Jan Wells Minzel’s DAR Revolutionary War Soldier ancestor is Ichabod Brown from Rhode Island, my 4th Great Grandfather. He was commissioned by Gov. Greene of Rhode Island in 1779. He was appointed ensign in 1779 of the 1st Cumberland company 2nd regiment, of the Rhode Island militia. He served as a Sargent for Rhode Island under Capt. Weatherhead and Col. John Mathewson.
He was born on April 1745 in Smithfield, Rhode Island and died on September 16, 1828, in Farmington, New York. He married Hannah Ballou on November 9, 1777, in Cumberland, Mass. Their daughter, Rhoby Brown, married my 3rd great grandfather, Joseph L. Wells, on October 27, 1803, in Manchester, New York.
By Jan Wells Minzel, a member of the Mason County and Olympia Genealogical Societies.