Brown, John (9)
Brown, John (1)
an English martyr, was miserably treated because he rebuked the priest, and was burned at Ashford in 1517. See Fox, Acts and Monuments, 4:181.
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Brown, John (2)
an English minister of the Society of Friends, was born at Laleham, Middlesex, June 1, 1639. He was among the first who, in his native county, embraced the doctrines and followed the practices of the Friends. He became a member of the monthly meeting of Kingston-upon-Thames, where the meeting-house was built, and continued a member thereof forty- eight years. After he became a minister he “was very zealous, not fearing the trials and persecutions that came upon him.” He was in prison at the time of the great fire in London in 1666, and was obliged to carry his bed out on his back when the prison was burned. He remained steadfast in the truth to the last, and died at the house of his son-in-law, in Blackman street, Southwark, May 6,1723. See Piety Prormoted, 2:362. (J.C.S.)
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Brown, John (3)
was the first settled pastor of the first Church in New Jersey, founded at Middletown in 1688, and he gave the lot on which the first meetinghouse in that place was built. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 6:12.
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Brown, John (4)
a minister of the Scotch Church at Rotterdam, died in 1679. He published, Christ the Way, the Truth, and the Life (1677): Quakerism the Pathway to Paganism, in answer to R. Barclay’s Apology (1678): An Explanation of the Epistle to the Romans (1679). In theology he was a Calvinist of the old school, and a man of learning and piety. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
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Brown, John (5)
a Unitarian minister of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was born in 1706, and died in 1752. He published a Sermon on the Death of Thomas Symmes (1726).
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Brown, John (6)
a Unitarian minister, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1724, and graduated at Harvard College in 1741; He was ordained and installed pastor of the Church in Cohasset, September 2, 1747. He died October 22. 1791. He published a sermon entitled, In what Sense the Heart is Deceitful. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 8:6.
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Brown, John (7)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in Ireland in 1728. He graduated at Nassau Hall in 1749, was licensed by the New Castle Presbytery, and sent to the valley of Virginia. He received a call from Timber Ridge and Providence, and was ordained and installed October 11, 1753. He resigned his charge after a pastorate of twenty-three years, and removed to Kentucky. He died in 1803. See Index to Princeton Review. (W.P.S.)
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Brown, John (8)
an English Weslevan minister, was born in Helmsley Black-moor, Yorkshire, in 1782. He was converted in his sixteenth year, and, three years after, he left the farm for the ministry. He preached at Berwick-upon- Tweed, Howden (1803), Liverpool, Manchester, and Wakefield. While attending the Conference at Sheffield (1811), he was seized with catarrhal fever; this was aggravated by his journey, first to his native place, and then to London, to which city he was appointed by the Conference, so that he died soon after his arrival, September 17, 1811. “In mental vigor, moral worth, studious diligence, ministerial ability and spiritual usefulness, he excelled most of his contemporaries.” See Minutes of the British Conference, 1812; Wesl. Meth. Magazine, 1819, page 241.
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Brown, John (9)
(of Ossawatomie), a fanatical reformer, was born at Torrington, Connecticut, May 9, 1800. He removed to Ohio in early youth, and became a tanner and currier. In 1839 he conceived the idea of liberating the southern slaves, and retained it during the rest of his life. In 1846 he removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, and engaged in the wool trade, and afterwards visited Europe. In 1855 he emigrated to Kansas, where he took an active part in the anti-slavery struggle. In May 1859, he called a secret convention of the friends of freedom, which met at Chatham, Canada, organized an invasion of Virginia for the purpose of liberating the slaves, and adopted a constitution. In July of that year he rented a farm-house about six miles from Harper’s Ferry, and collected there a supply of pikes, guns, and munitions. On the night of October 16, with the aid of about twenty men, he surprised Harper’s Ferry, captured the arsenal and armory, and took over forty prisoners. About noon the next day his party was attacked and defeated by the Virginia militia, and himself wounded and taken prisoner. He was tried in November, and hung at Charlestown, Virginia, December 2, 1859. He was a devout member of the Congregational Church, and a man of strict moral character, unflinching courage, and intense earnestness. He met his death with the composure of a hero. See Redpath, Life of Captain John Brown (1860); Webb, Life and Letters of Captain John Brown (Lond. 1861); Greeley, Amer. Conflict, volume 1.