Roger Brown (colonel)

By some accounts, in the spring of 1775, Brown, then 26, began building a house[1] for himself on land in Concord, Massachusetts that belonged to his mother's family, the Conants.

[2] In either case, local lore, supported by evidence found during the 1889 first renovation, tells of Brown working on the framing of the house when a call to arms came early on the morning of April 19, 1775 for the Concord skirmish of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Brown and his carpenters traded hatchets and saws for muskets and walked to Old North Bridge.

Over the next few years, Brown greatly increased his land holdings and prospered in the local farming and business communities.

[4] Brown died in 1840 at the age of 91 and is buried in the Hill Burial Ground in Concord center.