The Sentinel Review, Saturday, January 7, 1905
The Browns of Brownsville
Mr. Enoch B. Brown has issued two cat little pamphlets containing the ancestral history of his late father and mother, Brinton Paine Brown and Elizabeth Hoy Brown. Both were early pioneers of Oxford and the Brown family, from which the village of Brownsville takes its name, has long been one of the most prominent in the southern part of the county.
The record of Brinton Paine Brown begins about A. D. 1600 and continues until 1904 and includes his great grand children, as also brothers and sisters and other relatives. The Paine family was long prominent in New England, many of its members occupied judicial and other public positions. General Edward Paine, the founder of Painsville, O., where was erected a monument to him., which was unveiled on July 21st 1900, was one of the family (this is correct - BCJ). Benjamin (sic - should be Benajah) Brown, who married Violetta Paine, was the father of Brinton Paine Brown and having, as he thought, suffered injustice in the United States for whose independence he and his ancestors had fought, moved in 1797 from the Genesee Valley to Canada, settling first on the Grand River at Big Bend, now well known as Bow Park farm, founded by the late Hon. George Brown. In 1801 they moved to West Oxford, settling on a farm on the River Thames two miles west of where Ingersoll now stands. He was drowned in the winter of 1805, while crossing the ice of Burlington Bay, having first heroically asked those who came to rescue him, to first rescue his companion, he being able, as he thought to save himself.
Brinton Paine Brown, born August 1st, 1797, married on January 1st, 1817, (they married young in those days!) Elizabeth Hoy, the ceremony being performed by Squire John Backouse (sic Backhouse) at Walsingham. The union was blest by twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, teh daughters being Violetta, Marilla, Phoebe, Almyra and Lucy Ann, the sons Brinton Paine, Edward Foster, Enoch Burdick, and old county and township councilor of Oxford, Walter Hoy, Benajah Mallery., Isaac Wesley, a physician at Beachville, Peter Johnson, a well known lawyer and politician at Ingersoll, and John Addyman. When Brinton Paine Brown, senior settled at Brownsville in Dereham Township, he "took up" 1600 acres of land, which he afterwards divided among his sons. He was all his life a prominent figure in the community and in his capacity as a regularly ordained minister married many couples and performed many funeral services in the southern part of the county.
The history of the Brown Family is given in detail in these pamphlets, and has evidently been prepared with care. There are also excellent portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Paine, Brown and and of Enoch Brown. It constitutes valuable material for local history and local historians are under oblication to Mr. E. B. Brown for undertaking and publishing these records, which are not merely of personal but of general interest in this district. It is to be hoped that his example will be followed by the representatives of other early pioneer families in Oxford County and elsewhere.
The Sentinel Review, Saturday, January 7, 1905
The Browns of Brownsville
Mr. Enoch B. Brown has issued two cat little pamphlets containing the ancestral history of his late father and mother, Brinton Paine Brown and Elizabeth Hoy Brown. Both were early pioneers of Oxford and the Brown family, from which the village of Brownsville takes its name, has long been one of the most prominent in the southern part of the county.
The record of Brinton Paine Brown begins about A. D. 1600 and continues until 1904 and includes his great grand children, as also brothers and sisters and other relatives. The Paine family was long prominent in New England, many of its members occupied judicial and other public positions. General Edward Paine, the founder of Painsville, O., where was erected a monument to him., which was unveiled on July 21st 1900, was one of the family (this is correct - BCJ). Benjamin (sic - should be Benajah) Brown, who married Violetta Paine, was the father of Brinton Paine Brown and having, as he thought, suffered injustice in the United States for whose independence he and his ancestors had fought, moved in 1797 from the Genesee Valley to Canada, settling first on the Grand River at Big Bend, now well known as Bow Park farm, founded by the late Hon. George Brown. In 1801 they moved to West Oxford, settling on a farm on the River Thames two miles west of where Ingersoll now stands. He was drowned in the winter of 1805, while crossing the ice of Burlington Bay, having first heroically asked those who came to rescue him, to first rescue his companion, he being able, as he thought to save himself.
Brinton Paine Brown, born August 1st, 1797, married on January 1st, 1817, (they married young in those days!) Elizabeth Hoy, the ceremony being performed by Squire John Backouse (sic Backhouse) at Walsingham. The union was blest by twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, teh daughters being Violetta, Marilla, Phoebe, Almyra and Lucy Ann, the sons Brinton Paine, Edward Foster, Enoch Burdick, and old county and township councilor of Oxford, Walter Hoy, Benajah Mallery., Isaac Wesley, a physician at Beachville, Peter Johnson, a well known lawyer and politician at Ingersoll, and John Addyman. When Brinton Paine Brown, senior settled at Brownsville in Dereham Township, he "took up" 1600 acres of land, which he afterwards divided among his sons. He was all his life a prominent figure in the community and in his capacity as a regularly ordained minister married many couples and performed many funeral services in the southern part of the county.
The history of the Brown Family is given in detail in these pamphlets, and has evidently been prepared with care. There are also excellent portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Paine, Brown and and of Enoch Brown. It constitutes valuable material for local history and local historians are under oblication to Mr. E. B. Brown for undertaking and publishing these records, which are not merely of personal but of general interest in this district. It is to be hoped that his example will be followed by the representatives of other early pioneer families in Oxford County and elsewhere.
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