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Note: Nathaniel McDowell emigrated from Scotland to, Ireland, and thence to America about 1758, and settled near Chambersburg, Pa. From there he removed about 1780 to the country west of the Monongahela, passing by way of Catfish Camp (where there was at that time but one house), and settled in the wilderness on land that is now the farm of Joseph Johnston, in Buffalo township. On the 6th of September, 1793, McDowell warranted the tract "Wolf Ridge," two hundred and two acres, which was surveyed to him October 4th of the same year. Its location was on Buffalo Creek, adjoining lands of Marshall, Elisha Heath, James McClean, and William English. Afterwards he warranted and patented other lands in the vicinity. He died in 1826, at the age of eighty-eight years. Of his sons, Nathaniel and John emigrated to Wayne County, Ohio; Robert and James removed to Stark County, Ohio, and settled on adjoining tracts, there being no settlement near them, and at that time not a dwelling erected on the site of the present town of Massillon. Joseph received the homestead (one hundred and sixty acres) by the will of his father, Nathaniel. The daughters of Nathaniel McDowell were Elizabeth, wife of William Erwin; Letitia, wife of Hamilton Brownlee; and Sarah, wife of Samuel Neely.

Joseph McDowell lived on the homestead farm until his death in 1854. He had ten children, of whom but four survived him, and they are still living, viz.: Sarah A., Mrs. Ebenezer Graham, of Mercer County, Ill.; John McDowell, living on the old Jacob Wolfe and Lawrence Strickler property (three hundred and forty-eight acres); Nathaniel McDowell, who taught the Science Hill School in 1840, now a clergyman of the United Presbyterian Church at Indianola, Iowa; and Robert McDowell, living in Madison County, Iowa. John, the only one of the children of Joseph McDowell who remains a resident of Washington County, is one of the leading agriculturists of the county. He is a member of the State Agricultural Society, and largely and actively interested in everything pertaining to the advancement of that noble industry.

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Wilson, Margaret (b. ABT 1785, d. 1865)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Boardman, Mahoning, Ohio

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Brownlee, Moses (b. 5 SEP 1802, d. 19 FEB 1885)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio

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Brownlee, William Craig (b. 11 SEP 1783, d. 10 FEB 1860)

Note: Encyclopedia of American Biography

BROWNLEE, WILLIAM CRAIG, clergyman, author, was born in 1784 in Scotland. In 1826 he was installed as one of the ministers of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch church in New York. He edited the Dutch Church Magazine through four consecutive volumes, and published Inquiry into the Principles of the Quakers; The Roman Catholic Controversy; Treatise on Popery; Lights and Shadows of Christian Life; The Christian Youths' Book; Christian Father at Home; Deity of Christ; History of the Western Apostolic Church; The Converted Murderer; and The Whigs of Scotland, a romance, besides several pamphlets. He died Feb. 10, 1860, in New York city.

William Craig Brownlee
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William Craig Brownlee (1784-February 10, 1860) was an American clergyman, professor of languages and author. He was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland and was the fourth son of the Laird of Torfoot. President William McKinley was a distant cousin.

Brownlee founded the Philoclean Society at Rutgers in 1825. Basking Ridge, NJ named a street, Brownlee Place, in his honor.[1]

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Brownlee studied at the University of Glasgow, receiving a Master's degree with honors. He was licensed as a minister by the Church of Scotland in 1808, before coming to the United States. [2]

Brownlee held several Associate Presbyterian pastorates in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and was master of a classical academy in Basking Ridge, NJ.[3] He received an honorary degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1820,[4] then the University of Glasgow gave him an honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1824 for his critical work on the Quakers.[5] Brownlee's parishioners described him as an independent thinker and engaging speaker who often criticized the Roman Catholic Church, Universalism and other groups.[6]

He became professor of Latin and Greek at Rutgers College in 1825. The next year, Brownlee was installed as a minister at the Collegiate Reformed Dutch church in New York City. He served on a rotating basis among several Dutch Reformed Churches in Manhattan until 1860.[7]

In 1836, he helped found a group called The American Society to Promote the Principles of the Protestant Reformation. It was an anti-Catholic society, which was eventually absorbed into the American and Foreign Christian Union. It exists today as a ecumenical, mainline protestant organization.[8]

Brownlee's career was cut short by a paralyzing stroke in 1843, from which he never fully recovered, even though his mind remained clear. He and his wife had nine children.[9]

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Brownlee wrote the 1833 novel The Whigs of Scotland, a two-volume historical romance about the Killing Times. In the book's introduction, he argued that the Scottish resistance lit the fires of liberty against "the gigantic efforts of a civil and religious fanaticism" from England. Walter Scott, whose portrayal of the Covenanters Brownleee called an injustice, was the epic's inspiration.

Brownlee also edited the Dutch Church Magazine (four volumes), founded The Protestant Vindicator newspaper in 1834, and published several books, including:

* Inquiry into the Principles of the Quakers (1824)
* The Whigs of Scotland: or, the Last of the Stuarts. An Historical Romance of the Scottish Persecution (1833)
* Letters in the Roman Catholic Controversy (1834)
* The Christian Youth's Book (1844)
* Treatise on Popery (1847)
* Lights and Shadows of Christian Life (1847)
* Narrative of the Battles of Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge (1850)
* Saint Patrick and the Western Apostolic Churches (1857)

* This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

Emigration: Date: 1808

Occupation: Date: 1850
Place: Clergyman

Census: Date: 1850
Place: New York, New York, New York

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Brownlee, Archibald (b. 9 SEP 1705, d. ?)

Note: Archibald Brownlee was first a member of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, afterward uniting with the Seceder Society. He followed agricultural pursuits all his life, and died in Canton township.

The Brownlees were Lairds of Torfoot in Lanarkshire, Scotland. When John, the 3rd Laird died in 1747, his eldest son, Thomas, became the new Laird. Sometime between this date and 1751, John and Archibald, two of the younger sons (some say there was a third), came to America and settled in Lancaster Co. PA. Archibald was married to Margaret Hamilton and his family was all born in Scotland. The name of John's wife is unknown, but they had children after arriving in Lancaster Co. Both John and Archibald were involved in the Martic Forge there.

Archibald and his family moved to Westmoreland Co. - in what is now Washington Co. - prior to the Revolution and Archibald died there in 1788. His family stayed in the area for several generations, and members of the family still live there.

It is not clear where or when John died, but at least three of his children - James, John and Margaret - moved to the Westmoreland/Washington Co. area. James served in the Revolution from there but left the county about 1800 to run a flatboat down the river to New Orleans. He died in Indiana in 1827. John served in Capt. Joseph Irwin's Co., which was raised in Westmoreland Co., and later moved to Brooke Co. (W)VA. Margaret married James Leeper, who died in Westmoreland Co. in 1777. Margaret died there abt 1829.

Early Westmoreland Co. records also include a Hugh, Joseph, and Thomas Brownlee. Joseph and his young son, John, were killed by the Indians in the raid on Hannastown, and his wife, Elizabeth and daughter, Jane, were taken to Canada as prisoners where they were sold to the British and then exchanged and returned to Westmoreland Co. a year later.

Were Hugh, Joseph, and Thomas members of this Lancaster Co. family? No documentation has been found to determine their parentage.

Joseph Brownlee served in Capt. Joseph Erwin's Company during the Revolutionary War. This company was raised in Westmoreland County, PA, and joined the regiment at Marcus Hook. It was subsequently included in the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Regiment, then in the Second, and finally discharged at Valley Forge, Jan. 1, 1778, by reason of expiration of term of enlistment. Engagements were Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Quibbletown, Brandywine, and Germantown. Joseph was commissioned Third Lieutenant on April 15, 1776, Second Lieutenant on Oct 24, 1776, and First Lieutenant on April 18, 1777. He was captured at the Battle of Long Island on July 27, 1776, and exchanged December 9, 1776. He resigned June 22, 1777. Joseph married Elizabeth Guthrie in 1775. They had two children, John and Jane.
The death of Joseph Brownlee can be found in several different printed sources. Some of these sources, notably the History of Westmoreland County Pennsylavania by John N. Boucher, identify the Brownlee killed by the Indians as John. However, in Boucher's Old and New Westmoreland, he is identified as Joseph. The confusion may result from the fact that a John Brownlee served with Joseph in Irwin's Company in the Revolution. Or, because the young son who was killed with Joseph was named John. Ā But extensive research shows that it was Joseph who died at Hannastown. Joseph was a well known Indian fighter
on the Frontier. As one source states, "He did not discriminate between a good and a bad Indian, thinking perhaps that there were none of the former class." In a letter from Col. Brodhead dated Nov. 2, 1780, he named Lieutenant Brownlee as one of several men who attempted to "destroy" a group of Delaware Indians under Brodhead's protection. On July 13, 1782 Joseph and his family were attending a wedding at Miller's Blockhouse at Hannastown in Westmoreland Co. PA when the Indians attacked. Several of the guests, including the Brownlees, were captured. One of the captured women happened to address Joseph by name. The Indians, upon finding out who he was, killed him with a hatchet blow to the head, and then killed his three-year-old son John who he was carrying on his back. The Indians also killed another woman, identified in one account as Mrs. White, assuming she was Joseph's wife. Elizabeth and Jane, who was only four months old at the time, were taken to
Buffalo and Niagra. There the Indians planned to torture them to death, but a British soldier, whose family was being detained by American soldiers, convinced the Indians to sell them instead. Elizabeth was sold to British officers for $20 and Jane for $10 and 2 gallons of rum. They were then taken to Montreal where they were exchanged and returned to Hannastown in July
1783. After her return from captivity, Elizabeth married William Guthrie in Jul 1784 at Hannastown. He was killed by a fall from a wagon 10 Mar 1828. She d. 11 Feb 1842. Jane married James HUGLE and moved to Muskingum Co., Ohio. The
bodies of Joseph and the other slain captives were buried where they were found on what was later the Meckling farm. Joseph Brownlee owned a 150 acre tract of land in Hempfield Township in Westmoreland Co. which was sold in 1786 to pay his debts and support his surviving child. Hugh Brownlee, possibly Josephā€™s brother, was appointed as one of the administrators of his estate, but had died by Feb 1785.

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