Osbourne Perry Anderson, (USA)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Perry_Anderson

Born in Pennsylvania on July 17, 1830, Anderson was educated at Oberlin College in Ohio, then immigrated to Canada, where he learned the printing trade and met Brown in 1858.

Anderson was one of five blacks among Brown’s 21 raiders, and he was only one of a handful among the entire group who escaped and survived. He went on to write a book, “A Voice from Harper’s Ferry.”

Anderson enlisted in the Union Army in 1864. Mustered from service, he lived in Washington, where he belonged to the 15th Street Presbyterian Church and died of tuberculosis in December 1872 at 42. An obituary in the Washington Star described him as “a man of good character” eulogized by three ministers.

He was buried first in the Columbian Harmony Cemetery, founded by free blacks in 1825, at the current site of the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station parking lot in Northeast Washington.

The cemetery eventually fell into disuse and disrepair, and, in 1959, its 37,000 remains were disinterred and moved to Maryland, to the National Harmony Memorial Park.

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History of Torrington, Connecticut: From Its First Settlement in 1737, with Biographies and Genealogies, Part 2
page 398

Before the attack on Harper's Ferry, one of Brown's captains,
John E. Cook, of Connecticut, had visited the house of Colonel Lewis Washington, great - grandson of George Washington, and learned where to put his hand upon the sword of Frederick the Great and the pistols of Lafayette, presented by them to General Washington, and by him transmitted to his brother's descendants. With that instinctive sense of historical association which led Brown to make his first attack upon slavery in Virginia and amid the scenes of Washington's early life, this liberator of the slaves had determined to appear at their head wielding Washington's own sword, and followed by freedmen who had owed service in the Washington family.
He therefore assigned to Stevens and to Cook, as their first duty after Harper's Ferry should be taken , to proceed to Colonel Washington's plantation of Belair, about four miles south of the Ferry,
seize him , with his arms, set free his slaves, and bring him as a
hostage to the captured town; and he even went so far as to direct that Osborn Anderson, a free black, should receive from Washington the historical weapons.