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Reverand John Bennington Mahan

Person Chart

Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
Reverand Jacob Mahan	7/15/1769	Martha Bennington	1772

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
Mary (Polly) Curtiss	2/28/1803	Mary Jane Mahan Martha Ann Mahan Anne Elizabeth Mahan John Wesley Mahan Isaac Morris Mahan Isaac Sanders Mahan Russell Bigelow Mahan Alexander Wickliffe Mahan Alice Caroline Mahan Helene Stewart Gillespie Mahan

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place
Birth	4/6/1801	Grant, Mason County, Kentucky, United States
Marriage	12/19/1820	Brownstown, Brown County, Ohio, United States
Death	12/15/1844	Zainsville, Ohio, United States
Burial	12/16/1844	Old Sardinia Cemetary, Sardinia, Brown County, Ohio, United States

Facts

Fact	Description
Possession	Tavern in Sardinia Brown County OHIO, 1820, Zainsville, Ohio

Notes


Biography: Detroit Society Genealogical Report, Spring 1966, pp. 99-103, Part 1. Phystical description come from source. Occupation: Teacher in Ohio 1817. 1831-32 Built a Saw mill and later a Grist Mill. 1836-38, he was a Fence Viewer, Inspector. 1839-42, Overseer of the Poor. He kept a Tavern in Sardinia, Brown County, Ohio on Temerance Principles. (Remnants still Standing). At one time he was a Minister in the Methodist Church. (Brown,Ohio). Biography: Abolitionist: One of the Founders of the Ohio Anti Slavery Society and close associate of Levi Coffin in organizing the Underground Railroad. Rewards were frequently offered for his abduction or assasination. Taken to Maysville, Kentucky to stand trial. He was acquitted, but defence cost a large sum of money. Later, Rev Mahan and Joseph Pettijohn were found guilty of helping a slave, Fined and Imprisoned for Ten Days to be fed only bread and water. Though this exposure, he contracted Tuberculosis and soon died. His Tombstone states "A victim of the slave power." Honored on Monument at Ripley, Brown County, Ohio. Pamphlet "Trial of Mahan, Mason County, Kentucky". 1838. Also, History of Maysville and Mason County, Kentucky, Vol. One, G. Clift, 1936, 976.932 C613, p. 183-184, Annals of Kentucky, 976.9 C697, p. 43-44 Places: After marriage settled on little stream called Bell's Run, in the Southern part of Highland County, Ohio. Land Records Highland, Ohio. Also, Friends of Liberty on the Mackinaw, p.397, GS 459,640. Settled on Whie Oak Stream, 1831/32 Brown County, Ohio. Settled Sardinia, (Built Mill), Tavern Sardinia, Brown County, Ohio. Historical Collection of Brown County, p. 36, 756; 977.11 B87Th. Church: Methodist in Highland, but helped start Presbyterian Church in Sardinia. Was Ordained a Presbyterian Minister. (Friend of Liberty) GL# F2453. The following, from the pen of Rev. John B. Mahan is here given in justice to him, and as reflecting not only his own sentiments, but, probably those of the great majority of his contemporary Abolitionists: "However much every good man desires that slavery should have an end, and however much Abolitionists are willing to hazard and sacrifice for this oppressed, degraded and despised portion of our fellow men. I am confident that few, if any, for various reasons, would invade the jurisdiction of another State to give aid or encouragement to slaves to escape from their owners. But it ought not to be concealed that very great majority of Northern people, as well as those that are not Abolitionists as well as those that are Abolitionists (however much human nature has been marred by sin), are not capable of violating the sympathies of their nature or the dictates of their common humanity so far as to be able to drive from their doors the unsheltered, unprotected stranger, or send away unfed, unclothed, unprovided for-the outcasts or wandering poor." From The History of Brown County, pgs 315-316

Biography: Detroit Society Genealogical Report, Spring 1966, pp. 99-103, Part 1. Phystical description come from source.
Occupation: Teacher in Ohio 1817.
1831-32 Built a Saw mill and later a Grist Mill.
1836-38, he was a Fence Viewer, Inspector.
1839-42, Overseer of the Poor.
He kept a Tavern in Sardinia, Brown County, Ohio on Temerance Principles. (Remnants still Standing).
At one time he was a Minister in the Methodist Church. (Brown,Ohio).
Biography: Abolitionist: One of the Founders of the Ohio Anti Slavery Society and close associate of Levi Coffin in organizing the Underground Railroad. Rewards were frequently offered for his abduction or assasination.
Taken to Maysville, Kentucky to stand trial. He was acquitted, but defence cost a large sum of money. Later, Rev Mahan and Joseph Pettijohn were found guilty of helping a slave, Fined and Imprisoned for Ten Days to be fed only bread and water. Though this exposure, he contracted Tuberculosis and soon died. His Tombstone states "A victim of the slave power." Honored on Monument at Ripley, Brown County, Ohio. Pamphlet "Trial of Mahan, Mason County, Kentucky". 1838. Also, History of Maysville and Mason County, Kentucky, Vol. One, G. Clift, 1936, 976.932 C613, p. 183-184, Annals of Kentucky, 976.9 C697, p. 43-44
Places: After marriage settled on little stream called Bell's Run, in the Southern part of Highland County, Ohio. Land Records Highland, Ohio. Also, Friends of Liberty on the Mackinaw, p.397, GS 459,640.
Settled on Whie Oak Stream, 1831/32 Brown County, Ohio.
Settled Sardinia, (Built Mill), Tavern Sardinia, Brown County, Ohio. Historical Collection of Brown County, p. 36, 756; 977.11 B87Th.
Church: Methodist in Highland, but helped start Presbyterian Church in Sardinia. Was Ordained a Presbyterian Minister. (Friend of Liberty) GL# F2453.
The following, from the pen of Rev. John B. Mahan is here given in justice to him, and as reflecting not only his own sentiments, but, probably those of the great majority of his contemporary Abolitionists:
"However much every good man desires that slavery should have an end, and however much Abolitionists are willing to hazard and sacrifice for this oppressed, degraded and despised portion of our fellow men. I am confident that few, if any, for various reasons, would invade the jurisdiction of another State to give aid or encouragement to slaves to escape from their owners. But it ought not to be concealed that very great majority of Northern people, as well as those that are not Abolitionists as well as those that are Abolitionists (however much human nature has been marred by sin), are not capable of violating the sympathies of their nature or the dictates of their common humanity so far as to be able to drive from their doors the unsheltered, unprotected stranger, or send away unfed, unclothed, unprovided for-the outcasts or wandering poor."
From The History of Brown County, pgs 315-316

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