Benjamin Mason Brown

Family/Spouse: Maria Gard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Penelope Seamons on 19 Feb 1795 in Hartford, Washington County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From, The First American Frontier, by Julia P. Cutler, Arno Press & The New York Times, reprinted 1971:

Copy of a statement of his services in the Revolutionary War, made in or about the year 1818 by Capt. Benjamin Brown, in support of his application for a pension. (On record in the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County, Ohio:

"In February, 1775, I joined in forming a regiment of minute men in Hampshire County (Massa-chusetts), commanded by Colonel Barnard. The regiment marched to Concord, 21st of April, under Lieut. Col. Williams, of Northfield. I served in the regiment as quartermaster. At Cambridge I took a lieutenant's commission in Captain Hugh Maxwell's company, in Colonel William Prescott's regiment, Massachusetts' line, in which I continued from May till the last of December. I continued in the same regiment during the year 1776, when I engaged as captain in Colonel Michael Jackson's regiment, and continued in the same till the latter part of 1779, when I resigned and returned home.

"I was in the party engaged in moving the stock from Noddle's Island, and burning the Diana, British packet, on Malden Ways, near Boston, in June, 1775. I was in the battle of Bunker Hill, 17th of June, 1775. I was in several engagements during the evacuation of New York Island in 1776. I was in the battle of White Plains (where his brother, Pearly Brown, was killed), and in December was present at the taking of Hackensack under General Parsons. In 1777 I commanded the detachment at the German Flats, and captured Walter Butler and his party. I was in the detachment sent to raise the siege of Fort Stanwix. I was in the battles of 19th September and 7th October, that preceded the capture of Burgoyne on the 17th. During 1778 and 1779 I was not in any important battle, but was not off duty during a single day during the three preceding campaigns."

(The position of aid to General DeKalb was offered to him at the time he (DeKalb) was ordered south to North Carolina, where he was killed at the battle of Guilford. He (Captain Brown) was the first man who entered the Hessian works stormed by Brooks and Putnam's regiments on the 7th of October, 1777 at Saratoga.)

From History of Athens County, Ohio, p. 404:

Capt. Benjamin Brown, father of General John, and of Judge A.G. Brown, and one of the most prominent among the early settlers of Ames, was born October 17, 1745, at Leicester, Massachusetts. His grandfather, William Brown, came from England to America while a youth, was the first settler in the town of Hatfield, on the Connecticut river and was often engaged in the Indian wars of that period.

Died:
Age: 75

Benjamin married Jean Thomas on 9 Jul 1772 in Rowe, Franklin County, MA. Jean died on 14 Jun 1840 in Athens County, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source: Washburn's History of Leicester, MA
Source: Leicester, MA Vital Records
Source: History of Washington Co., NY, Chrisfield Johnson, 1878
Source: Memoirs of Early Pioneers of Ohio, S. P. Hildreth, 1854 Cincinnati
Source: "Old Northwest Quarterly" 1906 Ohio, Vol. 9, pp. 28-32
Source: Benjamin Brown pension record, National Archives
DEATH-DATE: Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of
Ohio

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1788, Worcester

Notes:

Captain JOHN BROWN born about 1703. Died 1791 in Leicester, Massachusetts, age 88. He was a soldier in the French Wars. Commanded a Company in the Louisburg expedition in 1745. was a leading man in the town of Leicester and its representative in the General Court for twenty years; Four of his sons were Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War. His first wife was Lydia Newhall, daughter of Lt. Thomae Newhall of Leicester. They had five children. His second wife was Mary Jones, aunt of the Honorable John Coffin Jones.

Died:
Age: 88

John married Mary Elizabeth Jones on 30 Jun 1742 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA. Mary was born on 10 Aug 1719 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; died on 14 Nov 1809 in Hartford, Washington County, NY; was buried in Hartford, Washington County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source: Washburn's History of Leicester, MA
Source: Leicester, MA Vital Records
Source: History of Washington Co., NY, Chrisfield Johnson, 1878