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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.
Mary Jenkins met John Harrison Surratt in 1839, when she was 16 or 19 and he was 26. [14] [16] [17] His family had settled in Maryland in the late 1600s.[14] [16] An orphan, he was adopted by Richard and Sarah Neale of Washington, D.C., a wealthy couple who owned a farm.
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 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 ...
On 14 and 15 April 1865, John Wilkes Booth, who had two hours earlier assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, stopped by the Surrattsville tavern to pick up weapons and supplies. The U.S. government alleged that Mary Surratt had gone there earlier with these supplies, and was in collusion with the conspirators, one of whom was her son, John ...
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 ...
Information on Aiken's early life is largely unknown; his date of birth, city of birth, and even his full name varies depending on source. His official birth records, as well as the 1840 and 1850 census records, indicate that he was born Frederick Augustus Aiken on September 20, 1832, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Susan (née Rice) and Solomon S. Aiken. [2]
Surratt leased her tavern to Lloyd on December 1 for $500 a year, and moved into town the same day. [17] [18] [16] [19] Mrs. Surratt lived in her townhouse with her daughter, Anna, and son, John. Over the next five months, she rented rooms to a number of people, including Louis J. Weichmann; John Surratt; George Atzerodt, and Lewis Powell.