will and direct that out of the first available moneys that may come into the hands of my Executor hereinafter named out of the proceeds of my Personal or Real Estate all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid. Thirdly. I do will and direct that my real estate to wit: The East half of the South East quarter of Section Thirty two (32) in Township Twenty two (22) North of Range Eight (8) West in the district of lands offered for Sale at Crawfordsville Indiana containing Eighty Acres more or less be sold by my Executor hereinafter named for the best price that the same will bring to such person or persons as my said executor may choose to sell the same and on such terms and conditions as to giving time for payment to the purchaser of said land as my said Executor may think most judicious and advisable and I do further and fully empower my said Executor after the sale of said land and after payment is made by the purchaser of the Same to make to said purchaser or purchasers proper Deeds of Conveyance for the same in as full and ample a manner as I might if living do the same
Fourthly. I do will and direct that after my Said Executor shall nave converted all my real estate, rents and personal property into money and after the expenses costs and debts are all paid off that he my said Executor shall pay said balance of said proceeds of said sale equally among my children that is to Say one equal full share to my children that survive me and one equal child’s share to the children together of my deceased children that is each set of my grand children shall be entitled to one equal share with my own Children that survive me. Fifthly I direst that all my real estate and personal property be fairly appraised by two disinterested appraisers before the same is sold by my said Executor and that said appraisement and sale bills of said property be filed away in the Clerk's office of the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county Indiana and that my estate be settled up if possible without going into Court which is my Will and Wish.
Sixthly. I do nominate and appoint my worthy son, Isaac Brown, as Executor of this my last will and testament to carry into effect the provisions of the same given under my hand and seal this 27 day of November AD 1853.
Joel Brown Seal
The above and foregoing will was signed by the testator Joel Brown in our presence after the same was carefully read over to him and by the said Joel Brown declared to be his last will and testament in his presence and in also in our presence November 27 1853
Geo. H. Nodwift
John Harmon
Joel was born to William and Hannah (Moon) Brown on January 29, 1769, in a Quaker community in Orange county, North Carolina. At that time Orange county included what are now Orange, Alamance, and Chatham counties. Their home was evidently alongside Cane Creek in what is now Chatham county. Joel grew as the next to youngest child in a family of thirteen children, all of whom lived to adulthood and got married. Joel worked as a blacksmith and lived nearly 85 years.
In 1786, Joel moved to what is now Greensboro, North Carolina, where his grandmother Ruth Brown lived, as well as many of his relatives. There he was received into the New Garden Friends Meeting. In 1789 he returned to Orange county and was part of Cane Creek Friends Meeting. On July 14, 1792, Joel was married to Ann Barnes, who was from a Quaker family of the region. Anne was several months pregnant and they married rather hurriedly, without waiting for a period and gaining the approval of the Quaker elders at Cane Creek Monthly Meeting. As a result, on Dec 1, 1792, Joel was “dismissed for marrying out of unity.” By 1799, they had four children. On March 1 of that year, Joel confessed his sin of marrying out of unity with the elders and was received back into the community. On May 1, 1802, Joel was granted a certificate to transfer to Back Creek Monthly Mtg in Randolph County, which is just south of Guilford County. The next month Joel, Ann, and their six children were received into the Back Creek Quaker community.
The 1800 census finds Joel and his family living in the census region called “Hillsborough.” At the time Hillsborough was the main town in the region, but the census region so called extended to most of central North Carolina. At the time, Quakers had settled along the Eno River and Haw River and going west along the Cane Creek . That same year Joel’s father William died, leaving him executor of the estate.
The war of 1812 had stopped migrations west across the Appalachian mountains because the British had armed bands of native Americans to kill settlers. But in 1814, after the 1812 war had ceased, Quakers began migrating in earnest from the slave states of the South to the fertile farmlands of Indiana, settling in Morgan and Washington counties. Joel and Ann requested from Cane Creek Monthly Meeting a certificate of transfer to White Water Monthly Meeting near what is now Richmond, Indiana, and this was granted on July 30, 1814. So Joel, Ann, and their 14 children set off on the long trip to Indiana, on foot and horseback. They would have traveled west to the mountains and then taken the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Pass and well into Kentucky. They would then have branched northwesterly on the Logan Trace, until they crossed the Ohio River at Louisville into Indiana.
They went on to Washington County and acquired land in Washington Township, namely the NE¼ of Section 31 of Township 3N R4E, about four miles north of Salem. The Highland Creek ran by it (see map). Just half a mile away to the west the Quakers established the Highland Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, which was part of the Blue River Quarterly Meeting. Not long after the Browns arrived, some of their older daughters got married.
In August 1824, Joel traveled back to North Carolina and sold property along the Cane Creek in Chatham county. (At that time the northern Chatham county line was further north, and Cane Creek wove in and out of both Chatham County and Orange County. That part of Orange County was later split off to become Alamance County.)
Washington county had been settled in large part by Quakers, but the “Second Great Awakening” was sweeping many people, including many Quakers, into the evangelical Christianity of the Methodist and Baptist churches. Worship in these churches was characterized by preaching, revivalism, and hymn-singing, and they did not have the strict rules of the Quakers’ Book of Discipline. This drew some people away from the Quaker communities. Then in 1828 the Quakers were split by schism between the “Orthodox,” who regarded the Bible as authoritative, and the “Hicksites,” who regarded one’s inner light as more authoritative than the Bible. The Hicksites gained control of Blue River Meeting and excluded the orthodox Quakers. On April 4, 1829, the Blue River meeting “disowned” Joel for meeting with the orthodox Quakers. In the midst of all this the Brown families left the Society of Friends.
On 15 Sept 1832, Joel and Ann Brown, together with their son William and his wife Susannah, sold their farmland in Washington county for $350 and moved to Warren county, Indiana. On September 16, 1834, Joel purchased 80 acres from the federal government located at the E½ of SE¼ of Section 32 of Township 22N Range 8W in Liberty Township of Warren County (see map). On March 13, 1837, he bought 80 more acres at W½ of NW¼ of Section 12 of T22N R8W.
In 1845 Ann passed away, and the 1850 census found Joel living with his youngest son, Allen, there in Warren county. He was still working as a blacksmith. On Nov 27, 1853, Joel Brown made his last will and testament, and on Dec 19, 1853, he passed away and was buried in Goodwine Cemetery.
Joel and Ann had the following children in addition to those shown in the links below:
Hannah Brown Sluder (1799-abt 1858)
Lerenah Brown (1803-)
Sarah "Sally" Brown Maudlin (1814-1844)
Last Will and Testament of Joel Brown, 27 Nov 1853
In the name of God Amen. I Joel Brown of the County of Warren and State of Indiana being weak in body but of sound and sane memory and mind do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time made or verbally expressed. First. I do will and direct that after my decease that my body be decently interred and that my funeral be conducted in a manner corresponding with my situation and circumstances in life. Secondly. I do will and direct that out of the first available moneys that may come into the hands of my Executor hereinafter named out of the proceeds of my Personal or Real Estate all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid. Thirdly. I do will and direct that my real estate to wit: The East half of the South East quarter of Section Thirty two (32) in Township Twenty two (22) North of Range Eight (8) West in the district of lands offered for Sale at Crawfordsville Indiana containing Eighty Acres more or less be sold by my Executor hereinafter named for the best price that the same will bring to such person or persons as my said executor may choose to sell the same and on such terms and conditions as to giving time for payment to the purchaser of said land as my said Executor may think most judicious and advisable and I do further and fully empower my said Executor after the sale of said land and after payment is made by the purchaser of the Same to make to said purchaser or purchasers proper Deeds of Conveyance for the same in as full and ample a manner as I might if living do the same
Fourthly. I do will and direct that after my Said Executor shall nave converted all my real estate, rents and personal property into money and after the expenses costs and debts are all paid off that he my said Executor shall pay said balance of said proceeds of said sale equally among my children that is to Say one equal full share to my children that survive me and one equal child’s share to the children together of my deceased children that is each set of my grand children shall be entitled to one equal share with my own Children that survive me. Fifthly I direst that all my real estate and personal property be fairly appraised by two disinterested appraisers before the same is sold by my said Executor and that said appraisement and sale bills of said property be filed away in the Clerk's office of the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county Indiana and that my estate be settled up if possible without going into Court which is my Will and Wish.
Sixthly. I do nominate and appoint my worthy son, Isaac Brown, as Executor of this my last will and testament to carry into effect the provisions of the same given under my hand and seal this 27 day of November AD 1853.
Joel Brown Seal
The above and foregoing will was signed by the testator Joel Brown in our presence after the same was carefully read over to him and by the said Joel Brown declared to be his last will and testament in his presence and in also in our presence November 27 1853
Geo. H. Nodwift
John Harmon
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