BRAND.
Joseph Brand came from Hanover County, and in 1779
bought from John Clark seven hundred and seventy-three
acres of land on Mechunk Creek. Some years after he purchased
a tract of more than six hundred acres on the Rivanna
opposite Milton. He also owned property in Hanover, and
land in the North Western Territory on the Miami. He died
in 1814. He and his wife Frances had twelve children,
Benjamin, Sarah, William, James, Joseph, Chiles, David,
Robert, Eliza, George, John, and Frances, the wife of David
Huckstep. What became of most of this large household is
not known. One of the sons, William, it is believed, emigrated
to New Orleans, where he prosecuted a successful
business. The year after her father's death, Sarah was married
to John Robertson, a native of Scotland, who had taught
school in the county for some years, and who in 1814 was
taken under the care of Hanover Presbytery as a candidate
for the ministry. Chiles married Elizabeth Bryan, and died
in 1861. His children were Ann Eliza, the wife of Thomas R.
Bailey, Mary Jane, the wife of Richard Pinkard, Sarah, Richard,
Catharine, who was for many years a teacher in Charlottesville,
and became the wife of William Bell, of Augusta,
Maria, William, James, and Lucy, the wife of R. H. Munday,
who still occupies the house on University Street which was
conveyed to her grandmother by John M. Perry in 1825.
William D. Meriwether and James Lindsay were the acting
executors of Joseph Brand, and according to the instructions
of his will sold the land opposite Milton to Martin Dawson
in 1815, and that on Mechunk to Joseph Campbell in 1833.
