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| | Brown Genealogy |
 | | Hence, his father, Elias was born free, for the enactments of Maryland, as well as all the slave States, followed the Mosiac law, that is, the child followed the mother. |
 | | Elias Brown, now a resident in Jackson township, Pike county was the sixth son of Elias Brown, Senior. |
 | | In 1829, when Elias was about 14 years of age, (his father being dead) a man giving his name as Ballard care to his mother's house and represented himself as a contractor on the Ohio and Erie canal, which was then being built. |
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