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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4 : Perkins and Brown , wool Factors. (search)
Chapter 5: North Elba.
John Brown and his family removed to North Elba, in Essex County, New York, in 1849.
It was about this time that Mr. Gerritt Smith, the eminent philanthropist, offered to colored settlers his wild lands in that district of the Adirondack wilderness.
Many of them accepted the offer, and went there to make the experiment.
At this period, writes a friend, John Brown appeared one day at Peterboroa, and said to Mr. Smith: I see, by the newspapers, that you have offer , where he managed Mr. Perkins's farm, and carried on the wool business.
In 1855, on starting for Kansas, he again moved his household to North Elba, where they still reside, and where his body lies buried.
At the Agricultural Fair of Essex County, for 1850, a great sensation was created by the unlooked — for appearance on the grounds of a beautiful herd of Devon cattle.
They were the first that had been exhibited at the county festival, and every one was surprised and delighted at the