Our Brown lineage stretches back to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the last of the 'Five Good Emperors', and revered as a Stoic philosopher. A sub-branch includes Britain's King Alfred 'the Great' and Saint Ursula. The Church canonized Ursula Dynod based on the combination of several early legends claimingt Ursula and her 11,000 handmaidens were slaughtered by Huns when returning from a pilgrimage to Rome. The legends are just that.....legends! A hail and hearty Ursula married Conan Meiriadog in Rome probably in 325 AD. Ah, the stuff of legends! More than a thousand years later the pious Christopher Columbus named new found lands the 'Virgin Islands' for Saint Ursula and even today the Islands' Coat of Arms bears her likeness. The earlirst instance of the Brown name occurs in 1105 with Walterus DeBruin in Aberdeen, Scotland. His son John chooses to be known as Browne/DeBruin and his grandson as simply John Brown. In 1674 George Brown migrated to Virginia. His great grandson John Brown became a Captain in the North Carolina Dragoons and fought during the Revoluntiomary War. It is from his service we are eligible for membership in the Sons/Daughters of the American Revolution.