Marshall-LaSalle-Putnam County IL Archives Biographies.....Brown, William 1755 - 1841
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Source: Henry News Republican
Author: Henry News Republican


William Brown was born in VA in 1755.  At the age of twenty he joined the VA Militia
and served 
through the Revolutionary War. Following the Revolutionary War he moved from VA with
his family to 
a town in KY along the Ohio River.  He fought in the war of 1812 against the
Indians, whom the 
British hired to fight the Americans.  On one occasion he found two Indians about to
scalp his sister 
as she was walking along the river.  He killed both Indians and vowed to kill as
many more as 
possible.  The notches on his gun showed he had ability that way, for there were
many.

In the 1830's he decided to move to Illinois.  He traveled by water to Hennepin,
then overland to the 
head of the Big Sandy, which was in the Sandy District of LaSalle County at the
time.  He arrived 
there late in 1834 and was elected constable of the Sandy Precinct.

He established his claim in the northeast quarter of section 11 of Evans Township
and later acquired 
the full rights to lands that he held jointly with Amos Williams and Martin Kennedy,
from a prior Sept 
24, 1839 land purchase, giving him 224 1/2 acres which comprised all of the
southwest quarter of 
section 11 and 64 1/2 acres lying across the north half of the southeast quarter of
section 11 in 
Evans Township.  Later (in 1842) he sold his holdings to Thomas Alexander, a breeder
of blooded 
stock (from KY) for the consideration of $3,000.00. 

While preparing for a hunt on the Hard Scrabble in the vicinity of the Vermilion
River (Now Streator, 
IL) he answered his last call.  He died of heart failure and was laid to rest in the
Cherry Point 
Cemetery.

Taken from the "Henry News Republican, 29 July 1937.
 
 
William Brown, ABOC
Ysearch.org Id: kmkw4
Brown Society.org Group 22
SNP M223 Viking Scandinavian
Family Finder Orcadian Norseman
Family Tree DNA Haplogroup I2a2a 
Ancestry “The Brown’s of Council Bluffs, IA”

Additional Comments:
First Revolutionary War Veteran of Marshall County, IL

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