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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
d three daughters. Elizabeth and Faithe were married twice, and Anna was the third wife of the Reverend William Robinson. The biography of Jedediah is brief enough: Born in 1755-6--married Miss wells. Rev. Samuel Mills, second son of the Rev. Gideon Mills, graduated at Yale College in 1776, with a view to the gospel ministry. Being full of the patriotism prevalent at that time, he entered the American army as lieutenant in the cavalry. In one of those actions which took place in 1777,ed in his obtaining her hand and heart. He pursued and finished his theological studies, and was married to Miss Gilpin, and was settled pastor over the church and society of Chester, then a part of Saybrook. Gideon, the eldest son of the Rev. Gideon Mills, and the grandfather of John Brown, the liberator, was also a lieutenant in the American army, and died in 1813, at Barkhamsted, Connecticut, at the age of sixty-four. He left two sons and four daughters, of whom Ruth, the eldest child,
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the child and his ancestors. (search)
d three daughters. Elizabeth and Faithe were married twice, and Anna was the third wife of the Reverend William Robinson. The biography of Jedediah is brief enough: Born in 1755-6--married Miss wells. Rev. Samuel Mills, second son of the Rev. Gideon Mills, graduated at Yale College in 1776, with a view to the gospel ministry. Being full of the patriotism prevalent at that time, he entered the American army as lieutenant in the cavalry. In one of those actions which took place in 1777,ed in his obtaining her hand and heart. He pursued and finished his theological studies, and was married to Miss Gilpin, and was settled pastor over the church and society of Chester, then a part of Saybrook. Gideon, the eldest son of the Rev. Gideon Mills, and the grandfather of John Brown, the liberator, was also a lieutenant in the American army, and died in 1813, at Barkhamsted, Connecticut, at the age of sixty-four. He left two sons and four daughters, of whom Ruth, the eldest child,
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 10: spoils of war. (search)
Governor Wise, on his return to Richmond, appeared before the people, he thus spoke of the wounded Liberator: They are themselves mistaken who take him to be a madman. He is a bundle of the best nerves I ever saw, cut and thrust, and bleeding and in bonds. He is a man of clear head, of courage, fortitude, and simple ingenuousness. He is cool, collected, and indomitable, and it is but just to him to say, that he was humane to his prisoners, as attested to me by Col. Washington and Mr. Mills, and he inspired me with great trust in his integrity, as a man of truth. He is a fanatic, vain and garrulous, but firm, and truthful, and intelligent. His men, too, who survive, except the free negroes with him, are like him. He professes to be a Christian, in communion with the Congregationalist Church of the North, and openly preaches his purpose of universal emancipation: and the negroes themselves were to be the agents, by means of arms, led on by white commanders. When Col. Washin
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: the defence. (search)
to show the absence of malice. The witness was allowed to proceed: Brown promised safety to all descriptions of property except slave property. After the first attack Capt. Brown cried out to surrender. Saw Brown wounded on the hip by a thrust from a sabre, and several sabre cuts on his head. When the latter wounds were given, Capt. Brown appeared to be shielding himself with his head down, but making no resistance. The parties outside appeared to be firing as they pleased. Major Mills, master of the armory, was next sworn. Was one of the hostages of Capt. Brown in the engine house ... Brown's son went out with a flag of truce, and was shot. Heard Brown frequently complain that the citizens had acted in a barbarous manner. He did not appear to have any malicious feeling. His intentions were to shoot nobody unless they were carrying or using arms. John Brown here asked whether the witness saw any firing on his part that was not purely defensive. Witness. It mi