“Francis Brown m. Feb. 16 1764, Mary Buckman, dau. of John and Mary (Fiske) Buckman, of Lex. b. Dec. 27, 1749.
They were ad. to the ch. Nov. 24, 1765.
He was one of that gallant band which boldly stood before the British troops on the memorable 19th of April, 1775.
He met the enemy in the morning, and on their flight from Concord they were again met by Capt. Parker’s co. in Lincoln, where Brown received a very severe wound,---a ball entering his cheek, passed under his ear, and lodged in the back part of his neck, from which it was extracted the year following.
But notwithstanding this severe casualty, he commanded the Lex. co. in 1776, and lived about twenty-five years after the event.”[2]
He died 21 Apr 1800 and is buried in the Old Burying Ground, Lexington, Middlesex Co, MA.[3]
Coburn, Frank Warren, The Battle on Lexington Common, April 19, 1775 (Lexington, Mass., U.S.A. Published by the author, 1921) (Free e-book. Available at Google Play)
Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2020-10-06), "Record of Francis Brown", Ancestor # A015427.
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