Andrew Brown was born in Ulster and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He went to America in the service of the British army, settled there, and later fought on the side of the Americans in the War of Independence, rising to the rank of major. His subsequent career was varied, ranging from founding a women's college to the editing of a newspaper, the Federal Gazette. He died tragically while attempting to save his wife and three children from a fire in their home

Born:	1744
Died:	1797