Province would they go into the wilderness to live." That "wilderness" was where the village of Bird-inHand is now situated, in Lancaster county, 39 miles west of Goshen meeting-house, and seven miles east of Lancaster city.

About the year 1789, when a sitting magistrate in Wilmington, Delaware, a colored man was brought before him by a party of kidnappers. They attempted as usual, to carry their case through by bluster. But he told them peremptorily that "if they did not behave themselves he would commit them." He then set the man at liberty. He died in 1810.

Daniel Gibbons was a man of large firmness, independence of mind, clearness of perception, discreet philanthrophy, conscientious, affectionate in his family, and a devout member of the Society of Friends, in which he was an elder for twenty-five years prior to his death. His wife, Hannah, was eminently endowed with fine intellectual capabilities, quick perception, excellent judgment, affectionate and amiable in disposition, fond of home and its endearments, and hence an earnest sympathizer with the poor slaves, whose homes and home-loves were so often severed by their being sold as cattle in the mart. She was also a sincere Christian and a consistent member of the Society of Friends, in which she, like her husband, was an elder during the last twenty-five years of her life. Thus were they adapted by nature to fulfill the life-mission in which Providence had called them to labor conjointly.

"Oh happy they! the happiest of their kind

Whom gentle stars unite, and in one fate

Their hearts, their fortunes and their beings blend."

Her goodness of heart and self-sacrificing spirit were

pre-eminently manifested on one occasion when a fugitive, weary, sick and dirty called at their house. She administered to his wants, and in a few days there developed upon the surface of his body the unmistakable appearance of that loathsome disease small-pox. For six weeks, until he was restored, she attended to him faithfully herself, deeming it expedient that none other should have access to him. He remained with them afterwards eighteen months.

Daniel Gibbons was engaged in assisting fugitives from the time he arrived at manhood's estate until his death in 1853-a period of fifty-six years. He did not keep a record of the number he passed until 1824. But prior to that time it was supposed to have been over 200, and up to the time of his death he had aided about 1000. So wise and cautious was he in his management that out of the whole number that he succored, but one or two were taken from his house.

In the very early days, about 1818 or 1820, a colored man named Abraham Boston came to his place and remained. He was a very excellent man, and Daniel grew to love him as he would a brother. The kidnappers came one day and carried him off. Daniel, at great risk, went in search of him to Baltimore, Md., but for some reason could never get him back. This was the only person for whom he ever went to Maryland. He had a desease in his feet and legs, and could not, therefore, engage personally in going with, or after, colored people. But his wisdom and shrewdness were ever competent to devise plans which others with better power of locomotion could execute.

When a tap was heard on the window at night, all