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   Lincoln county-Benjamin Logan, Isaac Shelby, Wm. XIont-
 gomnery, Nathan Houston, Willis Green.
   Madison county-William Irvine, Geo. Adams, James French,
 Aaron Lewis, Higgerson Grubbs.
   Mercer county-Samuel McDowell, John Brown, Harry Innis,
 John Jouitt, Christopher Greenup.



                     NOTE T.-PAGE 126.

   I have been furnished, by a friend, with the following bio-
 graphical sketch of Mr. Brown:
   John Brown was the son of the Rev. John Brown and Marga-
 ret Preston, and was born in Staunton, Virginia, on the 12th of
 September, 1757. His father was an Irish Clergyman of the
 Presbyterian denomination, who settled in the county of Augusta,
 when it formed the western frontier of Virginia, and was for 44
 years the pastor of the church at Providence meeting house. The
 settlement around him was at one time broken up by an incursion
 of Indians, all the occurrences connected with which were strong-
 ly impressed upon the mind of his son, who ever after retained a
 vivid recollection of them. In this secluded spot he reared a nu-
 merous family, who practiced through life the pure morality and
 virtue with which they were imbued by their pious parent. Ilav-
 ing no patrimony to bestow upon them, lie gave them the elements
 of a good education and trusted to their own energies to make
 them useful members of society. They were not brought up in
 the lap of luxury, but in the vigorous nurture of the western
 borderers, accustomed to labor in the field, to hunt in the forest
 and to excel in manly exercises. As a necessary consequence
 of such early habits, they grew up with fine physical develope-
 ments, and with a fearless and adventurous cast of character.
 His son John being the elder of the brothers, was the first to sepa-
 rate from the parental roof. In order to obtain for himself a more
 extensive education than there was an opportunity for him to
 procure at home, he became an assistant of the celebrated Dr.
 Waddell, (whose piety and eloquence have been so eloquently
 described by Mr. Wirt,) in a private school which he at that time
 taught in his own house. With this interesting family he re-
 mained for nearly two years, and by the means thus acquired he
 entered Princeton College, of which institution he was a student
 when it was broken up by the Revolutionary War. On that occa.
 sion he united himself with the retreating American army, crossed
 the Delaware with them and remained some time in the service
without being attached to any particular corps. Subsequently to
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