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HARMAN See also: American lawyer, son of an Irish country gentleman of See also: English stock settled in Co
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See also: Kerry, was See also: born on the 8th of See also: October 1765
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He was educated at Trinity See also: College, See also: Dublin, and in 1990 was called to the Irish See also: bar
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After living for several years on the continent, he married in 1796 his niece, See also: Margaret See also: Agnew, daughter of Robert Agnew, the See also: lieutenant-governor of the Isle of See also: Man
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Ostracised by their families for this step the couple decided to See also: settle in See also: America, where See also: Blennerhassett in 1798 bought an See also: island in the See also: Ohio See also: river about 2 M. below See also: Parkersburg, West Virginia
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Here in 18o5 he received a visit from See also: Aaron See also: Burr (q.v.), in whose conspiracy he became interested, furnishing liberal funds for its support, and offering the use of his island as a See also: rendezvous for the gathering of arms and supplies and the training of See also: volunteers
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When the conspiracy collapsed, the mansion andisland were occupied and plundered by the Virginia militia
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Blennerhassett fled, was twice arrested and remained a prisoner until after Burr's See also: release: The island was then abandoned, and Blennerhassett was in, turn a See also: cotton planter in See also: Mississippi, and a lawyer (18'9-1822) in See also: Montreal, See also: Canada
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After returning to See also: Ireland, he died in the island of See also: Guernsey on the 2nd of See also: February 1831
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His wife, who had considerable See also: literary talent and who published The Deserted Isle (1822) and The Widow of the See also: Rock and Other Poems (1824), returned to the See also: United States in 184o, and died soon afterward in New See also: York City while attempting to obtain through Congress payment for See also: property destroyed on the island
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See See also: William H
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Safford,
See also: Life of Harman Blennerhassett (See also: Cincinnati, 1893) ; W
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H . Safford (editor), The Blennerhassett Papers (Cincinnati, 1864) ; and " The True See also: Story of -Harman Blennerhassett," by Therese Blennerhassett-See also: Adams, in the Century
See also: Magazine for See also: July
190I, Vol. lxii
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