Just north of Pottawatomie Creek, in Franklin County, they abducted and killed five pro-slavery settlers. One teenage son of one of the settlers was also abducted by Brown and his fellow …

May 24, 2017 · There had been 8 killings to date in the Kansas Territory; Brown and his party had just murdered five in a single night. The massacre lit a powder keg of violence in the days that …

It is generally believed that John Brown led four of his sons and three others in killing five pro-slavery men near Dutch Henry's crossing on Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County on May …

During the night of May 24, 1856 and the following morning, Brown’s group attacked and killed five settlers near the Pottawatomie Creek. Brown’s son, also named John, had assembled his …

Five men were killed, and it would have been regarded as ordinary murder had it been ordinary times, but it was in a new country when civil war practically existed in the border counties of …

The three men followed their captors out into the darkness, where Owen Brown and Salmon Brown killed them with broadswords. John Brown, Sr., did not participate in the stabbing but …

Old John Brown drew his revolver and shot the old man Doyle in the forehead, and the two youngest sons immediately fell upon the younger Doyles with their short two-edged swords.

In one encounter, they even killed two sons of an individual they sought. Before the night was through, five victims lay brutally slain by the hands of John Brown.

May 5, 2006 · Guerrilla warfare was raging between the two sides and by the end of the year some 200 people had been killed. Brown was planning to stir up a slave insurrection. Slaves …

ON the night of Saturday, May 24, 1856, a group of armed men led by Old John Brown appeared among the settlements near Dutch Henry's crossing, where the California road crossed …