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  Rebellions of 1837-38 - Wallace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Papineau, with Thomas Storrow Brown and Dr. Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, left Montreal for the Richelieu valley; and the authorities jumped to the conclusion that they had left to organize a revolt.
On November 16, therefore, warrants were issued for their arrest on a charge of high treason The same day there was an encounter between a small force of loyalist cavalry and a party of armed habitants on the road between Montreal and St. Johns.
A considerable body of rebels gathered at the village of St. Charles, under Thomas Storrow Brown, and another body at St. Denis under Dr. Wolfred Nelson.
www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/Rebellionsof1837-38-Wallace.htm   (1446 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
In 1825 Brown is believed to have opened a hardware store on the same street, probably with the assistance of the Barrett family.
In 1833, with Jacob De Witt*, Brown had taken part in negotiations for the incorporation of the City Bank, and in the organization of the Banque du Peuple, of which he was a director.
Brown made a great impression since he had just come from the city and was practically a war casualty.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39520   (931 words)

  
  Thomas Storrow Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Storrow Brown (July 7, 1803 – November 26, 1888) was a journalist, writer, orator, and revolutionary in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec).
A member of the Unitarian Church, Thomas Brown was an advocate for both social and political reform, supporting the concept of responsible government in which the members of the Legislative Council of Quebec would be appointed by the Legislative Assembly's majority party.
In November, Brown was wounded and partially blinded in one eye during the street fight between the Société des Fils de la Liberté and the Doric Club but nevertheless in December he still fought against the British Army at the Battle of Saint-Charles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Storrow_Brown   (459 words)

  
 Thomas Storrow Brown at AllExperts
Thomas Storrow Brown (July 7, 1803 – November 26, 1888) was a Canadian journalist, writer, orator, and revolutionary.
A member of the Unitarian Church, Thomas Brown was an advocate for both social and political reform, supporting the concept of responsible government in which the members of the Legislative Council of Quebec would be appointed by the Legislative Assembly's majority party.
In November, Brown was wounded and partially blinded in one eye during the street fight between the Société des Fils de la Liberté and the Doric Club but nevertheless in December he still fought against the British Army at the Battle of Saint-Charles.
en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/thomas_storrow_brown.htm   (508 words)

  
 History of Canada Online - Chapter 5B. Rebellion Events in Lower Canada
On November 6, Thomas Storrow Brown ignored the ban, and led the Sons of Liberty in an illegal Patriote rally in Montreal on the Place d'Armes.
Upriver at St-Charles, Thomas Storrow Brown, named "General" of The Sons of Liberty, had seized the manor of seigneur Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, south of the village of Saint-Charles, and established a camp with 100 rebels.
Patriote leader Thomas Storrow Brown fled the battle before it was over, and the spirit of the Patriote forces, elated after the victory of Saint-Denis, was crushed.
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 Thomas Storrow
Thomas Storrow resided on Campobello in the late 1780's.
That was the last time The Storrows were in Canada but their son Samuel Appleton Storrow returned to live with the Browns in St Andrews as the climate in Jamaica did not suit him.
I know now that Thomas is not part of my tree but that has not stopped me from carrying on and I have now proved his connection to my Cumberland Storrow's and in fact Thomas's GG Grandfather was the brother of my 7/8 times G Grandfather.
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 Toronto Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Thomas Storrow Brown (July 7, 1803 — November 26, 1888) was a journalist, writer, orator, and revolutionary in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec).
Andrews, New Brunswick, the son of Henry Barlow Brown and Rebecca Appelton, as a young man he moved to Montreal, Lower Canada.
Thomas Storrow Brown died at his home in Montreal in 1888 at the age of eighty-five.
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 Thomas Storrow Brown
BROWN, Thomas Storrow, Canadian insurgent, born in St. Andreas, New Brunswick, 7 May, 1803, of New England loyalist parentage.
The first conflict was in street riots in Montreal, and Brown received a blow that destroyed one eye and subsequently caused his total.
Warrants having been issued for the arrest of the principal agitators, Brown, among others, escaped to the banks of the Richelieu, where the people were eagerly waiting to take up arms.
famousamericans.net /thomasstorrowbrown   (471 words)

  
 The 1837-38 Patriot War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
November 18: St-Charles, Quebec - Thomas Storrow Brown, General of Les Fils de la Liberté seizes the manor of seigneur Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, south of the village of Saint-Charles and establishes a camp with 100 rebels.
The British storm the manor house, then burn the village before leaving; in two hours of fighting, they lose 7 dead and 23 wounded; the Patriotes lose about 30 wounded and 28 dead, some are shot as they swim across the Richelieu River.
Patriote leader Thomas Storrow Brown flees the battle before it is over, and the spirit of the Patriote forces, elated after the victory of Saint-Denis, is crushed.
english.republiquelibre.org /1837-38-patriot-war.html   (2866 words)

  
 Worcester Area Writers - Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Bio
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge, MA, on December 23, 1823.
He was the youngest child in the family, Louisa Storrow's tenth child and Stephen Higginson's fifteenth.
Thomas did not have much of a memory of his father because he passed away when Thomas was only ten.
www.wpi.edu /Academics/Library/Archives/WAuthors/higginson/bio.html   (980 words)

  
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In 1854 he was the leader of an attempt to rescue Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave, from prison, receiving a sabre cut in the face and being indicted for the murder of one of the deputies.
At the beginning of the civil war he recruited a company of infantry in Worcester, and afterward was appointed colonel of a regiment of freed slaves, the first regiment of this kind to be mustered into the U.S. service.
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 Rebel Leaders
After the events of 1837 he was exiled, but he returned in 1842 and resumed his political career, eventually becoming mayor of Montréal.
Brown later blamed the defeat on the lack of training and equipment of the rebel forces, but he also had allowed his forces to be caught unprepared.
Brown was also accused of fleeing the battle shortly after the fighting began.
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 St-Denis, Battle of
In mid-Nov 1837 the government of Lower Canada decided to send out the army against the PATRIOTES and issued orders for the arrest of their leaders.
In Richelieu County the patriotes, led by Thomas Storrow Brown of Montréal, seized the manor of Seigneur Pierre Debartzch and surrounded it with fortifications, while in St-Denis they organized around Dr Wolfred Nelson.
Two army detachments came from Montréal to attack St-Charles, the one led by Col Wetherall taking the south route via Chambly and the other led by Lt-Col Francis GORE taking the northern route through Sorel.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007067   (250 words)

  
 Thomas Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Brown (Australian federal politician), 20th century Australian politician
Thomas Lewis Brown (1839–?), co-founder of first national organization of the deaf in the U.S. Thomas P. Brown, Jr.
There are also various people known as Tom Brown; the English physician, philosopher and literary figure, Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) remains the most famous individual sharing this name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Brown   (217 words)

  
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Brown offers a silver ticket, entitling the holder to the freedom of the theatre for the season to anyone who shall produce the best poetic address, for the opening of the theatre, not to exceed 50 lines and not to be under 40.
Brown, we understand, very wisely refrained from deciding on the merits of the different addresses for the opening of the house.
Brown a bold man to have undertaken the concern, we are as sincere as any of his friends in wishing him every success.
www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/TRIC/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol1_1/&filename=Klein.html   (4505 words)

  
 Canada - Political Strife, 1815-1840
Sir John Colborne was taken from Upper Canada to command the British troops, and by prompt action he nipped rebellion in the bud.
A small body of rebels under Dr. Wolfred Nelson was defeated at St. Denis, and under Thomas Storrow Brown another small body at St. Charles met the same fate.
Sporadic outbreaks occurred here and there, but before they gained any hold were stamped out—in many cases it is to be feared with considerable brutality.
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 Politics and Government
Also included is a petition to Thomas Dunn from Joseph Dominique Manuel Le Moine de Longueuil and Michel Eustache Gaspar Alain Chartier de Lotbinière concerning the surveying of the line of demarcation of the township, 1806.
Thomas Storrow Brown was born at St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
Brown was in command of the defeated rebel forces at the Battle of St-Charles.
www.archives.mcgill.ca /resources/guide/vol2_3/gen07.htm   (6295 words)

  
 Louis Joseph Papineau
As Papineau was held to be mainly responsible for the uprising of the French Canadians, a warrant was issued on 16 November for his arrest, which he evaded by escaping to the Richelieu river, where the insurgents were prepared to rise at the bidding of their chiefs.
On 6 November a few loyalists were attacked in Montreal by a band of men belonging to "Les ills de la liberte," led by Thomas Storrow Brown, an American resident of that city.
As Papineau was held to be mainly responsible for the uprising of the French Canadians, a warrant was issued on 16 November for his arrest, which he evaded by escaping to Richelieu river, where the insurgents were prepare, 1 to rise at the bidding of their chiefs.
famousamericans.net /louisjosephpapineau   (1489 words)

  
 Dispatches from a Patriot by Alice Copeland Brown
Brown bursts with pride when she talks of her son's work.
In a sense, Brown is all these things, this tiny 65-year-old woman with her beatific face, who crams in as many protests as possible, between picking one grandson up from high school track practice and cooking dinner for another.
It took four officers to carry her to the police van, where, along with 11 other women, she was handcuffed and whisked off to jail to be booked on charges of disorderly conduct.
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In 1923 she married Thomas Gordon Connell, the CNR Agent at Pinkerton Station (which was actually located in the nearby village of Eden Grove).
Born on January 28, 1898, in Bruce Township, she was the daughter of the late Charles Robinson and the late Margaret MacKenzie.
The letter he brought back from Thomas Storrow Brown* did not contain the needed statement but Mackenzie read between the lines, insisting that there was a hidden message of rebellion.
www.barge.ca /public/np10.htm   (2762 words)

  
 Thomas Wentworth Higginson Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an extraordinarily versatile and energetic cultural critic and man of letters in nineteenth-century America.
In summary, Higginson's conservative preference for conventional techniques in English poetry, his spiritual idealism, his tendency to the eulogium, and his demand for high moral rectitude in literature inevitably mark him as an exponent of the genteel tradition in nineteenth--century American literary criticism.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson from Dictionary of Literary Biography.
www.bookrags.com /biography/thomas-wentworth-higginson-dlb2   (1570 words)

  
 Thomas Brown at AllExperts
*Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897), Manx poet, scholar, and divine
*Thomas Lewis Brown (1839â€"?), co-founder of first national organization of the deaf in the U.S. Thomas P. Brown, Jr.
There are also various people known as Tom Brown; the English physician, philosopher and literary figure, Sir Thomas Browne (1605â€"1682) remains the most famous individual sharing this name.
en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/thomas_brown.htm   (240 words)

  
 Fils de la Liberté
Inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution, the Fils de la Liberté published a manifesto on October 4 which proclaimed their belief in the right of a people to choose its own government and of a colony to become independent.
André Ouimet led the civil and political arm of the movement, while Thomas Storrow Brown looked after its military wing.
On 6 November 1837 the Fils de la Liberté clashed violently with the anglophone DORIC CLUB in Montréal.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002808   (137 words)

  
 Manuscript Collection
The papers of Thomas Blackwood, William Grant, Joseph Frobisher, John MacDonald of Garth, Simon McTavish and James McGill are all primarily concerned with the fur trade.
The papers of Thomas Storrow Brown contain information on the Rebellion of 1837, while those of John Rose cover various political topics (1836-1867).
In addition to a number of single items and small collections including a copy of the will of Thomas Bewick's daughter Isabella (1883), a letter of Jean Baptiste Bodoni (1792), a letter of Fleury Mesplet (1789), and two letters of Brown and Gilmour (1768), there are a number of large archival collections.
www.library.mcgill.ca /rarebook/mnscript.htm   (2171 words)

  
 Memorial At Sea St Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Mayor Thomas Rink said the city planned to receive $2 million from the stateand#39;s estate tax for use in its 2006 budget.
Thomas Jefferson s vision of the spread of freedom and democracy from sea to shining sea inspired Eero Saarinen s Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
Thomas Jefferson s vision of the spread of freedom and democracy from sea to shining sea inspired Eero Saarinen Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
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 CXXIV - OTHER LOYALISTS
Gideon Vernon was captain of a Loyalist corps in Pennsylvania; and Evan Thomas, also of Pennsylvania, commanded a company of Loyalists called the Bucks County Volunteers.
Henry Barlow Brown, a Loyalist, was for many years registrar of deeds for Charlotte.
His son, Thomas Storrow Brown, born in St. Andrews, was an author of some note.
members.shaw.ca /caren.secord/locations/NewBrunswick/Glimpses/CXXIV.html   (957 words)

  
 Along for the Ride
READ Rosellen Brown's essay "On Leaving Texas" about having to leave her Doville home.
It all began with the founding of the University of St. Thomas in Houston shortly after the de Menils had emigrated from France.
It came to be built on land adjacent to the University of St. Thomas campus.
www.npr.org /programs/theride/astorrow/002.html   (474 words)

  
 Thomas Wentworth (Storrow) Higginson Biography - Biography.com
Too radical for even his Unitarian congregation, he moved on to become pastor of the Free Church in Worcester, MA (1852–61), but continued to devote much of his energy to abolitionism.
He engaged in the forceful release of slaves, travelled to Kansas to fight slavery, and befriended and supported John Brown.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, he left the ministry to captain a company of Massachusetts volunteers, then becoming the commanding colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first African-American regiment of the Union Army (1862–4).
www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=9338569   (304 words)

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