2006-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2006
BROWN, John (1800-1859) American abolitionist who became obsessed with the idea of abolishing slavery by force, massacred five slavery adherents at Pottawatomie, seized the arsenal at Harpers Ferry and was hanged for treason. Autograph Letter Signed, "John Brown" 1p. quarto, June 3, 1839, Boston, Massachusetts, with integral leaf addressed to his brother Oliver O. Brown & Mr. William Munroe in Portage County, Ohio, it reads in most part: "...I soon expect to send an agent from this place to examine my lands in Franklin, Hudson & Twinsburgh, being in all (including the one hundred acres in Twinsburgh bought of Oliver) about five hundred acres. I want Oliver to have properly executed deeds of the Twinsburgh land executed & recorded without delay. If Milo L. Hudson's heirs or executors have or will cause the deed in Mr. Frederick Baldwin's hands to be put in my possession upon my paying the amount the arbiter award called for on the 23d Feby last being some $35 or 40 dollars. I want to have that money made out some way for me till I return, have it paid them & that Deed immediately put on record. Should an agent come out, I shall refer him to you, & wish to have you go on to the premises with him without fail & use as good & influence with him in my favor as to showing the land, its location & vallie as you can consistently with a good conscience..." Fine.
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