THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD xxiii TABLE OF CONTENTS SETH CONCKLIN . 1 UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD LETTERS . 13 WILLIAM PEEL, ALIAS WILLIAM BOX PEEL JONES . 21 WESLEY HARRIS, ALIAS ROBERT JACKSON, AND THE MATTERSON BROTHERS . 23 DEATH OF ROMULUS HALL—NEW NAME GEORGE WEEMS . 25 JAMES MERCER, WM. H. GILLIAM, AND JOHN CLAYTON . 28 CLARISSA DAVIS . 33 ANTHONY BLOW, ALIAS HENRY LEVISON . 34 PERRY JOHNSON, OF ELKTON, MARYLAND . 35 ISAAC FORMAN, WILLIAM DAVIS, AND WILLIS REDICK . 36 JOSEPH HENRY CAMP . 38 SHERIDAN FORD . 38 JOSEPH KNEELAND, ALIAS JOSEPH HULSON . 39 EX-PRESIDENT TYLER’S HOUSEHOLD LOSES AN ARISTOCRATIC “ARTICLE” . 39 EDWARD MORGAN, HENRY JOHNSON, JAMES AND STEPHEN BUTLER . 41 HENRY PREDO . 42 DANIEL HUGHES . 42 THOMAS ELLIOTT . 43 MARY EPPS, ALIAS EMMA BROWN—JOSEPH AND ROBERT ROBINSON . 44 GEORGE SOLOMON, DANIEL NEALL, BENJAMIN R. FLETCHER AND MARIA DORSEY . 47 HENRY BOX BROWN . 49 TRIAL OF THE EMANCIPATORS OF COL. J. H. WHEELER’S SLAVES, JANE JOHNSON AND HER TWO LITTLE BOYS . 53 THE ARRIVALS OF A SINGLE MONTH . 61 ASLAVE GIRL’S NARRATIVE . 74 ARRIVAL OF JACKSON, ISAAC AND EDMONDSON TURNER FROM PETERSBURG . 77 ROBERT BROWN, ALIAS THOMAS JONES . 80 ANTHONY LONEY, ALIAS WILLIAM ARMSTEAD . 82 CORNELIUS SCOTT . 82 SAMUEL WILLIAMS, ALIAS JOHN WILLIAMS . 82 BARNABY GRIGBY, ALIAS JOHN BOYER, AND MARY ELIZABETH, HIS WIFE; FRANK WANZER, ALIAS ROBERT SCOTT; EMILY FOSTER, ALIAS ANN WOOD . 83 xxiv THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD WILLIAM JORDON, ALIAS WILLIAM PRICE . 87 JOSEPH GRANT AND JOHN SPEAKS . 89 WILLIAM N. TAYLOR . 91 LOUISA BROWN . 92 JACOB WATERS AND ALFRED GOULDEN . 92 ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE . 92 SEVERAL ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES . 93 ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND . 95 EIGHT ARRIVALS . 97 CHARLES THOMPSON . 99 BLOOD FLOWED FREELY . 102 JOHN PETTIFOOT . 104 EMANUEL T. WHITE . 105 THE ESCAPE OF A CHILD FOURTEEN MONTHS OLD . 106 ESCAPE OF A YOUNG SLAVE MOTHER . 108 SAMUEL W. J OHNSON . 109 FAMILY FROM BALTIMORE . 110 ELIJAH HILTON . 111 SOLOMON BROWN . 112 WILLIAM HOGG, ALIAS JOHN SMITH . 113 TWO FEMALE PASSENGERS FROM MARYLAND . 114 CAPTAIN F. AND THE MAYOR OF NORFOLK . 114 ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES . 120 “FLEEING GIRL OF FIFTEEN,” IN MALE ATTIRE . 123 FIVE YEARS AND ONE MONTH SECRETED . 133 THE ESCAPE OF HEZEKIAH HILL . 144 JAMES—(BROTHER OF JOHN HENRY HILL) . 145 FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE . 146 SAMUEL BUSH, ALIAS WILLIAM OBLEBEE . 147 JOHN SPENCER AND HIS SON WILLIAM, AND JAMES ALBERT . 147 HETTY SCOTT, ALIAS MARGARET DUNCANS AND DAUGHTER PRISCILLA . 147 ROBERT FISHER . 148 HANSEL WAPLES . 149 ROSE ANNA TONNELL, ALIAS MARIA HYDE . 149 MARY ENNIS ALIAS LICIA HEMMIN . 149 “SAM,” “ISAAC,” “PERRY,” “CHARLES,” AND “GREEN” . 150 FROM RICHMOND AND NORFOLK, VA. 151 SUSAN BROOKS . 152 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD xxv WILLIAM HENRY ATKINS . 153 FOUR ARRIVALS . 154 FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, NORTH CAROLINA, WASHINGTON, D.C., AND SOUTH CAROLINA . 161 CHARLES GILBERT . 170 LIBERTY OR DEATH . 173 SALT-WATER FUGITIVE ..