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Chapter 3
The importance of Thomas Brown
He was the first great American deaf leader (1804-1886)
Thomas studied under the founders of American deaf education. Such people like deaf Frenchman, Laurent Clerc and even hearing American, Thomas Gallaudet
Thomas was said to be an excellent student
Thomas studied immensely on deaf people and their culture as a whole
Thomas had created his own perceived notion through out his education leading him to view the deaf community as more of a social group
Thomas Brown had went on to marry his wife Mary Smith
Deaf community in Martha's vineyard
Martha's vineyard was indeed the largest single source of pupils at the asylum for several years
Thomas and his wife Mary found themselves in Martha's vineyard for sometime
Groce, identified that seventy-two deaf individuals, of whom sixty-three could trace their ancestry to James Skiffe, thirty-two to Samuel Tilton, and nine to Jonathan Lambert
Most of the deaf people on the island had all three of these colonist in their pedigrees
Groce found that all three families were linked before they even arrived on the vineyard
The colonizers were drawn to the vineyard by the availability of farmland, the long growing numerous ponds, along with fish and shellfish of vast variety
Around the 1700's about 400 people lived on the vineyard, the population stopped growing about the 1800's at some 3,000
People in this isolated community whose ancestors were from the same parishes married someone to whom they are already related and who was from their own village on the island
Deaf people as a distinct class
The construction of deaf people as a distinct class had clearly emerged
The deaf community expanded quickly especially in places such as Martha's vineyard
The formation of numerous societies of deaf people had presided around Thomas
Thomas and his associates saw the deaf community as a distinct group with a language and way of life that should be fostered
They believed that these conventions tend keep alive the feelings of brotherhood and friendships among the mutes at large cannot be disrupted"