The list of Moses’ children is known from his will, recorded at the Morgan County Courthouse. Birth dates for some children (those whom I do not have census records for) are roughly estimated based on the assumption that the sons then daughters were listed in birth order relative to their siblings of the same gender.

I do not think this Moses Brown is related to my Brown ancestors, because of the birthplace of Massachusetts, because the given name Moses is unknown in my line, and because he did not live near my cluster of Browns. (He was from the part of Morgan Co that became Elliott, while my Brown line was from the West Liberty area.) But I want to keep track of his descendants in Morgan, Rowan and Elliott counties anyway, so that I can tell them apart from my own. Also, his descendants did intermarry with my Clarks, most of whom lived either in Elliott Co. or near the border.

In 1860 she is listed in Rowan Co. as Lydia Brown, age 62, b. Ky, with her daughter Miriam and Miriam’s wife Moses Brown Jr., who is both Lydia’s son-in-law and stepson.

In 1870 she is listed with Moses and Miriam as Lydia Brown, age 74, b. Va.

1850 census of Morgan Co., Ky, enumerated 2 Sep, lists as family #577L
Moses Brown, 67, farmer, b. Mass; Lydia, 52, b. Va; Moses, 25, b. Va; Miriam, 21, b. Va; Moses, 16, b. Va, laborer; Zachariah Johnson, 20, b. Va, laborer.

The Moses age 25 is the son of Moses Sr and his first wife, and Miriam is both his wife and his stepsister, the daughter of Lydia and her first husband. The birthplace of Va is wrong for Miriam and Zachariah, and probably for Moses age 16 as well. (It is really entered as ditto marks for everyone after Lydia, and probably the census taker forgot that he was not ditto’ing Ky as usual.)

The preceding household is that of Nicholas Brown, another son from Moses’ first marriage.