The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history

by Wilbur Henry Siebert

[166] Letter from Mr. Sidney Speed, Crawfordsville, Ind., March 6, 1896.

[167] Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, pp. 439-442.

[168] M. G. McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, p. 61.

[169] Smedley, Underground Railroad, p. 244.

[170] Spark's Washington, IX, 158, quoted in Quakers of Pennsylvania, by Dr. A. C. Applegarth, Johns Hopkins Studies, X, 463.

[171] The letter from which this quotation is made will be found in Underground Railroad, by R. C. Smedley, pp. 355, 356.

[172] The italics are my own.

[173] Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol. II, pp. 103, 104; see also the Reminiscences of Levi Coffin.

[174] George H. Woodruff, History of Will County, Illinois, p. 268.

[175] Conversation with J. R. Ware, and with the daughter of Mr. Hyde, Mrs. Amanda Shepherd, Mechanicsburg, O., Sept. 7, 1895; conversation with Major Joseph C. Brand, Urbana, O., Aug. 13, 1894.