 1745 - 1821 (75 years)
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| Name |
Benjamin Brown [1] |
| Birth |
6 Oct 1745 |
Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1 Oct 1821 |
Athens, Athens County, OH [1] |
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| Burial |
West Union Street Cemetery, Athens, Athens County, OH |
| Person ID |
I1360 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
John Brown, b. 3 Nov 1703, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA d. 1791, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 87 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Mary Elizabeth Jones, b. 10 Aug 1719, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA d. 14 Nov 1809, Hartford, Washington County, NY (Age 90 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage Contract |
18 Apr 1742 |
Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA |
| Marriage |
30 Jun 1742 |
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA [2] |
| Family ID |
F361 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Jean Thomas d. 14 Jun 1840, Athens County, OH |
| Marriage |
9 Jul 1772 |
Rowe, Franklin County, MA |
| Children |
| | 1. Archibald Green Brown, b. 16 Apr 1798, Waterford, Washington County, OH [natural] |
| | 2. Sally Smith Brown, b. 31 Oct 1774, Rowe, Franklin County, MA d. 2 Jun 1861, Amesville, Athens County, Ohio, USA (Age 86 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Benjamin Loring Brown, b. 17 Mar 1773, Rowe, Franklin County, MA d. 1802/1806 (Age 32 years) [natural] |
| | 4. William Brown, b. 22 Feb 1779, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA d. 18 Feb 1859, Athens, Athens County, OH (Age 79 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F528 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 6 Oct 1745 - Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA |
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| 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.
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| Sources |
- [S35] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Volume: 327; SAR Membership Number: 65384.
- [S162] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts, Town Marriage Records, 1620-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;).
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