Mother Meriwether/Browne. It seems proper to close out this generation before we leave. Wm. Browne, Sr.'s will was probated in Jul 1705 (Griffith, pp.32-33). He does not recognize a wife, Elizabeth apparently having died before 1705. When? Possibly [P6] as early as 1686 when Nicholas II, apparently in possession of lands, is first taxed. More probably in the period 1692-1695 [P5]. There would have been no need to have siblings appointed as administrators for William's estate or for Thomas to select a guardian had Elizabeth been alive in 1695 [P2]. Nicholas II's decision ca. 1692 to leave Surry Co. and sell his inherited Meriwether home may well have been triggered by his mother's death and the final distribution of his father's estate (Haun V, p.25 & Hopkins, p.39) [P5]. In any case, Francis II selling Island House in 1695 and Thomas asking for a guardian the same year, suggest strongly that by then NiI's estate was settled [P4]. Elizabeth, if born in 1638 (NHM, p.28) [P6], would have been in her fifties when she died ca. 1692 [P4].