Born about in Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Browne
and Sarah Cocke (Unknown) Woodson
Sister of
Jeremiah Browne and Sarah (browne) Knibb
Wife of
Thomas Batte Jr.
— married
before 2 Apr 1688 in Henrico County, Virginia
Wife of
John Farrar
— married
before 1 Aug 1693 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died [date unknown]
in Virginia
Profile last modified
| Created 15 Oct 2013
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Biography
Temperance was born about 1672. Temperance Browne ... [1]
Temperance was the daughter of John and Sarah Brown. She was married to Thomas Batte of Henrico County, Virginia before April 2, 1688.[2] After Thomas's death, she married John Farrar (before 1 August 1693).[3]
The 1701 will of her mother Sarah WOODSON, widow of John WOODSON indicates that Temperance was alive then:
- To Martha BATTE, daughter of Thomas BATTE, late of this county, dec'd, negro man Peter.....
- To grandaughter Martha BATTE, iron pott and ovall table, now in possession of her father in law John FARRAR, etc.......
- To grandson John KNIBB, negro boy Jack & items.
- To grandson Solomon KNIBB, items...
- To Seth Ward's daughter, who was god daughter of Mary RAGSDALE, dec'd, my silver bodkin.
- To grandson John FARRAR, on negro boy Peter.
- To grandson Thomas KNIBB, feather bed, etc; also negro boy Jack, if he die, then to my daughter Temperance FARRAR.
- To granddaughter Mary FARRAR, negroe woman Temp.
- To grandchildren Martha BATTE, and John & Mary FARRAR, all my sheep to be equally divided.
- To daughter Temperance FARRAR, all my clothes, livestock , and items.
- All the rest to my daughter FARRAR, and she to be exec.
Dated 4 Feb 1701. Witnesses: John Bolling, Arthur Mosely, F. Bondurant....Recorded 1 Oct 1704.
Sources
- ↑ Entered by William Farrar, Tuesday, October 15, 2013.
- ↑ Marriages of Henrico County, Virginia 1680-1808, Compiled and Published by Joyce H. Lindsay. Source for this entry, which notes that Temperence is the orphan of John Brown, is given as "Orphans Court 1677-1739. p. 21."
- ↑ Henrico County Orphans Court, abstracted records:
- 1 Aug 1693: Mr. John Farrar married the relict of Thomas Bette, decd. Farrar is to give security for the estate belonging to Batte’s orphans.
- Abstracted from Pauline Pearce Warner’s book, Orphans Court Book 1677-1739 of Henrico Co., Virginia (Tappahonnock, VA: privately published, 1963), online here (a 6 January 2019 blogpost).
Acknowledgments
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Decisions of Virginia General Court, 1626-1628 The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 3, No. 4 (Apr., 1896), pp. 359-367 Published by: Virginia Historical Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241917