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Page 291
... horses fed , and then started homeward , rejoiced that he had passed them so far in safety . This party left their master's plantation in Maryland about eight o'clock the night before , taking with them a couple of two - horse carriages ...
... horses fed , and then started homeward , rejoiced that he had passed them so far in safety . This party left their master's plantation in Maryland about eight o'clock the night before , taking with them a couple of two - horse carriages ...
Page 292
... horses ; said they looked in bad condition , and wondered whose they were . No one knew , but some observed that ... horses looked badly in need of provender . The news soon spread over town . In the afternoon the slave - hunters came ...
... horses ; said they looked in bad condition , and wondered whose they were . No one knew , but some observed that ... horses looked badly in need of provender . The news soon spread over town . In the afternoon the slave - hunters came ...
Page 324
... horses and to lead another , and take some bags as though going upon an errand to the adjoining mill . This was then ... horse , and passed by the by- road across the Wilmington road and through by Jesse Mercer's place , and out on the ...
... horses and to lead another , and take some bags as though going upon an errand to the adjoining mill . This was then ... horse , and passed by the by- road across the Wilmington road and through by Jesse Mercer's place , and out on the ...
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History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties ... Robert Clemens Smedley No preview available - 2015 |
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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