From the Brown Family Book which was directed to be created by congressional act of 1896 we have this from the author Dr. George Hoffman Penrose who was also a family member....
( No.44 Jacob Brown....son of No. 42, 28, 27, 3, 1.
Born at Brownville, August 1, 1812; cadet U. S. M. A.,
July 1, 1827; 2nd lieutenant 2nd infantry, July 1, 1832; resigned July 31, 1836. additionally paymaster U. S. Army, July 4, 1840; died at St. Francis Barracks, Florida, October 24, 1841...End.....)....only 28 yrs ? His father died when he was only 16.Even though this young officer apparently had not started a family of his own the legacy of his father and his ancestors and even those who survived him became enormous.....almost bigger than life itself.
The Fifth issue and second son of his father who was
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown Commanding General of The United States Army number (1)1821-1828 who died in office was previously Senior Officer of the Army number 11. 1815-1821 was the only Commanding General to win every battle he fought against the British in the 1812 War! Five major battles in all along two hundred miles of Northern frontier border he held command of
" The Army of the Niagra "................
Battle of Sackett's Harbor,....Capture of Fort Erie,....
Battle of Chippawa,....Battle of Lundy's Lane....
( wounded twice eventually causing his death ),....
Siege of Fort Erie ( ended the war )
He defeated The same General Drummond twice with equal or less forces against the superior trained British regulars.
At the close of the war he and General Andrew Jackson were the only two generals whose services were retained.
Name sake Jacob and his father's ancestors were other military officers and enlisted certified by the daughters of the American Revolution , many of whose graves can be found in Brownville Village NY, That Jacob Jennings Brown and family established along with the surrounding communities they surveyed two townships originally.
Pamelia, NY is named for his wife and Jacob the namesake's mother...Likewise Williamstown Massachusetts was named for Her fathers family.
The Original PA homestead was in what was known as Falls Township and now Fallsington PA famously also known as Penn Manor also for they shared property boundaries with William Penn. The property was originally a grant from the Duke of York to George Brown 1 and his wife Ann Mercy who both came from prominent English families when they set sail for America in 1679......The legacy of the Brown family is large beyond Jacob Jennings the National War hero George Brown 1 was a Bucks County PA Justice and His grandson was Seargent Major John the Fox Hunter was a prominent member of the Bucks County Assembly to Congress...
George 1 had 15 issue there on the banks of the Delaware River near Biles Creek and not even 15 miles from George Washington's crossing
Much has been written about name sake Jacob's father Commanding General Jacob Jennings several books and other publications ( most recently a 2000 publication "The Sword on the Border" ) authored by Morris and they are written into the County Histories as founders of settlements in PA,NY,MI....as well as in the History of the nation....There have been many Generals in the family ....Jacob Jennings younger brother and name sakes Uncle was Major General Joseph White Brown Known for the Blackhawk wars and the Co founder of Tecumseh Michigan who operated Mills and ran a stage coach line from Detroit to Chicago both brothers were Honorary members of the New York Society of the Cincinnati ....Jacob was a graduate from a university in PA and a teacher and a surveyor. Uncle Joseph White Brown sat on the Michigan University Board of regents.... These two sons of Samuel Brown the third issue of George Brown 1 accomplished much in their lives, they had similar occurrences ...namesake Jacob's brother Gouverneur drowned in the Black River at age 12 while skating in December and two of Gen. Joseph's sons Mason Kirby and Patterson ages 10,11 drowned in their mill pond on Christmas Day while skating both the first cousins of Jacob namesake.
Jacob Jennings Brown (9 May 1775 – 24 February 1828)
as described by Wikipedia....
Early life
Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Jacob Jennings Brown was the son of Samuel and Abi (White) Brown. His middle name was given to him in honor of his paternal grandmother who was a descendant of Samuel Jennings, the latter having been a deputy governor of West Jersey and later receiver general of Pennsylvania in the early 18th century.
Raised a Quaker, Brown graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1790. He taught school and, in 1798, moved to upstate New York. There he was a pioneer settler and landowner in the Black River country and helped open the area up for further settlement. He and his extended family established mills and a store, laid out roads and improved navigation on the lower Black River.
Military service
In 1807, as one of the leading citizens of his county, Brown was commissioned as a captain in the 108th regiment of the New York Militia. Two years later, he was promoted to colonel.
Prior to the institution of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1903, there was generally a single senior-most officer in the army. From 1783, he was known simply as the Senior Officer of the United States Army, but in 1821, the title was changed to Commanding General of the United States Army. The office was often referred to by various other titles, such as "Major General Commanding the Army" or "General-in-Chief."
From 1789 and until its abolishment 1903, the Commanding General was subordinate to the Secretary of War, although this was at times contended.
The position was abolished with the creation of the statutory Chief of Staff of Army in 1903
President John Quincy Adams made numerous diary entries regarding his interactions with our namesakes father the General......some is as follows which are also excerpted from the Brown family Book which is in the Library of Congress...pages 13,14 and 15 are dedicated solely to this Namesake officers father.....
No. 42. JACOB BROWN, son of No. 28, 27, 3, 1.
Born at the old homestead in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
May 9,1775; married Pamela Williams, of Williamstown, Mass.,
December 26, 1802; died in Washington, D. C, February 27,
1828, buried in the Congressional burying ground.
Jacob Brown attended school at the Trenton Academy.
Starting out in life he taught school at Crosswick, New Jersey;from here he went to Ohio to survey land, but soon returned and taught a Quaker school in New York City. It is at this stage that his identity became fixed in the state of New York;he at once became acquainted with many men of genius and versatility, especially Governor Morris.
Governor Morris at once discovered the latent qualities of
this Quaker teacher. He introduced him to Rudolph Teller, a
State Counselor of Bern, Switzerland, who was the agent of a
laud company in the St. Lawrence region of New York. Teller
went with Brown to his father's house in Pennsylvania and
proposed to sell the family a large tract of land under easy
payments for two dollars per acre. This he succeeded in doing,and the party composed of Jacob, his father Samuel and brother Samuel, started. After wintering at High Falls they launched their boats and sailed down the river to where Carthage now stands, then overland and founded Brownville, New York. In May Jacob returned to Pennsylvania and brought out the family,coming up the Mohawk to Lake Oneida and the Osage river and thence on Lake Ontario to Brownville.Most of the year was spent in clearing land and erecting mills. Jacob and his brother Samuel surveying two townships,the former acting as land agent for one LeR&y, the proprietor.Under Jacob roads to Utica and Rome were opened, but for a long time supplies came from Kingston, Canada, and were paid for in potash.Against his Quaker traditions Jacob became the Colonel of the local Militia. At the age of thirty-five he, foreseeing the war that was hovering about them, went to Mr. Armstrong,then Secretary of War, and said he wanted the command of a brigade; that he had little or no military training, but that he
had all the other requisites, and that if Mr. Armstrong would give him the brigade he would never have cause to regret it Armstrong offered him a regiment, but Brown adhered to his request for a brigade, and Armstrong, knowing his solid worth,finally granted his request. This Quaker soldier divided with Winfield Scott and Peter B. Porter the honors achieved in the Northern States.
In 1810 he was appointed brigadier general, and in 1812
command of the northern frontier from Oswego to Lake St. Francis,a line of two hundred miles. On October 4, 1812, he repelled a superior number of British troops, at Ogdensburg. He was now offered a regiment in the regular service, but refused.During the Spring of 1813 he assumed command of Sackett's Harbor, where, on May 29, 1813 he again defeated a superior force. On July 19th he was appointed brigadier general in the regular army, and on January 24, 1814, in command of the Army of the Niagara with the rank of major general.In the campaign that followed the American forces were successful. General Brown took possession of Fort Erie, and on the 5th of July gained the victory over General Riall, at Chippewa.On the 24th of the same month he defeated a superior force under General Drummond at Lundy's Lane, where he received two serious wounds. In the sortie on Fort Erie on the 17th of September , 1814, he again defeated Drummond. It was now said of General Brown," No enterprise he undertook
ever failed."At the close of the war he was retained in command of the Northern Division of the Army, and on the 10th of March, 1821,was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army.The City of New York ordered a portrait of him to be painted, which now hangs in the City Hall. They also offered him the freedom of the City.
On the 3d of November, 1814, he received the thanks of
Congress for gallant conduct in the successful battles of Chippewa,Niagara and Erie, in which British veteran troops were beaten and repulsed by equal or inferior numbers, and a gold medal, emblematic of these triumphs, tendered him.
At the time of Jacob Brown's death, John Quincy Adams
wrote in his diary:" The immediate cause of his death was lung fever, taken this day week, and its primary cause was the severe wounds he had received during the war with Great Britain, and the paralytic shock which he received some years afterwards, disclosed the malignancy of it. His health had been declining for several years and though long sustained by a firm and buoyant spirit, has been sinking irredeemably for the last three months.On the 14th of last month he came and disclosed, in a manner that deeply affected me, his own state of mind and body, of which he was fully conscious. Lieutenant Vinton said that his
last thoughts were of the public, recollections of his sufferings and services, and anticipations of the greatness and glory of his country.
" General Brown was one of the eminent men of the day,
and though bred a Quaker was a man of lofty and martial spirit,
and in the last war contributed perhaps more than any other
man to redeem and establish the military character of his
country."
On the eve of the election of John Quincy Adams, General
Brown called upon him to urge the importance of a good understanding between Governor DeWitt Clinton's friends and his. A union of northern interests, instead of weakness, defects and disappointments of the North. "
I told him," said Mr. Adams," I concurred in his opinions and Mr. Clinton knew it, and the only person to be considered was Mr. Clinton himself. He was professing to be my friend and supporter, but his friends had been and still were moving in a different direction. Brown said he hoped this was not so, and said he knew Clinton despised
John C. Spencer as an unprincipled man."Through Brown, Calhoun sent word to Mr. Adams that he was neutral between Adams and Jackson, but that his personal wish was for Adams's election.Mr. Adams speaks of no man with so much respect as he does of General Brown. At the request of his friends he wrote the obituary inscription and recorded it in his diary:
" Sacred to the memory of General Jacob Brown, who was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the 9th day of May, 1775, and died at the City of Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, on the 27th day of February, 1828.
" Let him who in after years
Shall view this monument of praise,
For honor heave the patriot sigh
And for his Country learn to die."
And from....The Congressional Historical Presentation Society we have this in regard of the order of the Secretary of War for the funeral possession of this Namesake son's father......which was a mile long down Pennsylvania ave.
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown
(b. 5 May 1775 - d. 24 Feb 1828) Range 57 Site 150-152
General-in-Chief of the Army of the United States.
The National Intelligencer, February 25, 1828
The painful duty devolves upon us of announcing the decease of Major General Jacob Brown, Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States. He expired at his residence in this city, yesterday, after a brief illness of three or four days, preceded by a general indisposition of longer duration.
His name is too intimately interwoven with the history of his country, to make it necessary for us to accompany this annunciation with any reference to his public life or services. His individual merits are too universally appreciated to need to be blazoned by the pen of eulogy. At a future day we shall endeavor to do justice to his eminent desert as a soldier and citizen, and to hold up to his fellow-citizens, in their proper colors, the example of his illustrious deeds and his blameless and virtuous private life.
The Funeral of the deceased friend will not take place, we learn, before Wednesday; so that every opportunity will be afforded to pay due honors to his remains.
The National Intelligencer, Wednesday, February 27, 1828
Funeral Honors
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, February 25th, 1828
The senior officers of the General Staff of the Army and the Commanding General of the Militia of the District of Columbia, will convene at the Adjutant General's Office. This morning, at nine o'clock, to make suitable arrangements for the funeral honors of the distinguished and lamented Major General Brown.
By order of the Secretary of War,
R. Jones, Adj. Ben.
Pursuant to the foregoing instructions, the officers charged with the arrangement, direct the following order of procession, as the last and mournful duty to be paid the mortal remains of the late General-in-Chief of the United States Army.
The funeral escort will be composed as follows:
A Battalion of Infantry
A Division of Artillery
A Squadron of Horse
General Staff of the District Militia
Officers of the Militia
Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps
Officers of the Army
Marine Music
Major General Macomb
Order of Procession:
The Clergy of the District and
Surgeon General of the Army
General's Horse
Pall Bearers
Brig. Gen. Thompson
Col. Towson
Brig. Gen. Wool
Brig. Gen. Gibson
Brig. Gen. Jesup
Comm. Warrington
Major Gen. Smith
Brig. Gen. Bernrad
Comm. Rodgers
Major Gen. Gaines
Gen. Harrison
Major Hamilton
The relatives of the deceased
His Aids and General Staff of the Army
The Marshal of the District
The President of the United States (John Quincy Adams)
Committee of Arrangements of the Senate and House of Representatives
Sergeant-at Arms of the Senate
Vice President and Secretary of the Senate
The Senate of the United States
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives
Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives
The House of Representatives
The Heads of Departments
Chief Justice, and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
Foreign Ministers, their suites, and Consuls of Foreign Powers
The Postmaster General, and Comptrollers of the Treasury
Auditors and Treasurer
The Register of the Treasury, Commissioner of the General Land Office and other Civil Officers of the Government
Judges and Attorney of the District of Columbia
Members of the Bar
The Mayors and other civil officers of Washington (Gales), Georgetown and Alexandria
Masonic Societies and such other Societies as may join in the procession
Citizens and Strangers
Major General Macomb will command the Military escort and Colonel Jones will officiate as officer of the day. Major Cross and Major Hook, Colonel Andrews and Major Randolph, are appointed the marshals of the day.
The troops detailed to form the funeral escort, will assemble on the pavement of the Pennsylvania Avenue, fronting the President's House, at 10 o'clock, on Wednesday, the 27th February and all others are respectfully invited to join the Procession according to the order of arrangement.
The Procession will move at 11 o'clock, from the mansion of the late General-in-Chief, opposite the State Department. Guns at intervals of thirty minutes, will be fired from the rising to the setting of the sun.
R. Jones, Adj. Gen.
Navy Department
26th February, 1828
The Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States, at present in the City of Washington, are requested to attend the funeral of Major General Brown, on Wednesday next, in uniform.
( No.44 Jacob Brown....son of No. 42, 28, 27, 3, 1.
Born at Brownville, August 1, 1812; cadet U. S. M. A.,
July 1, 1827; 2nd lieutenant 2nd infantry, July 1, 1832; resigned July 31, 1836. additionally paymaster U. S. Army, July 4, 1840; died at St. Francis Barracks, Florida, October 24, 1841...End.....)....only 28 yrs ? His father died when he was only 16.Even though this young officer apparently had not started a family of his own the legacy of his father and his ancestors and even those who survived him became enormous.....almost bigger than life itself.
The Fifth issue and second son of his father who was
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown Commanding General of The United States Army number (1)1821-1828 who died in office was previously Senior Officer of the Army number 11. 1815-1821 was the only Commanding General to win every battle he fought against the British in the 1812 War! Five major battles in all along two hundred miles of Northern frontier border he held command of
" The Army of the Niagra "................
Battle of Sackett's Harbor,....Capture of Fort Erie,....
Battle of Chippawa,....Battle of Lundy's Lane....
( wounded twice eventually causing his death ),....
Siege of Fort Erie ( ended the war )
He defeated The same General Drummond twice with equal or less forces against the superior trained British regulars.
At the close of the war he and General Andrew Jackson were the only two generals whose services were retained.
Name sake Jacob and his father's ancestors were other military officers and enlisted certified by the daughters of the American Revolution , many of whose graves can be found in Brownville Village NY, That Jacob Jennings Brown and family established along with the surrounding communities they surveyed two townships originally.
Pamelia, NY is named for his wife and Jacob the namesake's mother...Likewise Williamstown Massachusetts was named for Her fathers family.
The Original PA homestead was in what was known as Falls Township and now Fallsington PA famously also known as Penn Manor also for they shared property boundaries with William Penn. The property was originally a grant from the Duke of York to George Brown 1 and his wife Ann Mercy who both came from prominent English families when they set sail for America in 1679......The legacy of the Brown family is large beyond Jacob Jennings the National War hero George Brown 1 was a Bucks County PA Justice and His grandson was Seargent Major John the Fox Hunter was a prominent member of the Bucks County Assembly to Congress...
George 1 had 15 issue there on the banks of the Delaware River near Biles Creek and not even 15 miles from George Washington's crossing
Much has been written about name sake Jacob's father Commanding General Jacob Jennings several books and other publications ( most recently a 2000 publication "The Sword on the Border" ) authored by Morris and they are written into the County Histories as founders of settlements in PA,NY,MI....as well as in the History of the nation....There have been many Generals in the family ....Jacob Jennings younger brother and name sakes Uncle was Major General Joseph White Brown Known for the Blackhawk wars and the Co founder of Tecumseh Michigan who operated Mills and ran a stage coach line from Detroit to Chicago both brothers were Honorary members of the New York Society of the Cincinnati ....Jacob was a graduate from a university in PA and a teacher and a surveyor. Uncle Joseph White Brown sat on the Michigan University Board of regents.... These two sons of Samuel Brown the third issue of George Brown 1 accomplished much in their lives, they had similar occurrences ...namesake Jacob's brother Gouverneur drowned in the Black River at age 12 while skating in December and two of Gen. Joseph's sons Mason Kirby and Patterson ages 10,11 drowned in their mill pond on Christmas Day while skating both the first cousins of Jacob namesake.
Jacob Jennings Brown (9 May 1775 – 24 February 1828)
as described by Wikipedia....
Early life
Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Jacob Jennings Brown was the son of Samuel and Abi (White) Brown. His middle name was given to him in honor of his paternal grandmother who was a descendant of Samuel Jennings, the latter having been a deputy governor of West Jersey and later receiver general of Pennsylvania in the early 18th century.
Raised a Quaker, Brown graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1790. He taught school and, in 1798, moved to upstate New York. There he was a pioneer settler and landowner in the Black River country and helped open the area up for further settlement. He and his extended family established mills and a store, laid out roads and improved navigation on the lower Black River.
Military service
In 1807, as one of the leading citizens of his county, Brown was commissioned as a captain in the 108th regiment of the New York Militia. Two years later, he was promoted to colonel.
Prior to the institution of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1903, there was generally a single senior-most officer in the army. From 1783, he was known simply as the Senior Officer of the United States Army, but in 1821, the title was changed to Commanding General of the United States Army. The office was often referred to by various other titles, such as "Major General Commanding the Army" or "General-in-Chief."
From 1789 and until its abolishment 1903, the Commanding General was subordinate to the Secretary of War, although this was at times contended.
The position was abolished with the creation of the statutory Chief of Staff of Army in 1903
President John Quincy Adams made numerous diary entries regarding his interactions with our namesakes father the General......some is as follows which are also excerpted from the Brown family Book which is in the Library of Congress...pages 13,14 and 15 are dedicated solely to this Namesake officers father.....
No. 42. JACOB BROWN, son of No. 28, 27, 3, 1.
Born at the old homestead in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
May 9,1775; married Pamela Williams, of Williamstown, Mass.,
December 26, 1802; died in Washington, D. C, February 27,
1828, buried in the Congressional burying ground.
Jacob Brown attended school at the Trenton Academy.
Starting out in life he taught school at Crosswick, New Jersey;from here he went to Ohio to survey land, but soon returned and taught a Quaker school in New York City. It is at this stage that his identity became fixed in the state of New York;he at once became acquainted with many men of genius and versatility, especially Governor Morris.
Governor Morris at once discovered the latent qualities of
this Quaker teacher. He introduced him to Rudolph Teller, a
State Counselor of Bern, Switzerland, who was the agent of a
laud company in the St. Lawrence region of New York. Teller
went with Brown to his father's house in Pennsylvania and
proposed to sell the family a large tract of land under easy
payments for two dollars per acre. This he succeeded in doing,and the party composed of Jacob, his father Samuel and brother Samuel, started. After wintering at High Falls they launched their boats and sailed down the river to where Carthage now stands, then overland and founded Brownville, New York. In May Jacob returned to Pennsylvania and brought out the family,coming up the Mohawk to Lake Oneida and the Osage river and thence on Lake Ontario to Brownville.Most of the year was spent in clearing land and erecting mills. Jacob and his brother Samuel surveying two townships,the former acting as land agent for one LeR&y, the proprietor.Under Jacob roads to Utica and Rome were opened, but for a long time supplies came from Kingston, Canada, and were paid for in potash.Against his Quaker traditions Jacob became the Colonel of the local Militia. At the age of thirty-five he, foreseeing the war that was hovering about them, went to Mr. Armstrong,then Secretary of War, and said he wanted the command of a brigade; that he had little or no military training, but that he
had all the other requisites, and that if Mr. Armstrong would give him the brigade he would never have cause to regret it Armstrong offered him a regiment, but Brown adhered to his request for a brigade, and Armstrong, knowing his solid worth,finally granted his request. This Quaker soldier divided with Winfield Scott and Peter B. Porter the honors achieved in the Northern States.
In 1810 he was appointed brigadier general, and in 1812
command of the northern frontier from Oswego to Lake St. Francis,a line of two hundred miles. On October 4, 1812, he repelled a superior number of British troops, at Ogdensburg. He was now offered a regiment in the regular service, but refused.During the Spring of 1813 he assumed command of Sackett's Harbor, where, on May 29, 1813 he again defeated a superior force. On July 19th he was appointed brigadier general in the regular army, and on January 24, 1814, in command of the Army of the Niagara with the rank of major general.In the campaign that followed the American forces were successful. General Brown took possession of Fort Erie, and on the 5th of July gained the victory over General Riall, at Chippewa.On the 24th of the same month he defeated a superior force under General Drummond at Lundy's Lane, where he received two serious wounds. In the sortie on Fort Erie on the 17th of September , 1814, he again defeated Drummond. It was now said of General Brown," No enterprise he undertook
ever failed."At the close of the war he was retained in command of the Northern Division of the Army, and on the 10th of March, 1821,was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army.The City of New York ordered a portrait of him to be painted, which now hangs in the City Hall. They also offered him the freedom of the City.
On the 3d of November, 1814, he received the thanks of
Congress for gallant conduct in the successful battles of Chippewa,Niagara and Erie, in which British veteran troops were beaten and repulsed by equal or inferior numbers, and a gold medal, emblematic of these triumphs, tendered him.
At the time of Jacob Brown's death, John Quincy Adams
wrote in his diary:" The immediate cause of his death was lung fever, taken this day week, and its primary cause was the severe wounds he had received during the war with Great Britain, and the paralytic shock which he received some years afterwards, disclosed the malignancy of it. His health had been declining for several years and though long sustained by a firm and buoyant spirit, has been sinking irredeemably for the last three months.On the 14th of last month he came and disclosed, in a manner that deeply affected me, his own state of mind and body, of which he was fully conscious. Lieutenant Vinton said that his
last thoughts were of the public, recollections of his sufferings and services, and anticipations of the greatness and glory of his country.
" General Brown was one of the eminent men of the day,
and though bred a Quaker was a man of lofty and martial spirit,
and in the last war contributed perhaps more than any other
man to redeem and establish the military character of his
country."
On the eve of the election of John Quincy Adams, General
Brown called upon him to urge the importance of a good understanding between Governor DeWitt Clinton's friends and his. A union of northern interests, instead of weakness, defects and disappointments of the North. "
I told him," said Mr. Adams," I concurred in his opinions and Mr. Clinton knew it, and the only person to be considered was Mr. Clinton himself. He was professing to be my friend and supporter, but his friends had been and still were moving in a different direction. Brown said he hoped this was not so, and said he knew Clinton despised
John C. Spencer as an unprincipled man."Through Brown, Calhoun sent word to Mr. Adams that he was neutral between Adams and Jackson, but that his personal wish was for Adams's election.Mr. Adams speaks of no man with so much respect as he does of General Brown. At the request of his friends he wrote the obituary inscription and recorded it in his diary:
" Sacred to the memory of General Jacob Brown, who was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the 9th day of May, 1775, and died at the City of Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, on the 27th day of February, 1828.
" Let him who in after years
Shall view this monument of praise,
For honor heave the patriot sigh
And for his Country learn to die."
And from....The Congressional Historical Presentation Society we have this in regard of the order of the Secretary of War for the funeral possession of this Namesake son's father......which was a mile long down Pennsylvania ave.
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown
(b. 5 May 1775 - d. 24 Feb 1828) Range 57 Site 150-152
General-in-Chief of the Army of the United States.
The National Intelligencer, February 25, 1828
The painful duty devolves upon us of announcing the decease of Major General Jacob Brown, Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States. He expired at his residence in this city, yesterday, after a brief illness of three or four days, preceded by a general indisposition of longer duration.
His name is too intimately interwoven with the history of his country, to make it necessary for us to accompany this annunciation with any reference to his public life or services. His individual merits are too universally appreciated to need to be blazoned by the pen of eulogy. At a future day we shall endeavor to do justice to his eminent desert as a soldier and citizen, and to hold up to his fellow-citizens, in their proper colors, the example of his illustrious deeds and his blameless and virtuous private life.
The Funeral of the deceased friend will not take place, we learn, before Wednesday; so that every opportunity will be afforded to pay due honors to his remains.
The National Intelligencer, Wednesday, February 27, 1828
Funeral Honors
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, February 25th, 1828
The senior officers of the General Staff of the Army and the Commanding General of the Militia of the District of Columbia, will convene at the Adjutant General's Office. This morning, at nine o'clock, to make suitable arrangements for the funeral honors of the distinguished and lamented Major General Brown.
By order of the Secretary of War,
R. Jones, Adj. Ben.
Pursuant to the foregoing instructions, the officers charged with the arrangement, direct the following order of procession, as the last and mournful duty to be paid the mortal remains of the late General-in-Chief of the United States Army.
The funeral escort will be composed as follows:
A Battalion of Infantry
A Division of Artillery
A Squadron of Horse
General Staff of the District Militia
Officers of the Militia
Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps
Officers of the Army
Marine Music
Major General Macomb
Order of Procession:
The Clergy of the District and
Surgeon General of the Army
General's Horse
Pall Bearers
Brig. Gen. Thompson
Col. Towson
Brig. Gen. Wool
Brig. Gen. Gibson
Brig. Gen. Jesup
Comm. Warrington
Major Gen. Smith
Brig. Gen. Bernrad
Comm. Rodgers
Major Gen. Gaines
Gen. Harrison
Major Hamilton
The relatives of the deceased
His Aids and General Staff of the Army
The Marshal of the District
The President of the United States (John Quincy Adams)
Committee of Arrangements of the Senate and House of Representatives
Sergeant-at Arms of the Senate
Vice President and Secretary of the Senate
The Senate of the United States
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives
Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives
The House of Representatives
The Heads of Departments
Chief Justice, and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
Foreign Ministers, their suites, and Consuls of Foreign Powers
The Postmaster General, and Comptrollers of the Treasury
Auditors and Treasurer
The Register of the Treasury, Commissioner of the General Land Office and other Civil Officers of the Government
Judges and Attorney of the District of Columbia
Members of the Bar
The Mayors and other civil officers of Washington (Gales), Georgetown and Alexandria
Masonic Societies and such other Societies as may join in the procession
Citizens and Strangers
Major General Macomb will command the Military escort and Colonel Jones will officiate as officer of the day. Major Cross and Major Hook, Colonel Andrews and Major Randolph, are appointed the marshals of the day.
The troops detailed to form the funeral escort, will assemble on the pavement of the Pennsylvania Avenue, fronting the President's House, at 10 o'clock, on Wednesday, the 27th February and all others are respectfully invited to join the Procession according to the order of arrangement.
The Procession will move at 11 o'clock, from the mansion of the late General-in-Chief, opposite the State Department. Guns at intervals of thirty minutes, will be fired from the rising to the setting of the sun.
R. Jones, Adj. Gen.
Navy Department
26th February, 1828
The Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States, at present in the City of Washington, are requested to attend the funeral of Major General Brown, on Wednesday next, in uniform.
From the Brown Family Book which was directed to be created by congressional act of 1896 we have this from the author Dr. George Hoffman Penrose who was also a family member....
( No.44 Jacob Brown....son of No. 42, 28, 27, 3, 1.
Born at Brownville, August 1, 1812; cadet U. S. M. A.,
July 1, 1827; 2nd lieutenant 2nd infantry, July 1, 1832; resigned July 31, 1836. additionally paymaster U. S. Army, July 4, 1840; died at St. Francis Barracks, Florida, October 24, 1841...End.....)....only 28 yrs ? His father died when he was only 16.Even though this young officer apparently had not started a family of his own the legacy of his father and his ancestors and even those who survived him became enormous.....almost bigger than life itself.
The Fifth issue and second son of his father who was
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown Commanding General of The United States Army number (1)1821-1828 who died in office was previously Senior Officer of the Army number 11. 1815-1821 was the only Commanding General to win every battle he fought against the British in the 1812 War! Five major battles in all along two hundred miles of Northern frontier border he held command of
" The Army of the Niagra "................
Battle of Sackett's Harbor,....Capture of Fort Erie,....
Battle of Chippawa,....Battle of Lundy's Lane....
( wounded twice eventually causing his death ),....
Siege of Fort Erie ( ended the war )
He defeated The same General Drummond twice with equal or less forces against the superior trained British regulars.
At the close of the war he and General Andrew Jackson were the only two generals whose services were retained.
Name sake Jacob and his father's ancestors were other military officers and enlisted certified by the daughters of the American Revolution , many of whose graves can be found in Brownville Village NY, That Jacob Jennings Brown and family established along with the surrounding communities they surveyed two townships originally.
Pamelia, NY is named for his wife and Jacob the namesake's mother...Likewise Williamstown Massachusetts was named for Her fathers family.
The Original PA homestead was in what was known as Falls Township and now Fallsington PA famously also known as Penn Manor also for they shared property boundaries with William Penn. The property was originally a grant from the Duke of York to George Brown 1 and his wife Ann Mercy who both came from prominent English families when they set sail for America in 1679......The legacy of the Brown family is large beyond Jacob Jennings the National War hero George Brown 1 was a Bucks County PA Justice and His grandson was Seargent Major John the Fox Hunter was a prominent member of the Bucks County Assembly to Congress...
George 1 had 15 issue there on the banks of the Delaware River near Biles Creek and not even 15 miles from George Washington's crossing
Much has been written about name sake Jacob's father Commanding General Jacob Jennings several books and other publications ( most recently a 2000 publication "The Sword on the Border" ) authored by Morris and they are written into the County Histories as founders of settlements in PA,NY,MI....as well as in the History of the nation....There have been many Generals in the family ....Jacob Jennings younger brother and name sakes Uncle was Major General Joseph White Brown Known for the Blackhawk wars and the Co founder of Tecumseh Michigan who operated Mills and ran a stage coach line from Detroit to Chicago both brothers were Honorary members of the New York Society of the Cincinnati ....Jacob was a graduate from a university in PA and a teacher and a surveyor. Uncle Joseph White Brown sat on the Michigan University Board of regents.... These two sons of Samuel Brown the third issue of George Brown 1 accomplished much in their lives, they had similar occurrences ...namesake Jacob's brother Gouverneur drowned in the Black River at age 12 while skating in December and two of Gen. Joseph's sons Mason Kirby and Patterson ages 10,11 drowned in their mill pond on Christmas Day while skating both the first cousins of Jacob namesake.
Jacob Jennings Brown (9 May 1775 – 24 February 1828)
as described by Wikipedia....
Early life
Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Jacob Jennings Brown was the son of Samuel and Abi (White) Brown. His middle name was given to him in honor of his paternal grandmother who was a descendant of Samuel Jennings, the latter having been a deputy governor of West Jersey and later receiver general of Pennsylvania in the early 18th century.
Raised a Quaker, Brown graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1790. He taught school and, in 1798, moved to upstate New York. There he was a pioneer settler and landowner in the Black River country and helped open the area up for further settlement. He and his extended family established mills and a store, laid out roads and improved navigation on the lower Black River.
Military service
In 1807, as one of the leading citizens of his county, Brown was commissioned as a captain in the 108th regiment of the New York Militia. Two years later, he was promoted to colonel.
Prior to the institution of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1903, there was generally a single senior-most officer in the army. From 1783, he was known simply as the Senior Officer of the United States Army, but in 1821, the title was changed to Commanding General of the United States Army. The office was often referred to by various other titles, such as "Major General Commanding the Army" or "General-in-Chief."
From 1789 and until its abolishment 1903, the Commanding General was subordinate to the Secretary of War, although this was at times contended.
The position was abolished with the creation of the statutory Chief of Staff of Army in 1903
President John Quincy Adams made numerous diary entries regarding his interactions with our namesakes father the General......some is as follows which are also excerpted from the Brown family Book which is in the Library of Congress...pages 13,14 and 15 are dedicated solely to this Namesake officers father.....
No. 42. JACOB BROWN, son of No. 28, 27, 3, 1.
Born at the old homestead in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
May 9,1775; married Pamela Williams, of Williamstown, Mass.,
December 26, 1802; died in Washington, D. C, February 27,
1828, buried in the Congressional burying ground.
Jacob Brown attended school at the Trenton Academy.
Starting out in life he taught school at Crosswick, New Jersey;from here he went to Ohio to survey land, but soon returned and taught a Quaker school in New York City. It is at this stage that his identity became fixed in the state of New York;he at once became acquainted with many men of genius and versatility, especially Governor Morris.
Governor Morris at once discovered the latent qualities of
this Quaker teacher. He introduced him to Rudolph Teller, a
State Counselor of Bern, Switzerland, who was the agent of a
laud company in the St. Lawrence region of New York. Teller
went with Brown to his father's house in Pennsylvania and
proposed to sell the family a large tract of land under easy
payments for two dollars per acre. This he succeeded in doing,and the party composed of Jacob, his father Samuel and brother Samuel, started. After wintering at High Falls they launched their boats and sailed down the river to where Carthage now stands, then overland and founded Brownville, New York. In May Jacob returned to Pennsylvania and brought out the family,coming up the Mohawk to Lake Oneida and the Osage river and thence on Lake Ontario to Brownville.Most of the year was spent in clearing land and erecting mills. Jacob and his brother Samuel surveying two townships,the former acting as land agent for one LeR&y, the proprietor.Under Jacob roads to Utica and Rome were opened, but for a long time supplies came from Kingston, Canada, and were paid for in potash.Against his Quaker traditions Jacob became the Colonel of the local Militia. At the age of thirty-five he, foreseeing the war that was hovering about them, went to Mr. Armstrong,then Secretary of War, and said he wanted the command of a brigade; that he had little or no military training, but that he
had all the other requisites, and that if Mr. Armstrong would give him the brigade he would never have cause to regret it Armstrong offered him a regiment, but Brown adhered to his request for a brigade, and Armstrong, knowing his solid worth,finally granted his request. This Quaker soldier divided with Winfield Scott and Peter B. Porter the honors achieved in the Northern States.
In 1810 he was appointed brigadier general, and in 1812
command of the northern frontier from Oswego to Lake St. Francis,a line of two hundred miles. On October 4, 1812, he repelled a superior number of British troops, at Ogdensburg. He was now offered a regiment in the regular service, but refused.During the Spring of 1813 he assumed command of Sackett's Harbor, where, on May 29, 1813 he again defeated a superior force. On July 19th he was appointed brigadier general in the regular army, and on January 24, 1814, in command of the Army of the Niagara with the rank of major general.In the campaign that followed the American forces were successful. General Brown took possession of Fort Erie, and on the 5th of July gained the victory over General Riall, at Chippewa.On the 24th of the same month he defeated a superior force under General Drummond at Lundy's Lane, where he received two serious wounds. In the sortie on Fort Erie on the 17th of September , 1814, he again defeated Drummond. It was now said of General Brown," No enterprise he undertook
ever failed."At the close of the war he was retained in command of the Northern Division of the Army, and on the 10th of March, 1821,was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army.The City of New York ordered a portrait of him to be painted, which now hangs in the City Hall. They also offered him the freedom of the City.
On the 3d of November, 1814, he received the thanks of
Congress for gallant conduct in the successful battles of Chippewa,Niagara and Erie, in which British veteran troops were beaten and repulsed by equal or inferior numbers, and a gold medal, emblematic of these triumphs, tendered him.
At the time of Jacob Brown's death, John Quincy Adams
wrote in his diary:" The immediate cause of his death was lung fever, taken this day week, and its primary cause was the severe wounds he had received during the war with Great Britain, and the paralytic shock which he received some years afterwards, disclosed the malignancy of it. His health had been declining for several years and though long sustained by a firm and buoyant spirit, has been sinking irredeemably for the last three months.On the 14th of last month he came and disclosed, in a manner that deeply affected me, his own state of mind and body, of which he was fully conscious. Lieutenant Vinton said that his
last thoughts were of the public, recollections of his sufferings and services, and anticipations of the greatness and glory of his country.
" General Brown was one of the eminent men of the day,
and though bred a Quaker was a man of lofty and martial spirit,
and in the last war contributed perhaps more than any other
man to redeem and establish the military character of his
country."
On the eve of the election of John Quincy Adams, General
Brown called upon him to urge the importance of a good understanding between Governor DeWitt Clinton's friends and his. A union of northern interests, instead of weakness, defects and disappointments of the North. "
I told him," said Mr. Adams," I concurred in his opinions and Mr. Clinton knew it, and the only person to be considered was Mr. Clinton himself. He was professing to be my friend and supporter, but his friends had been and still were moving in a different direction. Brown said he hoped this was not so, and said he knew Clinton despised
John C. Spencer as an unprincipled man."Through Brown, Calhoun sent word to Mr. Adams that he was neutral between Adams and Jackson, but that his personal wish was for Adams's election.Mr. Adams speaks of no man with so much respect as he does of General Brown. At the request of his friends he wrote the obituary inscription and recorded it in his diary:
" Sacred to the memory of General Jacob Brown, who was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the 9th day of May, 1775, and died at the City of Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, on the 27th day of February, 1828.
" Let him who in after years
Shall view this monument of praise,
For honor heave the patriot sigh
And for his Country learn to die."
And from....The Congressional Historical Presentation Society we have this in regard of the order of the Secretary of War for the funeral possession of this Namesake son's father......which was a mile long down Pennsylvania ave.
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown
(b. 5 May 1775 - d. 24 Feb 1828) Range 57 Site 150-152
General-in-Chief of the Army of the United States.
The National Intelligencer, February 25, 1828
The painful duty devolves upon us of announcing the decease of Major General Jacob Brown, Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States. He expired at his residence in this city, yesterday, after a brief illness of three or four days, preceded by a general indisposition of longer duration.
His name is too intimately interwoven with the history of his country, to make it necessary for us to accompany this annunciation with any reference to his public life or services. His individual merits are too universally appreciated to need to be blazoned by the pen of eulogy. At a future day we shall endeavor to do justice to his eminent desert as a soldier and citizen, and to hold up to his fellow-citizens, in their proper colors, the example of his illustrious deeds and his blameless and virtuous private life.
The Funeral of the deceased friend will not take place, we learn, before Wednesday; so that every opportunity will be afforded to pay due honors to his remains.
The National Intelligencer, Wednesday, February 27, 1828
Funeral Honors
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, February 25th, 1828
The senior officers of the General Staff of the Army and the Commanding General of the Militia of the District of Columbia, will convene at the Adjutant General's Office. This morning, at nine o'clock, to make suitable arrangements for the funeral honors of the distinguished and lamented Major General Brown.
By order of the Secretary of War,
R. Jones, Adj. Ben.
Pursuant to the foregoing instructions, the officers charged with the arrangement, direct the following order of procession, as the last and mournful duty to be paid the mortal remains of the late General-in-Chief of the United States Army.
The funeral escort will be composed as follows:
A Battalion of Infantry
A Division of Artillery
A Squadron of Horse
General Staff of the District Militia
Officers of the Militia
Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps
Officers of the Army
Marine Music
Major General Macomb
Order of Procession:
The Clergy of the District and
Surgeon General of the Army
General's Horse
Pall Bearers
Brig. Gen. Thompson
Col. Towson
Brig. Gen. Wool
Brig. Gen. Gibson
Brig. Gen. Jesup
Comm. Warrington
Major Gen. Smith
Brig. Gen. Bernrad
Comm. Rodgers
Major Gen. Gaines
Gen. Harrison
Major Hamilton
The relatives of the deceased
His Aids and General Staff of the Army
The Marshal of the District
The President of the United States (John Quincy Adams)
Committee of Arrangements of the Senate and House of Representatives
Sergeant-at Arms of the Senate
Vice President and Secretary of the Senate
The Senate of the United States
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives
Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives
The House of Representatives
The Heads of Departments
Chief Justice, and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
Foreign Ministers, their suites, and Consuls of Foreign Powers
The Postmaster General, and Comptrollers of the Treasury
Auditors and Treasurer
The Register of the Treasury, Commissioner of the General Land Office and other Civil Officers of the Government
Judges and Attorney of the District of Columbia
Members of the Bar
The Mayors and other civil officers of Washington (Gales), Georgetown and Alexandria
Masonic Societies and such other Societies as may join in the procession
Citizens and Strangers
Major General Macomb will command the Military escort and Colonel Jones will officiate as officer of the day. Major Cross and Major Hook, Colonel Andrews and Major Randolph, are appointed the marshals of the day.
The troops detailed to form the funeral escort, will assemble on the pavement of the Pennsylvania Avenue, fronting the President's House, at 10 o'clock, on Wednesday, the 27th February and all others are respectfully invited to join the Procession according to the order of arrangement.
The Procession will move at 11 o'clock, from the mansion of the late General-in-Chief, opposite the State Department. Guns at intervals of thirty minutes, will be fired from the rising to the setting of the sun.
R. Jones, Adj. Gen.
Navy Department
26th February, 1828
The Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States, at present in the City of Washington, are requested to attend the funeral of Major General Brown, on Wednesday next, in uniform.
( No.44 Jacob Brown....son of No. 42, 28, 27, 3, 1.
Born at Brownville, August 1, 1812; cadet U. S. M. A.,
July 1, 1827; 2nd lieutenant 2nd infantry, July 1, 1832; resigned July 31, 1836. additionally paymaster U. S. Army, July 4, 1840; died at St. Francis Barracks, Florida, October 24, 1841...End.....)....only 28 yrs ? His father died when he was only 16.Even though this young officer apparently had not started a family of his own the legacy of his father and his ancestors and even those who survived him became enormous.....almost bigger than life itself.
The Fifth issue and second son of his father who was
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown Commanding General of The United States Army number (1)1821-1828 who died in office was previously Senior Officer of the Army number 11. 1815-1821 was the only Commanding General to win every battle he fought against the British in the 1812 War! Five major battles in all along two hundred miles of Northern frontier border he held command of
" The Army of the Niagra "................
Battle of Sackett's Harbor,....Capture of Fort Erie,....
Battle of Chippawa,....Battle of Lundy's Lane....
( wounded twice eventually causing his death ),....
Siege of Fort Erie ( ended the war )
He defeated The same General Drummond twice with equal or less forces against the superior trained British regulars.
At the close of the war he and General Andrew Jackson were the only two generals whose services were retained.
Name sake Jacob and his father's ancestors were other military officers and enlisted certified by the daughters of the American Revolution , many of whose graves can be found in Brownville Village NY, That Jacob Jennings Brown and family established along with the surrounding communities they surveyed two townships originally.
Pamelia, NY is named for his wife and Jacob the namesake's mother...Likewise Williamstown Massachusetts was named for Her fathers family.
The Original PA homestead was in what was known as Falls Township and now Fallsington PA famously also known as Penn Manor also for they shared property boundaries with William Penn. The property was originally a grant from the Duke of York to George Brown 1 and his wife Ann Mercy who both came from prominent English families when they set sail for America in 1679......The legacy of the Brown family is large beyond Jacob Jennings the National War hero George Brown 1 was a Bucks County PA Justice and His grandson was Seargent Major John the Fox Hunter was a prominent member of the Bucks County Assembly to Congress...
George 1 had 15 issue there on the banks of the Delaware River near Biles Creek and not even 15 miles from George Washington's crossing
Much has been written about name sake Jacob's father Commanding General Jacob Jennings several books and other publications ( most recently a 2000 publication "The Sword on the Border" ) authored by Morris and they are written into the County Histories as founders of settlements in PA,NY,MI....as well as in the History of the nation....There have been many Generals in the family ....Jacob Jennings younger brother and name sakes Uncle was Major General Joseph White Brown Known for the Blackhawk wars and the Co founder of Tecumseh Michigan who operated Mills and ran a stage coach line from Detroit to Chicago both brothers were Honorary members of the New York Society of the Cincinnati ....Jacob was a graduate from a university in PA and a teacher and a surveyor. Uncle Joseph White Brown sat on the Michigan University Board of regents.... These two sons of Samuel Brown the third issue of George Brown 1 accomplished much in their lives, they had similar occurrences ...namesake Jacob's brother Gouverneur drowned in the Black River at age 12 while skating in December and two of Gen. Joseph's sons Mason Kirby and Patterson ages 10,11 drowned in their mill pond on Christmas Day while skating both the first cousins of Jacob namesake.
Jacob Jennings Brown (9 May 1775 – 24 February 1828)
as described by Wikipedia....
Early life
Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Jacob Jennings Brown was the son of Samuel and Abi (White) Brown. His middle name was given to him in honor of his paternal grandmother who was a descendant of Samuel Jennings, the latter having been a deputy governor of West Jersey and later receiver general of Pennsylvania in the early 18th century.
Raised a Quaker, Brown graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1790. He taught school and, in 1798, moved to upstate New York. There he was a pioneer settler and landowner in the Black River country and helped open the area up for further settlement. He and his extended family established mills and a store, laid out roads and improved navigation on the lower Black River.
Military service
In 1807, as one of the leading citizens of his county, Brown was commissioned as a captain in the 108th regiment of the New York Militia. Two years later, he was promoted to colonel.
Prior to the institution of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1903, there was generally a single senior-most officer in the army. From 1783, he was known simply as the Senior Officer of the United States Army, but in 1821, the title was changed to Commanding General of the United States Army. The office was often referred to by various other titles, such as "Major General Commanding the Army" or "General-in-Chief."
From 1789 and until its abolishment 1903, the Commanding General was subordinate to the Secretary of War, although this was at times contended.
The position was abolished with the creation of the statutory Chief of Staff of Army in 1903
President John Quincy Adams made numerous diary entries regarding his interactions with our namesakes father the General......some is as follows which are also excerpted from the Brown family Book which is in the Library of Congress...pages 13,14 and 15 are dedicated solely to this Namesake officers father.....
No. 42. JACOB BROWN, son of No. 28, 27, 3, 1.
Born at the old homestead in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
May 9,1775; married Pamela Williams, of Williamstown, Mass.,
December 26, 1802; died in Washington, D. C, February 27,
1828, buried in the Congressional burying ground.
Jacob Brown attended school at the Trenton Academy.
Starting out in life he taught school at Crosswick, New Jersey;from here he went to Ohio to survey land, but soon returned and taught a Quaker school in New York City. It is at this stage that his identity became fixed in the state of New York;he at once became acquainted with many men of genius and versatility, especially Governor Morris.
Governor Morris at once discovered the latent qualities of
this Quaker teacher. He introduced him to Rudolph Teller, a
State Counselor of Bern, Switzerland, who was the agent of a
laud company in the St. Lawrence region of New York. Teller
went with Brown to his father's house in Pennsylvania and
proposed to sell the family a large tract of land under easy
payments for two dollars per acre. This he succeeded in doing,and the party composed of Jacob, his father Samuel and brother Samuel, started. After wintering at High Falls they launched their boats and sailed down the river to where Carthage now stands, then overland and founded Brownville, New York. In May Jacob returned to Pennsylvania and brought out the family,coming up the Mohawk to Lake Oneida and the Osage river and thence on Lake Ontario to Brownville.Most of the year was spent in clearing land and erecting mills. Jacob and his brother Samuel surveying two townships,the former acting as land agent for one LeR&y, the proprietor.Under Jacob roads to Utica and Rome were opened, but for a long time supplies came from Kingston, Canada, and were paid for in potash.Against his Quaker traditions Jacob became the Colonel of the local Militia. At the age of thirty-five he, foreseeing the war that was hovering about them, went to Mr. Armstrong,then Secretary of War, and said he wanted the command of a brigade; that he had little or no military training, but that he
had all the other requisites, and that if Mr. Armstrong would give him the brigade he would never have cause to regret it Armstrong offered him a regiment, but Brown adhered to his request for a brigade, and Armstrong, knowing his solid worth,finally granted his request. This Quaker soldier divided with Winfield Scott and Peter B. Porter the honors achieved in the Northern States.
In 1810 he was appointed brigadier general, and in 1812
command of the northern frontier from Oswego to Lake St. Francis,a line of two hundred miles. On October 4, 1812, he repelled a superior number of British troops, at Ogdensburg. He was now offered a regiment in the regular service, but refused.During the Spring of 1813 he assumed command of Sackett's Harbor, where, on May 29, 1813 he again defeated a superior force. On July 19th he was appointed brigadier general in the regular army, and on January 24, 1814, in command of the Army of the Niagara with the rank of major general.In the campaign that followed the American forces were successful. General Brown took possession of Fort Erie, and on the 5th of July gained the victory over General Riall, at Chippewa.On the 24th of the same month he defeated a superior force under General Drummond at Lundy's Lane, where he received two serious wounds. In the sortie on Fort Erie on the 17th of September , 1814, he again defeated Drummond. It was now said of General Brown," No enterprise he undertook
ever failed."At the close of the war he was retained in command of the Northern Division of the Army, and on the 10th of March, 1821,was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army.The City of New York ordered a portrait of him to be painted, which now hangs in the City Hall. They also offered him the freedom of the City.
On the 3d of November, 1814, he received the thanks of
Congress for gallant conduct in the successful battles of Chippewa,Niagara and Erie, in which British veteran troops were beaten and repulsed by equal or inferior numbers, and a gold medal, emblematic of these triumphs, tendered him.
At the time of Jacob Brown's death, John Quincy Adams
wrote in his diary:" The immediate cause of his death was lung fever, taken this day week, and its primary cause was the severe wounds he had received during the war with Great Britain, and the paralytic shock which he received some years afterwards, disclosed the malignancy of it. His health had been declining for several years and though long sustained by a firm and buoyant spirit, has been sinking irredeemably for the last three months.On the 14th of last month he came and disclosed, in a manner that deeply affected me, his own state of mind and body, of which he was fully conscious. Lieutenant Vinton said that his
last thoughts were of the public, recollections of his sufferings and services, and anticipations of the greatness and glory of his country.
" General Brown was one of the eminent men of the day,
and though bred a Quaker was a man of lofty and martial spirit,
and in the last war contributed perhaps more than any other
man to redeem and establish the military character of his
country."
On the eve of the election of John Quincy Adams, General
Brown called upon him to urge the importance of a good understanding between Governor DeWitt Clinton's friends and his. A union of northern interests, instead of weakness, defects and disappointments of the North. "
I told him," said Mr. Adams," I concurred in his opinions and Mr. Clinton knew it, and the only person to be considered was Mr. Clinton himself. He was professing to be my friend and supporter, but his friends had been and still were moving in a different direction. Brown said he hoped this was not so, and said he knew Clinton despised
John C. Spencer as an unprincipled man."Through Brown, Calhoun sent word to Mr. Adams that he was neutral between Adams and Jackson, but that his personal wish was for Adams's election.Mr. Adams speaks of no man with so much respect as he does of General Brown. At the request of his friends he wrote the obituary inscription and recorded it in his diary:
" Sacred to the memory of General Jacob Brown, who was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the 9th day of May, 1775, and died at the City of Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, on the 27th day of February, 1828.
" Let him who in after years
Shall view this monument of praise,
For honor heave the patriot sigh
And for his Country learn to die."
And from....The Congressional Historical Presentation Society we have this in regard of the order of the Secretary of War for the funeral possession of this Namesake son's father......which was a mile long down Pennsylvania ave.
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown
(b. 5 May 1775 - d. 24 Feb 1828) Range 57 Site 150-152
General-in-Chief of the Army of the United States.
The National Intelligencer, February 25, 1828
The painful duty devolves upon us of announcing the decease of Major General Jacob Brown, Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States. He expired at his residence in this city, yesterday, after a brief illness of three or four days, preceded by a general indisposition of longer duration.
His name is too intimately interwoven with the history of his country, to make it necessary for us to accompany this annunciation with any reference to his public life or services. His individual merits are too universally appreciated to need to be blazoned by the pen of eulogy. At a future day we shall endeavor to do justice to his eminent desert as a soldier and citizen, and to hold up to his fellow-citizens, in their proper colors, the example of his illustrious deeds and his blameless and virtuous private life.
The Funeral of the deceased friend will not take place, we learn, before Wednesday; so that every opportunity will be afforded to pay due honors to his remains.
The National Intelligencer, Wednesday, February 27, 1828
Funeral Honors
Adjutant General's Office
Washington, February 25th, 1828
The senior officers of the General Staff of the Army and the Commanding General of the Militia of the District of Columbia, will convene at the Adjutant General's Office. This morning, at nine o'clock, to make suitable arrangements for the funeral honors of the distinguished and lamented Major General Brown.
By order of the Secretary of War,
R. Jones, Adj. Ben.
Pursuant to the foregoing instructions, the officers charged with the arrangement, direct the following order of procession, as the last and mournful duty to be paid the mortal remains of the late General-in-Chief of the United States Army.
The funeral escort will be composed as follows:
A Battalion of Infantry
A Division of Artillery
A Squadron of Horse
General Staff of the District Militia
Officers of the Militia
Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps
Officers of the Army
Marine Music
Major General Macomb
Order of Procession:
The Clergy of the District and
Surgeon General of the Army
General's Horse
Pall Bearers
Brig. Gen. Thompson
Col. Towson
Brig. Gen. Wool
Brig. Gen. Gibson
Brig. Gen. Jesup
Comm. Warrington
Major Gen. Smith
Brig. Gen. Bernrad
Comm. Rodgers
Major Gen. Gaines
Gen. Harrison
Major Hamilton
The relatives of the deceased
His Aids and General Staff of the Army
The Marshal of the District
The President of the United States (John Quincy Adams)
Committee of Arrangements of the Senate and House of Representatives
Sergeant-at Arms of the Senate
Vice President and Secretary of the Senate
The Senate of the United States
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives
Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives
The House of Representatives
The Heads of Departments
Chief Justice, and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
Foreign Ministers, their suites, and Consuls of Foreign Powers
The Postmaster General, and Comptrollers of the Treasury
Auditors and Treasurer
The Register of the Treasury, Commissioner of the General Land Office and other Civil Officers of the Government
Judges and Attorney of the District of Columbia
Members of the Bar
The Mayors and other civil officers of Washington (Gales), Georgetown and Alexandria
Masonic Societies and such other Societies as may join in the procession
Citizens and Strangers
Major General Macomb will command the Military escort and Colonel Jones will officiate as officer of the day. Major Cross and Major Hook, Colonel Andrews and Major Randolph, are appointed the marshals of the day.
The troops detailed to form the funeral escort, will assemble on the pavement of the Pennsylvania Avenue, fronting the President's House, at 10 o'clock, on Wednesday, the 27th February and all others are respectfully invited to join the Procession according to the order of arrangement.
The Procession will move at 11 o'clock, from the mansion of the late General-in-Chief, opposite the State Department. Guns at intervals of thirty minutes, will be fired from the rising to the setting of the sun.
R. Jones, Adj. Gen.
Navy Department
26th February, 1828
The Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States, at present in the City of Washington, are requested to attend the funeral of Major General Brown, on Wednesday next, in uniform.
