James Browne Of Moyne

CALENDAR OF WILLS 

Calendar of Wills. 313


BROWNE, James, of Moyne, County Galway, 

Ireland, late of the Island of Jamaica, now of Philadelphia. Natural daughter Elizabeth Browne alias Brady by Betty Brady; brothers Dillon Browne and Valentine Browne of Moyne, sister Frances, wife of Walter Jordan, Ann and Mary Browne. Apparently only personal property. Executors Mathias Hanly, late of the Isld. of Jamaica, now of Philadelphia, Michael Dillon, of Guanaboa, physician, and Edmond Betagh of St. Johns Parish, Jamaica. Witnesses Alfred Clifton, John Lynch.

Proved in N. Y. City. (Dates in 1779)

Actors And The British Military

From The Book Of Philadelphia

Officers of the British army and navy took part in the play, having with them artillery, boats and other suitable paraphernalia. Whether or not the play w as a signal success has not been recorded. The last season in Philadelphia before the Revolution was for two weeks only, in November, 1773, notable for two facts--the little interest shown in the stage and the sad death of Mrs Douglass*.

*In 1756 Lewis Hallam, sen. the manager, died and shortly afterward his widow married David Douglass, who where upon assumed the management of the [acting] company. 

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