18. Schooner Boston case. (Georgia and Maine controversy.)
1837. Controversy between Georgia and Maine over a stowaway on the schooner Boston, who escaped through Maine to Canada: Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I, 473; Niles's Register, LIII, 71, 72, LV, 356; Senate Journal, 1839-40, pp. 235-237; Senate Doc., 26 Cong., 1 Sess., Vol. V, Doc. 273; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 41.
19. Case of Peter, alias Lewis Martin.
1837. Fugitive adjudged to his claimant by Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York: 2 Paine's Reports, 350; 16 Federal Cases, 881.
20. Philadelphia case.
1838. Attempted rescue of a captured fugitive by a crowd of colored people: Liberator, March 16, 1838.
21. Marion (Ohio) case.
1838. Rescue of a fugitive at Marion, Ohio, from the hands of his claimant, who sought to detain him after the decision of the court in the slave's favor: Aaron Benedict, The Sentinel, Mt. Gilead, Ohio, July 13, 1893.
22. Escape of Douglass.
1838. Escape of Frederick Douglass from Baltimore to New York: Life and Times of Douglass; Williams, Negro Race in America, II, 59, 422; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I, 501, 502.