However, it required that the passengers have an overnight stay in Tecumseh where Brown also owned and operated a large Inn called the Peninsular House.

General Brown went along with the essentially civilian group as “special agent of the Territory to watch the Ohio situation” his official title per gubernatorial appointment.

Benjamin Baxter's account of the events, found in Clara Waldron's One Hundred Years, a Country Town, states that Fletcher was: a genial gentleman not suffering apparently from his term of incarceration, but sometimes subjecting us to the inconvenience of hunting him up when we had occasion to use the jail for some counterfeiter or horse thief, as he was likely to be found out riding with one of the sheriff's lovely daughters, having taken the jail keys with him.Later in 1835 General Brown would lead a large group of soldiers to Toledo to protect the rights of the Territory of Michigan.

In his memoirs, also quoted in Clara Waldron's book, Dr. M. A. Patterson says of Brown: As a commander of the Michigan forces in the Black Hawk War, he had acquitted himself to the entire satisfaction of the territorial and national authorities.

Brown served as the first judge in Lenawee County in 1826, and on July 1, 1839, he was appointed to replace Seba Murphy on the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, though he attended only one meeting before resigning the office himself.