Bernard Brown was a soldier in the struggle for American Independence, whose duty was to carry dispatches for General Washington, from New York to Charleston, South Carolina, and was chosen for that service because of his trust worthiness, and extraordinary powers of endurance, of whom his General said "that he could make the trip quicker than any other person in the service of whom he had knowledge." He was a practicing attorney at law of Albemarle County, and represented clients in Kentucky, as proof of this latter statement on the fourth of December 1801, Daniel Maupin, Sr., a resident at that time of Madison County, Ky., by deed of record gave to his son John Maupin, fifty pounds he had collected, that was in the hands of Bernard Brown of Albemarle County, Va., who was his acting attorney at law. Bernard Brown was killed by the fall of a tree Feb. 26, 1800, and his wife lived twenty six years thereafter, and died July 21, 1826, at the age of seventy five years and thirteen days. His home was at the foot of Bucks Elbow, not far from White Hall in Albemarle County, Va.
Humphrey married Esther as his first wife, and was then the third husband of Sarah Starbuck.
Humphrey married Esther's sister Sarah as his second wife
Came to Dover, NH abt. 1635.
CAME TO DOVER, N.H. ABOUT 1635