Biography
William Brisbane was an Anti-Rent lecturer imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Undersheriff Osman N. Steele at the Moses Earle farm in Andes, Delaware County, New York, where a rent-distress sale on a patroon-system leasehold drew hundreds of disguised "Calico Indian" Anti-Rent militants. Unlike the disguised militants he attended the Earle sale openly, and was convicted of second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in state prison. He was freed by Governor John Young's mass Anti-Rent pardon on January 27, 1847. He was born in 1811 and died in 1890.
