David Brown

Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland

General Notes

From Mercedes Brown Cattle:
"David Broun of Dalkeith, Scotland, first definitely know member of this family. Copying from p. 148, "Virginia Genealogies" By Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, pub. 1891.
"David Broun, or Brown, of Dalkeith, Scotland, was probably descended from the ancient house of Broun of Coulston (Colstoun). Nothing is known of this progenitor of the Maryland family beyond the facts stated under Rev. Richard Brown, that he was the father of the latter, and had a niece named Christina, who d. Nov. 24, 1632. He probably lived circa 1575-1645.
"He had a son Richard Broun b. prob. before 1600 because he graduated from University of St. Andrew's 1618. Probably other children.
"I have a copy in Latin and an English translation made in the Historic Records Dept. in Edinburgh, Scotland, of a sasine to an acre of land in Dalkeith, Scotland. This was the deed (sasine) given by David Broun to "my lawful Son, Richard Bround, Minister of Salton." Recorded 28th. March, 1638."