At eight yesterday morning I discovered Deacon Samuel Chapin who is kin to John Brown. Deacon Chapin was close with Reverend Pynchon and had to know my 9th. grandfather, John Wilson. Saint-Gaudens did a life-size statue of Chapin – The Puritan – and did the bust of Lincoln that was in the Oval office when … Continue reading The Abolitionist Headless Horseman