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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 ...
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 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 ...
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.
There, he met and befriended a fellow seminarian, John Surratt. This friendship was to later have profound consequences for both of them. In 1862, a year after the outbreak of the American Civil War, both Weichmann and Surratt left the seminary without becoming priests. Weichmann went to Washington, D.C., where he taught school for two years at ...
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]