William Brown (soldier)

William Brown (1759–1808)[1] was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

[citation needed] After the war he moved west to a newly developed river town called Cincinnati, Ohio.

When President George Washington sent General Anthony Wayne out to Cincinnati in the spring of 1793 to take charge of subduing the Indians, one of Wayne's first acts was to call upon William Brown to furnish him with a "company of spies".

[2] He lived out his days in Cincinnati, his original tombstone was lost to time; possibly stolen or destroyed.

On 24 July 2004, at a cemetery across the street from what is known as Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport, a new tombstone was laid out in remembrance to Sgt.