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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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Mary Briscoe Baldwin went as a missionary of the Episcopal Church to Athens, Greece, and Jaffa, Syria; at the latter place she died and is buried in the English Cemetery.
Dr. Isaac Hite Baldwin was a surgeon in the US Navy.
Dr. Gustavus Brown, of Dalkeith, Scotland and "Rose Hill", Charles County, MD. He was an immigrant to America. Laird of Mainside and House Byers, Roxburg, Scotland.
Dr. Gustavus Brown, of Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, was the first of his family to settle in America. On the fly-leaf of a Bible still preserved in the family is found written: "This Bible originally belonged to Jane Mitchelson, my mother, who was the daughter to George Mitchelson, grandson of the house of Middleton, near Dalkieth and Isabel Elfoston, daughter of Soloms, seven miles west of Edingburgh". "I came into Maryland in May, anno 1708 and anno 1710, married Frances Fowke, daughter of Gerard Fowke in Nanjemy, of which marriage the following children were born" (lists children). (from "Lewises, Meriwethers and Their Kin", p. 460.
He participated in laying out the town of Charlestown, MD, the county seat, at the head of Port Tobacco Creek. He builit their home "Rose Hill", about 1730, which has remained as a landmark. He served as an associate judge in 1723, and again in 1755.
Gustavus Brown died in infancy.
Gravestone: Aquia Church, Stafford Co., VA:
"Here lies the body of CHRISTIAN the wife of John Graham Merch.t and daughter of Doctor Gustavus Brown. She departed this life the 17th of September 1742 in the 23rd year of her Age when she had been married not quite two months. There was no person more universally esteemed nor more sincerely lamented by her acquaintances."
Gustavus Brown died in infancy.
Gustavus Brown died in infancy.
Dr. Gustavus Brown, of Dalkeith, Scotland and "Rose Hill", Charles County, MD. He was an immigrant to America. Laird of Mainside and House Byers, Roxburg, Scotland.
Dr. Gustavus Brown, of Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, was the first of his family to settle in America. On the fly-leaf of a Bible still preserved in the family is found written: "This Bible originally belonged to Jane Mitchelson, my mother, who was the daughter to George Mitchelson, grandson of the house of Middleton, near Dalkieth and Isabel Elfoston, daughter of Soloms, seven miles west of Edingburgh". "I came into Maryland in May, anno 1708 and anno 1710, married Frances Fowke, daughter of Gerard Fowke in Nanjemy, of which marriage the following children were born" (lists children). (from "Lewises, Meriwethers and Their Kin", p. 460.
He participated in laying out the town of Charlestown, MD, the county seat, at the head of Port Tobacco Creek. He builit their home "Rose Hill", about 1730, which has remained as a landmark. He served as an associate judge in 1723, and again in 1755.
Margaret Brown, "was adorned with elevated talents, and blest with piety, and every female virture." (Source: "Virginia Genealogies", Hayden, p. 175).
John Ambler served as aide-de-camp to General Lafayette in the Revolutionary War, and was colonel of the 19th Virginia regiment in the War of 1812. In 1785 he organized the James City Troop, which he commanded for twenty-five years.
Her name may have been Catherine Bush. More research is needed.