James Brown started serving with the British Navy when he was 16 or 18 years of age. He later served with thr British Legion fighting in the war against the American colonists.
On the 25 April 1783 James Brown is listed with the second Battalion submitted by Brigade Major John Ross in Quebec City.
James and his wife Mary Marr moved to Upper Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
James was blacklisted in Pennsylvania.
The family relocated to the Niagara region in Upper Canada in 1799. They travelled by Ox drawn sleighs wife his wife and 10 children. They brought “10 head of horned cattle, 2 horses, several hogs, farming utensils and other property.”
Robert Nelles, J.P., certified that “James Brown is in the Township of Niagara, November 23, 1801.
There his eldest daughter met and married John Udell.
Very shortly after that he migrated to Markham Township where the family settled, having received lot 34, concession 8 on the 24th of December 1801.
James Brown was one of a group of men who contributed to the creation of the Dickson Hill Cemetery, where both he and Mary Marr are buried.174