Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameJoseph Hill BRINTON 
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3326Birth Date27 Jun 1764
Birth PlaceBirmingham Township, Chester Co., PA, USA
Death Date20 Nov 1839 Age: 75
Cause of DeathHeart Disease
FatherGeorge BRINTON (1739-1798)
MotherChristiana HILL
Misc. Notes
Joseph Hill Brinton, eldest son of George and Christiana (Hill) Brinton, bom on the old family homestead in Birmingham, Chester county, June 27, 1764, spent the greater part of his life on one of his father's farms in Thornbury, Chester county, where the old stone house, erected by him in 1804, is occupied by his grandson of the same name.
As a lad of thirteen years he was present at the battle of Brandywine, fought in the immediate neighborhood of his home, September 11, 1777. Eluding the vigilance of his parents he witnessed the bloody conflict, and near the close of the day was caught by a British officer, who was so much pleased with him that he accompanied him to the home of his parents after the battle, and proposed to them to allow the boy to return with him to England at the close of the war. On parting with his quondam friend, the latter presented him with a handsome sword, captured during the engagement, from an American officer. Years after this sword was discovered to have been that of Colonel Frazer, and in 1842 was returned to his family.
Joseph Hill Brinton was an energetic and successful business man, and acquiring a competence, spent the closing years of his life in West Chester. He was a zealous Jeffersonian Democrat, voting for Jefferson for the presidency in 1796, to succeed Washington, and thereafter supporting the nominees of the party founded by him.
When Philadelphia was threatened, after the burning of Washington, 1814, he enlisted in a militia company called the American Grays, and was stationed at Marcus Hook for three months. He contracted the typhus fever while there, and his daughter, Rebecca, contracting the contagious disease from him, died of it. On the muster rolls of the troops stationed at Marcus Hook were also his brother, Thomas Hill Brinton, and five cousins of the name. He died of heart disease, November 20, 1839.
Joseph Hill married three times, (first), October 17, 1792, Rebecca Crozer, (second), December 24, 1795, Sarah Taylor, (third), January 15, 1800, Sibylla Kirk, who was mother of his four children. She was the daughter of William and Sibylla (Davis) Kirk, and granddaughter of Alphonsus Kirk.
As a lad of thirteen years he was present at the battle of Brandywine, fought in the immediate neighborhood of his home, September 11, 1777. Eluding the vigilance of his parents he witnessed the bloody conflict, and near the close of the day was caught by a British officer, who was so much pleased with him that he accompanied him to the home of his parents after the battle, and proposed to them to allow the boy to return with him to England at the close of the war. On parting with his quondam friend, the latter presented him with a handsome sword, captured during the engagement, from an American officer. Years after this sword was discovered to have been that of Colonel Frazer, and in 1842 was returned to his family.
Joseph Hill Brinton was an energetic and successful business man, and acquiring a competence, spent the closing years of his life in West Chester. He was a zealous Jeffersonian Democrat, voting for Jefferson for the presidency in 1796, to succeed Washington, and thereafter supporting the nominees of the party founded by him.
When Philadelphia was threatened, after the burning of Washington, 1814, he enlisted in a militia company called the American Grays, and was stationed at Marcus Hook for three months. He contracted the typhus fever while there, and his daughter, Rebecca, contracting the contagious disease from him, died of it. On the muster rolls of the troops stationed at Marcus Hook were also his brother, Thomas Hill Brinton, and five cousins of the name. He died of heart disease, November 20, 1839.
Joseph Hill married three times, (first), October 17, 1792, Rebecca Crozer, (second), December 24, 1795, Sarah Taylor, (third), January 15, 1800, Sibylla Kirk, who was mother of his four children. She was the daughter of William and Sibylla (Davis) Kirk, and granddaughter of Alphonsus Kirk.
Spouses
Misc. Notes
[Joseph Hill Brinton] contracted the typhus fever while there, and his daughter, Rebecca, contracting the contagious disease from him, died of it. [Was it his daughter or this his wife Rebecca?]
Family ID5352
Marr Date17 Oct 17921316
Family ID5353
Marr Date24 Dec 17951316
Misc. Notes
Sibylla was the mother of Joseph Hill Brinton’s four children.
Family ID5354
Marr Date15 Jan 18003327