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History of Erie County, Pennsylvania 1884, by Samuel P. Bates includes the following:
The population of the township has been as follows at the periods stated: 1,068, in 1820; 1,706, in 1830; 1,793, in 1840; 2,379, in 1850; 1,900, in 1860; 2,313, in 1870; and 2,152 in 1880.
Early Settlers: North East was the first of the lakeshore townships to be settled, and by 1810 was pretty well covered with a hardy and worthy class of emigrants. Thomas Crawford, with his sons, William, James and Robert, Lemuel Brown, Mathew Taylor, William Allison, Henry Burgett, and John, James and Mathew Greer arrived in 1797-98. Among those who reached the township about 1800 were Alexander T. Blaine, John and Andrew McCord, Samuel Graham, Robert Burrows, William Dundas, Mr. Campbell, Joel Loomis, James Barr, Timothy, Amos and Jerry Tuttle, Timothy Newton, James Silliman, Thomas Mellen, Cornyn Shadduck, Hezekiah and Tristram Brown, Robert McNeill, Stephen Sparrow, Perrin Ross, Charles Allen, John Russell, M. Brown and Hezekiah Brown.
Borough of North East: The land covered by the borough was purchased from the State by a man named Brown, who sold it in 1804 to an Eastern speculator by the name of Gibson. The earliest dwelling within the borough limits was a log cabin, built by William Dundas, a little to the east of the Presbyterian parsonage. In this modest abode the sacrament of the Lord's supper was administered for the first time in Erie County according to the Protestant form, on Sunday, the 27th of September, 1801. The Dundas property was sold in 1806 to Henry Burgett, who converted it into a tavern, and occupied it as such for many years. A more pretentious tavern was erected in 1808, by Lemuel Brown, grandfather of Gen. H. L. Brown, of Erie city, on the site of the present Haynes House.
Religious Institution: The Methodist Episcopal congregation was organized in 1812, with ten members, by Rev. Thomas Branch, a missionary from Connecticut. The original members were Tristam Brown, George Culver, John Russell and two others, with their wives.
Public Schools and College: A day school was taught in the old log meeting house, above referred to, soon after the year 1804, which was maintained until about 1817, when a log schoolhouse was built and stood not far from the center of the park. This was the regular school for the vicinity, and among the teachers who taught in it were John Brown, Miss Leech and Miss Riddle.
Hotels, Banks, Etc.: The hotels of North East are the Brawley House, built in 1883; the Haynes House, in 1852-53, and the Palace Hotel, by Sampson Short, in 1877. They are all well kept, and have a liberal patronage. The Palace Hotel is probably the finest public house in the county outside of Erie. The first hotel -- or more properly, tavern -- in the borough, as before stated, was opened by George Lowry, the second by Henry Burgett, the third by Lemuel Brown, and the fourth by the latter's son, Hiram L., who erected the house lately owned by Miss Davison for that purpose. In course of time, the two Browns almost monopolized the tavern business of the town. Hiram L. eventually purchased the Eagle Hotel at the corner of State Street and the northeast side of the Park in Erie. It burnt down and he erected another house on its site, which was known as Brown's Hotel until its purchase by Col. Ellsworth, when the name was changed to the Ellsworth House. The father of B. F. Sloan, of Erie, at one time kept a hotel in North East opposite the Brawley House.
North East Township: Tristram Brown, farmer, P.O. North east, was born April 19, 1824, on the farm he now resides on, son of Lyman (born in 1800) and Lavina (Shadduck) Brown, natives of Connecticut. His grandfather came to Erie in 1778, and took up land at 50 cents per acre, the same land on which the family now reside, and where he lived and died. Lyaman Brown had 12 children, viz., Betsy, Lyman, Sewel, Lavina, Harriet and Henry (twins), Maria, Lydia, Eunice, David, Mary, and our subject, who was married, in 1847 to Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Dippo. To this union were born 6 children-Harvey L., married Sept 25, 1872 to Kate Killhane, have 3 children-Katie, Annie and Hattie; Barnett W., married, in 1878, to Josephine Ennis, have 2 children living-Bertie and Joseph D., married June 1876, Carrie Geibel, have 3 children-Lillie P., Carrie R., and Rosa T.; and Hattie S., a most estimable young lady, killed by cars at the crossing in North East Township. Mrs. Brown died in 1879. Mr. Brown’s brother, David, served during the rebellion, in Capt. Dyer Loomis’ company.
Angeline Brown married Lacy Brant in North East in 1830. I am looking for her connections to these Brown families.
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