Memorial encyclopedia of the state of New York : a life record of men and women of the past whose sterling character and energy and industry have made them preeminent in their own and many other states . runing, and it later came to berendered in various ways. According tothe poet, Robert Browning, the earliestform of the name was de Bruni, whichwas the Norman-French name of one of theancient German tribes which inhabited theshores of the Baltic Sea, in Northern Ger-many. In high German the form of thename is Brauning. The Brunings are sup-posed to have migrated from Germanyto England, where t
Memorial encyclopedia of the state of New York : a life record of men and women of the past whose sterling character and energy and industry have made them preeminent in their own and many other states . runing, and it later came to berendered in various ways. According tothe poet, Robert Browning, the earliestform of the name was de Bruni, whichwas the Norman-French name of one of theancient German tribes which inhabited theshores of the Baltic Sea, in Northern Ger-many. In high German the form of thename is Brauning. The Brunings are sup-posed to have migrated from Germanyto England, where the Anglo-Saxonschanged the spelling to Browning, to suittheir own tongue. The termination ingin the German language means a meadowor low pastureland, and hence the originof the name as applied to inhabitants ofthe low meadows. Nathaniel Browning, son of Mrs. Eliza-beth Browning, was born in London about1618, and died at Portsmouth, RhodeIsland, when about fifty-two years Browning and her husband appearto have been Non-conformists, and thepersecution that followed them was prob-ably the cause which led NathanielBrowning to embark for America soonafter he came of age, in the year 1640. 224.
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