Grace....yes, that is truly an excellent document on the Coleman family that 
was written by Ms. Nichols.  While I certainly suspect that she was correct, 
I wish I knew what her PROOF was that the John Brown who married Elizabeth 
Brown (a daughter of Daniel Brown and Elizabeth Coleman) was a cousin of his 
bride....and a son of Abraham Brown and Mary Tribble of Caroline Co., VA. 
That was a different "branch" of the same overall Brown family that took-in, 
named and reared my maternal gg-grandfather Smith W. Brown (who was actually 
an "orphaned Smith infant").

Note: DNA testing in the last few years on living male Browns has shown that 
the above John Brown was, in fact, a member of the same overall Brown family 
as the family of the above Daniel Brown who married Elizabeth Coleman (that 
Brown family "traces back" to the Francis Brown "I" who left his Will in 
Essex Co., VA in 1691/1692).  DNA testing cannot prove, however, who John 
Brown's father was.

Bill 

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