[225] Letters of Brown Thurston, Portland, Me., Jan. 13, 1893, and Oct. 21, 1895.
[226] For letters from Mr. Garrett to William Still, of the Acting Committee of Vigilance of Philadelphia, notifying him that fugitives had been sent by boat, see Still's Underground Railroad Records, pp. 380, 387.
[227] Letter of S. T. Pickard, Portland, Me., Nov. 18, 1893.
[228] Still, Underground Railroad Records, p. 368; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, Vol. II, p. 325; New England Magazine, January, 1890, p. 580.
[229] Letter of A. P. Dutton, of Racine, Wis., April 7, 1896. As a shipper of grain and an abolitionist for twenty years in Racine, Mr. Dutton was able to turn his dock into a place of deportation for runaway slaves.
[230] A. J. Andreas, History of Chicago, Vol. I, p. 606.
[231] Letter of Mr. Weiblen, Fairview, Erie Co., Pa., Nov. 26, 1895.
[232] The Firelands Pioneer, July, 1888, p. 46.
[233] Ibid., p. 50.
[234] The names of the last six boats given, as well as several of the others, were obtained from freedmen in Canada, who keep them in grateful remembrance.