Jacob Brown, Jr. served in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted in 1777 and served three months in Capt. Frederick Fisher’s Company, Col. Locke’s Regiment. He marched against the Cherokee Indians and was in several Skirmishes. He served in Commissary Yarberry, in Salisbury, and was employed in making and repairing wagons, according to the Pension Record. It is very probable that he used the tools or workshop of his father, Jacob, the wagonmaster. He was in the Second Battle of Camden under Col. Reece. Jacob moved from Rowan to Washington County, N.C. (now TN.) about 1789-90 with at least two of his brothers, George and Abraham. On the 11th day of August 1791, George Brown sold 100 acres of land on the Little Limestone to Jacob Brown. In the year 1796, the 24th of December, Jacob Brown, Sr. sold to jacob Brown, land that was deeded by Jacom Brown, Jr., --trustees were John Murr, Alexander CAmpbell and Robert Million. Mr. Paul M. Fink’s “Jonesborough, the first century of Tennessee’s First town”, states that in 1863, “in the morning of September 8, the troops met close to the Embree stone house just west of Telford. After a brisk skirmish, the southern forces returned to their camp at Brown’s School House about two miles east.” A few months before his death, an old man of almost 90 years, Jacob Brown made his will, dated 19 February 1941. He names his children, although some of them had already died, and he mentions grandchildren without naming them. He left to his wife, Mary, his “still and tubs” along with household furniture, geese, sow and pigs. Jacob and several of his children were members of the Cherokee Baptist Church.106

He is buried in the family burial plot, on a hill above Brown’s Branch of Little Limestone Creek, near the railroad town of Telford. His grave marker, a hand-carved field-stone, is now in the hands of the Watauga Association of Genealogists at Johnson City main library.

WILL OF JACOB BROWN JR.

I Jacob Brown of the County of Washington and State of Tennessee being weak of body but of sound mind, memory, and judgement, and calling to mind the certainty of death, do make and publish this my last will and testament, manner and form following (viz)

1st - I will that all my just debts be paid out of the first money that comes into the hands of my executors after my decease.

2nd - It is my wil that my beloved wife Mary Brown have the plantation whereon I now live supposed to be one hundred and thirty acres all the rents and profits of said plantation during her celebacy or widowed state - also her choice of my cows, my sorrel mare, two beds and furniture, bedsteads, etc., also my clock, cupboard, bureau, kitchen & cupboard furniture, one sow and pigs, geese, ducks, still and tubs with whatever grain and provender, wheat, etc. which may be on hand - also my large brass kettle and at her death or marriage all the above named furniture and property to be sold by my executor and the money equally divided among my grandchildren that may be in being at my decease, that is the children of my son John if he has any, my son George Brown, my daughter Mary Murr, and my daughter Nancy Ball's children, my sons Jacob Brown and Wyly Brown's children not included.

3rd - It is my will that my son Jacob have and enjoy the land that I lately made him a deed to supposed to contain forty-nine and one half acres.

4th - I give and bequeath to my son Wyly have the house wherein John Salts now lives and that he have the use of fifteen acres rent free during his mother's lifetime or while she may remain single and my old gun, the fifteen acres of land whereon the house stands and at his mother's death or marriage to have half of the plantation whereon I now live in quality and quantity.

5th - I give and bequeath to my son Richard the rifle gun that J. Graham let him have, my black mare, and at his mother's death or marriage to have the other half of the plantation whereon I now live in quality and quantity and if he and Wyly cannot agree in dividing the land between them it is my wish that they select two or more dis- interested and intelligent men to divide it, and when they the said Wyly and Richard get full possession of said plantation that they pay to their brother Jacob Brown one hundred and fifty dollars - seventy- five each to to be paid in twelve months after possession in current bank notes.

6th - I give and bequeath to my stepdaughter Mary Cloyd twenty five dollars in current bank notes out of the note I hold on John Graham eighteen months after date.

7th - It is my will after my debts are paid if any and my funeral expenses settled if any money remains due to me that it be paid over to my wife as she may need it in the family to purchase salt, groceries, pay her tax, etc. 8th - It is my will that my son Richard live and remain with his mother and take care of her and manage for her comfort and benefit. Lastly - It is my will and wish that my friend E. L. Mathes be my executor to this my last will and testament and if he cannot execute this my last will it is my wish that my friend Henry Taylor be executor. In testimony I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal this nineteenth day of February A.D. 1841.

Jacob (X) Brown (his mark)

John Mitchell
Harrison Mitchell

From Connie Gray dated 20 August 2007 Re: Jacob Brown
I went to the SC State Archives today working on the Rogers family. I came across a neat book titled "Genealogical Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files" abstracted by Virgil D. White. Here is the information on Jacob Brown from Vol. I A-E.

Jacob Brown, Mary or Polly - W2062 BLW #13750-160-55 - NC line, soldier lived in Rowan Cty, NC at enlistment, soldier appl 11 Sept 1832, Washington County, TN, aged 80, wid appl 29 Mar 1853, Washington County, TN, aged about 58, sol married Mary Satts or Salts or Lotts on 23 Jan 1816 and soldier died 10 May 1841. Wid appl for BLW 29 Mar 1855, wid died 10 May 1856, in 1832. A George Brown lived in Washington County, TN but no relationship to soldier stated.

I remember looking at the microfilm before and the entire file states where he fought. So if you want all the information, you will need to send to the archives for it. I tried making copies of the microfilm one day and had no luck at all - it was a waste of money - either too dark or too light.

Her birth name Erdmayer was Anglicized to Artmire in North Carolina, which approximated the German pronunciation. Later, other members of her family became known as Admire in North Carolina and Kentucky.

It is not known who Mary’s first husband was, but it is known that he was a Salts. It has been recorded in the Leesburg Cemetery book, that Mary “Polly” salts, a widow with a dau, Mary, was buried along side her husband in the Brown family plot - with Jacob Brown, II and his first wife, Elizabeth Artmire.128

1819 - Mary "Polly" was 25 when her daughter Mary Salts was born.

In her husband, Jacob Brown II's will, it mentions his step-daughter, Mary Cloyd.

1841, May 10th - Her second husband dies

1841, May - According to the Minutes of the Cherokee Baptist Church in May of 1841, she was excommunicated from the Cherokee Baptist Church for excessive drinking.

1850 - Washington County, Tennessee census129
BROWN, Mary 56 NC
BROWN, Richard 24 farmer TN
BROWN, Julia F. 25 TN
BROWN, John B. 2 TN

1853 - Jacob Brown m. Marry/Polly Salts/Solts.Lotts 9?), 23 Jn 1816, Washington co., Tn., by William Bayless, Esq., J.P. She was ag 58 in 1853. B.L. Wt. 13750-160-55. W-2062; NC/TN.130