WILMINGTON, 7th mo.,
19th, 1856.
RESPECTED FRIEND, WILLIAM STILL: — I now have the pleasure
of consigning to thy care four able-bodied human beings from North Carolina,
and five from Virginia, one of which is a girl twelve or thirteen years of age,
the rest all men. After thee has seen and conversed with them, thee can
determine what is best to be done with them. I am assured they are such as can
take good care of themselves. Elijah Pennypacker, some time since, informed me
he could find employment in his neighborhood for two or three good hands. I
should think that those from Carolina would be about as safe in that
neighborhood as any place this side of Canada. Wishing our friends a safe trip,
I remain thy sincere friend,
THos, GARRETT.
After conferring with Harry Craige, we have concluded to
send five or six of them tonight in the cars, and the balance, if those go
safe, to-morrow night, or in the steam-boat on Second day morning, directed to
the Anti-Slavery office.
SOURCE: William Still, The Underground Railroad: A
Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 316
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