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	Brown to raise money for public schools - Boston.com
		Brown University will raise $10 million for an endowment to help public schools in Providence and begin development of a slavery memorial, the school announced Saturday in response to a report that examines its centuries-old ties to the slave trade.
		Brown's governing body endorsed the plan, which developed out of recommendations issued last fall by a committee of students, faculty members and administrators.
		Brown was formally chartered in 1764 as Rhode Island College.
	www.boston.com /news/local/rhode_island/articles/2007/02/24/brown_to_raise_money_for_public_schools (579 words)

	John Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Brown (1715-1766) — a Scottish clergyman and essayist
		John Brown (1757-1837) — a member of the Continental Congress from Virginia and a Representative and Senator to the U.S. Congress from the state of Kentucky
		John Brown (1772-1845) — was a Representative to the U.S. Congress from the state of Pennsylvania
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brown (661 words)

	John Brown (Rhode Island) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was a long-term trustee of Rhode Island College, where he laid the cornerstone for its first building in 1770.
		He was named as a delegate for Rhode Island to the Continental Congress in 1784-1785 but did not attend.
		Brown was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1798 and served there from 1799 to 1801.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brown_(Rhode_Island) (147 words)

	Encyclopedia: Rhode Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Rhode Island was the last of the original 13 states to ratify the United States Constitution (May 29, 1790) doing so after being threatened of having its exports taxed as a foreign nation.
		Rhode Island is bordered on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the west by Connecticut, and on the south by Rhode Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.
		Rhode Island was one of the Northern colonies (aka "New England" colonies).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rhode-Island (9040 words)

	John Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		John Brown (1715-1766) was a Scottish clergyman and essayist
		John W. Brown (1867-1941) was a Canadian-born labor leader in the U.S. John Brown was a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights
		John Brown (1757-1837), was a member of the Continental Congress from Virginia and a Representative and Senator to the U.S. Congress from the state of Kentucky
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_brown.html (419 words)

	John Brown and the Gaspee Affair in American Revolutinary War History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		As in the English tradition, the sheriff of a Rhode Island county was the chief executive officer of the county, with considerable power to organize the county.
		Brown was the last man to leave the deck, being determined that no one should carry from the vessel anything which might lead to the identification and detection of the parties.
		John Brown was released in exchange for his promises to use his influence to get the Rhode Island Assembly to adopt a more moderate and conciliatory attitude toward the Acts of Trade and to send a delegation to negotiate with the English General Gage about a settlement of differences.
	www.bucklinsociety.net /Brown_John_Gaspee.htm (1293 words)

	John Brown (Rhode Island) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		John Brown (1736–1803) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American merchant and statesman from (Click link for more info and facts about Providence, Rhode Island) Providence, Rhode Island.
		The college was later renamed (A university in Rhode Island) Brown University in honor of his family.
		Brown was elected to the (The legislature of the United States government) U.S. Congress in 1798 and served there from 1799 to 1801.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Jo/John_Brown_(Rhode_Island)1.htm (145 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rhode Island
		It includes the Island of Rhode Island, Block Island, and the lands adjacent to Narragansett Bay, bounded on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by Connecticut.
		The population of Rhode Island in 1708 was 7181.
		According to the State census of 1095, the number of foreign-born in Rhode Island is as follows; born in Canada, 38,500; in Ireland, 32,629; In England, 24,431; In Italy, 18,014; In Sweden, 7201; In Scotland, 5649; in Portugal, 5293; In Russia, 4505; in Germany, 4463; in Poland, 4104.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13020a.htm (4696 words)

	Slavery in Rhode Island
		Such laws existed in neighboring colonies, but Rhode Island's was particularly severe in its penalties, and in the zeal with which the machinery of state was put to work in recovering human property, which was reminiscent of the hated Fugitive Slave Law of a later day.
		The law against thefts by slaves in Rhode Island was, again, the severest in New England, carrying a sentence that could be 15 lashes or even banishment from the colony -- a particularly dreaded punishment, as it usually meant deportation and sale to the merciless sugar plantations of the West Indies.
		John Brown, a merchant, state representative, and powerful slaveholder, was tried in 1796 for violating the federal Slave Trade Act of 1794, which prohibited ships destined to transport slaves to any foreign country from outfitting in American ports.
	www.slavenorth.com /rhodeisland.htm (1444 words)

	The Brown Brothers of Providence Rhode Island
		Brother John Brown's ire was sufficient to be the driving force that led to the attack and destruction of the Gaspee.
		John also is noted for his spirited defense of slavery in the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, to which he was elected in 1800.
		John Brown was one of the famous "four brothers," merchants in Providence and founders and patrons of Brown University.
	www.gaspee.info /GaspeeHistory/Brown_Brothers.htm (930 words)

	Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State
		The house was built for John Brown, one of the four Brown brothers, and remained in the Brown, Ives, and Gammel families.
		Brown built the library because they were in need of a larger space; their last library had been built in the 1870s.It was named after John Hay; a highly regarded Brown alumnus, scholar, President Lincoln's secretary, and Secretary of State under both President McKinley and President Theodore Roosevelt.
		John Updike, a renowned novelist, was native to the Rhode Island area and resided in this house for a number of years.
	www.sec.state.ri.us /library/riinfo/rhode-island-landmarks (3362 words)

	Battle of Rhode Island
		General John Sullivan, commanding in the area, was charged with the task of containing the depredations of the 4000 British and Hessian troops occupying Newport and Aquidneck Island.
		Unfortunately a picket of the 2nd Rhode Island, which had established itself to the south near the ocean, was surprised and captured by a British raiding party.
		The 1st and 2nd Rhode Island maintained their reputation for steady fighting and were reconciled to more years of hard service, until the chance would come again to capture a British army.
	home.comcast.net /~fredra/RhodeIsland.html (5266 words)

	In colonial Rhode Island, slavery played pivotal role - Campus News
		Though the Rhode Island General Assembly made it illegal for Rhode Islanders to be involved in the African slave trade in 1787 - ironically, passing the first law of its kind in America - this ruling was ignored.
		At the time of the creation of Moses' abolition society, John Brown wrote an angry letter to the Providence Gazette, complaining the society was "created not to ruin only one good citizen but to ruin many hundreds within the United States" who were involved in slavery or the slave trade.
		Students usually study Rhode Island history in fourth or fifth grade, but the realities of Rhode Island's implications in the slave trade are often skimmed over in history books, according to Morgan Grefe Ph.D. '05, director of the Center for Education and Public Programs at the Rhode Island Historical Society.
	media.www.browndailyherald.com /media/storage/paper472/news/2006/04/18/CampusNews/In.Colonial.Rhode.Island.Slavery.Played.Pivotal.Role-1859340.shtml?norewrite200606292120&sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com (1060 words)

	John Brown's Defense
		Mack Thompson's biography of Moses Brown (younger brother of John) says that John Brown was arrested in April 1775 for his role in the burning of the Gaspee.
		Brown could argue that he was just sending cargo to be sold to the highest bidder, which could be the loyalist townspersons of Boston.
		In short, any action in holding John Brown for involvement in the Gaspee affair was illegal and unconstitutional under English law, and, furthermore, Gage could be personally liable for damages to John, in a civil court.
	gaspee.org /JohnBrownDefense.htm (1505 words)

	USGenWeb Rhode Island Articles, Page 3
		The late John Nicholas Brown, for several decades one of the foremost figures in financial and official circles in Rhode Island, was a descendant in the eighth American generation of the Rev. Chad Brown.
		John Nicholas Brown was a man of quiet, unassuming manner, scholarly in his tastes and habits, a lover of all that is good in art and literature, and a keen student and observer.
		Brown was engaged as a mill worker, becoming an overseer, but then he turned to agriculture, and is the owner of a fine estate of 700 acres in the town of West Greenwich, the nucleus of that estate being the Waite farm at West Greenwich Center.
	www.rootsweb.com /%7Erigenweb/article3.html (5482 words)

	Channing John Brown
		Brown is a former state senator and for many years was clerk of the Supreme Court of Kansas.
		John B. Brown married Prudence D. Davis, who was born in Western New York in 1821, and died at Topeka, Kansas, in 1891.
		Brown was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court of Kansas, and filled that office consecutively for eighteen years, until 1897.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1918ks/biob/browncj.html (1145 words)

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		The purpose that finally took John Brown to Virginia had doubtless been many years in his mind, dating back, indeed, to the time when he was a surveyor in the mountains of that state, in early life.
		On August 5, 1797, John Brown, the premier merchant and first citizen of Providence, Rhode Island, reluctantly entered federal district court in his hometown and became the first American to be tried under the U.S. Slave Trade Act of 1794.
		Brown had organized a band for the defense of Lawrence, but arrived too late to prevent the burning.
	www.lycos.com /info/john-brown--slaves.html (265 words)

	Townhall.com::John Brown's venture::By Bill Bennett
		Brown moved freely among the leaders of the abolition cause.
		Brown impressed all who saw him with his calm composure, his ready willingness to die for the cause of abolition.
		John Brown was hanged on 2 December 1859.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/BillBennett/2006/10/02/john_browns_venture&comments=true (1475 words)

	Brown University
		The Brown Club of Cape Cod invites you to gather, June 1.
		Join fellow alumni Feb. 28 in New York and Mar. 7 in Boston to chat with Professor Jim Campbell, chair of Brown’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.
		Step forward by June 30 and be counted: 34,000 Brown Annual Fund donors are needed to earn the Corporation’s $1.5 million “Rally for the Record”challenge.
	www.brown.edu (229 words)

	Rhode Island Governor
		Rhode Island continues to celebrate three and one-half centuries of living history and international heritage with tremendous pride and enthusiasm throughout the state.
		Rhode Island is a state of striking contrasts.
		The John Brown House and the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America are just a couple of the home and churches open to the Public.
	www.postcardsfrom.com /gov/gov-ri.html (1149 words)

	Panel discusses U. connections to slave trade - Slavery & Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Brown University was founded as Rhode Island College in 1764 and renamed after Nicholas Brown Jr., a 1786 graduate, in recognition of a $5,000 contribution.
		Brown was the son of Nicholas Brown Sr.
		John Brown was acquitted of the charges, although his ship was condemned by the courts, Lemmons said.
	media.www.browndailyherald.com /media/storage/paper472/news/2004/03/19/SlaveryJustice/Panel.Discusses.U.Connections.To.Slave.Trade-740137.shtml?norewrite200612151236&sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com (453 words)

	Rhode Island Online - RI Websites - Rhode Island Coast Line - Rhode Island Internet Directory - R.I. Online
		Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in the United States.
		Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state.
		Rhode Islanders were the first to take military action against England by sinking one of her ships in the Narragansett Bay located between Newport and Providence.
	www.rionline.org /rhode_island_nightclubs.htm (2258 words)

	John Brown House, Providence, Rhode Island
		Proclaimed by John Quincy Adams to be "the most magnificent and elegant private mansion that I have seen on this continent," this restored house-museum at 52 Power Street (tel 401-331-8593) reveals the prosperity of post-Revolutionary Providence and houses an outstanding collection of furnishings and decorative arts.
		John Brown was a merchant whose ships plied the seas both east and west out of Narragansett Bay and ultimately made him a wealthy man.
		John's brother, Moses, joined with Samuel Slater to set up the first water-powered cotton spinning mill in America in 1790, now known as Slater Mill.
	www.newenglandtravelplanner.com /go/ri/providence/sights/brown_house.html (180 words)

	A Baptist Started the American Revolution \| The Reformed Reader
		John Brown was the owner of twenty ships, and every one of them could have been seized at any time by the British navy.
		Brown immediately ordered eight large boats manned by sixty-four of his armed men to be placed in the charge of Captain Abraham Whipple.
		John Brown was the last man on board before explosives on the ship were detonated.
	www.reformedreader.org /johnbrown.htm (677 words)

	Rhode Island’s Future » Brown Responds to Slavery
		For 3 years, the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice studied Brown’s relationship to the institution of slavery and ultimately released a report on the legacy of slavery at Brown.
		all very well and good, but let’s not forget that moses brown — john brown’s brother — was one of the nation’s earliest and most outspoken abolitionists and contributed greatly to the early abolitionist movement.
		further, we should also be aware that rhode island was the last state to ratify the constitution (and then only did so under threat of dissolution) because it did not contain language explicitly prohibiting the transport of slaves.
	rifuture.org /blog/?p=3330 (1933 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Brown, J.
		Brown, J. — of Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa.
		Rhode Island state house of representatives 47th District, 2002.
		Brown, John G. — of Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Mont. Republican.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/brown5.html (1513 words)

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		If Elder John was involved with either Roger Williams or Samuel Gorton in early Rhode Island, one would think that his name would certainly be in the records.
		John Brown was an extremely prosperous merchant, who opened Providence's connection to the China Trade after the Revolutionary War.
		Eight prominent Rhode Island merchants, including John and Nicholas Brown and Thomas Greene, had signed a complaint against Dudingston, after the Fortune, a Greene family ship, was seized by the Gaspee.
	www.lycos.com /info/rhode-island-history--elder-john.html (313 words)

	Rhode Island Vacation Rentals, Rhode Island Rentals, Vacation Rentals in Rhode Island, A1 Vacations
		Rhode Island, the “Ocean State”, is home to over 400 miles of coastline and well over 100 beaches.
		A Rhode Island vacation rental is a great way to experience the vacation delights of this small coastal state.
		Rhode Island's 400-mile coastline is lined with over 100 beaches, perfect for sunning, swimming, and all types of water sports.
	www.a1vacations.com /USA_Rhode_Island.htm (648 words)

	John Brown Entertainment Group - Jazz Band - Chapel Hill, NC - Orange County, North Carolina
		Now, John leads his own group of highly gifted professional musicians (who are available in MANY different configurations to suit your event; any one of the musicians is available individually or in other group combinations).
		For example, the John Brown Quintet is an award winning concert performing jazz group made up of friends who have known each other for years and simply share a deep love for music.
		Or, you might wish to hire the the John Brown Jazz Orchestra, which is a 20 piece Jazz Orchestra (including a male and a female vocalist) comprised of the cream of the crop musicians of our area.
	www.gigmasters.com /Jazz/JohnBrownEntertainment (1167 words)

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