tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post142597200424050869..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Capt. William Browne’s WarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-86988772149440610222023-05-28T12:42:20.297-05:002023-05-28T12:42:20.297-05:00Thank you for sharing that information! It appears...Thank you for sharing that information! It appears that like Browne, like De Berniere, was a teen-aged army officer, and still only in his mid-twenties during his trips into the Massachusetts countryside. <br /><br />(Comments don’t appear automatically and immediately on this blog because too many of them are spam.) J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-18386642043830011202023-05-28T05:39:37.336-05:002023-05-28T05:39:37.336-05:00The WO.25 "Succession Books" at the Brit...The WO.25 "Succession Books" at the British National Archives record the commission history of the Capt. Wm. Brown of the 52nd Foot, in 1775, as follows. An Englishman b. in 1749, he was first commissioned as a lieutenant on 2 Nov 1761 by raising men for rank in the new 107th Foot, from where he transferred to a lieutenancy of 17 Nov 1762 in the 5th Foot. Put on the Half-Pay List on 25 Apr 1763 at the war-end reductions, he exchanged back onto active service in a lieutenancy of 6 June 1766 in the 14th Foot, and went from there to a captaincy of 24 June 1771 in the 52nd Foot, got by purchase. He left the 52nd by purchasing the majority of the 49th Foot on 12 Oct 1778, the rank in which he retired on 26 Oct 1786, having in the meantime been breveted lieutenant-colonel on 31 Dec 1782. His surname is spelled without an "e" in the War Office's registers. (JAH) Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11744831826121207984noreply@blogger.com