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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
of New Hartford, was incorporated, by act of legislature, into a township named Canton.) trainband; and, in the spring of 1776, joined the forces of the continental army at New York. He served under Colonel Jonathan Pettibone. His commission fromorn 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 armyfferent treatment from that which those unfortunate American prisoners received from the British and tories in New York in 1776. A kind Providence furnished a goodly number of ministering angels, (if the expression may be allowable,) in the persons er'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
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the child and his ancestors. (search)
1806, West Simsbury, with a narrow strip of New Hartford, was incorporated, by act of legislature, into a township named Canton.) trainband; and, in the spring of 1776, joined the forces of the continental army at New York. He served under Colonel Jonathan Pettibone. His commission from Governor Trumbull is dated May 23, 1776. 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 ofsoners in Philadelphia experienced far different treatment from that which those unfortunate American prisoners received from the British and tories in New York in 1776. A kind Providence furnished a goodly number of ministering angels, (if the expression may be allowable,) in the persons of some of the most accomplished ladies o
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the father of the man. (search)
re 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 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
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: the conquering pen. (search)
me, especially since my disaster. May God and your own consciences ever be your rewarders. Tell your father that I am quite cheerful-that I do not feel myself in the least degraded by my imprisonment, my chains, or the near prospect of the gallows. Men cannot imprison, or chain, or hang the soul. I go joyfully in behalf of millions that have no rights that this great and glorious, this Christian Republic is bound to respect. Strange change in morals, political as well as Christian, since 1776! I look forward to other changes to take place in God's good time, fully believing that the fashion of this world passeth away. Farewell. May God abundantly bless you all! Your friend, John Brown. Letter to his son Jason. Charlestown, Jefferson Co., Va., Nov. 22, 1859 Dear Children: Your most welcome letters of the 16th inst. I have just received, and I bless God that he has enabled you to bear the heavy tidings of our disaster with so much seeming resignation and com