Today’s writing will be an expansion and earlier genealogy of the Brunson family of Covington and Coffee Counties which was featured years earlier. According to the family archives, ancestors of the Brunson family left England with members of the Rev. Thomas Hooker’s Church of New Conformists. They arrived in Massachusetts Bay in July 1633, which made them some of the earliest English settlers in America.
The earliest ancestor identified to date is Richard Brownson who became the immigrant one. He was born in 1590 in Derbyshire, England, but the name of his wife is not known. They had at least two sons, John Brownson, and Richard Brownson Jr. who married first in 1640 to Abbigail Wilbourne, and later, to Elizabeth Orvis. Richard Jr. was born in 1617 in Chelmsford, England, and died in 1687 in America. No more was found for John Brownson.
Richard Brownson Sr. sailed from England with his two teenaged sons aboard the Ship Griffin, and they arrived in…
