8. Columbia case.
1804. General Boude defends a runaway: Smedley, Underground Railroad, 26.
9. Case of Wright vs. Deacon.
1819. Trial before Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to determine status of an alleged runaway: 5 Sergeant and Rawle's Reports, 63.
10. Case of Hill vs. Low.
1822. Action brought in Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for penalty under the law of 1793 for obstructing arrest of a fugitive: 4 Washington's Circuit Court Reports, 327.
11. Case of Commonwealth vs. Griffith.
1823. Prosecution in Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts of a slave-catcher for seizing without a warrant a runaway in New Bedford: 2 Pickering's Reports, 15.
12. Escape of Tice Davids.
1831. Mysterious disappearance of a slave at Ripley, Ohio, leads to the naming of the Underground Railroad: Rush R. Sloane, Firelands Pioneer, July, 1888, p. 35.