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John Brown

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John Brown

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Auction Date:2010 Apr 14 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
A Connecticut-born farmer with Calvinist roots, Brown (1800–1859) was a lifelong opponent of slavery. In the 1850s, amid the heated debate over the admission of Kansas as a slave vs. a free state, the increasingly zealous Brown moved there and led a guerrilla band in the murder of five pro-slavery settlers that came to be known as the Pottawatomie Massacre. Later, Brown hatched a plan to capture the Federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry and distribute the weapons to slaves. The violent plot failed when he was captured by Robert E. Lee, tried, and hanged. Scarce early manuscript DS, one page both sides, 7.5 x 12.5, July 19, 1828. A deed in which "John Brown of Randolph Township” agrees to the purchase of "one half part of town lots No. 172 & 173…the said Brown for his part to pay the said Cullum the sum of one hundred and twenty five dollars in five equal payments annually.” Nicely signed at the conclusion by Brown, and countersigned by three others. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered toning and soiling, a couple small fold separations at edges, and light mirroring of ink from premature folding.

Brown purchased the acreage identified here while he was serving as postmaster in Randolph Township—an appointment he had received from President John Quincy Adams earlier that year. His work ethic earned him a solid reputation in the community, handling the 22-mile mail route by himself before subletting portions of the route to others. It was during this period that he is also credited with introducing “superior breeds of cattle, sheep, and horses” to the area of northwestern Pennsylvania. An interesting and early document from the most visible—and still-controversial—martyr to the abolitionist cause. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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