Alexander Brown

1778 - 1836  (57 years)

• Name	Alexander Brown
  Born	15 Sep 1778
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 Jan 1836
  Buried	Dunham, Brome, Quebec, Canada (All Saints Anglican Church Cemetery)
  Person ID	I44903	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2009

  
  

  Father	Alexander Brown
  Mother	Sybil Lewis
  Family ID	F17345	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy Olney Pettes,   b. 23 Oct 1779,   d. 23 Aug 1863  (Age 83 years)
  Married	4 Mar 1802
  Children	1. James Pettes Brown,   b. 25 Sep 1805, Dunham, Brome, Quebec, Canada ,   d. 19 Jul 1861  (Age 55 years)
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2009
  Family ID	F16745	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Information on this family was kindly contributed by Tony Eldridge: tony1800eld(at)shaw.ca http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=main5442&id=I907 Alexander's mother died about three years after his father and Alex was taken in by George Cook of Cook's Corner, Quebec until he was 21. He settled first near Sutton but the year after he married, 1803, he moved to Dunham, Quebec. In 1824 he petitioned Governor Dalhousie for and received a tract of land on the grounds that his father had never taken up the land that was granted to him. He served on the Court of King's Bench and fought for the British in the War of 1812.