Good Morning Angie,
The Browns are most likely from Norfolk County/Norfolk Borough. Best to my knowledge, there is only one region in Virginia where there has been a Norfolk and it has been in the Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and Norfolk City area.
I checked Norfolk County, Virginia tithables, 1766-1780 by Elizabeth Wingo. https://worldcat.org/en/title/13377764 There is a James Brown in precinct containing the town of Portsmouth and area to New Mill Creek (probably now Deep Creek area) as of August 17th 1780. (page 284) You can use the Land Tax Records for Norfolk County and Norfolk Borough (City) to help find out where the Browns were living. They start in 1782. https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/landTax.asp
Research note: Here is a rule of thumb based on what I have seen through the years I have been researching: When the records say Norfolk, VA then it basically means Norfolk County. Depending on the year, you are looking at a geographical area of Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Norfolk. Records are now in Chesapeake's courthouse. When you see "Norfolk, Norfolk, VA" or "Norfolk Borough", then you are dealing with the City of Norfolk. Those records are located down the street at Norfolk's courthouse.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Troy
Troy Valos, MA, MSIS
Special Collections & Supervising Librarian
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Norfolk Public Library
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Deed Book 11 page 318 Chesterfield Co. VA.
James Brown and wife Frances sell property to John Trabue in September
1786. The deed reads that James Brown and Frances were from Norfold VA.
The property is in Chesterfield as is John Trabue. I'm thinking it is an
error on the part of the Clerk who wrote Norfold rather than Norfolk or was there a borough of Norfold in the Chesterfield/Henrico area.
*Angie Wilderman *
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