John Brahan
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John Brahan was a resident of the frontier-era southern United States. He was a land speculator, public official, and militia officer in Tennessee and Alabama. In 1819 he resigned from his job as rece
"129 Negroes for Sale" The Democrat, December 3, 1834
"Huntsville, November 14 – PUBLIC LAND SALES" (Mississippi Free Trader, Natchez, November 27, 1818)
A unique runaway slave ad where the slave owner seemingly knows a great deal about the family of his missing slaves, Matt and Granville (John Brahan owned some of their relatives) suggesting that kinship networks may have played a role in the slave trade between Tennessee and Alabama (The Democrat, Huntsville, May 3, 1832)
John Hutchings was a nephew by marriage of American slave trader, militia leader, and U.S. president Andrew Jackson. He was Jackson's partner in his general stores, and his slave-trading operation.
John Brahan
…of Huntsville as a reference in an advertisement; Braham was a common misspelling of Brahan, and Hutchings was most likely Andrew Jackson's nephew John Hutchings, although he had already died the prior autumn. The same year chronicler Anne Royall visited Huntsville and wrote in a letter, "General Brahan, of the…
Hutchings was Jackson's wife's sister's son
A 21-year-old named William, found in 1820 "with a large iron on his right leg, and trace chain about his neck, locked on by a padlock," claimed his legal owner was John Hutchings of Adams County, "near the White Cliffs." (Note: The other captured slave listed in this ad claimed his legal owner was Isaac Franklin.)
"Uncle Dave Hutchings" The Tennessean, August 14, 1890
Andrew Jackson Hutchings (1815–1841)