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JOHN BROWN

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 afterward, I have never to this day seen a man struggling and half strangled with a word stuck to his throat, without remembering good Mr. Owen Brown, who could not speak without stammering, except in prayer."[1]

In 1800, May 9th, wrote this Owen Brown: "John was born, one hundred years after his great-grandfather. Nothing else very uncommon."[2]

  1. ↑ Redpath, Public Life of Captain John Brown, p. 25.
  2. ↑ Autobiography of Owen Brown in Sanborn, Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 7.
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