[501] Conversation with Samuel Harper and his wife, Jane Harper, the two surviving members of the company of slaves escorted to Canada by Brown in March, 1859. Their home since has been in or about Windsor. I found them there in the early part of August, 1895. [502] Halloway, _History of Kansas_. Quoted from John Brown's letters, January, 1859 (pp. 539-545). [503] In a letter written by Brown, January, 1859, to the _New York Tribune_, in which paper it was published. It was also published in the _Lawrence_ (Kansas) _Republican_. See Sanborn's _Life and Letters of John Brown_, p. 481. [Illustration: SAMUEL HARPER AND WIFE, OF WINDSOR, ONTARIO, the two survivors of the company of slaves abducted by John Brown from Missouri in the winter of 1858-1859. (From a recent photograph.)] [Illustration: ELLEN CRAFT. Disguised as a young planter, she escaped to Boston in 1848, bringing her husband with her as a valet. (From a portrait in possession of the Hon. Simeon Dodge, of Marblehead, Mass.)] "We, however, learned before leaving that a portion of the articles we had taken belonged to a man living on the plantation as a tenant, and who was supposed to have no interest in the estate. We promptly returned to him all we had taken. We then went to another plantation, where we found five more slaves; took some property and two white men. We moved all slowly away into the territory for some distance and then sent the white men back, telling them to follow us as soon as they chose to do so. The other company freed one female slave, took some property, and, as I am informed, killed one white man (the master) who fought against liberation...."[504] [504] Sanborn, _Life and Letters of John Brown_, pp. 482, 483; also Redpath, _The Public Life of Captain John Brown_, pp. 219, 220.