Captain John Browning: Ancestors and Descendants 1255-1799

This story is about Captain John Browning who, from most accounts, was born about 1588 in Suffolk County, England, and died 10 June 1662 in York County, Virginia. He allegedly married Sybil Dameron of Gloucestershire, England about the year 1614. Their children were George (born about 1614) and William (born about 1615) in addition to accounts of other children including a Thomas (born about 1620). Then, sometime around the year 1621 or so, he and his family left England for Virginia where his descendants supposedly established a line of Southern Brownings whose descendant could eventually be found throughout America. His ancestors in England go back hundreds of years in the counties of Suffolk, Gloucestershire, Dorset, and Wiltshire. The interesting thing about him and this story is that there is more speculation about him and less known than that of many people in history.