The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history

by Wilbur Henry Siebert

[215] Letter of John W. Jones, Elmira, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1897.

[216] Letter of the Hon. Andrew D. White, Ithaca, N.Y., April 10, 1897.

[217] Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Anti-Slavery Reminiscences, pp. 28, 38.

[218] Letter of William I. Bowditch, Boston, April 5, 1893. Mr. Bowditch says: "Generally I passed them (the fugitives) on to William Jackson, at Newton. His house being on the Worcester Railroad, he could easily forward any one." Captain Austin Bearse, Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston, p. 37.

[219] Letter of Brown Thurston, Portland, Me., Oct. 21, 1895.

[220] Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Anti-Slavery Reminiscences, pp. 27, 30.

[221] Austin Bearse, Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston, 1880, pp. 34-39.

[222] Smedley, Underground Railroad, letter of Robert Purvis, of Philadelphia, p. 335.

[223] Still, Underground Railroad Records, pp. 165-172. For other cases, see pp. 211, 379-381, 437, 558, 559-565.

[224] See p. 312, Chapter X.