History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania

abolitionists agents AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY Anti-Slavery Society arrest arrived asked assisted barn Barnard Bartholomew Fussell Benjamin bondage Born Burleigh Canada capture carriage Chester county Christiana claimant colored woman Columbia Daniel Gibbons Dannaker daughter directions drove earnest Elijah F escape Eusebius father freedom Fugitive Slave Law gave hands Hannah horses husband Isaac Jacob James John Vickers Joseph Joseph Gibbons Kennett Kennett Square kidnappers Kimber knew Lancaster county Lewis liberty Lindley Coates lived Mary Maryland master meeting miles morning mother Nathan Evans negro neighborhood neighbors never nigger night Norristown Parker party passed Paxson Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia pro-slavery pursuers residence returned road route safe Samuel sent slave-hunters slaveholders slavery Society of Friends sold South station taken thee Thomas Garrett Thomas Whitson thought tion told took township Underground Railroad wagon West Chester wife William Lloyd Garrison William Wright Wilmington