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- Colin's name variously spelled Colin(g), Colling, Colin. Colin was a member of Rev. John Cuthbertson's Coventor Church as were Browns named Alexander and James whom I assume were his sons. There are several other Browns mentioned by Rev. John Cuthbertson.
Colin and family owned land in Sadsbury Township which was a little East and South of Lancaster city. It remains in present day Lancaster Co. Salisbury Township is likewise an original township in present day Lancaster Co., just north of Sadsbury. Earl Township is just north of Salisbury.
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Coling Brown
Deceased
IN THE NAM OF GOD A MEN the twelfth Day of October 1765 I Coling Brown of the Township of Sadesbury County of Lancaster and provence of Pensilvin being very weak in Body but of perfect mind and Memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my las Will and Testament that is to Say principally and first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul unto the Hands of Allmighty God that Gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian Burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing Doubting but at the General Resurection I shall receive the same Again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to Bles me with in this Life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form first I give and bequeath to Elender my Dearly beloved Wife wife the sum of six pounds Yearly and a Cow Keapt and two Sheep keept for her Likeways a horse to ride when shee ses Case While During Life if shee Remains in wodowhood and if not she is to have the Sume of thirty pounds paid to her in tow Galle if last of which is to be paid at the Eed of tow years after marege Lekways Shee is tothave the Third of the Hous al plenshing Likways Shee is thave Suffition hus rum while Remening in woehood Secendly I will and bequeath to my Ealdest Son Son John Brown now deceast ledgmettal heir Elender Brown when she come to the years of Eighteen (crossed out in original - ye Sum of thirdly I will and) twenty pounds and to the weedow of my decest Son one pound Likeways I will and bequath to my Seand Son Allexander Brown ye Sum of Five pounds Likways I will and bequeath to my Eldest Daughter marey Brown the Sum of five pounds Likeways I will and bequeath to my Daughter Ann Brown the Sum of Five Pounds all which sums I allow to be levied of my Estate and the Remender therof I will and bequeth bouth of Lands moneys Goods and Chattles to be divided equally between my Sons James Brown and David Brown Likways I constitute make and ordain my Sole Executrixs John Brown of the Township of Bart and John Walker of the Township of Sadsbery both in the County of Lancaster and province of Pensilvane of this my last Will and testament which will and Testament I ratify and Confirm as Witness my hand & Seal the Day and Year above written
his
Colling X Brown [seal]
mark
Sined & Sealed in the presents of Robert Baily Francis Baily
LANCASTER COUNTY FS On the Eighth day of March Anno Domini 1770 Before me the Subscriber personally appeared Robert Baily one of the Subscribing Witnesses to the within Will and on his Corporal Oath did depose and Say that he was present and Saw and heard Colling Brown the Testator within named Sign Seal publish pronounce & declare the within writing as and for his last Will and Testament and understanding and that at the doing thereof he was of sound and well disposing posing mind menory and understanding to the best of his Knowledge Observation and belief and that the black line drawn through the words THIRDLY I WILL AND (underlined in original) were drawn before the signing & Sealing thereof.
Edwd. Shippen D. Rr.
LANCASTER COUNTY FS. On the eighth Day of March Anno Do. 1770 Before me the Subsciber personally appeared Francis Baily one of the Subscribing Witnesses to the within Will and on his Solemn Affirmation did declare and Say that he was present and Saw and heard Colling Brown the Testator within Named Sign Seal publish pronounce and declare the within Writing as and for his last Will and Testament and that at the doing thereof he was of sound and well disposing mind memory and Understanding and that at the doing thereof he was of Sound and well disposing mind memory and understanding to the bes of his Knowledge Observation and Belief and that the Words THIRDLY I WILL AND (original underlined) were drawn before the Signing & Sealing thereof
Edwd. Shipen
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the 8th Day of March Anno Domini 1770 The Last Will and Testament of Collign Brown late of the Township of Sadsbury in the County of Lancaster Yeoman deceased was proved in due form of Law and thereof was Appointed John Brown and John Walker Executors who by their Certain Deed of Renunciation bearing date the sixth Day of March Anno Domini one Thousand seven seven hundred and seventy duly Executed and filed in the Registers Office at Lancaster Renounced all their Right of Executorship on the Estate of the same Testator And Whereas Elenor Brown the Widow and Relict of the said Colling Brown .... (continued)
CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS SOURCE
....And Whereas Elenor Brown the Widow and Relict of the said Colling Brown deceased by her certain Deed of renunciation duly Executed and filed in the Registers Office at Lancaster aforesaid bearing date the said sixth Day of March Anno Domini 1770 Relinquished all her Right of Administration on the Estate of her said late Husband and did agree as far as in her lay that Letters of Administration with the Testament Annexed shoud be granted to James Brown & David Brown two of the Sons of the said Decedent Whereupon Letters of Administration with the Testament Annexed were Accordingly granted to the said James Brown & David Brown having first Given Bond with two Sureties According to Law well and truly to Administer the Estate of the said Decedent to the uses in the said Testament and Chattles Rights and Credits of the said Decedent into the Registers Office at Lancaster on or before the Eighth Day of April Next and to render a true and Just Account of of their Administration on or before the Eighth Day of March which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Seventy one Given under the Seal of the said Office
By me Edwd. Shippen D. Rr.
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1769 Feb. 9 "rode 8 miles home with Y. family all well; Colin Brown sick."
Feb. 20 "rode 8 miles to and from Colin Brown's a dying etc." (From home) - Rev. John Cuthbertson
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32221237/john-cuthbertson
Rev John Cuthbertson
BIRTH 24 Mar 1718
Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland
DEATH 10 Mar 1791 (aged 72)
BURIAL
Middle Octorara Cemetery
Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Here lies the body of the Rev. John Cuthbertson, who after a labour of about 40 years in the ministry of the Gospel among the disenting Covenanters of America, departed this life 10th March, 1791 in the 73 year of his age.
Ps 112.6 is quoted
JOHN CUTHBERTSON, b. Scotland, 1719; Ord. Scotland; missionary in Ireland; arriv. New Castle, Delaware, 5 Aug. 1751; sett. Muddy Run (York) Pa., 1751-1791; Cumberland (Adams) Pa., Rock Creek Chh., 1751-1773; Pequea (Lane.) Pa., 1752-1791; Bart (Lane.)Pa., Octoraro Chh., 1752-1791; Martic (Lane.) Pa., Muddy Run Chh.,1752-1791; Lower Chancefield (York) Pa., 26 Mar. 1771-1791; only
Assoc. Ref. Presb. minister in America, 1752-1773; Assoc. Ref. Presb.;d. Bart, Pa., 10 Mar. 1791, a. 72 (GS).
quoted from:The Colonial Clergy of the Middle Colonies
New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
1628-1776 pg 202
BY FREDERICK LEWIS WEIS
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44539283.pdf
Rev. Cuthbertson was a Reformed Presbyterian minister who served in the regions of Adams, York, and Lancaster Counties. Most Presbyterians of this region belonged to the main branch of Colonial Presbyterianism as represented by the Synod of Philadelphia, but there was also a congregation of Reformed Presbyterians, or Covenantors. Rev. Dr. John Cuthbertson was sent from Scotland to minister to Scottish Covenantors in America in 1751, the first Reformed Presbyterian Missionary to come to America. He kept a diary from the date he arrived in America up to 1791. From his entries, we know that he married about 600 persons and baptized over 1,800 children. 'Register of Marriages and Baptisms performed by Rev. John Cuthbertson, 1751-1791,' by S. Hellen Fields, was originally printed in 1934, reprinted in 1983, by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore. Fields states: 'Rev. John Cuthbertson rode many times to and from his home in Middle Octoraro, there being 72 trips recorded in his diary between the years 1751 and 1784.' Only those trips which refer to people were included in her work. Only those birth, deaths, and marriages which were performed in Lancaster County have been extracted and printed in Volume 3 of this work. The principal society of Mr. Cuthbertson was at Middle Octoraro from August 1751 to March 1783, when he was released by the Presbytery.3" --From "Church Records, Selected Areas of Pennsylvania, 1600s-1800s.
His son, John Cuthbertson, was born in 1746 in Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland.
This book explains the following on page vii:
Rev. John Cuthbertson was born near Ayr, Ayrshire Scotland
3 April 1718. His parents were devout members of the
persecuted Church of Scotland...Studied under Rev John
McMillan who with Rev Thomas Nairin, a Ruling Elder, constituted
the Reformed Presbytery of Scotland, which was organized in 1743.
By this Court he was licensed on May 16, 1745, and ordained at
Braehead on May 18, 1747, ministering to the Covenanters in
Scotland. Baptisms solemnized by him in 1747 and 1748 are
recorded on page 65 of the Register of Rev. John McMillan,(*)
as edited by Rev. Henry Paton, M.A., of Scotland.
In a footnote it mentions the that Doctor McMillan's Register
listed Cuthbertsons, some of whom probably belonged to
the immediate family of the Rev. John Cuthbertson.
For example, at Braehead, Dec 17 1743, Alexander Kirkland and
Elizabeth Cuthbertson, both in Kilmarnock parish, were married
by Rev. John McMillan
Coninuting on page vii of the Cuthbertson book:
"While Moderator of this Presbytery, Doctor Cuthbertson
was sent to minister to the scattered Coventanters in Ireland,
but because of his earnest entreatries of the Scottish Covenanters
in America for an Under Shepherd, he was sent to this country
in 1751, the first Reformed Presbyterian Missionary to come to
America."
page x:
"The Scottish Covenanters were to be found in the Cumberland
Valley region as early as 1720. They settled principally
along the Conococheague Creek; Pequea; Conestoga; Swatra;
and other streams flowing from the east into the
Susquehanna.This valley extends in a southerly direction
from Harrisburg, pa., into Maryland and Virginia. It was
the practice of the Covenanters to organize themselves,
as in Scotland, into Societies or Correspondences among
those living in the same general localities. These met
annually or semi-anually as a Presbytery, known as
"The General Meeting". Mr Cuthbertson presided over
these meetings, usually held at Middle Octoraro, from 1751
until 1774, when the Reformed Presbytery of America was
organized and Revs Matthew Linn and Alexander Dobbin took over
some of his heavy responsibilities.
The principal Society of Rev. John Cuthbertson was at the
Middle Octoraro, Lancaster Co, Pa. At this place he bought
a farm from "Josias Kerr" on January 24, 1757 (p. 142),
about a year after his marriage to Miss Sally Moore, one
of the daughters of Walter Moore, whose home was about
fifteen miles from Philadelphia, on the Pennypack Creek.
This farm is located about two miles from the stone church
in which he often preached..."
One of the previous ministers of the Middle Octorara Church,
Rev. Alexander Craighead, was a staunch Covenanter
in that area until about 1743 (he was suspended). He moved on to
Windy Coce on Cow Pasture River, Augusta Co, Va in 1749 and then to
Macklenburgh Co, N.C. (Source for more discussion see the
Fulton-L archives for:
Subject: James FULTON, Lancaster Co, PA, 1753 thru 1768
Dated 30 Aug 1998 15:42:37
When Rev John Cuthbertson came to America in 1751, he was
accompanied by his sister, Janet Cuthbertson Bourns, and
her husband, Archibald Bourns, of Lanark, Scotland, with
their infant son John. Archibald Bourns settled soon after
near what is now Fairfield, and was then Middletown, Adams County,
Pennsylvania, on a farm presented to his sister by her brother.
This farm is on the now historic Gettysburg Battlefield.
Archibald Bourns was the second brother of William Burness,
father of Robert Burns, the beloved Poet of Scotland. Another
brother Thomas, emigrated to America from Scotland, and settled
in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania in 1747."
Now this Burns association raises my interest.
In 1997, Florence and I visited the St Columba's Church
in Stewarton, Scotland (just outside of Kilmarnock)
because our gr-gr-gr-gr grandfather James Fulton
and wife Nancy Cunningham had their marriage banns read there
Dec 1773. In the cemetery, we found a tombstone
for Robert Burns, the uncle of the poet. My James had
written in his memoirs that he met the poet when he was
a lad, and given the fact that the poet's uncle was in
Stewarton, it seemed feasible.
https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/fulton@rootsweb.com/thread/22642053/
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Abt 1700 - Abt 1769 (~ 69 years)
