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[Haverhill, MA, 1870. Broadside, 8.75" x 19.25", printed in three columns, laid down on paper. Age toned, untrimmed, light scattered spotting. Old horizontal folds, affecting legibility of portions of a few lines of text. Signed in type and dated at the end, March 22, 1870. Good. This is the will of Sylvanus Brown of Windham, New Hampshire, formerly of Derry. In addition to leaving property to family and friends, he left Derry a substantial sum of money, to be "kept under bonds with good sureties" and to be used for the town's interests, including the purchase of flannel for the destitute people of the town, in "picking the small stones from the public highways," and towards the purchasing of "good native nuts and cider, to be kept in the care of said boards, in good condition, and impartialy offered as cheer at the next Bi-Centennial Celebration" in 1919. Brown was the author of 'The Rejected Poem of A.D. 1869', a copy of which is at the website of the University of New Hampshire Library. The…
Read More VOICE AROUND THE JAIL. VOL. I. NO. 2 by Brown, Sylvanus - 1843
by Brown, Sylvanus
VOICE AROUND THE JAIL. VOL. I. NO. 2
by Brown, Sylvanus
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Essex County, Mass., 1843. Folio sheet folded to 10-1/4" x 15". Old folds, some spotting. Good+.
An idiosyncratic preacher, Sylvanus Brown was arrested in Rockport for disturbing the peace at the Union Meeting House, a church which once had served Universalists but now excluded them. He was convicted "by a jury darkened by one sided and false testimony, against him, by not being permitted to be heard after his own manner..." Brown claimed he was merely seeking a seat peaceably at the assembly when he was assaulted and arrested. His story of the trial appears here, along with imprecations against "the subtle craft of wicked party priests, associated for the purposes of power and dominion." He denounces the "hypocrites" of the "proud, dark, seizing, fighting, pushing, shoving, dragging, pinching, kicking, sueing, swearing jailing church of Anti-Christ in Rockport."
OCLC 9329448 [4- 2 at AAS; Boston Pub., Peabody-Essex] as of August 2018.
An idiosyncratic preacher, Sylvanus Brown was arrested in Rockport for disturbing the peace at the Union Meeting House, a church which once had served Universalists but now excluded them. He was convicted "by a jury darkened by one sided and false testimony, against him, by not being permitted to be heard after his own manner..." Brown claimed he was merely seeking a seat peaceably at the assembly when he was assaulted and arrested. His story of the trial appears here, along with imprecations against "the subtle craft of wicked party priests, associated for the purposes of power and dominion." He denounces the "hypocrites" of the "proud, dark, seizing, fighting, pushing, shoving, dragging, pinching, kicking, sueing, swearing jailing church of Anti-Christ in Rockport."
OCLC 9329448 [4- 2 at AAS; Boston Pub., Peabody-Essex] as of August 2018.
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WILL OF SYLVANUS BROWN
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