Received: from ultra1.dreamscape.com by pppmail.appliedtheory.com (8.6.12/3.1.090690-Applied Theory Communications) id MAA27495; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 12:46:01 -0500 Received: from imo19.mx.aol.com (imo19.mx.aol.com [198.81.19.176]) by ultra1.dreamscape.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA25811 for <[log in to unmask]>; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 12:43:29 -0500 (EST) From: JolleyAlen <[log in to unmask]> Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 12:39:22 EST To: [log in to unmask] Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: The Jerry Rescue and Martin Stowell of Worcester Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) X-Mailer: Inet_Mail_Out (IMOv11) I have made significant progress in researching the life of Martin Stowel= l=0A(1824-1862). My main source for the Jerry Rescue at the American Ant= iquarian=0ASociety has been Earl E. Sperry, The Jerry Rescue, October 1,= 1851. Stowell=0Awas subsequently a leader in the attempt to free Anthony= Burns and ultimately=0Athe one responsible for the death of the Deputy M= arshal. I have a 25 page=0Adraft on Stowell's involvement in these activ= ities.=0A=0AVarious sources speak of Stowell's leadership role in the aff= air but I have=0Afound nothing in Syracuse accounts. Here are some of my= other sources: Ann=0AWeston was the cousin of Ann Greene Phillips, the = wife of Wendell Phillips.=0AWeston had anti-slavery credentials of her ow= n, she and her sister Caroline=0Aran a racially integrated elementary sch= ool on Boylston Street in Boston. Ann=0Awas present in the Phillips hous= ehold during the Burns Affair and while=0Awriting about that event identi= fied Martin Stowell and his reputation in the=0AJerry Rescue. See Procee= dings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol.=0AXLIV, October 1910-= June 1911, (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society,=0A1911), 328. Edel= stein also refers to Stowell=92s role in the Jerry affair but=0Adoes not = document his assertion. Edelstein, Strange Enthusiasm (Biography of=0AT. = W. Higginson), 129.=0A=0AI know that a convention of abolitionists was be= ing held in Syracuse at the=0Atime and I suspect that may be the reason S= towell was on the scene.=0A=0AHopefully the topic interests you or you mi= ght forward this message along. =0A=0AMany Thanks,=0ABob Cormier=0AShrew= sbury Massachusetts=0A