Birth of John Brown.(Brief Article)

May 9th, 1800

EARLY IN 1799 a young tanner named Owen Brown arrived to start a new life in a farmhouse he had bought at Torrington in Connecticut with his wife Ruth and two small children. Owen, who had been working as an itinerant cobbler, claimed descent from one of the Mayflower pilgrims, Peter Browne (though this is now considered doubtful). He and his wife were both deeply religious and Owen believed that the United States of America was God's vehicle for the return of Christ to the earth, but that the Second Coming was being prevented by the abominable evil of slavery. ...

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