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HARMAN See also:BLENNERHASSETT (1765-1831)
, Irish-See also:American lawyer, son of an Irish See also:country See also: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 See also:continent, he married in 1796 his niece, See also:Margaret See also:Agnew, daughter of See also:Robert Agnew, the See also:lieutenant-See also: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, See also:West See also:Virginia
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Here in 18o5 he received a visit from See also:Aaron See also:Burr (q.v.), in whose See also: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 See also:mansion andisland were occupied and plundered by the Virginia See also: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 See also: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 See also:City while attempting to obtain through See also:Congress See also:payment for See also:property destroyed on the island
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See See also:
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Safford (editor), The Blennerhassett Papers (Cincinnati, 1864) ; and " The True See also:Story of -Harman Blennerhassett," by Therese Blennerhassett-See also: |
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