Margaret Brown

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dau of Dr. Gustavus Brown and Margaret Black, of Rose Hill, close friend,relative and neighbor to the Stone family. He was born in Scotland in 1689 and came to MD in May 1708 where he established a successful pracice as a physician in the Nanjemoy area of Charles Co.and 2nd wife, Margaret Black Bloyd. Margaret's bro was Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown. (History of Charles Co, MD by Margaret Brown - p 83 )
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Margaret Brown (1751-1787)

Margaret was the youngest of Dr. Gustavus Brown's fourteen children. Her mother, Margaret Boyd Brown, was Dr. Brown's second wife. As stated in his will, Dr. Brown described himself as "a Practitioner of medicine and Laird of Mainside and the House of Byers, Roxbury Scotland." His Scottish lordship, Edinburgh education, and property holdings in Scotland and Maryland placed Dr. Brown in a social position unparalleled in the colony. He was also thought to be the richest man in Charles County.

Dr. Brown provided for the wealth and education of all his children. Upon marriage or attaining the age of twenty-four, Margaret was to receive 300-pounds sterling. She married Thomas in 1768 and it is possible that part of Margaret's inheritance was used toward the 400-pound purchase price of Haberdeventure.

Between 1771 and 1774, Margaret gave Thomas three healthy children. In 1776, Margaret visited Thomas in Philadelphia while he served in the Continental Congress. Due to recent outbreaks of smallpox in the city she opted to receive a smallpox inoculation which, at that time, required ingesting mercury. She became ill shortly afterward and never recuperated; it is assumed she was poisoned by the mercury treatments. After more than a decade of declining health, she died in June of 1787 at 36 years of age. Thomas himself died five months later.

Information from the Harry Wright Newman Collection housed at the College of Southern Maryland in La Plata, MD and from publications by Professors J. Richard Rivoire and Jean B. Lee.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/thst/margb.htm

Margaret married Capt/Gov Thomas (signer) Stone in 1768 in Charles Co, Maryland. Thomas (son of David Stone and Elizabeth Jenifer) was born in 1743 in Charles Co, Maryland; died on 05 Oct 1787 in Alexandria, (independent city), Virginia; was buried in Thomas Stone National Historic Site, Habre de Venture, Port Tobacco, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret Stone was born in 1771 in Charles Co, Maryland; died on 9 Mar 1809 in of, Stafford Co, Virginia.
2. Mildred Stone was born in 1773 in Charles Co, Maryland; died on 26 Oct 1837 in of, Stafford Co, Virginia.
3. Frederick Stone was born in 1774 in Charles Co, Maryland; died in 1793.