Family Register

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 4

Scope and content:

Manuscript compilation of facts and clippings regarding the Brown, Sommerville, and other families. Family documented include predominantly Brown, Edwards (from Virginia), and Somerville (from Ireland). This compilation seems to have been created in the late 19th century.

pages a-j: estates, including Merida Edwards (1812), William Edwards (1755), and George Edwards (1780).

pages 1-20: family register, including James Edwards (ca.1750-1851), John Arnold Edwards (1777-1855), William Ballthrop Edwards (1809-1888), John Sommerville (1710-?), and William Sommerville (1756-1826). The section on William Sommerville includes extensive biographical information, including a narrative about his Revolutionary War service, and four pages of extracts from his journal (diary) (1794, 1810-1812); the entry for 15 July 1811 mentions Lawrence A. Washington, who was to settle for some time near Charleston, (West) Virginia on the Kanawha River. The family register also includes entries for William Brown (1765-1806), Reverend John McClelland (?-1798), and for later Sommerville family members.

page 21: "Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Minute of Service in the Revolutionary War" (brief narrative by William Sommerville)

pages 22-23: marriage certificates for William Brown and William Sommerville

pages 23-40: miscellaneous genealogical information, including manuscript signatures, Scottish ancestry, and family crests (coat of arms)

page 41: Confederate service by family members

pages 42-43: obituaries for William Edwards (1809-1888)

pages 45, 47: obituary for Elizabeth Edwards (1812-?)

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