Elizabeth DAY BRANSON
(September 20, 1685 - April 2, 1754)

GENETIC PARENTS

Father: John DAY (Abt. 1665 - 1724)
Mother: Elizabeth HARVEY

SPOUSE

• Thomas L. BRANSON (February 18, 1670/71 - October 11, 1744)
  October 4, 1702 in Springfield, Burlington, New Jersey.

GENETIC CHILDREN

John Day BRANSON, b. Abt. 1704, Haddonfield, Burlington County, NJ
d. 1769, Hopewell, Frederick County, Virginia.
Married (1) Isabella ? 1730 in New Jersey;
Married (2) Martha Antram February 6, 1747/48 in Burlington County, New Jersey.

David BRANSON, b. Abt. 1706, Springfield, Union County, New Jersey
Married Mary BULLOCK; b. 1707 in Burlington County, New Jersey.

Thomas BRANSON, b. 1706, Burlington County, New Jersey
Married (1) Rebecca BORDEN; b. Abt. 1710 in Monmonth, New Jersey;
Married (2) Elizabeth NORTON; b. Abt. 1718.

Lionel BRANSON, b. Abt. 1708, Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey
Married Rebecca ROGERS; b. Abt. 1728.

Joseph BRANSON, b. Abt. 1710, Springfield, New Jersey;
m. Mary EDGE.

William BRANSON, b. Abt. 1714 in Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey; died Abt. 1783;
Married Elizabeth OSMOND April 11, 1753 in New Jesey; b. Abt. 1737 in NJ; d. November 14, 1778
Notes for Elizabeth OSMOND:
Elizabeth was the step daughter of William's brother John Day BRANSON

Sarah BRANSON, b. Abt. 1718, Burlington County, New Jersey;
Married Joshua OWEN

Mary BRANSON, b. Abt. 1720; m. Zachariah ROBINS, b. Abt. 1720

Jonathan BRANSON, b. November 20, 1720, Burlington County, NJ
Married Alice ATKINSON, b. October 24, 1726

Elizabeth BRANSON, b. Abt. 1722, Burlington County, New Jersey
Married William ROGERS, b. 1705 in New Jersey

Jacob BRANSON, b. Abt. 1724, Burlington County, New Jersey

Day BRANSON

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BASIC DATA

Names: Elizabeth DAY BRANSON
Born: September 20, 1685
Married: Thomas L. BRANSON - October 4, 1702 in Springfield, Burlington, West Jersey.
Resided: Springfield, Burlington, West Jersey
Died: April 2, 1754
Buried:

Will of Thomas L. Branson

NOTES

Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934; Frederick County, VA
HOPEWELL FRIENDS HISTORY 1734-1934 Frederick County, Virginia
CHAPTER II THE FATHERS OF THE COLONY
page 29

Thomas Branson, 850 acres in Frederick County "Beginning at Joist Hite's corner, at the head of a small stream or branch of the Opeckon River."
Thomas Branson was the son of Thomas Branson and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Day. Thomas Branson Sr. also had land in the Shenandoah Valley, and by his will, probated Nov. 21, 1744, in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, devised it to his sons Thomas and Jacob, and describes it as "my lands on Shannandow River in Virginia which I laid out for Thomas Alexander and one called 'Scotch Robin'."
This will was probated in Frederick County, Virginia, March 5, 1744, John and Thomas Branson qualifying [p.29] as executors with Thomas Hankins and Thomas Sharp sureties. This land was near White Post, but now in Warren County; and near it Thomas Branson Jr. secured a patent in his own name for 1370 acres on both sides of Crooked Run. Near it Jacob Branson, his brother, received by patent in his own name 1000 acres. The will of Thomas Branson Sr. mentions his wife Elizabeth, sons David, Joseph, Jonathan, Lionel, William, Thomas, and John; his daughters Sarah Owin, Mary wife of Zachariah Robins, Elizabeth wife of William Rogers; his granddaughter Abigail Rogers; his grandson Thomas, son of John. Thomas Branson Jr. married Rebecca, daughter of Benjamin Borden, and John married Martha, widow of John Osmond and daughter of Thomas Antrim. William Branson, son of Thomas Sr., removed for a while to Stafford County, Va., and from him are descended the well known Branson family living until recent years near Clearbrook in Frederick County, Va.
Lionel, son of Thomas Sr., settled on Lost River in what is now Hardy County, West Va., where some of his descendants reside at this time.

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Ancestors of Ronald Owen Branson

The Book of the Branson Family, located in the Congressional Library, states that a Thomas Branson came from England in about 1700 and that he had two sons, Eli and Levi. As Thomas Branson, the son of Thomas L. Branson and the father of Eli and Levi, was born in the United States, I presume that this statement of arrival from England is actually for the father, Thomas L. Branson.

Thomas L. Branson seems to have settled first in Burlington County, New Jersey, as records show on March of 1702 (or 1703) Thomas Branson, a husbandman, petitioned to Thomas Ridgway, a yeoman (both of Springfield township, Burlington County) for 100 acres.

Records show on November 16, 1714, Thomas Branson (along with, Michael Newbould and Thomas Douglasse) inventoried the estate of William Mills of Springfield, Burlington County. Also, on May 10, 1731, Thomas Lewis of Hanover, Burlington County, a Schoolmaster, died intestate with debts due from Thomas Branson (he was probably sending children to school). Finally, on January 15, 1731 (or 1732), John Scholey of Springfield, Burlington, mentions "meadow adjacent Thomas Branson." These entries simply show that Thomas continued to reside in Burlington as late as 1732.

By 1734 Thomas apparently had moved on to Warren County, Virginia, as the following story relates the visit of Lord Fairfax to his home. "John Dyer ... deposeth and saith that many years ago when Lord Fairfax entered a Caveat in the Secretary's office against granting lands to the Westward of the Blue Ridge, his Lordship came over the ledge of mountains to visit the country on this side of the Blue Ridge to the house of one Thomas Branson. That some time after his Lordship came into the house, Branson made application to his Lordship to know in what manner people should act to secure their Rights, and that he made answer it would make no difference, that it would only be changing of landlords, paying the Quitrents to him instead of the King in case that he would succeed in his suit and that he wanted to have the Country settled and further that he would not have any poor man quit the place for want of land and upon being asked by Branson how Mr. Hite would come off, who had an order of Council for a very large tract of land, his Lordship made answer that he would be very well, for he was desirous of having the Land settled and further the Deponent saith not." This statement was made in 1762.

On November 12, 1735, Thomas Branson enters 850 acres in Frederick County, Virginia, "Beginning at Joist Hite's corner, at the head of a small stream or branch of the Opeckon River.

Sometime after this date, Thomas and Elizabeth returned to New Jersey, where they later died.

Sources:
Ancestors of Ronald Owen Branson
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/r/a/Ronald-Owen-Branson-Indiana/GENE1-0022.html

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