The family account places John’s birth about 1779. He was only a small child when he and his father were killed in July 1782. He must not be confused with Elizabeth’s unnamed younger Guthrie brother, also lost during the attack, or with a different adult John Brownlee who survived into the nineteenth century.

Jane was an infant during the captivity. A certified 1786 court order describes Brownlee’s daughter as four years old, supporting birth about 1781–1782. Joseph’s later declaration identifies her husband as Jesse Hukel / Huckel; other accounts use Hugel, Hugle, Hughes, Hike, or James. Those variants are search leads, not proof that every similarly named Ohio household is hers.

The family account reports four sons and three daughters, whose identities remain unresolved. James Hughs of Brush Creek and James Huckle of Springfield in the 1820 Muskingum census are candidates only. On 15 January 1849, Joseph said the family had received no news of Jane for eight years despite inquiries. This places the last reported contact roughly in 1841; it supplies neither her death date nor her death place.

William, named for his father, became a farmer. The family is followed in the Porter Township area of Clarion County, with a reported death at Smithland in 1867. His wife’s maiden surname has not been established.

Their daughters were Elizabeth “Betsey” Guthrie, born about 1819, who married Thomas F. Elder, and Nancy Guthrie, reported 1823–1898, who married Joseph Downs. Both daughters are reported to have families.

The will is reported as written in 1860 and registered 9 April 1867. The profile’s 1860 “Probate” event must be checked against the instrument before treating it as a probate date or moving William’s death.

James settled near Summerville in Jefferson County. His profile gives 6 January 1786, with 6 June as an alternative, and reports marriage to Margaret McRae on 22 February 1814. Margaret’s reported dates are 18 January 1793–15 September 1836. James died 29 June 1851; the profile cites letters of administration granted to Alexander and James Guthrie on 25 July.

James B. Guthrie (1811–1890), husband of Elizabeth Bish, is described in AGAF as James’s son by an unnamed mother and as raised by his maternal grandmother. He remains separate from the seven children assigned to the McRae marriage: William, Alexander, James, Joseph, Thomas, Elisabeth, and John.

The working descendant account follows William with Harriette Fuller; Alexander with Almira J. Fairweather; James with Dorcas Jones and later Susan Alexander; Joseph with Elizabeth Brown; and Thomas with Anise Huffman and later Mary Morgan. Elisabeth reportedly died as a young child, and John’s marriage and descendants remain uncertain. The occupations recorded for these families include farming, carpentry, and other labor.

An Anna Guthrie in James’s 1850 household has been interpreted as a later wife, but the census association alone is not a marriage record. The older narrative also attributes James’s hostility toward Native people to his mother’s experiences. That is a later characterization of his outlook, not a separately documented childhood event.

Betsy is reported to have married a Mr. Boles, moved to Ohio, and had five sons and five daughters. The proposed identification with Walter Boles and Elizabeth of Pleasant Township, Brown County, Ohio, remains unsettled. Allen, Walter, and Shaffer Boles have been associated with that household, but competing parentage is reported for Shaffer. They should not yet become a definitive child list for this Betsy.

Mary and Jane are described as twins. Jane reportedly died in infancy; Mary lived until nearly twenty and did not marry. The later Jennie is a separate daughter. No specific reason for the repeated name has been documented.

Warren’s family-paper list says Jennie married Mr. Mathews and moved back east. The proposed William and Jane Matthews family instead moved from Pennsylvania to Montgomery County, Indiana, and then to Tolono Township, Champaign County, Illinois. An 1887 biography of John M. Matthews describes arrival in Illinois in 1854 and the parents’ deaths the following year.

That account conflicts with the linked profile’s about 1845 death and raises age questions against its 1791–1800 birth interval. The proposed children are Ezekiel, Lydia, Sarah Jane, Nancy, and John Marion Matthews, with two additional unnamed children reported. Those names and the Indiana–Illinois story are retained as a candidate family, not a completed identification of Elizabeth’s daughter.

The family account reports that Nancy Guthrie married Mr. Coon and died of consumption on 15 March 1826, leaving a daughter, Mary Coon, reportedly born 1 May 1824. It says Elizabeth raised the child. This is family testimony about care; it does not establish a legal adoption.

Mary has been associated with Robert Brown, reportedly his second wife after Margaret. The proposed couple is linked to Frazier Cemetery at Mayport. However, a Mary Coon listed as 36 in the transcribed 1850 Joseph Guthrie household does not fit a 1824 birth. Identity and age must be checked before joining those records.

Joanna is associated with Alexander Brown, whose reported death was 27 May 1860. His will’s bequests, including the substantial provision for Mary Coon, offer a route to testing the relationships. They do not, by themselves, identify every Brown beneficiary as a child or prove Joanna died a few months before him. Her profile gives death unknown and attaches an 1860 census reference; that evidence needs direct comparison.

Warren’s omission of Nancy and inclusion of an additional unnamed infant remain unresolved. Preserve both accounts without adding an eleventh child merely to reconcile the arithmetic.

Joseph’s middle name commemorates Elizabeth’s first husband; his father was William Guthrie. His reported marriage to Mary Ann Fleming / Flemming was 16 March 1837. The family is followed in western Pennsylvania, including Porter Township and Clarion County. His profile gives death 23 September 1883; the previously printed 1833 was an error.

Their children were Sarah Everetta, William Fleming, Joseph Brownlee Jr., and Elizabeth Ann Guthrie. Sarah, associated with teaching and dressmaking, married a Henderson. William Fleming married Jennie Beatty. The family account reports that Joseph Jr. and Elizabeth Ann both died of diphtheria on 13 January 1862. Elizabeth Ann’s reported October 1849 birth would make her twelve then, despite a repeated age of thirteen.

No continuing descendant line has been established in the reviewed material for this household. Joseph nevertheless left an extensive family legacy: his testimony preserved what Elizabeth had told him, his Bible recorded his parents’ deaths, and his efforts assembled the witnesses and documents now central to her history.

Joseph Brownlee; widow Elizabeth Guthrie; W3245. National Archives, Record Group 15, Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land application files, publication M804, roll 383, catalog identifier 300022. The supplied set of 101 screenshots, including one duplicate and overlapping captures, was reviewed in full. That is the complete supplied set, not an independent claim that every item in the archival file was supplied.

The packet contains retained 1783 certificates, William’s signed declaration, certified copies of military and court records, later affidavits, and office correspondence. The William Guthrie cross-reference card’s roll 1148 does not replace the Brownlee packet’s roll number.

Brownlee’s rank: the earlier Continental records identify him as a lieutenant. Alexander Marshall’s 13 May 1783 certificate identifies Captain Joseph Brownlee in connection with militia duty guarding Continental stores in May 1782. These ranks refer to different periods and types of service. The 1783 certificate describes duty performed before Brownlee’s death.

On 3 June 1847, Samuel Mahaffy explicitly said that before her marriage to Brownlee, Elizabeth “was named Guthrie.” Later office summaries saying her maiden name was not given overlook this testimony.

Jane Beatty, 24 May 1847, and Sarah Beatty, 26 May 1847 and 11 January 1848, identify Elizabeth as their sister and recall the wedding, farm work, shared sleeping arrangements, and Brownlee’s homecomings. Their testimony supplies family relationships and lived experience, while their approximate dating requires comparison with the other evidence.

The identification of their mother as Jane Reed comes through the Guthrie Family Papers cited by Warren, p. 17, note 1. It is a separate source trail from Mahaffy’s statement about Elizabeth’s maiden surname.

Joseph Brownlee Guthrie, 18 September 1847, explains that his account came from his mother’s repeated telling of her experiences. The deaths, journey, purchase amounts, and return narrative should be attributed to that transmission.

Abraham Leasure, 31 May 1847, recalls guarding the burial party. The Jones and Dalton certificates of 1783 are contemporary documents retained by Elizabeth. These sources contribute different kinds of knowledge; they should not all be called eyewitness accounts of the attack.

The modern Brownlee memorial and historical retellings must also be distinguished from contemporary records. Harold A. Thomas’s A Lonely Historic Grave traces how accounts were repeated and distinguishes officer Joseph from a different John Brownlee. The monument discussed there dates from the twentieth century.

The court order is dated 7 November 1786; the retained copy was certified 23 June 1848. It states that William had married Elizabeth and had cared for Brownlee’s daughter since 7 July 1784. It does not say the wedding occurred on that day. The February 1784 service-pay extract still describes Elizabeth as Brownlee’s widow.

At the end of Joseph’s September 1847 declaration, Justice George Means certifies entries from Joseph’s family Bible: William died 10 March 1828, aged 73; Elizabeth died 11 February 1842, aged 87. The inspected image is the certification, not a photograph of the Bible itself.

John Himes recalled making Elizabeth’s coffin on 12 February. A separate 16 January 1849 affidavit describes her burial on that date. The award’s August 1842 ending date was challenged by Henry Nes on 22 January 1850, and the calculation sheet changes August to February. The remaining 11/12 difference is resolved by distinguishing death from burial, not by moving her death to August.

The reported 1829 Pennsylvania petition is not the same proceeding as the 1847 federal claim. Warren reproduced the petition from the Westmoreland Democrat of 24 May 1899, whose own source was not identified. She had not located the original petition in 1977. An earlier supporting affidavit in W3245 is not the full legislative petition.

For state relief, Warren cites Laws of Pennsylvania (1829), p. 96, act approved 23 March: $60 immediately and $60 annually in half-yearly installments. AGAF gives a conflicting March date; the printed act should settle it.

Joseph executed the federal declaration 25 June 1847; Alexander Ramsey forwarded the claim on 2 August. Certificate 4748 was issued 24 April 1849 at an annual rate of $327.32, calculated from 4 March 1831. Subsequent letters concern the end-date error and a certificate that reportedly had not reached the parties. An award is not a receipt proving what each beneficiary collected.

The four Guthrie children identified in the surviving-family claim were William and Joseph in Clarion County, and James and Joanna in Jefferson County. Jane Brownlee Hukel was the fifth named child, with her whereabouts and survival unresolved. This claim context cannot supply a complete lifetime child count.

Warren’s unpublished Guthrie Family Papers were then held by Bessie Guthrie Theetge of Summerville, a descendant of James. Their provenance is useful, but each item’s author, date, and independence still matter. Her list has two unnamed infants and omits Nancy Coon; AGAF and the working family include Nancy and one unnamed infant.

The inspected family quitclaim at Westmoreland Deed Book 9, p. 262 was executed 10 April 1797 and recorded after witness proof on 15 April 1811. It does not itself label every party’s relationship or name the men’s wives. Editorial identifications must not be presented as original clauses.

Keep Elizabeth’s husband William separate from her brother William, husband of Agnes Dixon and Mary Hill. Also keep the infant twin Jane, the later Jennie Guthrie, and Jane Brownlee Hukel separate. A familiar name or a matching county is not enough to merge their records.