Most distant known paternal ancestor on the direct male line

First Name:	John
Last Name:	Brown
Year Born:	1765
Year Died:	1823
Country of Origin:	Tandragee, Armagh, Northern Ireland

Additional information about Paternal Line:
Credible (but unverifiable) tradition of descending from a son of the first marriage of John Brown "The Christian Carrier" of Priesthill, Ayrshire, Scotland, the Covenanter martyr who was murdered by Claverhouse in 1685.