Quote Originally Posted by RockyMount'sClanBrown View Post
I am doing a geneology search on the Brown family of North Carolina and I am stuck at Doctron Brown of Bertie County. He was born in 1808 (or 1810:looking at census records, he either goofed on his birthday one time or someone transcribed his age incorrectly during one of the census years). His name shows up in the census on different occasions as Doctron, Doctrine and Docton. Has anyone else been researching the Brown family in NC? We also have Browns that seem to like to flip back and forth from Hertford, Bertie to Vance and or Granville Counties. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Brown is one of the hardest clans to trace. The name is so common as to be nearly impossible unless you can call in census/other scource.

Many have tried to link Brown to the highlands.. and ultimatly failed. Not because they were wrong, but rather that they simply could not document it.