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The Underground Railroad

William Still

JOSEPH KNEELAND ALIAS JOSEPH HULSON Young Master had a "Malignant Spirit". EX-PRESIDENT TYLER'S HOUSEHOLD LOSES AN ARISTOCRATIC ARTICLE. EDWARD MORGAN, HENRY JOHNSON, JAMES AND STEPHEN BUTLER. "Two Thousand Dollars Reward" offered. HENRY PREDO Daniel Hughes, Thomas Elliott, and five others betrayed into Dover Jail. MARY EPPS ALIAS EMMA BROWN, JOSEPH AND ROBERT ROBINSON. A Slave Mother Loses her Speech at the Sale of her Child ... Bob Escapes from his Master, a Trader, with Fifteen Hundred Dollars in North Carolina Money. GEORGE SOLOMON, DANIEL NEALL, BENJAMIN R. FLETCHER AND MARIA DORSEY. HENRY BOX BROWN Arrived by Adams Express. TRIAL OF THE EMANCIPATORS OF COL. J.H. WHEELER'S SLAVES, JANE JOHNSON AND HER TWO LITTLE BOYS. THE ARRIVALS OF A SINGLE MONTH. Sixty Passengers came in one Month--Twenty-eight in one Arrival--Great Panic and Indignation Meeting--Interesting Correspondence from Masters and Fugitives. A SLAVE GIRL'S NARRATIVE. Cordelia Loney, Slave of Mrs. Joseph Cahell, (widow of the late Hon. Joseph Cahell, of Virginia)--Cordelia's Escape from her Mistress in Philadelphia. ARRIVAL OF JACKSON, ISAAC AND EDMONDSON TURNER FROM PETERSBURG. Touching Scene on Meeting their Old Blind Father at the U.G.R.R. Depot. ROBERT BROWN ALIAS THOMAS JONES. Crossing the River on Horseback in the Night. ANTHONY LONEY ALIAS WILLIAM ARMSTEAD AND CORNELIUS SCOTT. SAMUEL WILLIAMS ALIAS JOHN WILLIAMS. BARNABY GRIGBY ALIAS JOHN BOYER, AND MARY ELIZABETH HIS WIFE, FRANK WANZER ALIAS ROBERT SCOTT, EMILY FOSTER ALIAS ANN WOOD. WILLIAM JORDAN ALIAS WILLIAM PRICE. JOSEPH GRANT AND JOHN SPEAKS. Two Passengers _viâ_ Liverpool. WILLIAM N. TAYLOR. "One Hundred Dollars Reward". LOUISA BROWN, JACOB WATERS, AND ALFRED GOULDEN. ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE. Jefferson Pipkins alias David Jones, Louisa Pipkins, Elizabeth Brit, Harriet Brown, alias Jane Wooton, Gracy Murry alias Sophia Sims, Edward Williams _alias_ Henry Johnson, Charles Lee alias Thomas Bushier. SEVERAL ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES. Henry Anderson, Charles and Margaret Congo, Chaskey Brown, William Henry Washington, James Alfred Frisley, Charles Henry Salter, Stephen Taylor, Charles Brown, Charles H. Hollis, Luther Dorsey. ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND. Jeremiah W. Smith and wife Julia. EIGHT ARRIVALS. James Massey, Perry Henry Trusty, George Rhoads, James Rhoads, George Washington, Sarah Elizabeth Rhoads, and Child, Mary Elizabeth Stephenson. CHARLES THOMPSON. Carrier of "The National American". BLOOD FLOWED FREELY. Abram Galloway and Richard Eden--Secreted in a Vessel Loaded with Spirits of Turpentine--Shrouds Prepared to Prevent being Smoked to Death--Abram a Soldier under Father Abraham--Senator of North Carolina. JOHN PETTIFOOT. "One Hundred Dollars Reward" Offered--McHenry and McCulloch Anxious About John. EMANUEL T. WHITE. "Would rather Fight than Eat". THE ESCAPE OF A CHILD FOURTEEN MONTHS OLD. Letter from "J.B."--Letters from E.L. Stevens ... Great Anxiety and Care. ESCAPE OF A YOUNG SLAVE MOTHER. Baby, Little Girl and Husband left Behind--Three Hundred Dollars Reward Offered. SAMUEL W. JOHNSON. Arrival from the Richmond Daily Dispatch Office--"Uncle Tom's Cabin" turned Sam's Brain--Affecting Letters. FAMILY FROM BALTIMORE. Stephen Amos _alias_ Henry Johnson, Harriet _alias_ Mary Jane Johnson, and their four children, Ann Rebecca, William H., Elizabeth and Mary Ellen. ELIJAH HILTON. From Richmond--"Five Hundred Dollars Reward" offered by R.J. Christian.... Grateful letter from Canada. SOLOMON BROWN. Arrived per City of Richmond--Letter from Canada containing expressions of Gratitude. WILLIAM HOGG ALIAS JOHN SMITH. Traveler from Maryland--William was much troubled about his Wife left behind--Letter from Canada. TWO FEMALE PASSENGERS FROM MARYLAND. Ann Johnson and Lavina Woolfley Sold--Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire. CAPTAIN F. AND THE MAYOR OF NORFOLK. Twenty-one Passengers secreted in Captain Fountain's Boat--Mayor and Posse of Officers on the Boat searching for U.G.R.R. Passengers. ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES. Matilda Mahoney--Dr. J.W. Pennington's Brother and Sons--Great Adventure to deliver a Lover. FLEEING GIRL OF FIFTEEN IN MALE ATTIRE. Ann Maria Weems alias Joe Wright--Great Triumph--Arrival on Thanksgiving Day--Interesting letters from J. Bigelow. FIVE YEARS AND ONE MONTH SECRETED. John Henry, Hezekiah and James Hill. FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE. Archer Barlow, alias Emet Robins--Samuel Bush _alias_ William Oblebee--John Spencer and his son William and James Albert--Robert Fisher--NATHAN HARRIS--Hansel Waples--Rosanna Tonnell, _alias_ Maria Hyde--Mary Ennis _alias_ Licia Hemmit and two Children--Lydia and Louisa Caroline. SAM, ISAAC, PERRY, CHARLES AND GREEN. "One Thousand Dollars Reward". FROM RICHMOND AND NORFOLK, VA. William B. White, Susan Brooks, and Wm. Henry Atkinson. FOUR ARRIVALS. Charlotte and Harriet escape in deep Mourning--White Lady and Child with a Colored Coachman--Three likely Young Men from Baltimore--Four large and two Small Hams--U.G.R.R. Passengers Travelling with their Master's Horses and Carriage--Six Passengers on two Horses, &c. FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, NORTH CAROLINA, WASHINGTON, D.C. AND SOUTH CAROLINA. CHARLES GILBERT, Fleeing from Davis, a Negro Trader--Secreted under a Hotel--Up a Tree--Under a Floor--In a Thicket--On a Steamer. LIBERTY OR DEATH. Jim Bowlegs alias Bill Paul. SALT-WATER FUGITIVE. SAMUEL GREEN ALIAS WESLEY KINNARD. Ten Years in the Penitentiary for having a Copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin in his House. AN IRISH GIRL'S DEVOTION TO FREEDOM. In Love with a Slave--Gets him off to Canada--Follows him--Marriage, &c. "SAM" NIXON ALIAS DR. THOMAS BAYNE. The Escape of a Dentist on the U.G.R.R. &c. SUNDRY ARRIVALS. From Loudoun County, Va., Norfolk, Baltimore, Md., Petersburg, Va., &c. HEAVY REWARD. "Two Thousand Six Hundred Dollars Reward" Offered. SLAVE-TRADER HALL IS FOILED. Robert McCoy alias William Donar, and Elizabeth Sanders, arrived per steamer. THE PROTECTION OF SLAVE PROPERTY IN VIRGINIA. A Bill providing additional Protection for the Slave Property of Citizens of this Commonwealth. ESCAPING IN A CHEST. "One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward"--Lear Green. ISAAC WILLIAMS, HENRY BANKS AND KIT NICKLESS. ARRIVAL OF FIVE PROM THE EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND. Cyrus Mitchell alias John Steel, Joshua Handy alias Hambleton Hamby, Charles Button alias William Robinson, Ephraim Hudson alias John Spry, Francis Molock alias Thomas Jackson. SUNDRY ARRIVALS ABOUT AUGUST 1ST, 1855. Francis Hilliard and Others. DEEP FURROWS ON THE BACK. Thomas Madden. PETER MATHEWS ALIAS SAMUEL SPARROWS. "I might as well be in the Penitentiary as in Slavery." "MOSES" ARRIVES WITH SIX PASSENGERS. ESCAPED FROM "A WORTHLESS SOT." John Atkinson. WILLIAM BUTCHER ALIAS Wm. T. MTCHELL. "He was abuseful". "WHITE ENOUGH TO PASS". ESCAPING WITH MASTER'S CARRIAGES AND HORSES. Harriet Shephard, and her five Children with five other Passengers. EIGHT AND A HALF MONTHS SECRETED. Washington Somlor alias James Moore. ARTHUR FOWLER ALIAS BENJAMIN JOHNSON. SUNDRY ARRIVALS. About the 1st of June, 1855--Emory Roberts and others. SUNDRY ARRIVALS ABOUT JANUARY 1ST, 1855. Verenea Mercer and others. SLAVE-HOLDER IN MARYLAND WITH THREE COLORED WIVES. James Griffin alias Thomas Brown. CAPTAIN F. ARRIVES WITH NINE PASSENGERS. Names of Passengers. OWEN AND OTHO TAYLOR'S FLIGHT WITH HORSES, &c. HEAVY REWARD. Three Hundred Dollars Reward--"Tom" gone. CAPT. F. ARRIVES WITH FOURTEEN "PRIME ARTICLES" ON BOARD. SUNDRY ARRIVALS, LATTER PART OF DECEMBER, 1855, AND BEGINNING OF JANUARY, 1856. Joseph Cornish and others. PART OF THE ARRIVALS IN DECEMBER, 1855. Thomas J. Gooseberry and others. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL OF 1850. "An Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons Escaping from the Services of their Masters." THE SLAVE HUNTING TRAGEDY IN LANCASTER COUNTY, IN SEPTEMBER, 1851. "Treason at Christiana". WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT. Female Slave in Male Attire, fleeing as a Planter, with her Husband as her Body Servant. ARRIVALS FROM RICHMOND. Lewis Cobb and Nancy Brister. PASSENGERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA, [By SCHOONER.] Major Latham, William Wilson, Henry Goram, Wiley Madison, and Andrew Shepherd. THOMAS CLINTON, SAUNEY PRY AND BENJAMIN DUCKET. Passed over the U.G.R.R. in the Fall of 1856. ARRIVALS IN APRIL, 1856. Charles Hall and others. FIVE FROM GEORGETOWN CROSS-ROADS. Mother and Child from Norfolk, Va., &c. PASSENGERS FROM MARYLAND. William Henry MOODY, BELINDA BIVANS, &c. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, D.C., &c., 1857. George Carroll, Randolph Branson, John Clagart and William Royan. ARRIVAL FROM UNIONVILLE, 1857. Israel Todd and Bazil Aldridge. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1857. Ordee Lee and Richard J. Booce. ARRIVAL FROM CAMBRIDGE, 1857. Silas Long and Solomon Light--"The Mother of Twelve Children"--Old Jane Davis. BENJAMIN ROSS AND HIS WIFE HARRIET Fled from Caroline County, Eastern Shore of Maryland, June, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM ALEXANDRIA, IN 1857. ARRIVAL FROM UNIONVILLE, 1857. FROM NEW ORLEANS, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. ARRIVAL FROM GEORGETOWN CROSS ROADS AND ALEXANDRIA. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK, VA. ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. FOUR ABLE BODIED "ARTICLES" IN ONE ARRIVAL, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM ARLINGTON, MD., 1857. FIVE PASSENGERS, 1847. ARRIVAL FROM HOWARD COUNTY, MD., 1857. ARRIVAL FROM PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD. ARRIVAL FROM RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM NORTH CAROLINA, 1857. ALFRED HOLLON, GEORGE AND CHARLES N. RODGERS. ARRIVAL FROM KENT COUNTY, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE COUNTY, 1857. MARY COOPER AND MOSES ARMSTEAD, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM NEAR WASHINGTON, D.C. HON. L. McLANE'S PROPERTY, SOON AFTER HIS DEATH, TRAVELS VIA THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD--WILLIAM KNIGHT, ESQ. LOSES A SUPERIOR "ARTICLE." ARRIVAL FROM HARFORD COUNTY, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK, VA., 1857. ARRIVAL FROM HOOPERVILLE, MD., 1857. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1857. ARRIVAL FROM QUEEN ANNE COUNTY, 1858. ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE. ARRIVED FROM DUNWOODY COUNTY, 1858. ARRIVED FROM ALEXANDRIA, VA., 1857. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1858. ARRIVAL FROM PETERSBURG, 1858. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. ARRIVAL OF A PARTY OF SIX, 1858. ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1858. ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE, 1858. ARRIVAL FROM HIGHTSTOWN, 1858. ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1858. ARRIVAL FROM BELLAIR.