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    Effingham Lawrence Capron (1791 – 1859), a Quaker, was a mill owner, and nationally recognized leader of the anti-slavery movement prior to the Civil...
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    Nationally known anti-slavery champion belonged to the Uxbridge meeting. Effingham Capron was an ardent anti-slavery advocate who led the movement at Uxbridge...
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    Uxbridge. John Capron, Sr. had at least two sons. They were, John Willard Capron, of this article, and his sibling, Effingham Capron. Effingham developed fame...
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    Bernat Mill (redirect from Capron Mill)
    original mill, the Capron Mill, was built in 1820, by John Capron, the father of Colonel John Capron and anti-slavery champion Effingham Capron on the Mumford...
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    became influential in the abolition movement, with members such as Effingham Capron and Abby Kelley Foster, and also gave rise to other Quaker settlements...
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    farm, had prominent abolitionists Abby Kelley Foster and Effingham Capron as members. Capron led the 450 member local anti-slavery society. Brister Pierce...
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    the town Effingham Capron (1791–1859), born in Pomfret, anti-slavery champion at Uxbridge, MA, state and national anti-slavery leader John Capron (1756–1834)...
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    Cullen Bryant, poet, journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post Effingham Capron, woolen and cotton mill scion who liberated slaves from the 1830s;...
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    Kellyism". She recruited Susan B Anthony and Lucy Stone to the movement. Effingham Capron, a cotton and textile scion, who attended the Quaker meeting where...
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  • Benson grew up here, married, had a child, and ran a local hotel. Effingham Capron not only led the first power looms for woolens in his mills, but was...
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