This will was proved May 7th, 1799.* Samuel Brown Isaacs, Esq., like his uncle, was for many years a Justice of the Peace, in Lower or South Salem, and also a warm supporter of the Church. For some time services were held in his house* (the old Brown mansion) after the Church edifice had been torn down in 1788, and the land seized -- until the year of his death, as proprietor of his uncle James Brown's estate, he exercised acts of ownership in the " Loiver Parsonage Lands" claiming he had as much right to cut timber thereon as the pretended owners themselves. He frequently invited a suit to test his right, but could never induce his opponents to try the case before the courts. c He was one of the first vestrymen of the parish after its reorganization in 1 8 10, and a delegate to the Diocesan Convention in 1 8 1 1 . He died at his residence in South or Lower Salem, Nov. 220", 181 9, and lies buried there in the Presbyterian grave-yard.
In
Memory of SAMUEL B. ISAACS, Esq., who died November 22d, 1819. M. 63.
By his wife Hannah Mercer he left two sons, James Brown Isaacs, his administrator, 28th of December, 1819/' who afterwards removed to Lebanon, Meigs County, Ohio, and died there in the Fall of 1S57-; and Edward Isaacs who married Elmira, daughter of Nehemiah Fancher, M.D., of Poundridge, and died Sept. 25th, 1831 aged 31. His son is the present Samuel Brown Isaacs of Poundridge.