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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 20 (search)
tempt had actually been made to excite a slave insurrection in Northern Virginia, and the one man in America to whom such an enterprise would not seem utter insanity and suicide, was at the head of it. John Brown was sixth in descent from Peter Brown, a carpenter by trade, and a Puritan by intense conviction, who was one of the glorious company who came over in the May-flower, and landed at Plymouth Rock, on that memorable 22d of December, 1620. The fourth in descent from Peter the pilgriarlestown, Jefferson Co., Va., 19th Nov., 1859. Rev. Luther Humphrey--My Dear Friend: Your kind letter of the 12th instant is now before me. So far as my knowledge goes as to our mutual kindred, I suppose I am the first since the landing of Peter Brown from the Mayflower that has either been sentenced to imprisonment or to the gallows. But, my dear old friend, let not that fact alone grieve you. You cannot have forgotten how and where our grandfather (Captain John Brown) fell in 1776, and t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brown, John, 1744- (search)
surprised the outposts of Ticonderoga, set free 100 American prisoners, captured four companies of British regulars, a quantity of stores and cannon, and destroyed a number of boats and an armed sloop. He left the service because of his detestation of Benedict Arnold, but continued to act with the militia. He was killed by Indians in the Mohawk Valley, Oct. 19, 1780. abolitionist; born in Torrington, Conn., May 9, 1800; hanged in Charlestown, Va., Dec. 2, 1859; was a descendant of Peter Brown of the Mayflower. His grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution, and perished in that war. When John was five years of age, his father moved to Ohio; and in 1815-20 he worked at the trade of a tanner. He became a dealer in wool; visited Europe on business; and in 1855 he emigrated to Kansas, where, as an anti-slavery champion, he took an active part against the pro-slavery party, engaging in some of the conflicts of the short civil war in that Territory. Devout, moral, courageous, an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pilgrim fathers, the (search)
Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, Isaac Allerton, Myles Standish, John Alden, Samuel Fuller, Christopher Martin, William Mullins, William White, Richard Warren, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Edward Tilley, John Tilley, Francis Cook, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Tinker, John Ridgedale, Edward Fuller, John Turner, Francis Eaton, James Chilton, John Crackston, John Billington, Moses Fletcher, John Goodman, Degory Priest, Thomas Williams, Gilbert Winslow, Edward Margeson, Peter Brown, Richard Britteridge, George Soule, Richard Clarke, Richard Gardiner, John Allerton, Thomas English, Edward Doty, Edward Lister. Each subscriber placed opposite his name the number of his family. The following is the text of the agreement which was signed on the lid of Elder Brewster's chest (see Brewster, William): In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are hereunto written, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord, King Delft Haven. James, by the grace of God, of
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
history all that now can be known is, that his name was Peter Brown. That he came over in the Mayflower, is evidence enoughbe rectified — in a century or two! He died in 1633. Peter Brown, the second, was born in 1632. A monument in the church6, 1692. He had four boys: the second-born named John Brown; who, in his turn, married Elizabeth Loomis in 1692, had ee was of the fourth generation, in regular descent, from Peter Brown, one of the Pilgrim Fathers, who landed from the Mayflownor him for it; for we see in it the spirit of the first Peter Brown, who would not wait for the convenient season of corrupt, and inferior; and this crowning glory to the family of Peter Brown, the Puritan, was reserved for the grandson of the revolonorable and patriotic by his --mother's family, as from Peter Brown, the Puritan of the Mayflower. Peter Miles was an emi 17, 1858; killed at Harper's Ferry, October 17, 1859. Peter Brown, December 7, 1840, Hudson, Ohio; died September 22, 1843
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the child and his ancestors. (search)
personal history all that now can be known is, that his name was Peter Brown. That he came over in the Mayflower, is evidence enough that hecefully be rectified — in a century or two! He died in 1633. Peter Brown, the second, was born in 1632. A monument in the churchyard of ctober 16, 1692. He had four boys: the second-born named John Brown; who, in his turn, married Elizabeth Loomis in 1692, had eight dau1776. He was of the fourth generation, in regular descent, from Peter Brown, one of the Pilgrim Fathers, who landed from the Mayflower, at Pe now honor him for it; for we see in it the spirit of the first Peter Brown, who would not wait for the convenient season of corrupt and heaiendless, and inferior; and this crowning glory to the family of Peter Brown, the Puritan, was reserved for the grandson of the revolutionarywas as honorable and patriotic by his --mother's family, as from Peter Brown, the Puritan of the Mayflower. Peter Miles was an emigrant fr
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 3: the man. (search)
ber 7, 1835, Franklin, Ohio; married Isabella M. Thompson, September, 1856;--wounded at Harper's Ferry, October 17, while bearing a flag of truce; died October 19, 1859. Salmon Brown, October 2, 1836, Hudson, Ohio; married Abbie C. Hinckley, October 15, 1856; lives at North Elba. Charles Brown, November 3, 1837, Hudson, Ohio; died September 11, 1843. Oliver Brown, March 9, 1839, Franklin, Ohio; married Martha E. Brewster, April 17, 1858; killed at Harper's Ferry, October 17, 1859. Peter Brown, December 7, 1840, Hudson, Ohio; died September 22, 1843. Austin Brown, September 14, 1842, Richfield, Ohio; died September 27, 1843. Anne Brown, December 23, 1843, Richfield, Ohio. Amelia Brown, June 22, 1845, Akron, Ohio; died October 30, 1846. Sarah Brown, (2d,) September 11, 1846, Akron, Ohio. Ellen Brown, (1st,) May 20, 1848, Springfield, Massachusetts; died April 30, 1849. infant son, April 26, 1852, Akron, Ohio; died May 17, aged 21 days. Ellen Brown, (2d,) September
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Paroles of the Army of Northern Virginia. (search)
mpkins, John T. Wellford, O. Williams, Geo. Willis, H. Wallace, Albert Drewry, J. E. Harrison, M. Howard, Chs. Jenkins, Wm. S. Jones, H. Houseman, Chs. Ella, Allen Luper, Berry Cooper. [76] Roll of Non-Commissioned officers and men in Clutter's Battery. R. B. Street, Ord. Sergeant. Jno. B. Monnfield, Sergeant. John L. Corbin, Sergeant. F. Adams, Corporal. V. C. Inmon, Corporal. Privates. J. Gallen, Mike Blake, one horse, John H. Brown, Peter Brown, J. G. Covington, A. N. Crafton, W. B. Chowning, John Chowning, J. C. Corbin, B. F. Diggs, Z. M. Evans, H. Enroughty, W. A. Edwards, W. A. Ford, L. Farmer, F. Farmer, J. Fackler, W. O. Garland, Jos. Heath, J. B. Holley, H. W. Inman, W. Johnson, Swift Johnson, one horse, Thos. Luster, T. H. Montague, W. A. Mills, Jno. H. Newbell, Jno. Newbell, B. Nowlin, S. M. Nowlin, W. Owen, J. E. Owins, Jno. Orender, G. W. Panit, L. Pitts, A. Rose, T. J. Sanders,
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
$25 reward. --Ranaway from my farm, Long Row, Hanover county, about the 8th of January, a Negro man, named Peter Brown, about 21 years old, of a dark brown color, with a scar one side of his neck; also a small one on his knee; very long-legged, and upwards of six feet high. The above reward will be paid, if delivered to me, or secured in jail. Wm. J. Carpenter. mh 20--1m*
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Virginia State Convention.Thirtieth day. Wednesday, March 20, 1861. The Convention assembled at half-past 10 o'clock. Prayer by the Rev.Geo. Woodbridge, of the Monumental Church. Resolutions. Mr. Brown, of Preston, offered a resolution for taking the ayes and noes in Committee of the Whole in the same manner that they are taken in the Convention. Adopted. Mr. Speed, of Campbell, offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee on Federal Relations be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting to the Convention two Ordinances, to be submitted to a vote of the people for their approval or rejection on the fourth Monday in May next. one providing for a resumption by the State of the powers heretofore delegated to the General Government, and the other, as an alternative proposition the series of amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which may be agreed on by the Convention to be submitted to the Northern States as an u
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
$25 reward. --Ran away from my farm, Long Row, Hanover county, about the 8th of January, a Negro man, named Peter Brown, about 21 years old, of a dark brown color, with a scar on one side of his neck; also a small one on his knee; very long legged, and upwards of six feet high. The above reward will be paid, if delivered to me, or secured in jail. Wm. J. Carpenter. mh 20--1m*
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