Camden County GaArchives Biographies.....Brown Sr., Hugh 1749 - 1812
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Hugh Brown Sr. (1749-1812)

by Marguerite Marree Mathews

Hugh Brown Sr., son of Robert Brown, was born sometime before 1749 in Virginia, married a girl named 
Sarah whose maiden name is unknown.  There is no document, not one, listing Sarah's maiden name.  
Hugh Brown and his family moved to South Carolina where he owned land in Craven County on Beaver Creek 
and in Berkeley County on the Reedy River.  He was a Captain during the American Revolution, supported 
independence but felt their measures would reduce hard-earned rights.  He turned to the Loyalist cause;
subsequently his lands were confiscated and he was banished to British East Florida.  
During the Second Spanish Period in East Florida (1783-1821), the Spanish Governor initiated a head 
count of all inhabitants.  The first Census for Spanish East Florida was taken in August 1784 which 
listed Hugo Brown, native of Virginia, his unnamed wife and four unnamed children.  Spain issued an 
ultimatum, notifying all East Florida residents to embrace Catholicism and swear allegiance to the 
King of Spain or leave Florida.  In 1785, Hugh Brown and his family left the St. Johns River area 
for Camden County, Georgia.  There, Hugh Brown Sr. applied for warrants for land and received vast 
acres in the Sand Hills where he cultivated rice (this property is presently called Ivanhoe Plantation).  
His property bordered the Satilla River where it crossed at Browns Ferry to the town of 
St. Patrick (near Jeffersonton).  He was one of the early settlers in Camden County; voted in 
the first election - he and Alexander Young were elected the first Justices of the Peace in 1789.  
He was elected as a member to the General Assembly; was one of five men commissioned to purchase 
land and build a courthouse at Jeffersonton, the new county seat.  In 1796, Captain Hugh Brown Sr. 
of the 4th Militia District, was stationed at Burnt Fort on the Satilla River where he was a member 
of the Coleraine Troop of Horse.  He was one of the eldest Militia officers in the county.  
His son, Hugh Brown Jr., born in Camden County, Georgia, had married Elizabeth Dean, was a man of 
great intellect, added to his father's lands, served as Justice of Inferior Court, was Representative 
and a Senator from Camden County.  In September 1812, Hugh Brown Jr. applied for Letters of 
Administration on his father's Estate.  Hugh Brown Sr. died in 1812, most likely in Camden County.  
Sarah died in or before 1821, most likely in Camden County.  It is unlikely that they are buried at 
Burnt Fort Cemetery since the oldest marked grave there is 1842.  Where they are buried is unknown.  
Hugh Brown Sr. and Sarah were my ancestors.

Additional Comments:
Brown History and Lineage, by Marguerite Marree Mathews in Library of Congress.
LC Call No. CS71. B88 1996


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