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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
nklin N. Coleman, pro-slavery man, near Lawrence, on the 21st. Free-State men meet at the scene on the 22d, and Sheriff Samuel J. Jones arrests Jacob Branson, with whom Dow had lived, for taking part. At Blanton, Branson is released by free-State ders Maj.-Gen. William P. Richardson of the territorial militia to collect as large a force as possible and report to Sheriff Jones......Nov. 27, 1855 About 800 free-State men enlist at Lawrence, among them John Brown and four sons, and about 1,5 Mace, of Indiana......April 7, 1856 Congressional investigating committee reaches Lawrence......April 18, 1856 Sheriff Jones attempts to arrest S. N. Wood in Lawrence, charged with aiding in the rescue of Branson in November previous, but is made arrests without molestation, being a United States officer. He then returned to camp, turned over his posse to Samuel J. Jones, Sheriff of Douglas county, who, not being hampered by the restrictions of the United States marshal, proceeded to d