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Sarah Nisa Brown (Hansor)

Also Known As: "Polly", "Sarah Nisa Hansor Brown"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware, Colonial America
Death: 1821 (48-49)
Election Precinct 2 Fork of Sepulga, Conecuh County, Alabama, United States
Place of Burial: Conecuh County, Alabama, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Samuel Hansor and Comfort Hansor
Wife of John Wesley Brown
Mother of Sterling Brown; Susan Elizabeth McCall; Presley Riley Brown; Isaac Brown; Collins Brown and 7 others
Sister of Ann Hansor and Samuel Hansor

Label: Nanticoke or Lenni Lanape tribes of the DelMarVa Peninsula
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About Sarah Nisa Brown

Sarah Nisa "Polly" Hansor (1772 - 1821)

Born in Kent or Sussex, Delaware, British Colony on 18 Feb 1772 to Samuel Hansor and Comfort Riggs. Sarah Nisa "Polly" Hansor married John Wesly Brown and had 13 children. She passed away on 1821 in Sepulga Fork, Evergreeen, Conecuh, Alabama, United States.

Wife of John Wesley Brown; she is buried in an unmarked grave. She descended from the Nanticoke Indians of Delaware.

In the birth and baptism records of St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church in Sussex County, DE., Sarah Nisa Hansor was listed as "mulatto." Other sources suggest she was Native American, a descendant of the Nanticoke or Lenni-Lenape tribes of Delaware, or part of a tri-racial group called the Delaware Moors.

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Sarah Nisa Brown's Timeline

1772
February 18, 1772
Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware, Colonial America
1790
February 1790
Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, United States
1792
April 17, 1792
Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, United States
1794
1794
Hancock County, Georgia, United States
1796
September 20, 1796
Anderson County, South Carolina, United States
1798
July 12, 1798
Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, United States
1801
April 9, 1801
Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, United States
1803
1803
Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, United States
1804
June 4, 1804
Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, United States