Historical records matching Charles Calistus Burleigh
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About Charles Calistus Burleigh
- spoke in Bristol, Bucks Co., PA in 1839; much resistance by an angry mob
- A History of Bristol Borough in the County of Bucks, State of Pennsylvania ... By Doron Green page 139
- ended up relocating to Bristol for some years. A son was born there.
- A History of Bristol Borough in the County of Bucks, State of Pennsylvania ... By Doron Green page 139
- arrested in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1847 for selling antislavery literature on Sunday
- findgrave has bio and relatives
"Son of Rinaldo & Lydia (Bradford) Burleigh.
Admitted to the bar in Windham County, CT in Jan 1835, but chose to labor as an anti-slavery lecturer.
Married Gertrude Kimber, from Pennsylvania, on 24 October 1842
In 1863, he came from Plainfield, CT as the first speaker of the Free Congregational Society of Florence. The society was more philosophical than religious and was devoted to the principles of free thought & free speech. The many of the original 35 founders had been members of the cooperative Northampton Association of Education & Industry. Mr. Burleigh spoke on subjects such as abolition, woman's suffrage, welfare, social reform, other denominational philosophies, etc. Other speakers, who shared his stage, were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson & Louisa Alcott, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Susan B Anthony."
Mr. Burleigh retired in 1873, when the foundation for Cosmian Hall was started. He was hit by a train near the freight station while walking to the post office with a letter. The funeral services were held from Cosmian Hall with addresses by William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel May & Elizabeth Powell Bond.
Note: Northampton vital records list date of death as 13 June.
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His speech in Bristol goes hand-in-hand with Purvis' work in PA.
"In 1838, [Purvis} drafted the "Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens Threatened with Disfranchisement"', which urged the repeal of a new state constitutional amendment disfranchising free African Americans."
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Charles Calistus Burleigh's Timeline
| 1810 |
November 3, 1810
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Plainfield, Windham County, CT, United States
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| 1848 |
November 14, 1848
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Bristol, Bucks County, PA, United States
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| 1878 |
June 18, 1878
Age 67
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Northampton, Hampshire County, MA, United States
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Park Street Cemetery, Florence, Hampshire County, MA, United States
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