CAMDEN, DEL., March 23d, 1857.
DEAR SIR:— I tak my
pen in hand to write to you, to inform you what we have had to go throw for the
last two weaks. Thir wir six men and two woman was betraid on the tenth of this
month, thea had them in prison but thea got out was conveyed by a black man, he
told them he wood bring them to my hows, as he wos told, he had ben ther Befor,
he has com with Harrett, a woman that stops at my hous when she pases tow and
throw yau. You don't no me I supos, the Rev. Thomas H. Kennard dos, or Peter
Lowis. He Road Camden Circuit, this man led them in dover prisin and left them
with a whit man; but the tour out the winders and jump out, so cum back to
camden. We put them throug, we hav to carry them 19 mils and cum back the sam
night wich maks 38 mils. It is tou much for our littel horses. We must do the
bes we can, ther is much Bisness dun on this Road. We hav to go throw dover and
smerny, the two wors places this sid of mary land lin. If you have herd or sean
them ples let me no. I will Com to Phila be for long and then I will call and
so you. There is much to do her. Ples to wright,
I Remain your frend,
WILLIAM BRINKLY.
Remember me to Them.
Kennard.
SOURCE: William
Still, The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic
Narratives, Letters &c., p. 74
