Craig,

Is the Manly Brown who you mentioned the one who was born in the 1600s and who married Mary Tuttle?  From what I see on the internet, they had at least one son who was named Richard Brown, but some show that Richard fathered only a daughter (but that may be incomplete or inaccurate information).  It would be great to have a living male Brown from this family, if such a man exists, take the Y chromosome DNA test.  The Brown Genealogy Society uses FTDNA to do the actual testing, but they will also accept DNA testing results from Ancestry that have been loaded into the "universal" Y-Search website/database (though only about 30 or so of the typical 46 markers in the Ancestry system/protocol have an equivalent in the FTDNA system/protocol....but that is usually enough to prove a "match"....or the lack of a "match").  I do not see a donor in the Brown Genealogy Society website at this time who claims a Manly Brown as his ancestor.

Bill

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