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Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 6             Generation 7          Generation 8
 
                                            +-- [unknown]
                                            |   (????-????)
                      +-- William Brannan --+ 
                      |   (1782-1876)       |   
 Elizabeth Brandon ---+                     +-- [unknown]
 (1792-1879)          |                         (????-????)
                      +-- Susannah Hines
                          (????-????)     

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Children

(all children with Susannah Hines)

Places of Residence

Photos

Gravestones of William Brannan and wife Susannah, Wolf Creek Cemetery, Worth Twp Butler Co PA

Photo by E W Williams Oct 2006

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	Gravestone at Wolf Creek Cemetery, Worth township, Butler Co. PA. William Brannan's stone reads simply "W. B.". The stone of his wife Susanna has the center area spalded away.
2	1880 United States Federal Census Mortality Schedules, Brady Township, Butler County, PA, Enumeration district 30, Page 1, Line 4, lists Elizabeth Hines as having died in Oct 1879 at the age of 87. She was a widow. She was born in PA, her father was born in England, her mother was born in Ireland. She lived in Butler County for 80 years. The cause of death was suide[?] gangrene
3	20th Century History of Butler and Butler County 1909, by McKee, p. 659 biographical sketch. William Brannan was born in England in 1775, member of the King's Life Guard Regiment under Cornwallis, taken prisoner at York, PA, escaped to Westmoreland Co. There he married Susannah Hines. In 1800 moved to Scott Township, Lawrence Co.	(See complete text)
4	20th Century History of Butler & Butler County PA1909, by James McKee, p. 861-862, biographical sketch of George W. Hines, gives his grandparents Richard Hines and Elizabeth Brandon	(Complete text)
5	History of Butler County PA, 1883 by Waterman, Watkins & Co, Chicago, p. 331. William Brannan, an Englishman, came from Washington County to the northeastern part of Lawrence County in 1803,thence he removed to farm in Worth Township, and in 1845 his son Thomas settled in the northern part of this township, on a farm which William Carter had been occupying for some years. Thomas Brannan married, in this county, first Mary Burrows, and second, Mary Ann Reed. Names of children - Susan, Jame, William, Mary Elizabeth, Rebecca, Thomas D., Margaret E., Alzira and Isaac R. Mary, Wlizabeth, William and Thomas D. are dead.
6	Personal correspondence from Pat Moser *Whereas the Butler County History had William Brannan fighting at York, PA, Cornwallis fought at Yorktown, VA; this is probably the correct site of William Brannan's capture. *Family tradition is that when William Brannan escaped as a prisoner of war to western PA, he changed his name to William Brannan, so that his original name is now untraceable.
7	PA Archives Series I vol. 8,p. 343 Letter of 1780 to Pres. Reed of the Board of War, regarding the practice of allowing prisoners of war, both British & German, to work with local farmers during the past winter, as rations were scarce at the prison. All had at time of writing been ordered back into confinement, but the farmers were unwilling to relinquish their services, and other prisoners "have escaped from their places of confinement and are scattered thro' the country, where some of them doubtless mean to fix their abode."	(See full text)
8	Will of Mary Cornelius extract. Mary Cornelius of Worth Twp., Butler Co., PA, names sisters Susannah St. Clair & Elizabeth Hines, sister-in-law Margaret Cornelius. Executor S. M. Cornelius. Signed 3 July 1868, filed 16 Feb. 1870. Contributed by personal correspondant Ann Badger.
9	Will of William Branand, Butler Library Wills Abstract Series B-267 1843. William Branand, Slippery Rock Twp., Butler Co. PA names son Thomas, daughters Betsy Hines, Polly cornelius, Susannah St. Clair. Executor, son thomas Branand. Witnesses James I. Hogue, Joseph Kelly, William McNees. Signed 5 Dec. 1840. Filed 11 Dec. 1843.
10	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams	N/A

Source notes

Conjecture

• Is Susannah Hines Brannan, from Westmoreland Co., related to the Richard Hines family? Elizabeth Brandon, daughter of Susannah Hines & William Brannan, married Richard Hines, Jr., so the two families knew each other. It is possible there was some degree of kinship, not yet established
• 1810 census, Butler Co., Slippery Rock Twp p. 32 - W. Brannan age 26-45; no others listed in household.
• 1810 census, Mercer Co., Slippery Rock Twp - Wm Brannon, 1 M age 10-16, 1 M age 45 or+, 1F age 16-26, 1 F age 26-45

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