A Lot of Brown Around: Various Strands of Brown Surnames in Early America

Having BROWN trees on both sides of my own family lines, it can be confusing. Often, people jumble together lines not recognizing that the names for first names can be as confusing and common as the Brown surname.

(1) The England to Westmoreland-Prince William Lines of Virginia

I have identified one line of BROWN who arrived from England to Westmoreland Co., Virginia. "Original Brown" arrived in the early 1600's. This county will later include an area called Prince William County, Virginia and a long line of Brown family will be tracked there with common names of William, Mary, Jane, Thomas, etc.

This line includes, I believe, the line of a William Brown who married a Jane Doke.

Question: To which DNA haplogroup do these "Prince William Co" Browns belong?

(2) The Scotland to Massachusetts-New Jersey-Augusta/Bedford Co., Virginia

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This line includes, the line of a Henry Brown (d. 1757 in attack during Native-Settler Conflict in old Augusta Co., Va (from which Botetourt Co is drawn), his son Henry Jr. (Bedford Co.) and others. Included are the Thomas Brown who fathered son Thomas Jr. who married Susannah Terry, daughter of William Terry of Botetourt Co., Va and whose daughter Esther married John Terry, Susannah's brother. 

Question: To which DNA haplogroup do these "Augusta Co., VA" Browns belong?

(3) The Scotland to Augusta Co. to Warren Co., Tenn Lines

This line (my mother's maternal line) had a legend that was kept by the family. It was a bit mangled but, after years of searching, and a moving the story back a generation or two, the pieces began to fall into place.

Components of the legend included: Family origin in Scotland, Native American ancestry (Cherokee), an indenture to work and a running away from that work, impressed service in the military to fight Native adversaries, a "marriage" with a native woman...  After searching for historic events to fit the life of the last (to that point) ancestor, Isaac H Brown, and finding none the hunt was pushed back. 

At the same time, DNA testing was being done and results had come in making connections.  Once the Revolutionary War Service statement of Thomas "Archibald" Brown of Warren Co., TN was found the story components were shocking. All the elements - save the native union - were there!  Research into the known family of the Warren Co., Tennessee group found numerous legal statements filed attesting to the that fact the family had Cherokee connections (through the wives, apparently) and many of the descendants were listed or filed for inclusion on federal lists of native peoples. 

Question: To which DNA haplogroup do these "Warren Co., TN" Browns belong?

According to descendants who contacted me, and to information from the Family Tree DNA webpage, the Haplogroups are J-M172. This includes my Isaac H Brown of Warren Co., Tn who migrated to Missouri.

A Thomas Brown was listed on Family Tree DNA, for Warren Co., TN and as " 82180 Brown Thomas Brown 1753 Augusta VA to Warren Co TN 1849 Unknown Origin I-P37"