2d day morning, 29th,—The
person who took the husband and wife and three lads to E. F. Pennypecker, and
Peart, has returned and reports that L. Peart sent three on to Norristown. We
fear that there they will fall into the hands of an ignorant colored man Daniel
Ross, and that he may not understand the necessity of caution. Will you please
write to some careful person there? The woman and children detained in this
neighborhood are a very helpless set. Our plan was to assist them as much as
possible, and when we get things into the proper train for sending them on, to
get the assistance of the husband and wife, who have no children, but are uncle
and aunt to the woman with five, in taking with them one of the younger
children, leaving fewer for the mother. Of the lads, or young men, there is
also one whom we thought capable of accompanying one of the older girls — one
to whom he is paying attention, they told us. Would it not be the best way to
get those in Norristown under your own care? It seems to me their being sent on
could then be better arranged. This, however, is only a suggestion,
Hastily yours,
G. A. Lewis.
SOURCE: William Still, The Underground Railroad: A
Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 40
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