WILMINGTON, 3d mo.
13th, 1857.
DEAR COUSIN, SAMUEL Rhoads:—
I have a letter this day from an agent of the Underground Rail Road, near
Dover, in this state, saying I must be on the look out for six brothers and two
sisters, they were decayed and betrayed, he says by a colored man named Thomas
Otwell, who pretended to be their friend, and sent a white scamp ahead to wait
for them at Dover till they arrived; they were arrested and put in Jail there,
with Tom’s assistance, and some officers. On third day morning about four
o’clock, they broke jail; six of them are secreted in the neighborhood, and the
writer has not known what became of the other two. The six were to start last
night for this place. I hear that their owners have persons stationed at
several places on the road watching. I fear they will be taken. If they could
lay quiet for ten days or two weeks, they might then get up safe. I shall have
two men sent this evening some four or five miles below to keep them away from
this town, and send them (if found to Chester County). Thee may show this to
Still and McKim, and oblige thy cousin,
THOMAS GARRETT.
SOURCE: William Still, The Underground Railroad: A
Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 73-4
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