I don't find evidence that James Brasher, son of Tory Thomas Brazier, was a Patriot. Thomas certainly was a Tory, along with his neighbor Dr. John Pyle, the father of Thomas's son-in-law Dr. John Pyle, Jr. (the brother-in-law after the War of my GGGG Grandfather Henderson). The shamed Brasher men migrated as a group with young Dr. Pyle and young Private Henderson to Greenville, SC (the Patriot who must truly have loved Elizabeth Brasher), after the war, and then some of the Brashers went on to Shelby County after Alabama was taken from the Creeks. Anyone see that any of old Thomas's sons was a Whig? Did the family sanctify history? I ask as a descendant of old Thomas and a cousin of John Lakin Brasher.
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