Brief Life History of James Polly
When James Polly Brown was born on 22 April 1803, in Taylorsville, Spencer, Kentucky, United States, his father, Robert Brown, was 28 and his mother, Margaret Polly, was 19. He married Eunice Reasor on 14 April 1826, in Greenville Township, Floyd, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Anderson Township, Rush, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Rockville Election Precinct, Kane, Utah, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 1846. He died on 6 November 1871, in Rockville, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Rockville Cemetery, Rockville, Washington, Utah, United States.
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- James Brown in household of John Lemmon, "United States Census, 1870"
- BIRTH: IN, Floyd Co., Newman Brown in the Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830
- James Reason, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
1819
Historical Information 1819: Floyd, Indiana, United States
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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James Polly Brown History
History of the James “Polly” Brown Family James Brown, a prosperous farmer of Greenville, Floyd County, Indiana, did not know when he went down into the waters of baptism, becoming the oldest member …
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