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John Harrison Surratt Jr. (April 13, 1844 – April 21, 1916) was an American Confederate spy who was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; he was also suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.
Surratt was the mother of John Surratt, who was later tried in the conspiracy, but was not convicted. Born in Maryland in the 1820s, Surratt converted to Catholicism at a young age and remained a practicing Catholic for the rest of her life. She wed John Harrison Surratt in 1840 and had three children with him.
John Surratt collapsed suddenly and died on either August 25 [19] [20] or August 26 [21] [22] in 1862 (sources differ as to the date). The cause of death was a stroke. [13] [20] [23] Mary Surratt struggled with running the farm, tavern, and other businesses without the help of her son, John Surratt Jr. [24] In the fall of 1864, she began considering moving to her townhouse at 541 H Street [25 ...
John Surratt purchased the house from Augustus A. Gibson on December 6, 1853, and operated it as a boarding house. [3] After her husband died in 1862, Mary Surratt chose to rent her tavern/residence in nearby Surrattsville , Maryland, to John M. Lloyd , a former Washington, D.C., policeman and Confederate sympathizer and moved into the ...
John Michael Weatherly as George Atzerodt, a conspirator; Chris Bauer as Major Smith, a witness for the prosecution; David Andrews as Father Walter, a Roman Catholic priest attending on Mrs. Surratt; James Kirk Sparks as Edman Spangler, one of those charged with conspiracy; John Curran as Major General Albion P. Howe, a member of the military ...
John Surratt served as both a courier and spy. John H. Sothoron appears to have commanded the Confederate underground in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Col. Sothoron lived near Charlotte Hall Military Academy. His son, Webster, attended the school and was reputed to be a spy.
Surratt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred Surratt (1922–2010), American baseball player; Chazz Surratt (born 1997), American football linebacker; Edward Surratt (born 1941), American convicted murderer and rapist; John Surratt (1844–1916), American Confederate Spy and conspirator in the assassination of Abraham ...
John Surratt accompanied her to meet Judah Benjamin on March 29 in Richmond, Virginia, where he [who?] registered a room as "Harry Sherman". Benjamin withdrew US$1,500 in gold, giving US$200 to Surratt as payment for getting the remaining Montreal money, [clarification needed] US$650,000, couriered safely to France or England.