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Dr. Chauncy Brown and Temme House

Western wing, angle, wide (photographs of 820 Farmington Avenue courtesy of Zach Gomez)

Hoping for an eventual judicial decision of freedom, Lewis Tappan and the Amistad Committee made plans to relocate the Amistad Africans from New Haven to Farmington. The Amistad Girls would be housed with the families of Horace Cowles, Timothy Cowles and the Reverend Mr. Noah Porter.

However, Horace Cowles died ion February 6 1841 and is buries in Memento Mori in Farmington.

March 19, 1841, Temme arrived at the home of the widowed Elizabeth Hurlburt Cowles, the second wife of Horace Cowles. Later Elizabeth H. Cowles moved to West Hartford, when Mary Ann Cowles Hardy returned to her father’s house.

at some point during her stay, Temme moved to the home of Dr. Chauncey Brown. Dr. Brown’s wife, Julia Strong Brown, wrote about her memories of Temme in The Farmington Magazine. “One of these by name of Tamie was sent directly to me and remained with me until their departure for their native land.”

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