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Note for: William Robison, - Index

According to Website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~westxan/np51.htm#iin2498

1770 - Bought land in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania.

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Note for: Joseph Thomas Robison, - Index

According to Website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~westxan/np56.htm#iin5067

Joseph Thomas Robertson, Roberson or Robison, a linen merchant of County Antrim, Ireland. They had 3 children and came from Ireland and bought land in Lancaster, PA.

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Note for: Edward Reed Braswell, 28 OCT 1806 - 15 APR 1872 Index

According to Website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~westxan/np56.htm#iin5035

Death date may be March 15, 1872.

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Note for: Blake William Braswell, ABT. 1780 - AFT. 1835 Index

According to Website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~westxan/np55.htm#iin4360

1820 & 1840 census list him in Rockingham county, North Carolina.
He served in the North Carolina State Legislature in the 1830's.
1850 lists him in Choctaw county, Mississippi.
Lt. Gen. Arnold Braswell, (ret.) located an article in a 1978 issue of the Journal of the Rockingham County Genealogical Society which stated that Blake Braswell had come from Chatham County and, in 1804, married Mary Peeples, daughter of Hubbard Peeples.
Blake W. Braswell, Nancy C. Braswell, Lewis Peeples, John Whitsitt, Precilla Edwards, Isabella Simpsom, Rebecca Martin, Precilla Peeples, all listed January 1, 1835, as members of Cross Roads Church (from Guilford Gen 1989 Vol 16 #3, page 162).
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From Gayle B Ellison: Marriage to Nancy: Pleasant Ja. Campbell was the bondsman.
Pleasant J. Campbell was also the bondsman in the Ridley Brazil Will dated 16 November 1829 and probated February 1830, along with James W. Doak and Robert H. Dalton.

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Note for: Sarah, - Index

From Website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~westxan/np52.htm#iin2511

Some researchers believe her name to be Sarah Valentine. Others believe her to be Sarah Sampsom.
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From Carey Bracewell: "A John Valentine was a neighbor to Rev. Robert Bracewell {John Upton to John Valentine, deed for 100 acres of Upton's original 1600-acre patent, dated 9 Jan 1650} and may have been instrumental in arranging the marriage between the Parson's son, Richard, and one of John Valentine's kin. We have no idea at present what Virginia county Sarah came from. She was not John's daughter, as proved by his 1652 IW will. It escapes me at the moment which Braswell researcher from the generation before mine first postulated Sampson as Sarah's maiden name. Whoever he or she was made too much of the fact that Sarah had a grandson by that Biblical name. The popularity of the name "Sampson" among many 18th Century Tidewater families should have been a clue that it was not unique to Braswells. There are no colonial Virginia Bracewell - Sampson records to even suggest such a connection to Sarah."
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From Hildon Basil Braswell's book "The Braswell Family History and Allied Families" (Copyright 1984):
(page 9): "Now, to the Reverend Robert and Rebecca Bracewell's fifth and last child, who was Richard (1651-1724). He married Sarah Sampson in Virginia, 16 January 1673. They had nine children: ... -- all born in Virginia, according to records.

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Note for: Jacob Bracewell, ABT. 1684 - AFT. 1762 Index

According to Website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~westxan/np64.htm#iin5335

Name change from Bracewell to Braswell started in this generation. Jacob and Elizabeth moved to Edgecombe County in 1728, having sold their land in Bertie County in 1727 (Bertie County Book C, pg. 360). Braswells began spreading out over the surrounding counties. In 1751 Peachtree Creek was written into the records as Braswell Creek. He sold the last of his holdings in Edgecombe county in 1762 and moved to Johnson County (Halifax County Deed Book 1; Edgecombe Book 1, pg. 232).

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Note for: Robert Bracewell, ABT. 1611 - 14 MAR 1667/68 Index

According to Website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~westxan/np51.htm#iin2499

Henry # 1. He is considered the father of American Braswells and all the various spellings. His family were successfull brokers in woolens, making him born into wealth and privilege. Educated at Oxford, he was a staunch Royalist. He emigrated to the New World soon after the Puritans beheaded Charles I. He was a member of the ruling class in Virginia, and was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1653. Will Prove Date: May 1, 1668.