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July (search for this): chapter 7
is infancy and boyish days. When the old man was preparing to return to Kansas, Master Henry (to whom the letter is addressed) asked his father's permission to give all his pocket money to Captain Brown. The permission was readily given, and the old hero received the money. He promised, at the same time,--if he should ever find the leisure for it,--to write out for his young friend an account of his own early life. When crossing the State of Iowa, with military supplies, in the month of July following,--he himself driving a team,--he was detained for some time by the failure of certain parties to fulfil their promises to send him money. He then fulfilled his promise, and wrote this autobiographical sketch. I have copied it with the fidelity of a Chinese artist: Italics, punctuation, orthography, and omissions. I add a few notes only, and divide it into paragraphs. It fills six pages of letter paper in the original manuscript, which is very closely written, and contains two pa
1807 AD (search for this): chapter 7
at he was very much respected and esteemed by my father. He was an earnestly devout and religious man, of the old Connecticut fashion; and one peculiarity of his impressed his name and person indelibly upon my memory. He was an inveterate and most painful stammerer — the first specimen of that infirmity that I had ever seen, and, according to my recollection, the worst that I had ever known to this day; consequently, though we removed from Hudson to another settlement early in the summer of 1807, and returned to Connecticut in 1812, so that I rarely saw any of that family afterwards, I have never to this day seen a man struggling and half strangled with at word stuck in his throat, without remembering good Mr. Owen Brown, who could not speak without stammering, except in prayer. moved to Ohio; then a wilderness filled with wild beasts, & Indians. During the long journey which was performed in part or mostly with an ox team; he was called on by turns to assist a boy Five years older
1827 AD (search for this): chapter 7
I cannot tell you of any thing in the first Four years of John's life worth mentioning save that at that early age he was tempted by Three large Brass Pins belonging to a girl who lived in the family & stole them. In this he was detected by his Mother; & after having a full day to think of the wrong: received from her a thorough whipping. When he was Five years old his Father A correspondent thus writes of John Brown's father: My recollections of John Brown begin in the winter of 1826-7. I was then five years old. My father's family lived that winter at Hudson, Ohio, which was then one of the remotest of the settlements made by Connecticut people on their Western Reserve. One of our nearest neighbors there was Mr. Owen Brown, who had removed to Hudson, not long before, from Connecticut. I remember him very distinctly, and that he was very much respected and esteemed by my father. He was an earnestly devout and religious man, of the old Connecticut fashion; and one peculia
May 9th, 1800 AD (search for this): chapter 7
I will call him John. His story will be mainly a narration of follies and errors; which it is to be hoped you may avoid; but there is one thing connected with it, which will be calculated to encourage any young person to persevering effort: & that is the degree of success in accomplishing his objects which to a great extent marked the course of this boy throughout my entire acquaintance with him; notwithstanding his moderate capacity; & still more moderate acquirements. John was born May 9th 1800, at Torrington, Litchfield Co, Connecticut; of poor but respectable parents: a defendant on the side of his father of one of the company of the Mayflower who landed at Plymouth 1620. His mother was decended from a man who came at an early period to New England from Amsterdam, in Holland. Both his Father's & his Mother's Fathers served in the war of the revolution: His Father's Father; died in a barn at New York while in the service, in 1776. I cannot tell you of any thing in the firs
1620 AD (search for this): chapter 7
ted to encourage any young person to persevering effort: & that is the degree of success in accomplishing his objects which to a great extent marked the course of this boy throughout my entire acquaintance with him; notwithstanding his moderate capacity; & still more moderate acquirements. John was born May 9th 1800, at Torrington, Litchfield Co, Connecticut; of poor but respectable parents: a defendant on the side of his father of one of the company of the Mayflower who landed at Plymouth 1620. His mother was decended from a man who came at an early period to New England from Amsterdam, in Holland. Both his Father's & his Mother's Fathers served in the war of the revolution: His Father's Father; died in a barn at New York while in the service, in 1776. I cannot tell you of any thing in the first Four years of John's life worth mentioning save that at that early age he was tempted by Three large Brass Pins belonging to a girl who lived in the family & stole them. In this he was
1819 AD (search for this): chapter 7
e strips about an eighth of an inch wide for other students to pull upon. Father took one string, and, winding it around his fingers, said, I shall snap it. The very marked, yet kind unmovableness of the young man's face on seeing father's defeat-father's own look, and the position of the people and things in the old kitchen — somehow gave me a fixed recollection of this little incident. How long John Brown lived at our house, or at what period, I do not know. I think it must have been in 1819 or 1820. I have the name John Brown on my list of father's students. It is said that he was a relative of uncle Jeremiah Hallock's wife, and that uncle J. directed him to Plainfield. While pursuing his studies, says the first writer: He was attacked with inflammation of the eyes, which ultimately became chronic, and precluded him from the possibility of the further pursuit of his studies, when he returned to Ohio. Had not this inflammation supervened John Brown would not have died
1820 AD (search for this): chapter 7
about an eighth of an inch wide for other students to pull upon. Father took one string, and, winding it around his fingers, said, I shall snap it. The very marked, yet kind unmovableness of the young man's face on seeing father's defeat-father's own look, and the position of the people and things in the old kitchen — somehow gave me a fixed recollection of this little incident. How long John Brown lived at our house, or at what period, I do not know. I think it must have been in 1819 or 1820. I have the name John Brown on my list of father's students. It is said that he was a relative of uncle Jeremiah Hallock's wife, and that uncle J. directed him to Plainfield. While pursuing his studies, says the first writer: He was attacked with inflammation of the eyes, which ultimately became chronic, and precluded him from the possibility of the further pursuit of his studies, when he returned to Ohio. Had not this inflammation supervened John Brown would not have died a Virgi
July 15th, 1857 AD (search for this): chapter 7
overwhelming: for we see throughout it the same grand traits in the barefooted, bareheaded boy, clad in buckskin breeches, suspended often with one leather strap and sometimes with two; who idolized the bobtail squirrel, and had a mourning season at its death; and who, at the age of twelve, swore eternal war against slavery; which, when in the jail and the Court room and on the gallows of Charlestown, Virginia, astonished and delighted the world. This is the letter: Red Rock, Iowa, 15th July, 1857. Mr Henry L. Stearns My Dear Young Friend, I have not forgotten my promise to write you; but my constant care, & anxiety have obliged me put it off a long time. I do not flatter myself that I can write any thing that will very much interest you: but have concluded to send you a short story of a certain boy of my acquaintance: & for convenience and shortness of name, I will call him John. His story will be mainly a narration of follies and errors; which it is to be hoped you may
1826 AD (search for this): chapter 7
I cannot tell you of any thing in the first Four years of John's life worth mentioning save that at that early age he was tempted by Three large Brass Pins belonging to a girl who lived in the family & stole them. In this he was detected by his Mother; & after having a full day to think of the wrong: received from her a thorough whipping. When he was Five years old his Father A correspondent thus writes of John Brown's father: My recollections of John Brown begin in the winter of 1826-7. I was then five years old. My father's family lived that winter at Hudson, Ohio, which was then one of the remotest of the settlements made by Connecticut people on their Western Reserve. One of our nearest neighbors there was Mr. Owen Brown, who had removed to Hudson, not long before, from Connecticut. I remember him very distinctly, and that he was very much respected and esteemed by my father. He was an earnestly devout and religious man, of the old Connecticut fashion; and one pecu
1857 AD (search for this): chapter 7
sire to see the blossom, too. Happily, in the case of Captain John Brown, this desire can be amply gratified-and in a way, and by the pen, of all others the best fitted to do justice to it. Gladly I here step aside for the old hero; to permit him, in his own inimitable style, to narrate the history of his infancy, and early manhood. All that it becomes me to write, by way of preface, is a brief statement of the story of this autobiography. When John Brown was in Boston, in the winter of 1857, among other noble friends of freedom here, he made the acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. Stearns, of Medford; who, recognizing him at once as an historic character,--although clad in a plain suit of clothes only, and with a leathern strap for a neck-tie,--received him at their hospitable home with all the honor justly due to a hero and a saint. Their children soon learned to love the old warrior; for, like all godlike men, he loved little children; and, like all young souls, they instinctively
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