Third Generation


3. Henry Emerson BRANDENBURG Sr.5 was born in 1765 in Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America.2,6 Frederick County was formed in 1748 from parts of Prince George's County and Baltimore County. It was named in honor of Frederick Calvert, who was the current and last Lord Baltimore and proprietor of Maryland at that time. Montgomery (1776), Washington (1776) and a part of Carroll (1837) counties were formed from Frederick County. Frederick City is the county seat.

. He died in 1838 at the age of 73.2

Henry Emerson BRANDENBURG Sr. and Sarah Henrietta PRESTON were married about 1790.6 Sarah Henrietta PRESTON was born (date unknown).