The inscription on his stone simply reads, "Aged 88 years." Daniel Brown descended from the Brown's of Rye Colony, once apart of Connecticut, and then finally New York. He was a veteran of the American War for Independence. He was the son of Daniel Brown, Sr. of which little is known, including his wife's name. Much of the records of this elder Daniel Brown are from the Presbyterian Church which were researched by the late North Castle Town Historian Richard N. Lander).

Daniel Brown's farm was on the corner of East Middle Patent Road and Mianus River Road. The 1860's map, a picture of which is herein uploaded to the memorial page, of North Castle, New York shows an S. Brown living at this corner. This was Daniel's son Samuel Brown who inherited the farm and a was a founding member of the St. Mary's Episcopal Church on East Middle Patent Road, just opposite St. Mary's Church Road, just up the road from the farm.

Daniel's father Daniel Brown, Sr. was born October 17, 1717 at Bedford, presumably, and he died September 9, 1786 at Bedford, presumably. Daniel Brown, Sr. was the son of the lawyer Benjamin Brown and his wife Elizabeth, they resided in Rye, New York for a time as well as White Plains, and then apparently made their was to Bedford at some point as their son ends up there, perhaps he ended up there on his own initiative and not his father' Benjamin's. Benjamin was a justice from 1728 to 1746 in Rye and he had a stone house on the Westchester Path. He was a member of both the Presbyterian Church of Rye and White Plains.

Benjamin was born about 1684 at Rye, New York to Hachaliah Brown and his wife Mary Hoyt, daughter of John and Mary Hoyt. This Hachaliah was born in New Haven Colony around 1645 and he died around 1720. He settled in the Rye Colony around 1664 where he built his first home on Mannussing Island on the bank overlooking the beach. On December 18, 1666 he purchased the lowermost point on Peningo Neck, hence referred to as Brown's Neck. It is safe to assume he enjoyed living by the water. Hachaliah Brown was the son of Peter Brown, born perhaps in Sussex County, England around 1610.

Peter Brown lived in Concord, Mass in 1632, then removed to Cambridge, then to New Haven Colony, followed by a removal to Stamford by 1647 - making his final relocation to Rye some years later as already stated. The history of Rye gives a different account of Peter and Thomas Brown and claim they are descended from the lawyer Thomas Brown of East Sussex and that the Brown's were instrumental in naming the Colony of Rye, as the name is indigenous Sussex and the home of the Brown(e) family. This may very well be accurate, but the proposition that this Thomas Browne of Sussex was descended from Sir Anthony Browne of royal lineage, remains to be proven and may be the work of yet again another profiteering English "genealogist" appeasing the ancient appetite of the Americans' desire to be connected to the English royal family.

All information provided by his great-great-great-great-great-great-Grandson, Andrew R. M. Honeywell.