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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.13 (search)
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8 : the conquest of Kansas complete. (search)
Chapter 11: return to the East.
As soon as the Missourians retreated from Franklin, John Brown, with four sons, left Lawrence for the East, by the way of Nebraska Territory.
When at Topeka he found a fugitive slave, whom, covering up .1 his wagon, he carried along with him.
He was sick, and travelled slowly.
Northern squatters, at this time, were constantly leaving the Territory in large numbers.
In coming down with a train of emigrants, in October, I met two or three hundred of thes surveyor-or appeared as such to them.
He had a light wagon and a cow tied behind it. His surveyor's instruments were in the wagon in full sight.
Letter from Joel Grover, of Lawrence.
As soon as the military supplies had been stored, I left Topeka in company with a friend, and overtook the troops a few miles from Lexington, a town site on the prairie, thus named by the Massachusetts companies.
Passing them, and travelling twelve miles farther, I found, lying sick in bed, at the solitary l