Brown, John Revolutionary War army officer, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Brown assisted in campaigns with Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold and led a recapture of Fort Ticonderoga from Gen. John Burgoyne (1777). During the seige of Quebec (1775), Brown had a public dispute with Benedict Arnold, openly declaring that he did not trust Arnold, and resigned from the army (February 1777), refusing to serve any longer under Arnold. Recalled to help Gov. George Clinton fend off attacks by Sir John Johnson, Brown was killed, along with forty-five of his men, in an ambush in the Mohawk Valley.
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