1
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1865 Census.
TLW Directory Database
Property Value-$50
TLW Directory Database
3
Adams
John A.
AfAm
Property owner
Directory
Aurelius/
Auburn
1857-16
Jefferson
1867-68:
33 Mechanic
3
Adams
William
AfAm
Directory
Auburn
1867-68:
81 Mechanic
3
Adley
Isaac
3
Alexander
Charlotte
3
Alexander
David
3
Alexander
Edward
3
Alexander
Louise
3
Allen
David
3
Allen
Henry
3
Allen
Henry
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
AfAm
FSURR
FSURR
Isaac's wife and 2 infant children
1850 Census. County Poor died in the County Poor House in
House Records.
1853-described as destitute.TLW
Birthplace-VA
Ledyard
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
1870 Census
Birthplace-GA
Auburn
1870 Census
Auburn
Prison/Auburn
Farm Laborer
Birthplace-KY
Auburn
Birthplace-MD
Auburn Wm. Seward Hous
Directory
Auburn
Birthplace-MD
Springport
Birthplace-MD
1867-68 Swift n
Moravia St.
Sennett W/ Joel Merriman
Wife of David
1865/1870 Census
1860 Census
TLW Directory Database
1855 Census
1855 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
2
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
STATUS
RATING
SIGNIFICANCE
Allen
John H.
A
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
5
Ambie
Nat and
Lizzie
3
Anderson
James
FSURR
FSURR
5
Anderson
LAST NAME
3
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Andrews
FIRST
NAME
Rev. CharlesA-URR
Emanuel
2
Anthony
David
3
Armond
Moses
FSURR
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
There are 4 John Allens in 1840
in Auburn, Ledyard, Sempronius
Friend of Man- 3 July 1839.
& Ira.TLW
Documentation
Auburn
Kate Larson, Nat Ambie to
Wm. Still, 6/10/1858,
p. 93 (104).
Birthplace-MO
Brutus
UGRR
Sennett
Documentation
W/ E. Drake
1870 Census
Harriet Eglin to Wm. Still,
1856 pp. 221-23.
Canada
SBAnthony's
cousin; oral
tradition that family
Union Springs,
A-URR kept safe house Springport Anthony St.
FSCounty Insane
URR
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
Asylum
Made speech at July 1839
Convention in Auburn, was a
slave in KY & fled to Canada,
with all of his family except one
son. A collection was taken up to
Friend of Man- 3 July 1839.
help free the son, $27.00.
family tradition
Ron Myers
1853 map of Cayuga Co., Union
Springs, shows D. Anthony as
owner of much property-to wit:
Anthony St.-all lots, Lumber yard
and office.TLW
1865-70 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
3
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
Arms
3
Armstrong
3
Armwood
2
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Armwood
Arnold
FIRST
NAME
benezer Whi
John W.
George
Franklin
Whitington
& Anna
Joseph
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A
FSURR
AfAm
Mtd
A
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
Lawyer-facilitated
numerous legal
transcations for
AfAm's in Aurora
and surrounding
areas.
Ledyard
Aurora
Birthplace-Wash.
DC
Auburn
State Prison
Property owner
Springport
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Diary contains entries reflecting
Arms' attendance at Anti-Slavery
speeches. Founding member of
Aurora Pres. Church where many
of these events took place. AfAm.
Diary of E. W. Arms, 1835,
John Scott living with ArmsWells College archives.
Morgan attendsw funeral
Numerous wills and deeds.
1876.TLW
1860 Census
AfAm Census. Donna Green Son of Whittington & Anna
research
Armwood. Property Value-$50
Obit states Armwood brought to
Cayuga Co as slave. Land owner
Coonley's
w/ son Timothy-$400-1865.
Corners, at
Genealogy info provided by Ms.
Birthplace(Whitting
intersection of
1830-65 Census.
Green-see file. Mentioned in
ton)-Somerset Co.,
Coonley's
Donna Green, San Antonio Morgan Diary-age 85 in 1877.
MD.
AnnaCorners & Kings
TX research. Sheila
Named "Washington" incorrectly
NY
Ledyard
Corners rds.
Edmunds Research
in master census database.
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
Sennett
Friend of Man- 3 July 1839.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
4
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5
Auburn
African ME
Church
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
5 Washington.
1855 census
states: "Value of
church & lot$1600-can seat
200, usual
number attending
50, number of
communicants-8,
Home to 6 fugitives
salary of clergyFS-URR
in 1857
Auburn
$250.
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Letter states: "Rev. Eastup called
here a few weeks ago to say that
there were six fugitives at his
house…The 1857 Auburn
Directory lists Eastup at 5
Washington, church and house"
This references the African ME
Church. In "The History of
Cayuga County", 1908 CCHS, p.
220, "A little over a half century
ago the Afro-American race of
Auburn had no permanent plan of
worhsip and no regular pastor. It
was their custom to hold meetings
at some house, and perhaps some
traveling preacher would come
and hold a sort of revival meeting.
This (Zion M. E. Church) was
organized in the late 40's by the
Rev. Mr. Johnson with a few
families and began worshipping
in an abandoned wooden school
house on Washington St. which
was erected by the Village of
Auburn for a separate school for
colored children and later turned
over by the new city authorities to
the colored people for church
uses. Not known if church was
built on the site of the school or
used as such-Storkes gives date of
Letter of 1857 to Ellen from
construction for church as
MCW
1847.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
5
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5
4
Auburn
Presbyterian
Church
5
Auburn
Prison
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Auburn City
Hall
Auburn
St. Mark's
African ME
Church
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
A
Hosted Frederick
Douglass and
comm. During their
Anti-Slavery
lecture tour of 1848
and meeting of Aug
1849
A
TOWNSHIP
SOURCE
COMMENTS
In Auburn Directory: "St. Mark's
The North Star, 21 Apr 1848 AME Church (colored), holds its
and 10 Aug 1849.
meetings at present in City Hall,
Auburn City Directory of
Rev. Wm. B. F. Marshall,
1878-1879, p. 41.
Pastor."TLW
Abolitionist sentimen Auburn
Site of escape of
George
Washington.
LOCATION
A Rev. H. A. Nelson and Dr.
Hicock, of Aub Theo Sem, are
both mentioned in cited source, as
having met with J. R. Johnson in
Frederick Douglass Paper, 6 Auburn, he an anti-slavery agent
May 1852
and lecturer.
Auburn
Corporation papers give name at
its inception as simply 'The
African M. E. Church of Auburn"easily confusing it with the AME
New church
Met at Markham
Kate Clifford Larson.
Zion Church on Washington St.
founded in 1870 by
Hall, City Hall
Cayuga Co. Religious
Church trustees included Nelson
Auburn freedom
and County Court Corporation Papers, Vol 1, Davis, Harriet Tubman's husband,
seekers and others. Auburn
House
p. 241.
John Waire
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
6
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
4
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
3
Aud
4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Austin
FIRST
NAME
George
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A
FSURR
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Read entire article cited for clear
idea on level of involvment.
"Colored American" article notes
a Dr. Cox, "an eloquent clergyman
late of Aub Theo Sem, now of
Brooklyn church, has been
appointed President of
Middlebury College, VT". See
also George Washington.
Many profs &
students involved
in anti-slavery
activities.
Auburn
State Street
Friend of Man- Aug 11,
1836, p. 2., also, 24 Apr
1839, p. 2B, also, 11 Aug
1836, also. 9 March 1841, p.
3. The Colored American,
19 Oct 1839, NYC. Census
of Sean Connery.
Birthplace-VA
Ledyard
w/ Jason
Alexander
1870 Census
William Seward
friend, helped in
defense of William
Freeman, Jerry
Rev. John A-URR Rescue involvment Auburn
4
Avery
Hamilton
A
abolitionist,
delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
3
Backus
Peter
AfAm
Directory
Ledyard
Auburn
1859-60:
57 Water St.
Peter Wisbey
Ken Mochel, ministerUnitarian-Universalist
Society of Auburn
Sheila Tucker
Rev. Austin mentioned in letters
from Mrs. Seward to Mr. Seward.
Unitarian minister
Friend of Man- 3 July 1839.
Found in 1840, 50, 60 census of
Venice.
TLW Directory Database
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
7
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
Bagby
FIRST
NAME
Candace
3
Baker
Horace
3
Baker
James
3
Baltimore
H. C.
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FSURR
A
FSURR
FSURR
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-South
America
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1865 Census. Judy Bryant
research. Gladys Stewart A Lydia Bagby Holland and Viola
Bryant "Census of Auburn" Bagby Mosley, live at 79 Fitch
1929
Ave. in 1929. JB/TLW
Auburn
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
Fleming/
Owasco?
1843 Fleming Ledger-Cay.
Co. GenWeb site
search.TLW. Friend of Man
3 July 1839
Birthplace-Wash.
DC
Auburn
1860 Census
Birthplace-VA
Brutus
1870 Census
Trudy Buxenbaum
2620 Dog Corner Rd.
Aurora, N.Y. 13026
[email protected]
315-364-7635
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
2
Barber's
Corners
house
3
Barnard
Amy
Strong Oral
Tradition as UGRR
UGRR
site.
Scipio
FSURR
Birthplace-MD
Aurelius
Not sure of
present owner, but it had
Scipioville.
a wall covering a closet
Brick house at
area under a sloped roof.
corner of
David White
This area had a small door
Levanna Rd. and
Center Road
leading to an attic area which may
Brick Church Rd. Scipio Center, N.Y. 13147
have been an outlet for slaves.
west of
[email protected]
Wall was removed in recent years
Scipioville.
315-364-5587
to reveal the closet.
w/ Mosely
Hutchinson
1850 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
8
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
Barnes
John
FSURR
Barnes
Luther
3
Baron
John
3
Batise
John
3
Battles
Bell
4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Bell/Belt
James
Isaac
Charles
UGRR
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
LOCATION
SOURCE
State Prison
1850 Census
Interview with James R.
Cox,
Elbert Wixom thesis, 1903,
30.
Auburn
Birthplace-TN
Auburn
State Prison
1865 Census
Birthplace-LA
Auburn
State Prison
1850 Census
Throop
w/ Flevel
Danforth
1860 Census
Birthplace-MD
URR
Brutus
FSURR Birthplace-Wash. DC Auburn
COMMENTS
Check property data.
Tradition is that freedom seekers
came on turnpike to Rude St. and
then went on old road (not there
anymore) to Hamilton St., cut
across Oakland to Seneca River.
Local residents say there used to
be a cave off Hamilton St. on
Harold Hawley farm. Behind
house of one of volunteers at
Oral tradition--Jean Baker; Brutus Historical Society. Kids
NE corner 34 &
signed
used to play in it, so owner blew
Rude St.
antislavery petition
it up.
County Insane
Asylum
1860 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
9
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
FIRST
NAME
4
Bell/Belt
Jane
4
Bell/Belt
Jemima
4
Bell/Belt
Mary
4
Bell/Belt
Robert
2
Bell/Belt
Robert
STATUS
RATING
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
FSURR Birthplace-Canada
FSURR Birthplace-Canada
FSURR Birthplace-Canada
FSURR Birthplace-Wash. DC
FSURR Birthplace-NYCity
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
Auburn
County Orphan
Asylum
1870 Census
Auburn
w/ Cornelia
Langham
1870 Census
Auburn
COMMENTS
1870 Census
Auburn
State Prison
1855 Census
Auburn
County Insane
Asylum
1865 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
10
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Belt
FIRST
NAME
Thomas &
Rachel
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FSURR
SIGNIFICANCE
Owner of 77
Cornell St.
BirthplacesMD/VA
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
Cayuga Co. City Deed
Books 129, p. 498; 147, p.
377; and 41, p. 246.. Wills,
Box 213, (Thomas/Rachel
Belt) & Wills, Book 38, p.
77
397 (George Belt) Cayuga
Auburn Cornell/Chapman Co. Records. 1870 Census
COMMENTS
Children: Isaiah, b. Canada and
George, b. NY. Daughter Julia is
wife of Plymouth Cannon. At his
death he still has 2 children living
in Canada-Harriet, wife of
George Williams and Emeline,
widow of John Thomas. Thomas
buys, for $700, property that
becomes 77 Chapman from
Horace Fitch son of Abijah)on 5
Nov 1868. Tax Rolls show value
of lot increasing from $100 in
1868 to $425 in 1874. Current
house on 77 Chapman could have
built btw. 1869 and 1874. Thomas
gives the property to son George
in 1877 and he (George) wills it
(in 1897) to his survivors and
ultimately to what was then the
African ME Zion Church of
Auburn. The house is then sold to
Phillip Gaskin, son of Richard, in
1927. It is now owned by Judy
Bryant and was listed to the
National Register of Historic
Places in June of 2005.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
11
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Bell/Belt
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
William & FSHarriet
URR
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-VA/
Property Owner
TOWNSHIP
Springport
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1865 Census
Children include: John, Marshallbp unknown, Property Value$800-
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
12
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Bell
Zadoc &
Uretha
(Reda)
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
FSURR
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Birthplace-Wash.
DC & Canada
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Appointed, in 1870, along with
Harriet Tubman's husband and
others, to committee to care for
St. Mark's AME church property.
Appears in 1880 census along
with possible brothers Joseph and
Howard, both on Genesee Street.
Zadoc, Howard (and his wife
Julia-b. Canada) are buried in Lot
92 Home at Fort Hill Cemetery.
Zadoc, Joseph and Howard were
all born in Wash. DC. Died at 36
years, buried at Fort Hill Cem.
after "Prayer at 16 Parker St..and
further at Zion ME Church,
Washington St. Interment..with
Masonic ceremonies by the
colored fraternity of which he
1870 Census. Cayuga Co. was a member."TLW Purchases,
Religious Corporation
in 1879, from James & Mary Ann
Papers, Vol 1, p. 241.
Servis, property on Parker St. for
Obituary-Auburn Daily Adv- $1550. Listed in the 1879 Auburn
17 Garrow St. by evening ed. 28 July 1881.
Directory as "Z. Adolph Bell,
the 1880 census City Deed Book 150, p. 521
how grinder-Parker near
Auburn
of Auburn.
(Servis to Bell).
sandbank".TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
13
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
2
Benham
3
Bennett
3
Bennett
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
J. Milton
A
FSbram & Hes URR
FSFlorence URR
3
Bennett
Mrs.
3
Bevier
B.
3
Bick/Beck
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
A
FSURR
Wm. Lewis
&
Gertrude,
Martin
AfAm
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
Auburn
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
1870 Census
Birthplace-VA
Auburn
1870 Census
Cited with thanks,
for running the
Bazaar at the 6th
Rochester AntiSlavery Bazaar.
Mentz
Birthplace-VA
Birthplaces-Santa
Cruz, W. Indies
No reference to this man in the
1840 census-all spellings. Is
listed with those from Aub. Theol.
Sem at the 1839 July Aub
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
Conv.TLW
Port Byron
Aurora
Domestic w/ Minerva Quigley
The North Star, 12 Jan 1849.
Ledyard W/ Seneca Boyce
Ledyard
COMMENTS
1870 Census
The Bick/Beck family are buried
in the Oak Glen Cemetery of
Aurora and includes Lewis and
wife Gertrude Shuster Bick,
children Albert, Morton and
Florence all b. NY and Martinlikely brother of Lewis,(imm. to
US in 1884), who lives next to
George Cromwell with wife
1900 census. Sheila Edmund
Alice and family.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
14
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
FIRST
NAME
3
3
Binun?
Bion/Biow
Betsy
Simeon
3
Blakes
3
Blane
Bloomfield
David
3
Bloomfield
Diana
3
Bloomfield
Jean
Bogart
FSURR
AfAm
FSURR
Charles &
Caroline AfAm
4
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
James
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Harriet
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1850 Census
1860 Census
Property Value-$150
Birthplace-VA
Property owner
Brutus w/ Jeremiah Bush
Genoa
Birthplace-OH
Auburn
State Prison
Directory
Auburn
1859-64:
47 Cottage St.
TLW Directory Database
Birthplace-S.
Carolina
Auburn
County Poor
House
1840-1850 Census.
AfAm. In Cay. Co.
Poorhouse DB
Poor house records indicate his
death, 17 Jan 1851. Living with
Adam Gray family 1850.TLW
1855 Census
Resident of Auburn for 51 years.
(since 1804).
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
BirthplaceUnknown
Auburn
Birthplace-VA
Mentz
Mtd
Worked for the
Wm. Seward
family. Wife of
Nicholas
Auburn
w/ John McOtrum
1865 Census
Seward House Archives
Seward House has full-length
photo, abt 1880 of Harriet, also
letters between Harriet and
William Seward regarding her
son.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
15
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5 Bogart
3 Bonse
Nicholas
James
3
James &
Jane &
family
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Boss
Briggs
Charles
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Mtd
F
F
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
In 1860 lives next door to Wm.
Cromwell, (pastor of AME Zion
Church) with wife Harriet and 1
year old Mary Simpson of Ohio.
Trustee of the "African School" in
the village of Auburn, name is on
a published "card of thanks" for
money raised for the school.
1850-60 census. Obit.
Name appears in first
2/15/1893. D. age 91.
incorporation paper of 1838 for
Seward House scrapbook. the beginning of the African Meth
1850 Census
Epis. Church at 5 Washington St.,
Born in slavery;
1865-66:
Friend of Man, 24 April,
at the site of the first city school
coachman for
16 Miller-bought 1839, p. 2D. Religious
for "colored" children.TLW
Seward family.
house and lot
Corporations of Cayuga
Property Value-$1000Husband of Harriet.
from William County, NY, Vol. 1, p. 154. land/property in 1855. Value
Property Owner.
Auburn
Seward.
Cay. Co. Records Ret.
drops to $300 in 1860
Birthplace-DE
Auburn
State Prison
1865 Census
Property Owner
BirthplaceUnknown
Scipio
Employed Jane
Clark, acting mayor
A-URR
in 1861
Auburn
1865 Census
Property Value-$200
Martha Wright to Ellen
Wright 27 Jan 1861.
Garrison Papers Smith
College.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
16
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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FIRST
NAME
3
Brock
Mary A.
3
Brown
Benjamin
3
Brown
Frank
3
Brown
Guy
2
Brown
Brown
FSURR
FSURR
lizabeth/Bet F/Mtd
3
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Brown
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
J. M.
Owen
3
Brown
Robert
3
Brown
Thomas
FSURR
FSURR
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
Birthplace-MD
Ledyard w/ George Tucker
1850 Census
Birthplace-VA
Ledyard W/ Seneca Boyce
1865 Census
Between 1844 and 1849, this
elderly woman, "African", (aged
about 95) was in the poor house
County Poor House Records and died there 18 July 1849.TLW
Brutus
County Poor
House
Birthplace-MD
Directory
Auburn
1867-68:
South n Toll
Gate.
1860 Census.
TLW Directory Database.
Birthplace-VA
Auburn
County Insane
Asylum
1870 Census
Birthplace-Unk
A
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
A
Abolitionist,
relative of John
Brown
Sterling
Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
Property Owner
BirthplaceUnknown
Brutus
1850 Census
FSURR
FSURR
Birthplace-MD
COMMENTS
There are numerous J. Browns in
the 1840 census.
Conquest w/ Hiram Lake
Property Value-$100 (?)
1860 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
17
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2
Brown
W.G.
3
Brown
William
3
2
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Brown
Brown
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A
FSURR
William & FSPhoebe
URR
William G.
Brownell
A
A
George &
Almira
3
Bryant
3
Buchanan
Ann
3
Buchanan
Nana
3
Buck
Jane
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
UGRR
Birthplace-MD
Brutus
LOCATION
SOURCE
Blind Sodus
Sheila Tucker, typed notes
from Ingham
w/ Robert
Andrews
1860 Census
Property Owner
Birthplace-KY
Auburn
1850-55 Census
Abolitionist
preacher; relative
of
John Brown
Sterling
Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
Documentation
Property Owner
Directory
Genoa
Five Corners
1865-66:
Auburn 7 Washington St.
AfAm
FSURR
Birthplace-MD Springport Willis Farm
FSURR
Birthplace-MD Springport W/ Mary Newton
FSURR Birthplace-Unknown Auburn
COMMENTS
Property Value-$600. Second
oldest child born Michigan. To
Auburn in 1846. William's
occupation: cabinet makerTLW
Frederick Douglass Paper,
30 June 1854
Douglass: "Men (along with
Smith) well known as firm and
consistent advocates of Human
Rights".
1865 Census.
TLW/JGB Directory
Database.
Property Value-$2000. #7
Washington involves the site of
the AME Zion Church next to Deb
DePuy.TLW
1860 Census
Ann and Nana could be the same
person
1865 Census
1865 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
18
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3
Budd
3
Burget(t)
3
Benjamin
& Mary
Betsy
3
Butler
Isaac
3
Butler
John
3
Cady
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
A
FSHenry & Mar URR Birthplace-NY? & MD Auburn
Butler
Cadish
SIGNIFICANCE
Supported
Wilberforce
Colony
Rev. John
4
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Burns
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Berkley
Isaac
Mtd
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
A
A
Property Owners
Directory
Birthplace-Canada.
Safe House.
SOURCE
Austin Steward
Autobiography-Peter
Wisbey
1870 Census. KCL
1865-1868:
74 Franklin n city
1855-65 Census.
Auburn
limits
TLW Directory Database.
1857 Dir.: 34
Auburn West Genesee St.
1850, 55, 60, 65 Census.
Birthplace-LA
Auburn
1860 Census
Birthplace-VA
Auburn
1855-60 Census
Abolitionist,
relative of John
Brown
Sterling
Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
UGRR
COMMENTS
Property Value-$100-$600
w/ John Turner, AfAm., 3rd
Ward. See "Betsy Butler's Safe
House"-TLW.
w/ William Seward
Member, Congregational Church.
Worked with Stoyell. Memorial
Sheila Tucker typewritten
window in church. Built Cady
Tavern at 33
notes. 7 Mar 1908 Obit of tavern and ran it as a temperance
South Main St.; Mrs. Cady mentions Isaac's inn. "Stone wall four feet high in
Stone house at 18 as a stop for wagon en route
front built by Zadoc Sabin.
Moravia
Main St.
to Skaneateles safe house.
Researched by Cornell. "
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
19
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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3
Cain
William
3
Campbell
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Cannon
3
Capron
3
Cargill
Anna
Plymouth
Rock &
Julia
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
FSURR Birthplace-N. Carolin Ledyard w/ James Austin
FSURR
Birthplace-VA
Auburn w/ Wm Seward
FSURR
freedom seekers
Auburn
79 Fitch Ave.
Auburn-1880
Abolitionist,
woman's rights
advocate, Member
of Executive Comm
of the Western NY
Research onAS Meeting.
going into
Editor of the
genealogy and
Auburn branch of
final identity and
the National
places of
Eliab W. A-URR
Reformer.
residence.TLW
FSBirthplace-N.
John
URR
Carolina
Ledyard w/ Wm. Grinnell
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1870 Census
1870 Census
From Del.as entered in the
1875 and 1880 census.
Kate Larson. Ran away from
Nat
With sons William and John and
Horsey. Still, 463-467. 1870
daughter Alice all born in
Auburn census.
Canada.
Signer of Seneca Falls
Declaration of Sentiments.
The North Star, 29 Dec
1848, 13 Apr 1849 and 21
Apr 1848. Also, The North
Star, 23 Nov 1849. Charles
Lenhart
Is mentioned as assisting
Frederick Douglass at the Auburn
"Old Universalist Church". Called
"ever-vigilant friend of freedom"
by Frederick Douglass. Cited for
giving much assistance to setting
up AS meetings at various places
around Auburn. Is cited in strange
"Rapping Mystery" in Auburn-ful
account given in source cited, (23
Nov). Probable son of Welcome
Capron.TLW/CL
1865 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
20
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3
Cargill
3
Carmichael
3 Carmichael
3 Carpenter
3
Carson
3
Carter
Ed
2
Carter
3
Carter
Thomas
3
Cass
Michael
3
Cass
William
Caston
FSURR
FSURR
FSEleanor
URR
James
AfAm
FSAlexander URR
FSHarrison URR
Mrs.
Caroline
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Maria
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Edward
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
Birthplace-N.
Carolina
Ledyard w/ Wm. Grinnell
1865 Census
Birthplace-MD
Ledyard
1870 Census
Property Owner
Birthplace-MD
Property Owner
Scipio
Victory
1850/1865 Census
1865 Census
Birthplace-KY
Auburn
1850 Census
Birthplace-KY
Auburn
1855 Census
COMMENTS
Property Value-$ 75.
Also appears in 1865 in Ledyard
as Ellen-could be Eleanor's
daughter.
Property Value-$25
1867-68:
Auburn 7 Washington St. TLW Directory Database
AfAm
Directory
FSURR
Birthplace-VA
Auburn
FSURR Birthplace-Ireland? Auburn
FSURR
Birthplace-VA
Auburn
FSURR
Birthplace-MD
Owasco
State Prison
1850 Census
1860 Census
State Prison
1850 Census
w/ Sam
Woodworth
1870 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
21
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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5
2
5
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Cayuga
County Court
House
Chapin
Chaplin
Chappell
Rev.
William
James
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
FSURR
William Freeman
Trial-1846 and
Jerry Rescue
Hearings held here
1851.
Auburn
A
Offered resolutions
at 5 Sept 1838 mtg
at Tallcott's
Corners.
Auburn
TOWNSHIP
Jailed for UGRR
work in Wash. D.
C. Operates Glen
A-URR Haven Watercure
A
Abolitionist;
UGRR
sympathizers;
at June 23, 1841
Auburn Christian
Anti-slavery Conv. Sterling
LOCATION
SOURCE
Genesee St.
Wm.Arpey- Freeman
Murder Trial. Milton
Sernett, North Star Country
North Star-5 Sep 1850.
COMMENTS
Meetings held to raise monry for
his bail 1850: Port Byron,
Auburn, Ledyard, Northville,
Scipio and Union Springs with
Wm. R. Smith, E. M. K. Glen, E.
W. Clark, Ames Baker, Samuel J.
May, George Bradburn and the
Edmundson sisters. (rescued on
the Pearl).
Friend of Man- April 13,
1841, p. 1
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
22
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Choate
3
Churchill
3
Clapp
FIRST
NAME
Joseph
Josiah
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
A
Abolitionist;
UGRR
sympathizers;
at June 23, 1841
Auburn Christian
Anti-slavery Conv.
Auburn
Property Owner.
Involved in the
African School of
Auburn Village,
along with
Nicholas Bogart &
AfAm
Adam Gray.
Dephes W. A-URR
Liberator
LOCATION
COMMENTS
Friend of Man-April 13,
1841, p. 1
Friend of Man, 24 April,
1839, p. 2D.
1850 Census.
Auburn
Mentz
SOURCE
Port Byron
Trustee of the "African School" in
the village of Auburn, name is on
a published "card of thanks" for
money raised for the school.TLW.
Lot #17 SW, from Gerritt Smith
1846.
Property Value-$400
Mike Reilly-Liberator
Subscription List
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
23
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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5
Clark
Jane
(Charlotte
) Harris
Lemon
3
Clark
James
3
Coats
William
4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Cobb
N.
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
A-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Birthplace-MD.
Original name was Charlotte
Harris. Grew up with her
Third Ward, in
maternal grandmother and became
household
a slave of William Compton of
of George
Maryland who died in 1837. Later
Underwood/year
the slave of his son Barnes
?
Compton, 1830-1889, of Port
Of Throop in
Tobacco, Charles Co., MD.
1860 with Dr. Kate Larson Research. Judy (EIleen McHugh) Arrived in
Joseph Cleary
Bryant-AfAm Citizens of Auburn via UGRR in 1859. Sister
.Directory
Auburn Database. 1860of William C. Lemmon, listed
Database 1869: 1865 AfAm census. Cayuga below. Married (2nd) Henry
25 S.Division Museum-MSS "Jane Clark" Clark in 1863 at the Washinton St
Auburn
near Orchard
by Julia C. Ferris, 1894.
AME ZION Church.
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
Birthplace-DE
Auburn
Abolitionist,
delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
Auburn
w/ Briggett
Family
1865 Census
1870 Census
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839. An Ira H. Cobb of Auburn is cited
Frederick Douglass Paper, as one involved with the "Jerry
23 Oct 1851
Rescue".
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
24
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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4
Cochrane
3
Coleman
John
3
Coleman
John
3
Conaway
John
0
3
3
Conrad/Cohen
Conrad
Conway
Earl
Sarah
Charlotte
& Frank
SIGNIFICANCE
SOURCE
COMMENTS
A John Cochrane is found on the
C. C. map of 1853 on Lot # 8 in
N. Sterling & the 1850
Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
censusTLW
1870 Census
Wrote first 20th
century biography
of Harriet Tubman,
Author
pub. 1943
Auburn
FS/
Mtd
Former Slave?
Auburn
County Poor
House
County Poor House Records,
1850
Listed as 100 years old, good
health, "African"
1850-55 Census
Property Value-$300
State Prison
1850-55 Census
1850 Census
Property Owner
Auburn
1863-112
Seymour
BirthplaceAlabama
Owasco
w/ Wm. Noyes
1870 Census
Birthplace-Wash.
DC
Auburn
State Prison
1855 Census
Cook
William
3
Cooley
Gilbert
FS- Member of Colored
URR Freeman of CNY"
Lucy
LOCATION
w/ John Searing
3
Cook
TOWNSHIP
Possible UGRR
agent. See Ingham
A-URR
Entry
Auburn
FSURR
Birthplace-LA
Auburn
FSURR
Birthplace-VA
Mentz
FSURR
Birthplace-VA
Ledyard
AfAm
FSURR
FSURR
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
The North Star, 13 Oct 1848
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
25
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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2
Cooley
Henry H.
3
Coom
James
A
FSURR
Alexander
and sister
Arenta
Charles &
Anna
FSURR
FSURR
5
Cooper
5
Cooper
4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Cooper
Joseph &
Sarah
Cromwell
Mtd
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
Auburn
Birthplace-Canada
Auburn
1860 Census
Birthplace-Canada
Auburn
1870 Census
Birthplace-DE
Auburn
Joseph-Former
slave
Property Owners
COMMENTS
Found Henry H. & Samuel Cooley
both in Auburn in 1830 but not
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839
1840.TLW
1887-1900
136 Division
Children of Charles & Anna
1870 Census
Property Value-1850-$500; 1855$500; 1860-$800; 1865-$160.
1859 Cayuga Co. Map. Joseph Cooper, Zilpha Cromwell,
Diary of E. B. Morgan. 1850 Moses a & Mary Cromwell
Ledyard Census-Aurora. Johnson and Thomas Hart are all
Sheila Edmunds Research.
neighbors. Joseph appears as
Cornelius Cuyler Estate
debtor in Estate papers of
papers, Ledyard Town Hall, Cornelius Cuyler, 1857. Buys,
Judy Furness, Town
1849, via mortgage-no deed
Historian. Mortgage: Book found, 3/8 of an acre for $100.
231 S. Main St., 39, p. 384-Lewis Himrod to Sells property in 1871 to Henry
Aurora, NY
Joseph Cooper, 1849.
Chase, Chase sells to Hickey and
House still
Cooper to Chase-1871,
Hickey sells to Wells College in
Ledyard
standing.
Book 130, p. 529.
1963.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
26
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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Cooper
Laura
3
Copes
William
3
Couley
Adeline
3
2
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Counter
Covell
Covert
John &
Mary Ann
Rev. Z.
Rev. Isaac
STATUS
RATING
1
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
FSURR
Birthplace-NY
Auburn
FSURR
FSURR
Property Owner.
Directory
Birthplace-VA
Birthplace-TN
Mtd
Manumission
papers in Aurelius
Town Records
A
Abolitionist,
delegate from
Cayuga County,
1836 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
A
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
LOCATION
1867-68:
South n Hamilton
Auburn
#57
Springport Howland School
Aurelius
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1870 Census
Child of Charles & Anna
1865 Census. Pauline
Copes Johnson.
Property Value-$500
1870 Census
"I hereby certify that John
Counter, a black man aged about
26 years..has provided proof that
he is free…born in Prince
George's County, MD..freed in the
Aurelius Town Records year 1813." Mary Ann Counter in
Book, p. 439A, Cayuga
the 1830 AfAm census in
County Clerk's Office.TLW
Auburn.TLW
Proceedings of the First
Annual
No Covell's-all spelling variantsMeeting of the NYS ASS found in Cay, Co for 1830, 40 or
(1836)
50.
Friend of Man- 3 July 1839.
2 Isaac Coverts found in 1840
Cay. Co. census-Auburn &
Aurelius.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
27
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Cox
3
Cradrock?
Cramer
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Crocker
FIRST
NAME
James
Saul
George
Asa
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A
FSURR
SIGNIFICANCE
LOCATION
Birthplace-VA
Chosen to Attend
NYS AS mtg in
Utica at Sept 1839
mtg at Scipio
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Elbert Wixom, BA thesisCornell (1903)-account of
UGRR activity in Finger
Lakes;
Taylor, William Henry
Seward , 56.
Law student of
William Seward
UGRR
A
TOWNSHIP
Check property data.
Brutus
1850 Census
Weedsport
Interview with James R.Cos,
Elbert Wixom Thesis, 1903,
30.
Genoa
Northville
Friend of Man-25 Sept
1838, p. 2B. Frederick
Douglass Paper, 30 June
1854
Either Asa, Joseph or Charles
could be the "Crocker" that is
praised in the Frederick Douglass
Paper entry cited. Douglass
praises their hospitality and
specifically mentions Mrs.
Crocker, liking it to kind treatmen
comparable to one's own mother.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
28
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
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3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Crocker
Joseph
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
A
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Chairman of the
Cayuga Co. AntiSl. Soc.
Ledyard
LOCATION
Northville
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Reports of mtg on 25 Dec, 1839 at
Brick Church at Ledyard w/
resolutions. Re; Subscription
efforts for Cayuga County for this
paper, "In Genoa, Cayuga County
we found but three subscribers for
Friend of Man- 8 Jan 1840, the paper, and the number was
p. 2B & C.
increased to 15. Joseph Crocker
Frederick Douglass Paper, 6
of Northville especially
Nov 1851.
aided."TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
29
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Cromwell
FIRST
NAME
Isaac & S.
Zilpha and
daughters
Mary &
Sarah
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Mtd
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
Former Slave(s) of
Cornelius Cuyler?
Aurora resident,
Property Owner
Ledyard
LOCATION
South Main ST.
Next to the
Cooper Houseno longer the
original house,
but likely the
same
foundation.JW
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1826 deed transfers land/building
to Zilpha and daughter Mary from
Cornelius Cuyler.. Earlier census
(1820-1840), of Mr. Cuyler
include older black woman in his
household. Deed Book MM, p
215, 8 Apr 1818: Samuel Haines
to Isaac Cromwell of Scipio, part
of Lot # 55, also parcel of 150
acres sold to Samuel Haines by
Samuel Jones of NYC. 15 Jan
1820: Zylpha and Mary Molly
Cromwell of Scipio to Elias
Avery. Land in actual possession
of Avery, parcel of Lot # 55 and
150 acres recently conveyed to
Samuel Haines by Samuel Jones
of NYC. Deed W-77, Isaac
Cromwell to Zilpha & Molly
1850 Census;
(Mary) Cromwell, 1819-same
Cayuga Co. Deed Book EE, land as described above. Deed
p. 442 Deed Book W, p. 77 Book EE, p. 442, 1 Apr 1826:
Deed Book MM, p 215Cornelius Cuyler to Zilpha and
216,TLW.
Mary Cromwell of Ledyard. 1/2
Judy Furness Sheila
acre by the Cayuga Lake near the
Edmunds
Fisher Lot.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
30
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4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Cromwell
William
STATUS
RATING
2
LAST NAME
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Associated with
AfAm Zilpha Cromwell?. Ledyard
County Poor
House
County Poor House Records
1844-45
Aged 68, "lunatic", died in
poorhouse, 19 Jan 1846
SIGNIFICANCE
1859-60:
The same Rev. William
Miller St. n Dam
Cromwell as below?-wife's name
1865-66: 6
1865 Census.
is in question. #8 Frances has
Francis St.TLW Directory Database.
structure on it-original to Wm.
Auburn
Seward lands 1882 Map of City of Auburn
CromwellTLW
Cromwell
William & FSMelinda URR
Cromwell
Property Owner
Judy Bryant Directory DBBirthplace-MD.
1860's-79
1860-1875. See also Judy
Property Value-$600.
Pastor of M. E.
Owasco St.1870: Furness/TLW Cromwell Relationship to Aurora Cromwell
William A.
Zion Church ,
1st Ward,
Genealogy and deed
family is still on-going, seems
& Julia F/Mtd Auburn, 1860-1875 Auburn
Francis St.
records. 1860-65 Census
unlikelyTLW
Birthplace-VA/PA
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
31
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Cuyler
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
Abolitionist,
delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society,
Secretary of Cay.
Co. Anti-Sl. Soc.,
Samuel C. A-URR
1840..
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Samuel Cuyler of Ledyard found
in 1840 census. He was the son
of Glen Cuyler and nephew of
Cornelius Cuyler, (see Cromwell
Family). From Wayne Co.
History: "Griffith Cooper was a
well-known Quaker and great
advocate of the funaway slaves.
From the home of Griffith Cooper
the slaves were sent to
Pultneyville to the home of
Samuel Cuyler, until such time as
they could be transported to
Canada by ship. One of the
captains who transported slaves
was Capt. Horatio N. Throop. My
Cuyler would, invariably say to
Capt. Throop, "Capt. Throop, I
have some passengers for you."
Capt. Throop would always
reply, "My boat runs for
passengers." Wrote to Emily
Howland 1851. 1840 letter re:
described as "red-hot
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839,
abolitionist".
also 9 March 1841, p. 2B,
also-9 Sept, 1840, p. 1B
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
32
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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3
4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Miss Mary
D(L)ivermore
A.
Dale
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A
SIGNIFICANCE
Abolitionist
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
Auburn
George
Fleming in Third Ward w/
and Maria FS- Obituary documents 1870
Clark Pierce& Children URR escape from MD. Auburn
Brick Mnf'r.
4
Dale
Jacob
3
Davis
Clarissa
FSURR
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
FSURR Birthplace-Wash. DC Mentz
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Provincial Freeman Paper,
Chatham, Canada West, 1
Mar 1856.
Pens a long poem re: "The Slave
Tragedy in Cincinnati"
Obit: "…born in MD 83 years ago
and ran away from the South in
1859 and in 1864 he went back
and brought 2 sons, James and
Jacob with him to the
North….Funeral at AME Zion
Church…buried at Fort
Hill."TLW George and son
Jacob are listed twice in the 1870
census, once at their home in
Fleming, near Tubman and again
Kate Larson. Oral tradition. in Auburn, 2nd ward with Clark
1870 Census. Obit 18 Feb
Pierce, brick maker. House on
1907 Aub. Daily Adv.
Fitch St. later.TLW
Third Ward w/
Clark PierceBrick Mnf'r.
1870 Census
Son of George and Maria
Montezuma
1855, 1865 census
Wife of D. R. Davis.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
33
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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3
Cyrus H.
3
Davis
David R.
3
Davis
Elizabeth
5
Davis
3
Davis
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Davis
Davis
3
Davis
3
Davis
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
A
FSURR
FSURR
FSarriet Tubm URR
FSJames
URR
FSJames
URR
FSJames
URR
FSMary
URR
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Association with
Freeman Trial
Property Owner
Birthplace-S.
Carolina
Birthplace-MD
LOCATION
Auburn
Mentz
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Sheila Tucker typewritten note
On the Wm. Freeman jury.
Refused to
agree with everyone else that
Freeman
was sane and so made trial
invalid.
1855-65 Census
Property Value-$200-$700. 1859
Montezuma map has D.R. listed in
the Business section as barber. A
Rev. David Davis listed as Meth.
Epis. Clergyman in 1867-68 CC
Directory.Appears on Moracco
St, Mont. In 1859 map.TLW
Montezuma
Springport Howland School
Property Owner
Birthplace-MD
Fleming
Birthplace-MD
1870 Census
South St. Rd.
1870 Census
Auburn
State Prison
1850 Census
Auburn
County Insane
Asylum
1870 Census
Birthplace-VA
Auburn
County Insane
Asylum
1870 Census
Birthplace-MD
Ledyard
w/ Wm Tabor
1865 Census
Birthplace-MD
See also Tubman. Original
Census entry enters VA as
birthplace
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
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Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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Davis
Nelson
FSURR
3
DeBoise
Ira
3
DeCamp
Betsey
3
DeCamp
3
Demon
3
Demun
3 Dennison
3 DePew
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
George
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
Rome,
Auburn,
Elizabethtown, NC
NY
To Auburn, 1866
FSURR
Birthplace-Unk.
Sennett
FSURR Birthplace-Unknown Auburn
FSURR
LOCATION
BirthplaceUnknown
Directory
Auburn
County Poor
House
AfAm
Jesse
Jim
FSURR
F
Directory
Birthplace-VA
Kate Clifford Larson
Fought in the Civil War, 18631865. Married Harriet Tubman in
1869.
Could be husband of Elsa/Eliza..
County Poor House Records Described as "Poor, destitute and
1850
decrepid".TLW
1859-60:
Clark n State.
1865-66:
Van Anden n
Wall. 1867-68:
Seymour cor
Washington 1865 Census. TLW Dir. DB
The North Star, 13 Oct 1848
1867-68:
Auburn 108 Mechanic St.
Sterling
Auburn
COMMENTS
1865 Census
Freedom Seeker? AuburnMember of the
1830
Solomon &
"Colored Freeman Skaneatel
Margaret AfAm
of CNY"
es-1850
Andrew
SOURCE
Barber in 1850 at hotel in
Skaneateles with wife and son
John, age 1TLW
TLW Directory Database
Fair Haven
Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
American Hotel
1860 Census
Fought with black regiment in
Civil War. Sexton of Methodist
Church. .
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
35
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
DePew
3
DePuy
3
Dickson
3
Dickson
FIRST
NAME
Liz
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
FS-URR Born in VA, age 35 Auburn
LOCATION
SOURCE
Cook at
American Hotel
1860 Census
Property Owner
Possible UGRR
safehouse.
Associated with
Wm. Freeman trial.
House Lot # 42
divided btw. Deb
Depuy's house and
AfAm Zion ME
Church on 5
Wash.St. This Lot
1855-1920 Census.
sold to Deb Depuy
TLW Dir. DB. Auburn-200
in 1857 by freedom
years of History, 1793-1993.
seekers in
Auburn Bicentennial Cmte.,
Wentworth,
Deborah Only. 1992. P. 39. Deed Book 97,
Deborah &
Ontario, Canada.
1859-60, 1865p. 160, Bland/Crop to
Hiram &
See Rev Eastup
68, 1878-79:
DePuy. Obit-Auburn Daily
children AfAm
entry.
Auburn 5 Washington St.
Adv, 10 April 1879.
FSCaroline URR
Birthplace-VA
Ledyard w/ John Peckham
1870 Census
FSw/ Jonas WhiteYork
URR
Birthplace-GA
Auburn
hotel
1865 Census
COMMENTS
Property Value-$100-$1000 over
10 years acc. to census entries.
Tax rolls show value at the most
$475. In 1857-1860 Rev. Richard
& Mariah Eastup are living at 5
Washington with Deb. 5
Washington is address of the ME
"colored" church in the 1857
directory. Grantors for 1857, 97160 deed are an AfAm couple
living in Canada.On-going
research to connect Depuy to the
first AfAm School and AME
Zion Church on her lot.Died 8
April 1879, aged 54, funeral held
at her residence at 5 Washington.
No burial site found.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
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Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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5
Diggs
3
Diggs
3
Diggs
3
Diggs
3
Diggs
Diggs
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
FSAnn Elizabet URR
FSAnna
URR
FSDaniel
URR
FSEmma
URR
FSJohn
URR
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Birthplace-MD
Fleming
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
Birthplace-MD
Birthplace-MD
Thomas
Dismal
Daniel
3
Dorsey
Edward &
Lavina
3
Dorsey
Edmund
BirthplaceUnknown
w/ Wm. Perry
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Brought north by Col. Wm Perry.
Burial in Perry family plot at
Union Cemetery in Springport.
1870 Census (Ruth Probst(Name on stone reads Ann
Aurelius Town Historian)
Elizabeth.TLW)
1870 Census.
Sibling group.
1870 Census
Sibling group.
Auburn
1870 Census
Sibling group.
Auburn 1887-83 1/2 Fitch
1870 Census
Sibling group.
Auburn Directory
Living with Rev. William
Cromwell. Assoc. with other
Digg family unknown.
Auburn
FSURR
LOCATION
1887-85 Fitch
1869-6 Frances
Scipio
21 Garrow-1887,
FSearlier residence
URR Birthplace-Wash. DC Auburn
on Fitch
FSURR
Birthplace-MD
Auburn w/ Charles Wood
1865 Census
1870 Census
1870 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
37
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Downs
Duboise
Henry &
Amanda
Eliza
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
FSURR
F
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Birthplace-MD
Directory
Birthplace-Unk.
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1865-66:
102 Mechanic St(Amanda only)
1867-68:
Owasco St. n city
Auburn
limits.
1865 Census. TLW Dir. DB
Sennett
Poor House
1855 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
38
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
DuBoise
FIRST
NAME
Caesar
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Mtd?
SIGNIFICANCE
Property Owner
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Property Value-$300. Deed,
Dudley Loomis to Caeser Dubois
of Sempronius, 15 April 1826:
Part of Lot # 83, in actual
possession (of Dubois), beg at
SW corner of Aspah Leonards
west to Asa Little's, N to creek,
SE along creek bank to West line
of Asaph Leonard's to beginning.,
32 rods. Deed, Caeser Dubois to
Lorenzo Little, 13 August 1832:
Same 32 rods as above described.
Signed by Caeser's mark. Will
recorded in County Records Book
32, p. 254, 29 Dec 1857: leaving
real and personal estate to
Leonard Aiken of Moravia and
"Lived with
listing the following heirs:
Henry B. Hewitt"
Hannah Taylor of Auburn, Diana
Sheila tucker
Prime of Owasco, Susan Van
typed notes.
Schaik of Skaneateles and 2
Proven property
1850 Census. See
nieces, no widow survives
owner-see
'Comments' for additional him.Buried at Moravia Dry Creek
Moravia
'Comments'.
sources and contentTLW.
Cem.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
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Cayuga County, New York
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3
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
DuBoise
DuBoise
DuBoise
FIRST
NAME
Elsa
Harriet
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
AfAm
Birthplace-Unk.
Sennett
County Poor
House
Mtd?
Mrs. Julia AfAm
2
Dudley
J. H.
3
Dunbar
Ann
3
Dunbar
Margaret
3
Dunbar
Warren &
Susan B.
3
Duncan
Thomas
A
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
Property Owner
Directory
Directory
Auburn
Auburn
Venice
Birthplace-MD
Ledyard
Birthplace-VA
Venice
Birthplace-Canada
Auburn
COMMENTS
County Poor House Records This could be "Eliza", see above,
1851-52
ages match at 62 or so..
1865-1867:
Property Value-$300. A Harriet
South n Swift & 1865 Census. Tanya Warren Duboise is listed in Catherine's
Swift n Moravia Dir. DB. Will of Catherine
will as "of St. Catherine's
St.
Freeman, Book 173, p. 635.
Canada" in 1866.TLW.
1857: 202 W.
Genesee
1865-66:
33 Mechanic
abolitionist; UGRR
sympathizer;
AS agent
Sennett
Birthplace-VA
SOURCE
w/ Samuel Bull
TLW Directory Database
Friend of Man- 3 July 1839.
Found James Dudley of Ira in
1840 Census.
1865-70 Census
Daughter of Warren & Susan B.
1850 Census
w/ Samuel Bull
1865-70 Census
1850 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
40
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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5
5
2
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Duvall
Eastup/
Eastess
Eddy
Eddy
FIRST
NAME
W.O.
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
H. J.
TOWNSHIP
Abolitionist;
UGRR sympathizer;
AS agent.
Liberator
A-URR Subscription List.
Rev.
Richard & FSMariah
URR
Abigail
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-VA.
Methodist
Clergyman.
Directory
A
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
July, 1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
A
Secretary of the
Cay. Co. AntiSlavery Society
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Port Byron
Letter from Duvall to
Slocum Howland,
10/16/1851, sent by Jim
Driscoll, Queens Historical
Society; articles in Friend of
Man. Friend of Man article12 Feb 1840. Also, 9 Sept
1840. Frederick Douglas-23
dec 1853.
In letter cited: "You know my
location and its facilities for
escape if necessary.."
No
information in will of 1866
concerning African Americans,
but inventory of estate includes
massive amounts of farm
equipment.TLW Article cited
describes how Hayti got its name
Wife listed as Maria in 1860
1857Census. 1857 Directory lists him
5 Washington
as "church and house at 5
1859-60:
Letter of 1857 to Ellen from Washington.Note: Deb Depuy
Canal St. corner MCW.; 1860 census. TLW listed as at "rear of 5 Washington"
Auburn of Lewis.Ward 3
Dir. DB.
in the same directory.TLW
Scipio
Found in 1850 census of Scipio,
wife of Oliver Eddy, shoemaker,
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839
of RI.
Friend of Man-5 Aug 1838,
p. 1B
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
41
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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4
Eddy
3
Edwards
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Eglin
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Sampson FS-URR
FSArminta URR
Harriet FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
Birthplace-N.
Carolina.
Documentation
Niles
New Hope
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
Hotel
Documentation
Sennett
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Born in slavery 1844. Went to
war with master Col. Handy and
escaped to the Union army at
battle of Goldsboro. Came North
to Skaneateles, worked for Mr.
Gillett. Married Mary Caeser.
Moved to Sempronius, then to
New Hope. Worked in Rounds
Milling Co. for 30 yrs., died 30
Dec 1909. First wife and kids all
died. 2nd wife Mary Williams of
Auburn. Buried New Hope Cem.
Moravia Republic Register, Was Methodist preacher whose
7 Jan 1910 and 28 Feb 1936.
work is commemorated in
Sheila Tucker.
window of New Hope Meth Ch.
1865 Census
in home of Rev.
Charles
Harriet Eglin to Wm. Still,
Anderson
1856, p. 221-23.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
42
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Elliot
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Ann M.
(aka Ann
Marie
Ross
Stewart) FS-URR
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Birthplace-MD
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Tubman's niece, possibly
daughter of one of her
sisters who was sold away or
daughter of Benn Ross, Jr.
Listed as free in 1850
Caroline Co. census, but that does
Harriet Tubman's
not mean she was actually free.
Fleming
Home
Kate Larson. 1865 Census
(KL)
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
43
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
5
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Elliott
1865-boarded at
H. Tubman's
Home.
South St. across
from
Seward house
(36 South St.,
1862 Directory)
Lived at 31
Union (now
Richardson) from
1872 (paid taxes
on lot in 1868 for
"house
unfinished"),
until after 1880
when his last
appearance in the
Documentation.
tax records
Joined John
concides with
Brown's
last appearance
provisional army in
in directories and Auburn resident Pauline
Canada, but failed
census data.
Copes Johnson's
to follow him to
Whereabouts
great grandfather. Left
MD and Harper's Auburn/ after 1880 not
Dorchester Co., Md.,
Thomas FS-URR
Ferry.KCL.
Fleming
known.TLW
3/1857. 1865-70 Census.
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Member of the "Dover Eight"
escape party in Maryland. KCL
m. Ann MarieStewart (1864);
St. Catherine's, 1861;
Auburn, 1862 (Larson). Thomas
and Anne's daughter, Mary,
married Philip Gaskin.KCL See
narrative for Thomas Elliott by
Judith Wellman.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
44
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
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STATUS
RATING
3
FIRST
TOWNLAST NAME NAME
SIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Emery
Caroline FS-URRBirthplace-N. Carolin Cato
3
Emery
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Ennals
3
Ewells
3
Fales
John
FS-URR
Birthplace-KY
Stephen
Connection with
and Maria FS-URR Harriet Tubman
Cato &
Auburn
LOCATION
w/ John Knapp
SOURCE
1870 Census
1929-at 23
Richardson
1865-70 Census
Auburn
Kate Larson. Still, 554-5.
Letter, MCWright to
daughter Ellen, 29 Dec
1860.
From Dorchester Co., Md., came
with
HT on her last trip. Tubman
brought the Ennals to Wright's
home for safety.KCL
Birthplace-VA
Venice
w/ Alex. Mead
1865 Census
William, 1844-1913 & Sadie,
1849-?. Both buried in the East
Venice Cemetery. Note in
records: "highly respected
colored paople".
Thomas FS-URR Birthplace-Unk.
Sennett
County Poor
House
County Poor House Records
1845-46
In good health, age 5, for
"poverty".TLW
William H.
& Sadie FS-URR
C.
A
Sent $4 from
Friends at Port
Byron to Rochester
Ladies AntiSlavery Society.
Fay
Dandy
FS-URR
Birthplace-N.
Carolina
Auburn
w/ John Chedell
1870 Census
3
Fay
Laina
FS-URR
Birthplace-N.
Carolina
Auburn
w/ John Chedell
1870 Census
3
Fay
Martha FS-URR
Birthplace-N.
Carolina
Auburn
w/ John Chedell
1870 Census
3
Farrand
3
COMMENTS
Frederick Douglas Paper-19 Jan 1
Woman Abolitionist
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
45
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3
1
Ferguson
Fillmore
4 Fitch
3 Fitch
3 Forest
3 Forest
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
Charles &
Betsey and
Birthplace-VA
child
Property Owner
Maria FS-URR
Directory.
Millard
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Auburn
1865-66:
State n York.
1867-68:
68 Mechanic.
1860, 1870 Census. Judy
Bryant Directory DB.
w/ Peter Sittser of Throop in
1860 Census.
Property
Value-$600
The National Era, 18 June
1850, Vol. IV, # 185, p. 114.
Bio. Of Millard Fillmore appears
in cited publication. Later
practiced law in Buffalo.
Signed Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850.
US President.
Moravia
See Abijah Fitch
Report. Owner of
Listed as "Prison Inspector" in
original Dill
return of "Liberty votes"-The
House to 1837;
National Era, Vol. 1, # 51, p. 3.
197 Genesee St.
Listed as paid subscriber to the
to 1846; 216
Frederick Douglass Paper of
West Genesee
Rochester, NY on 10 June 1852.
(former
Listed on the "Liberty Ticket for
Nathaniel
NY-as Prison Inspector for NYSGarrow estate) to
28 Oct, 1847, The National Era,
circa 1875;
Obituary.
Washington D. C., Vol. 1, #43, p.
boarded with life- Frederick Douglass Paper,
2. Mentioned as Liberty Party
Active abolitionist,
long friend
11 March 1853. Abijah
candidate in Cayuga County,
businessman,
Daniel Hewson
Fitch Report by Tanya
where not one vote was
Abijah A-URR realestate broker
Auburn
till death.
Warren & Judith Wellman
counted.TLW
John
FS-URR Birthplace-Ireland? Auburn
State Prison
1850 Census
Harriet FS-URR Birthplace-KY
Auburn
1870 Census
Henry FS-URRBirthplace-West Indie Auburn
State Prison
1865 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
46
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3
4
3
3
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Forrester
Fanny
STATUS
RATING
3
LAST NAME
FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-MD
Foster
Fowler
Frank
Frazee
Property Owner
Henrietta
Birthplace& Orville FS-URR
Unknown
A Possible UGRR agen
Henry FS-URR Birthplace-LA
William FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
Freeman
Association with
founding Freeman
Alexander F/Mtd family of Auburn?
Freeman
Burgett C.
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
Ledyard w/ Peter Verder?
SOURCE
1860 Census
Auburn
1855 Census
Auburn
Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
Auburn w/ Frank Cossum
1865 Census
Auburn
State Prison
1865 Census
Sennett
Association with
founding Freeman
family of Auburn.
Carried on the
business of his
father Luke as local
barber and
community activist. Auburn
County Poor
House
COMMENTS
County Poor House Records
1843
Property Value-$350
See Ingham entry.
Age 31, in for intemperance and
"long complaint", died there 8
March 1843TLW
Auburn Daily Advertiser (?) Secretary of the Auburn Suffrage
article of 30 Oct 1860 from Club. Meeting cited was held "at
112 Seymour in
Anthony Gero, Owasco
the shaving saloon of B. C.
1863 Directory
Town Historian
Freeman"
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
47
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Cayuga County, New York
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3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Freeman
Freeman
Harry
Jason
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Mtd
AfAm
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
First AfAm in
Auburn. Founder
of "New Guinea"
Property Owner
Auburn
Aurelius
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Cayuga County Records
Retention for Aurelius Town
Records Book-slave
manumission entries and
County Poor House records
of 1845.
Records of the County
Historian
In County Poor House at age 92
Federal and State census
for poverty. Good health,
County Poor House Records temperate, died there 20 Dec
1845
1845.TLW
1850 Census.
Property Value-$300
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
48
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5
Freeman
FIRST
NAME
Morgan
Lewis
"Luke" &
Catherine
STATUS
RATING
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
LAST NAME
Mtd
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
Born to John
Hardenburgh's
slaves, Harry and
Kate Freeman, he
grew up in Auburn,
became a barber,
bought home on
Court St., d. 1863.
"For more than 29
years his house was
a refuge of the
fleeing fugitive,
derisively called
'The Underground
Railroad Depot."
Luke's father Harry
is said by R.
Palmer in his 15
Dec 1974 "Cayuga
Comment", "It was
he (Harry), who
had founded New
Guinea on land
given to him by
Hardenburgh"
Auburn
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Property Value-$300-600,
Catherine retaining property after
Luke's death. See
3
Court St. was where the present
Court ST. driveway into the
Obit., Auburn Advert.,
county parking lot is today.
4/10/1863 and 4/11/1863;
Information provided by Scott
Sullivan, "Tracks"; Klees. Anderson, PhD-SUNY-Cortland
Business location/Property:
proved this by the use of tax
Fitch/Freeman: Cayuga Co. assessment records. Search of the
Deeds, Book 75, p. 93 & deeds of Cayuga County failed to
Book 77, p. 470.
Will of turn up transactions related to 3
Catherine Maria Freeman, Court, but did show Abijah Fitch
Book 173, p. 635. Chattell selling Morgan Luke property on
mortgages for rifle, barber's the corner of South and Cumpston
tools, furniture and stove and Lane. This evidently was where
house for Morgan Luke Luke had his Barbershop business
Freeman and son Burget more research is needed. Heirs of
Freeman. Box SB728, 1835, Catherine listed in will, including
1853, 1858 CCRR. Tax
those in PA, Ohio, New Orleans
Rolls, 1950-1900, Freeman
and CanadaJW/TLW
owns 2 properties until his
November 20, 1859 Frances
death-Cumpston Lane and Seward lends $102.00 to Mrs. C.
3 Court St.
Cumpston Alley (called
Freeman. She repays the loan
(parking lot
"Negro Alley" in early Tax November 16, 1861. [Seward
next to county
roll books)TLW
House Account Books, Seward
courthouse)
House Collection]PW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
49
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Cayuga County, New York
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5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Freeman
FIRST
NAME
P.R.
4
Freeman
Platt &
Mary &
son John
3
Freeman
Sidney
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
F/Mtd
SIGNIFICANCE
freedom
seeker/UGRR
agent/Property
Owner
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
A "Platt------" is listed as a
delegate for the July, 1839
convention in Auburn. His name
has a conspicuous line for the last
name-A Platt Freeman lives in
Auburn in 1860, an AfAm. A P.
R. Freeman listed in 1860 is
Kate Larson, Nat Ambie to younger than the Platt Freeman
Wm. Still, 6/10/1858,
below-Mystery! Property Valuep. 93 (104).
$150.
Auburn
Mtd?
Property Owner
Auburn
4th Ward, 54-64
Division n
Perrine18651869 (Dir)
Mtd
Birthplace-NY
Sennett
Poor House
1850-65 Census
Property Value-$800. See also
above. Property Value after
(1860) Platt's death-$600 with
John having $55. Could this be the
elusive P. R. Freeman?
1855 Census. County Poor
House Records-1845.
Age 30, in "many times", runs
away, "lunatic"
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
50
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A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Fry/Frey
FIRST
NAME
James
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
Property Owner.
AfAm Early businessman. Auburn
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Property Value-$600. Borrows
money to purchase a horse,
wagon, harness and whiifletrees.
Borrows money for boilers.
Stove, kettles and griddles.
Mortgage also includes a house
"occupied by him, said house
owned by Miss Kunard, situate on
west side of Owasco Road-rent
now owed". A Samuel Kunard in
1850 Census.
1830 AfAm census.By 1850
Chattell Mortgages: Box SB census, James and family living
728.1833, 1842.TLW
next door to Luke Freeman.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
51
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Gaskin
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Phillip &
Mary
Elliott FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-VA
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
Lot #70-Ledyard
Union Ave.Auburn
77
Cornell/Chapman
Auburn (On the
Ledyard/ National Register
Auburn
June 2005)
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Master Census and TLW/JB
Auburn Directories Judy
Bryant/TLW
Purchased house at 77 Cornell in
Judy Bryant Research and
1927 from AME Zion Church,
deeds. Mary "Gaston"
residence, until death, of Rev.
Gaskin was named in
John Thomas, (see entry) Wife
Harriet Tubman's Will,
Mary Elliot, (daughter of Thomas
"My…realestate..to Mary and Anne) possible descendant of
Gaston, MY NIECE and
Harriet Tubman family-Judy
Katy Stewart, grand-niece
Bryant/Kate Clifford Larson.
and Frances Smith." Cayuga Photo in "Back to Before" book,
County Wills, 18 Nov 1912.
p. 27.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
52
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Gaskin
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Richard &
Mary &
Birthplaces-VA
family FS-URR Property Owner
Ledyard
LOCATION
Lot #70
SOURCE
COMMENTS
To Ledyard, NY in about 1864youngest daughter Emme b. VA in
1863. Purchases part of Lot #70
in Ledyard in 1869. Property next
to John & Susan King and
aboltionist Susannah Marriott.
Property Value in 1865-$250.
Appears in the 1880 census in
Ledyard then in 1900 9th Ward,
Auburn census on 18 Aspen St.
Sells Ledyard property 1886 to
his neighbor, John Coileyfarmhand to William King. 1906
Auburn Directory lists Richard
Gaskin as "removed to
Sherwood". Wife's name as Anna
in 1900 census. Family History
report available Obit- "remains
1865 Census. Grantee:
will be brought to Auburn (he
Deed Book 127, p. 251.
died in Sherwood, likely at the
Grantor: Book 168, p. 414.
home of his daughter, Rose
Obituary, Richard-Auburn G.Phillips) for funeral services at
Daily Adv., 18 Feb
Zion ME Church... Both he and
1907.Obit, Mary-Auburn wife Mary, along with extended
Daily Adv. Evening ed., 6
family all buried at Fort
July 1893.
Hill.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
53
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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3
5
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Gibbs
Gilbert
Gildes
3
Glen Haven
Watercure
3
Gooding
2
Goodman
(Goodwin)
FIRST
NAME
Noah B.
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Charlotte FS-URR
A
E. W.
TOWNSHIP
AfAm
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
32 Union Ave.
1867-88 (Dir).
Purchased 100 copies of
Tubman's Biography, "Scenes in
the Life of Harriet Tubman" in
1865 Census. Judy Bryant
1869.KCL
Directory Database.
Property Value-$500
Abolitionaist
Glen Haven
Attendee at Cazenovia
Convention. Story related at
convention by Joseph Hathaway
of prison interview in Wash. DC.
North Star, 5 Sep 1850.
Account given of the marriage at
Frederick Douglass Paper of Glen Haven of Theodosia and
Aug 1851
William Chaplin, abolitionist.
freedom seeker
In the home of
Rev. Chas.
Anderson
Harriet Eglin to Wm. Still,
Still, 1856, p. 221-23.
Union Ave. 1869
(Dir)
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
Troy/
AfAm Possible UGRR Agen Auburn
Theodosia A-URR
Henry
SIGNIFICANCE
Sennett
Operated by
abolitionists
Jackson, Chaplin
and Gilbert
Sempronius
Directory
Auburn
AS agent, Secretary Cayuga
19 June 1839
of Cayuga Co. AS (Village? A.A. Convention, Friend of Man, 3 July 1839
A-URR
Soc., 1837
County?)
delegate
also. 27 Dec 1837, p. 1B.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
54
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
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5
2
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Goodwin
Harry
Goss
Gould
Graham
Graham
STATUS
RATING
3
LAST NAME
FS-URR
A
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
Birthplace-South
America
Auburn
UGRR-gave money
to "Charley
Johnson" to help
fugitives
Auburn
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1865 Census
Auburn Daily Union,
3/7/1860
(Mary Gilmore)
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
July, 1839 meeting
of NYS AntiEbenezer
A
Slavery Society
Fleming
Friend of Man- 3 July 1839.
George FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Auburn
1850 Census
Hattie FS-URR Birthplace-MD Springport Friend's Academy
1870 Census
1850 Goss males in Cay. Co.:
Simon, Charles & George, ages
27, 34 & 32 resp'ly.
w/ Norton Vanderhayden
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
55
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
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3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Graves
FIRST
NAME
Rev.
Nathaniel
B.
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A
SIGNIFICANCE
Pres. Minister
"who granted his
pulpit and exerted
an influence
that secured me an
intelligent
and attentive
audience"
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
Northville,
Visiting pastor.
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1850 census of Genoa, has N.
Graves living with wife Cornelia
and 2 women, unrelated by
surname of 18 & 20 yrs.old, next
to King & North families who
reside on on Lot #22.TLW
Douglass: "Our meetings were
held in the Presbyterian Church
(of Northville) of which Mr.
Graves (spelled 'Braves' in
original Accessible Archives
copy) is the worthy pastor. He is
an outspoken Abolitionist-a
William C. Nell letter to Model Reformer", etc. Not found
Friend of
in the 1850-1860 census. Aug
Man, 8/6/1852, printed
issue is letter from J. R. Johnson
8/26/1852
of LI, to Friend Watkins, re: Rev.
Frederick Douglass Paper,
Mr. Graves abandoning his
30 June 1854 and 4 August fellowship with the New School
1854
Pres. Church.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
56
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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4
Gray
3 Gray
3 Gray
3 Green
3 Green
5
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Green
Green
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Adam
A-URR
Adam
James
Involved in the
African School of
Auburn Village,
along with
Nicholas Bogart &
Josiah Churchill.
F/Mtd Property Owner.
Auburn
FS-URR Birthplace-MD
Fleming
Abel
FS-URR
Henry L. FS-URR
MontgomeryFS-URR
Robert
AfAm
Safe-house
Birthplace-VA
Birthplace-VA
Documentation
Directory
Auburn
Venice
Venice
Cayuga
Auburn
LOCATION
1857: Lumber
Court
SOURCE
Harbors David Bloomfield and
Caroline Lewhitiker from S.
1850-55. Auburn-200 years Carolina. Elected Trustee of the
of History, 1793-1993.
AME Zion Church in 1846 when
Auburn Bicentennial Cmte., it was held at the property of Deb
1992. P. 39.
Depuy on Washington St.TLW
Friend of Man, 24 April,
1839, p. 2D.
1850 Census
1870 Census
w/ Lyman
Murdock
COMMENTS
1865 Census
1865 Census
Trustee of the "African School" in
the village of Auburn, name is on
a published "card of thanks" for
money raised for the school.
Received Lot # 20 NW from
Gerritt Smith in 1846. Property
Value-$800.
See also "Diary of Clarinda
Murdock"-CC GenWeb
"keeps a barber Israel Whitney to Wm. Still,
shop in Cayuga:
10/16/1858, Still, 106.
33 Mechanic,
1867-68 (Dir)
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
57
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
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3
3
Griffin
2
Griffiths
(Griffis)
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Griffin
Griger
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
Charles &
Birthplace-VA
Mary Ann FS-URR Property Owner
Robert H.
Alonson
Jerome
AfAm
A
Directory
TOWNSHIP
SOURCE
1857: 22
Seminary.185960:
22 Seminary St.
1867-Owasco St.
n city limits;
1850, 1860 Census
1869-Thornton n
Judy Bryant Directory
Cornell; 1870- Database.
TLW
Auburn
58 Garrow
Dir DB.
Auburn
Abolitionist;
UGRR sympathizer;
AS agent
Fleming
BirthplaceSpain/West Indies
Property Owner.
Assocaiation with
Slocum Howland
FS-URR UGRR activities?
LOCATION
1867-68-Owasco
n city limits:
COMMENTS
Property Value-$4000
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
Son of Charles-tore down parent's
shanty on Garrow and built a 2family home. See Tax Assessment
recordsTLW.
Friend of Man- 3 July 1839.
Found in 1840 census only, of
Fleming, NY
Levanna in
village square
next to Slocum
Howland
warehouses.
Sheila Edmunds Research.
1860. (See 1859 1850, 1855 and 1865 Census
Ledyard
Map)TLW
Maps-1859-1875.JW/TLW
Lists birthplace as West Indies in
1855 and Unknown in 1850.
Name spelled as Jerome/Rome
Griger/Greger. Property Value$500. Appears on Voting Poll list
of 1849
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
58
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
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3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
3
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Griger
Matilda,
wife of
Jerome FS-URR
Griger
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
Birthplace-MD
Ledyard
LOCATION
Lives primarily
in Aurora and
Levanna, NY
then in the 188788 Directory
over 103 State
St. They both
Property Owners.
retire to Harriet
Sherburn,
Association with Ledyard/ Tubamn's Home
Doreen &
Harriet Tubman's Genoa/ for the Aged and
Hattie
AfAm Home for the Aged. Fleming are there in 1910.
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1865 Census
Lives in house near his father's at
the Town square at Levanna. All
properties in question are gone
from this era. Sherburne buys
land in "Milton" (Genoa?) 1868,
Book 123, p. 554 and also has a
lot in Ledyard, Aurora Village,
1876, Book 133, p. 253.Tax roll
from 1863 shows Sherburn and
1870 Census. Judy Bryant father Rome each paying on a 1/4
Directory Database. Sheila
acre in Aurora or
Edmunds. County Clerk's nearby.TLW/JW Mentioned in
Office. TLW research.
the diaries of E. B. Morgan.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
59
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
3
2
3
Grover
Hackchester
Hale
Samuel &
Birthplace-PA.
Betsey FS-URR Property Owner
Thomas AfAm Property Owner
James FS-URR Birthplace-VA
3
3
Halsey
Hamilton
William A.
A
John
AfAm
Liiberator
Property Owner
TOWNSHIP
Ledyard
Venice
Mentz
Auburn
Mentz
Brutus
LOCATION
Tallcott's
Corners-1875
Map
State Prison
Port Byron
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Property Value-$200-300 in 18501860 while in Venice, then in
Moravia-$300 then in Ledyard
(1870)-$1500. Deed Book 118,
p. 135. 2 Apr 1867: part of Lot
#82 of Scipio, running East of
Talcott's Corners, by the
Gilbertson and Barker lands by
the main highway. Appears in the
1875 map of Talcott's Corners.
By 1880, Samuel and Betsy are
still in Ledyard living with Esther
1850, 1855, (as 'Gover'), Wheatly and with son Samuel and
1865 Census. 1880 census.
wife sharing the house. TLW
1865 Census
Property Value-$1500
1865 Census
Mike Reilly-Liberator
Subscription List
1865 Census
Property Value-$100
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
60
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Cassandra
Green
A
Signs Anti-Slavery
Women of Western
New York. On the
Executive Cmte. of
the Western NY
Anti-Slavery
Society-1848.
AfAm
Directory
3
Hamblin
3
Harper
Charles
3
3
Harris
Harris
AfAm graduate of
Middlebury
College from
Cayuga Pres. parish
who entered
Andrew F/Mtd
ministry
Ann E. FS-URR Birthplace-GA Springport
3
3
Harris
Harris
Diana FS-URR
Edward FS-URR
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Harris
H.
A
Mentz
LOCATION
Port Byron
1867-68: Boards
Auburn South n Toll Gate
Auburn
COMMENTS
Daughter of Archibald & Lucretia
Phelps Green, b. 3 Sep 1822 in
Sennett, Cayuga Co., NY.
Married Lawrence Hamblin 3
North Star-24 March 1848
Dec 1840, who died in Port
& 10 Nov 1848. 29 Dec
Byron 1844. She married 2nd
1848. Genealogical research John Bolles Hathaway, 10 Oct
by Charles Lenhart.
1851. CL
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
Florence Pharis McIntosh,
History of Cayuga
Village(1827)
Anthony Gero
1870 Census
Birthplace-Wash.
DC
Springport
Birthplace-GA Springport
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
July, 1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
SOURCE
1870 Census
1870 Census
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
Friend of Man- 3 July 1839.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
61
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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Historical New York Research Associates
3
Harry
FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-VA
TOWNSHIP
James and
wife
FS-URR
Documentation
Auburn
5 Harris
3 Harris
Mr. and MrsFS-URR
Sylvester FS-URR
Documentation
Birthplace-GA
Auburn
Springport
3
3
Harris
Harris
William FS-URR
William FS-URR
Birthplace-N.
Carolina
Birthplace-LA
Ledyard
Springport
5
Hart
James
Rare UGRR
Documentation
Scipio
FS-URR
LOCATION
Auburn
Harris
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Harris
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1860 Census
w/ Betsey Butler's family-34
West Genesee1857
dir.TLW
was a servant in
Mansfield's
home. He "has
work and boards L.D. Mansfield to Wm. Still,
with her."
12/15/56, Still, 517.
LD. Mansfield to Wm. Still,
5/4/57, Still, 54
1870 Census
w/ Howard
Chase
Sherwood
African-Am in 1840 Auburn
census with family.
1870 Census
1870 Census
pass from John Mann to
Slocum Howland, 1840
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
62
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Hart
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
Thomas &
Birthplace-MD.
Sarah Jane FS-URR Property Owners
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Sarah Jane Hart is found
purchasing the Aurora property in
1857 in Aurora from Moses and
Mary Cromwell Johnson. Sarah
Jane is the wife of Thomas Hart.
Mary Cromwell is the daughter of
S. Zilpha Cromwell, next door
neighbor is Joseph Cooper-see
related entries. Property Value$300. Deeds show property
passing from Tho. and Jane to
Ann Martin then to Ann Mooresee 1875 map of Aurora, then by
Pass from John Mann to
Moore to Hickey then to Wells
Slocum Howland, 1840
College in 1958. Tax rolls show
Johnson to Hart: Cayuga Co. Thomas paying on 1/4 acre for
Deeds: Book 95, p. 208. only 2 years-1860-1863, then only
1855-1860 census of
for a dog in 1863, then Jane Hart
Sherwood &
Ledyard-"not a landowner". paying tax on a property near
Aurora. Original 1850 Census of Ledyard. As Levanna on Lot #125 also paying
home on Main Grantor: Thomas and Jane
dog tax. Jane is in Ledyard in
Scipio & ST. in Aurora
Hart to Ann Martin, 1861,
1880 with children Francis &
Ledyard burned in 1899.
Book 101, p. 46..
Thomas as a widow.JW/TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
63
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3 Hawkins
3 Hawkins
3 Hawkins
2
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
Benjamin FS-URRBirthplace-Wash. DC Venice
Joel
FS-URRBirthplace-Wash. DC Venice
Matilda FS-URRBirthplace-Wash. DC Venice
A.P.
A
SOURCE
1850. 1865 Census
1850 Census
1850 Census
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1836 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
COMMENTS
Listed as "soldier" in 1865
census.
Proceedings of the First No A. Hawley's were found in the
Annual
1840 & 1850 Cay. Co. census. An
Meeting of the NYS ASS "Arah Hawley" was found in the
(1836)
1830 censusTLW.
3 Hazzard
3 Heardey?
William &
Frances FS-URR
Catherine FS-URR
Birthplace-Wash.
DC Property
Owner
Birthplace-MD
Mentz
Ledyard
1850-1855 Census
1850 Census
Property Value-$500.
3
Napolean
&
Elysabeth FS-URR
BirthplaceUnknown
Springport
1850-1860 Census
Property Value-$200-500
Birthplace-MD
Weedsport
Sennett
w/ Levi Hill
Interview with James R.Cox,
Elbert Wixom thesis, 1903,
30.
1855 Census
Birthplace-N.
Carolina
Fleming
w/ Henry
VanArsdale
1870 Census
Henderson
3
Henderson
Henry
3
Hicks
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Hawley
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Hill
Manning UGRR
Charles FS-URR
Lizzie
Louisa
FS-URR
Early resident, born
Mtd?
CT
Aurelius
1820, 1850 census
Check property data.
In 1850,at age 75, living with
Henry "Harry" Hughes, 95 years,
both listed in 1820 census, not the
1830 or 1840TLW.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
64
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Hoffman
James
Hogarth
W.
STATUS
RATING
3
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
FS-URR
Birthplace-Wash.
DC
Auburn
County Insane
Asylum
1870 Census
A
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
Auburn
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
3 July 1839, Fr. Of Man
COMMENTS
1857: Boards at
36 Washington
1869-10
Moravia St.;
1870-Hamilton n
Aubrun
Mary.
udy Bryant Directory Database
3
Holland
George
AfAm
Directory
3
Hollins
George
FS-URR
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
County Insane
Asylum
1870 Census
3
Honesty
Lucy
FS-URR
Birthplace-VA
Scipio
w/ Slocum
Howland
1870 Census
May be same man as George
Holland?
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
65
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Hopkins
FIRST
NAME
Rev. Josiah
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
Abolitionist;
UGRR sympathizer;
AS agent, at July
1839 Auburn Conv.
Minister of the
Presbyterian
Church at Auburn.
Is mentioned in the
proceedings
leading up to arrest
of Lougen at
Syracuse-informed
Marshal Allen of
the "Alarm at
Syracuse".
Auburn
LOCATION
Ward #1
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839,
April 13, 1841, and 13 July
1841, p. 2A., also, 9 March
1841, p. 3.
Storke's History of Cayuga
Co., 1789-1879, p. 199.
Fred. Douglass paper, 15 Josiah, age 61, found in the 1850
Oct 1852. Perhaps the "John census of Auburn (43-51)with
R. Hopkins" mentioned in
wife Fedelia and son Peter, a
Elbert Wixom interview
lawyer.
with James R.Cox, 1903 Doctor of Divinity-Auburn Theo.
thesis, 30.
Sem, 1830-1846.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
66
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
4
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Hopkins
Hornbeck
FIRST
NAME
Samuel
Miles
John &
Cornelia
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
LOCATION
Presided over
reorganization of
Central
Presbyterian
Church (where
Harriet Tubman
was
married).Hopkin
s was brother of
Auburn Sarah Bradford.
A
AfAm
TOWNSHIP
Property Owner
Directory
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Sheila Tucker
Property Value-$300 in
1860-65 Census
Springport in 1860, $1000 in
Judy Bryant Directory
Auburn in 1865. Jefferson St
Database Deed Book 111, address held many nuclear and
p. 200, John Hornbeck to
extended family members,
Catherine Freeman, 1865.
including Seba Hornbeck,
Same day Catherine
Freedom seeker and elderly
Freeman sells back identical
patriarch-see dir. entry.
property to Cornelia
Hornbeck's lived on Jefferson St.
House still
Hornbeck, daughter of Sebeo until 1910's-all Hornbeck's gone
Springport stands at 38
and Mary Hornbeck. Cayuga
from Cayuga Co. by 1920
/Auburn Jefferson.TLW County Clerk's Office.TLW
census.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
67
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Hornbeck
Sebeo,
Sebu/Scipi
o & Mary
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Mtd
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
Birthplace-MD
Property Owners
Directory
1840-65 Census
Sebeo comes into his property
Judy Bryant Directory
ownership via contract with
Database
Tanya Warren Thomas Howe, Jr. in 1850, the
Dir DB. Deed Book 87, p.
deed cited selling Lot#26 on
471-472. Chattel mortgage: Jefferson St. to him (N1/2) and
Box SB728, 1847. In
his son John Hornbeck(S1/2).
Skaneateles in 1830.TLW
Sebeo Hornbeck was elected
Auburn-200 years of
Trustee of the ME Zion Church in
History, 1793-1993. Auburn 1846, when worship took place at
Bicentennial Cmte., 1992. P.
the Depuy's residence on
39. Chatell mortgage of
Washington St. Sebeo is paying
Sebeo Hornbeck for 1 horse, taxes on this property from 18501 lumber, 1 horse wagon
1857 with the 1850 structure
from Andrew Wilson, 1847. called a "shanty". By the time just
House still
(Box SB728, Bundle 1847, his wife Mary is paying taxes, the
stands at 40
Cayuga Co. Records
value has gone from $150.00 to
Jefferson.TLW
Retention.
$200.TLW
Auburn
SOURCE
COMMENTS
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
68
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
4
Hosmer
2 Hotchkiss
2 House
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Howard
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
Editor. The
Northern Christian
Residence-15
Advocate, 1848(now 29)
1856 and The
Washington St
Northern
(Tax Map #
Independent.JL
115.59-1-24.)
Receives letter
Northern
from David Wright,
Christian
Feb 1861, to go to
Advocate &
Tubman home and
Northern
warn family that
Independent
slave catchers were
publishing
in the area and to
building-16
protect
Clark Street near
William A. A-URR themselves.KCL Auburn
Green.
Clark B.
A
T. R./S. R.
A
Abolitionist;
UGRR sympathizer;
AS agent, at July
1839 Auburn Conv. Auburn
UGRR
Sennett
Ward #2
Center Road
SOURCE
COMMENTS
"His convictions were earnest and
sincere, and at all times plainly
expressed. He was an “agitator
Joni Lincoln, Education
and reformer” of no mean ability
Coordinator, CC Historian's and as such always stood in the
Office.
Collections front ranks – boldly confronting
of Cayuga County Historical the opponents of his opinions, and
Society book 6/7 “History challenging their admiration by
of the Press of Cayuga
the firmness an consistency of his
County from 1798 to 1877” course. Slavery and intemperance
presented by Elliot G.
were especially obnoxious to
Storke, via JLincoln. Kate
him..." Purchases house on
Clifford Larson. County
Washington St. in 1851-still
Deed Book 85, p. 143
standing.
3 July 1839, Fr. Of Man
Oral tradition. Sheila Tucker.
Mike Reilly-Liberator
Subscription List
Found C. B. (Clark) Hotchkiss, a
51 yr. old tailor from CT, living
with his LARGE family in
Auburn.TLW
Peter Jenkins Living with him
1870
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
69
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Howe
Howland
Howland
FIRST
NAME
F. S.
Ben and
Mary
Emily
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
A
Abolitionist,
delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
A-URR
A-URR
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Auburn
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
3 July 1839, Fr. Of Man
Not found in census search 1830,
40.
Scipio
Answers a letter written to the
North Star re: Contact person for
the League of Universal
Brotherhood in America. Letter is
pub'shd in the Cayuga Herald
Cornell Research
promising help and Contacts for
Farm
their "fellow leaguer". Author of
Poplar Ridge, Chappel, Brian. North Star,
letter is B. B. Howland of
34S
30 Mar 1849
Springport-? TLW
Scipio
Sherwood,
34B, East side,
North of
Sherwood, frame
house
Chappel, Brian
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
70
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5
Howland
Hoyt
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Hughes
Hughes
FIRST
NAME
Slocum
and
Hannah
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A-URR
Nehemiah UGRR
Henry
"Harry" F/Mtd
Robert FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
Known UGRR
station keeper.
TOWNSHIP
Scipio
Ira
BirthplaceUnknown
Birthplace-MD
Aurelius
Auburn
LOCATION
Sherwood-Stone
Store; Pre-1857
house on
Sherwood Road,
just west of the
Sherwood Hotel.
Post 1857 House
south on 34Bknown better as
Emily Howland
House-has
marker
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Chosen President at the Aug 1852
Friends of Freedom meeting at
Port Byron. Subscriber to the
Rare "Pass" signed by John Frederick Douglass Paper Nov
Mann, 9th of 4th mo, 1840, 1851, March 1852, Aug 1855.
to
Subscriber to the North Star Jan
Slocum Howland; letter 1850. Donation of $5 noted from
from Emily Howland to
Slocum for NYS Vigilance
Leonard H. Searing,
Comm. In the North Star of 12 Oc
10/8/1928, Cayuga Museum. 1849. Contributed $25 to the
Friend of Man entry-9 Sept, Chaplin Bail Fund as noted in the
1840, p.1B also 19 Sept
June 1857 issue of the National
1838, p. 2A. Frederick
Era, Vol. 11. # 552, p. 122.
Douglass Paper, Aug 13
Chosen as member of Business
1852. North Star, 25 Jan Comm at the "freat Syracuse Anti1850.
Slavery Convention.TLW
Interview with James R.
Cox,
Elbert Wixom thesis, 1903,
30.
1820, 30, 40, 50, 60 Census
1850 Census
Check property data.
Possible connection to Peter
Hughes, county leader
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
71
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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Historical New York Research Associates
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Hunter
FIRST
NAME
J.
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
A
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
2
3
Huntington
Hursey
Abolitionist;
professor Auburn
Theological
Ezra Abel
A
Seminary
Samuel FS-URR Birthplace-MD
3
Hussey
Jonathan
A
Quaker
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
Auburn
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
3 July 1839, Fr. Of Man
Auburn 16 Seminary Stree
Sennett w/ Alonson White
Moravia
Main St.
Sheila Tucker
1860 Census
eila Tucker/Cornell Survey fo
COMMENTS
House, built in 1861, has small
room accessible only trough trap
door in attic (Sullivan, "Tracks").
Taught from 1864-1901 at ATS.
Only remaining structure of Theo.
Seminary.
Built stone house later of Isaac
Cady.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
72
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
Hutchinson
3
Hyatt
3
Hyson
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
LAST NAME
Matthias A-URR
Henry
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
Herman Phillips
family may have
stayed with this
family.
FS-URRBirthplace-Wash. DC Auburn
Charlotte FS-URRBirthplace-Wash. DC Venice
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Formerly the Heffernan home,
now
owned by Pierce's. M. Hutchinson
was
a Quaker, friends of the Howlands
and
J. Woods. In the house was a
removable panel, which conceled
a small hiding place (1st floor).
Also, in summer kitchen in back
of house were metal cleats, on the
wall, which went up to an open
attic, or down to a coal, etc.
storage area. A E. Hutchinson
listed as subscriber to the
On 1853 Cay. Co. map. Frederick Douglass Paper in Feb
1 mile north of Oral tradition and physical
1854. Mathias listed as
King Ferry on the
evidence.
subscriber to Frederick Douglass
present Fesenden Frederick Douglass Paper, Paper in Dec 1851 & Dec 1852,
Farm.
31 Dec 1852
and Jan 1855.
County Insane
Asylum
1865 Census
w/ Daniel
Merritt
1870 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
73
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Ingham
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
W. Smith A-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
UGRR.
TOWNSHIP
Cato
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
W. Smith Ingham to William
Titus,
3/20/1854, "Cato 4 Corners" re
escape of
George Washington from Auburn
prison;
Ingham to Titus, 4/8/1854, "The
cow is all
right and commands annual
praise. I am
afraid she will not calve at 8
o'clock. and 10 minutes the first of
October. She has
been acting a little suspicious.
What say Fowler, Shepherd and
Cochrane?"
Ingham to
Titus, 4/8/1854; Perry, Cato 4
Corners, 4/10/1854, "You can say
to your custom house folks that
fugitive slaves cannot
be taken from Auburn Prison, not
even that devil George
Washington whose master came
here after him a few days since
Meridian. Owner
when he was discharged. But
of largest store Sheila Tucker, typed Ingham G.W. went to Canada and his
north of Auburn.
letter.
master went back disappointed."
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
74
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
2
3
3
3
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Ira UGRR
Station?
Isabell
Jackson
Jackson
Jackson
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Oral tradition, physical
evidence. "Albert and Pam
Cox, 3 or 4 miles north of
Cato on Rt. 34 live in a
3-4 miles north brick house and showed me Unusual interior spaces. Almost
of Cato,
the hiding hole behind a
original 19th century
Route 34, brick chimney." Current owner,
condition.
URR
Cato
house
Ron Cox.
James FS-URRBirthplace-Wash. DC Auburn
1870 Census
Benjamin FS-URR Birthplace-MD
Sennett w/ Norman Strong
1865 Census
Charles FS-URR Birthplace-Ohio
Chesterfiel
d & wife
FSURR
Auburn
Listed as
"coloured" people,
from Auburn,
recently arrived in
San Francisco as
new residents,
sharing in the
"Anniversary of the
Birth Day of
Freedom" in San
Fran.
Auburn
County Insane
Asylum
1870 Census
The Christian Recorder, PA,
9 Feb 1867
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
75
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5 Jackson
3 Jackson
3
3
Jackson
Jackson
2 Jackson
3 Jackson
3 Jackson
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Chosen as member
of the Business
Committee at the
Liberty Party
Convention at
Canastota in
September 1852- is
Dr. James C A
"of Glen Haven" .
Fanny FS-URRBirthplace-Unknown Brutus
Jacob
Mary
AfAm
FS-URR
Directory
Birthplace-VA
LOCATION
Glen Haven
1869-Owasco St.
n Upper Dam;
1870-14
Auburn
Moravia.
Cato
Teacher in the
African School of
Auburn Village,
Sponsored by the
Samuel A. AfAm Auburn Theo. Sem.
Solomon FS-URRBirthplace-Unknown Auburn
Wilson FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Auburn
State Prison
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Important abolitionist, edited the
Liberty Party paper. Operated
Glen Haven Watercure with wife
Lucretia and Thesdosia Gilbert
and Wm. Chaplin. Later ran the
September 10, 1852 issue, Dansville Watercure. Originally
Frederick Douglass paper
from Mexico, Oswego, NY.
1855 Census
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
1870 Census
Friend of Man Image, 24
April, 1839, p. 2E
1850 Census
1865 Census
Not found in 1830, 40 or 1850
censusTLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
76
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
2
2
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Jacobs
Jacobs
Jacobs
James
Jarrod
FIRST
NAME
Isaac
J.
Z. L.
Mary
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
A
Abolitionist who
hosted Wm. C.
Nell, AfrAm
abolitionist lecturer
A
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
?relationship to Isaac of
Venice
A
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
?relationship to Isaac of
Venice
FS-URR
Birthplace-VA
TOWNSHIP
Springport
LOCATION
SOURCE
Lot # 93, in the
far SW corner of
Venice near
Sherwood
William C. Nell letter to
Friend of
Man, 8/6/1852, printed
8/26/1852
Friend's
Academy
COMMENTS
1870 Census
It is not known if the house
referred to in Storke's was in
Wolcott, 1820-Wolcott,
Wolcott, near Sterling or in
Wayne
Wayne Co.;
Conquest or in Auburn. Joni
County. 1853-Conquest,
Lincoln, Conquest Historian, has
Conquest Cayuga Co.1859: Storke's History of Cayuga
found a house claimed to be
Canfield &
Storke's bio.
by 1853, 1 Pulsifer 1863- County, p. ? Sheila Tucker. original Jarrod House-#10386
Terrisa
Describes house as Auburn
64: North St. 1859-60, 1863-64, Auburn Slayton Rd., Conquest-Tax Map #
Skeel
A-URR station on UGRR. after 1858 near tollgate.
Directory
56.00-1-44.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
77
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Jasper
Jenkins
Jessup
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Jacob
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
AfAm
Peter & Mar AfAm
George. G.
A
Abraham AfAm
Alvah &
Levi
David R.
E. P.
Ellen
A
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Directory
Auburn
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1867-68-boards
South St. n Toll
gate
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
Probably boarding at Harriet
Tubman's property.
1855 Census
Death Records for the Year
ending 1863-Cayuga County Property Value-$100. Mary died
GenWeb
1863 of Cholera.TLW
Property Owners
Mentz
Secretary of the
Friends of Freedom
of the 27th
Congressional
District meeting at
Port Byron, 3 Aug
1852
Mentz
Port Byron
Frederick Douglas Paper, 13
Aug 1852.
Directory
Auburn
1859-60:
81 Mechanic St.
TLW Dir. DB
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
Mentz
Port Byron
Ledyard
Brutus
Auburn
w/ James Chase
Birthplace-N.
FSCarolina Property
URR
Owner
AfAm Property Owner
AfAm Property Owner
An Alva Johnson of Mentz in the
1830 census
1865-1870 Census
1860 Census
1855 Census
Property Value-$?
Property Value-$400
Property Value-$200
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
78
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
STATUS
RATING
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
3
3
Johnson
Johnson
Emily
Emma
3
Johnson
Harriet
3
Johnson
Jacob
3
Johnson
James
3
Johnson
John
3
Johnson
John
3
Johnson
John
3
Johnson
John
3
Johnson
Joseph
3
Johnson
Melinda
FSURR
AfAm
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
3
3
Johnson
Johnson
Moses
Porter
Mtd
AfAm
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Property Value-$600
Birthplace-MD
Property Owner
Auburn w/ John Easterly
Auburn
1860 Census
1870 Census
Birthplace-MD
Springport Howland School
1870 Census
Birthplace-S.
Carolina
Venice
Birthplace-VA
Auburn
State Prison
1865 Census
Birthplace-TN
Auburn
State Prison
1855 Census
Birthplace-MD
Auburn w/ John Easterly
1860 Census
Birthplace-TN
Auburn
State Prison
1865 Census
Birthplace-PA
Auburn
County Insane
Asylum
?
Birthplace-Wash.
DC
Auburn
County Insane
Asylum
1870 Census
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
1870 Census
Birthplace-NJ
Property Owner
Property Owner
Ledyard/
Scipio
Brutus
1855-60, 1870 Census
1865 Census
1870 Census
Property Value-$250-300
Property Value-$110
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
79
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
Johnson
3
Johnson
3
Johnson
3
Johnson
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Johnson
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
Rendered "cordial
assistance to
Douglas and
Delany" at meeting
Rev. H. A-URR see Aug 28 1848. Auburn
FSRichard
URR
Birthplace-KY
Auburn
FSSarah A. URR
Birthplace-VA
Brutus
FSStephen
URR
Birthplace-VA
Brutus
Thomas
AfAm
Property Owner.
Directoy
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
North Star Aug 25 1848
1850 Census
w/ G. H. White
1867-70-Orchard
Auburn
n Jefferson.
1850 Census
1850 Census
1860-65 Census.
Judy Bryant Directory
Database.
Property Value-$50-$200. In the
1880's Thomas and wife Ursula
and their 5 children lived at #36
Orchard, (current address as wellno 911 change), ina 2-family
structure. The other side of the
house was lived in by Gardner
and Augusta Wheeler (Eur. Am.)
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
80
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
3
3
3
3
Johnson
Johnston
Jones
Jones
Jones
Jones
3
Jones
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Jones
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
William &
Property
Mary Ann FS-URR
Owners
Abram
AfAm Property Owner
Anna FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
Charlie FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Eliza
FS-URR Birthplace-DE
Henry FS-URR Birthplace-MD
John
Moses
Auburn
Scipio
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
FS-URRBirthplace-N. Carolin Auburn
FS-URR
Directory
LOCATION
1857, 1859-60,
1863-63, 18671870, 1878-79
Directories:
2 Jefferson
Property
described in
Deed Book 79,
p.49 Parsons to
Johnson 1849.
House is present
on 1871 Richie
Map of
Auburn.TLW
State Prison
County Insane
Asylum
Auburn 1865-4 William St
SOURCE
1850-1870 Census
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
1865 Census
1870 Census
1855 Census
1870 Census
1870 Census
COMMENTS
Property Value-$600-$1000.
William Johnson was cited in the
will of Spencer Parsons as a
beneficiary of the land on
Jefferson contracted to him by
Parsons. Parsons lived in the
Abijah Fitch house at 197
Genesee St. William Johnson was
born in Orange Co., NY and
arrived in Auburn in about 1830,
acc. to the 1855 census. Worked
as a
carman/hackman/hostler/drayman
Still working as such in 1880 at
age 72 living at 2 Jefferson with
daughter Mary and husband
Sidney Johnson, a barber..TLW
Property Value-$350.
1870 Census
1870 Census
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
81
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
FIRST
TOWNNAME
SIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
Samuel FS-URR Birthplace-Canada Auburn
Samuel FS-URRBirthplace-Wash. DC Niles
w/ James Parish
3
3
Jones
Jones
Solomon FS-URR
William FS-URR
Birthplace-MD
Directory
Birthplace-KY
3
Jordon
Jacob
Freedom Seeker?
Member of the
"Colored Freeman
FS-URR
of CNY"
3
Josephs
Laura
FS-URR
BirthplaceMissippi
A
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
3
2
3
Judson
Kellogg
Kennedy
King
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
3
3
LAST NAME
Jones
Jones
Henry
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1836 meeting
of NYS AntiRobert R.
A
Slavery Society
WashingtonFS-URR Birthplace-MD
Andrew H. UGRR
Auburn
Auburn
3rd Ward
SOURCE
1870 Census
1865 Census
COMMENTS
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
1860 Census
Not listed in Master Census
database.
The North Star, 13 Oct 1848
Owasco w/ Dan'l Swartout
1870 Census
Auburn
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
Frederick Douglass Paper,
23 Oct 1851
Auburn
Proceedings of the First
Annual
Meeting of the NYS ASS
(1836)
1860 Census
Auburn
State Prison
Interview with James R.
Cox, Elbert Wixom thesis,
1903, 30
No Robert Kellogg found in the
1830, 40 & 50 Cay. Co. census
Check property data.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
82
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
King
3
3
3
King
King
King
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
Quakers, close
friends of Susannah
Marriott. John a
teacher at the
John & Susa A-URR Friend's Academy. Ledyard
Julia
Lewis
Philip
FS-URR Birthplace-MD
AfAm Property Owner
FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Auburn
Brutus
Brutus
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Letter from John King, (British
immigrant as was Susannah
Marriot), to Tho. Gould of RIspeaks of S.Marriott-1855. S.
Marriott leaves much of her estate
to John's wife Susan Swenarton
Will of Susannah Marriot.
King. On-going research into
Letter of John King to
relationship of King family to
Thomas Gould of Newport, Richard Gaskin. (who lived next
RI. 5 Feb 1855 from
door) King family deeds
Lot #70. House http://pastvoices.com/usa/ki available for Lot#70 property
still standing.
ng1855.shtml. TLW/CL
ownership.TLW
5th Ward w/
George Evans
w/ H. Tryon
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
1850, 55, 65 Census
1870 Census
Property Value-$400
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
83
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
King House
Alfred
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
UGRR
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
UGRR station?
Ledyard
LOCATION
Main St-Aurora
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Information from various
historical architecture surveysnote: Alfred King owner of this
property-brother of John King and
both sons of William & Mary
King of England. All Quakers.
William King House on Lot #70
set back from Dixon Rd. to
immediate south of John King
House. This house on Main ST.,
Aurora wasn't lived in by Alfred
King until about1870. Acc. to
info. provided by Judy Furness,
the north part of the house was
built about 1820 by Daniel Foote.
Foote sold it to John and Lucy
Wood Williams who built the
south half in 1850. UGRR activity
would have been hosted by either
the Foote or Williams families,
not the Kings. TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
84
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
4
Kirk
3
Knapp
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
William B. A-URR UGRR safe house
John T.
A-URR
UGRR
A
Delegate
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
2
Knapp
Rev. S.
3
Lane
William FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
Sterling
Cato
Mentz
LOCATION
Sheila Tucker, typed notes
from Ingham
Port Byron
No S. Knapp found in 1820, 30,
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
40 census.
Fleming
1870 Census
3
George
FS-URR
BirthplaceAlabama
William FS-URR
BirthplaceUnknown
COMMENTS
cobblestone
house
3 Lansing
3 Lavender
Lee
SOURCE
Belle M. Kirk, 3/19/1928,
Cayuga Co. historian's
office; obit. Wm. Kirk,
on the north side
1933; oral tradition,
of 104A,
Mahlon Wagner; Sheila
west of Fair
Tucker, typed notes from
Haven
Ingham
V.P. 1836 meeting
of NYS AntiDirck C.
A
Slavery Society
Auburn
Mary FS-URR Birthplace-MD
Auburn w/ Charles Wood
Lee
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Proceedings of the First
Annual
Meeting of the NYS ASS
(1836)
1870 Census
Aubrun
State Prison
1860-65 Census
Auburn
1857: Lumber
Court
Hotel in 1855
1855 Census
No D. C. Lansing found in the
1830.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
85
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5
Lemmon(s)
Lemon
Lemon
4
Letchworth
4 Lewhitaker
3 Lewis
3
3
Lewis
Lewis
3 Lewis
3 Lincoln
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-MD
Henry&
Property Owner
Ellen FS-URR
Directory
Story told in
William C. FS-URR sister's biography.
TOWNSHIP
Auburn
LOCATION
SOURCE
1863-64Seymour corner L.D. Mansfield to Wm. Still,
Washington- 5/4/1857, Still, p. 54. 1860Peddler,
65 Census. Judy Bryant
Directory
Directory Database.
Eileen McHugh. Mss of
Julia C. Ferris, 1894 "Jane
Clark".
Pens 2 letters to Frederick
Fulton Street in
Seward gave eulogy at
Douglass, published in sources
Auburn; Route funeral. Frederick Douglass
cited, challenging him rather
34B in
Paper, 27 Oct 1854 and 3 harshly, for attempting to divide
Sherwood.
Nov 1854
the abolitionists.
Auburn;
Scipio
Caroline FS-URR
Charles FS-URR
Birthplace-S.
Carolina
Birthplace-VA
Auburn
Auburn
State Prison
1850 Census
1865 Census
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
Ward 2 w/ Isaac
Linx
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
w/ Joseph Pettit.
In 1857 Dir.: 149
W. Genesee
1850 Census
Moses
FS-URR
Painter. Arrived in Auburn 1857
from MD after taking sister
Charlotte (Jane Clark) to Wash.
DC via the UGRR.
1857 Directory10 Mechanic
Abolitionist;
Quaker; UGRR
James
Property Value-$500.
Auburn
A-URR
Josiah
COMMENTS
FS-URR
Birthplace-MD
Scipio
Thomas FS-URR
Abraham FS-URR
Directory
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
Auburn
1869-Union Ave
n South
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
1870 Census
Living with Adam Gray family
along with David Bloomfield.
Not listed in master census
database
Not listed in master census
database.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
86
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
Lored
Loukes
3 Loukes
3 Loyd
Wiley
Harrison
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
FS-URR
AfAm
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Birthplace-LA
Property Owner
BirthplaceJacob FS-URR
Columbia
Luther A. B AfAm Property Owner
Ira
LOCATION
SOURCE
w/ Chapman
Townshend
1870 Census
COMMENTS
Genoa
1865 Census
Property Value-$500-child of 10
years!
Cato w/ George Hoskins
Mentz
1855 Census
1855 Census
Property Value-$200
The Lucas family lived at 30
Cornell. Margaret Stewart,
Tubman's
mystery neice who was raised in
the Seward home, married Henry
Lucas
1873.
3
Lucas
Henry
FS-URR
Birthplace-VA
Moravia
w/ Joseph Alley
1870 Census
3
Lyman
Paul
FS-URR
BirthplaceUnknown
Auburn
State Prison
1855 Census
3
Mack
Auburn
County Insane
Asylum
1870 Census
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Manchester
Charles FS-URR Birthplace-Jamaica
Elias
A
Delegate
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
3
Manchester
W. H.
A
Delegate
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
3
Manning
Lydia
FS-URR
Birthplace-TN
Scipio
Venice
Springport Howland School
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839,
also, 27 Dec 1837-, also 9
Sept 1840-also-19 Sept
1838, p. 2A
Found Elias, (3 of them!). in
Scipio, 1840 census. Called
"Esq" in Dec 1837 Fr. Of Man
entry.
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
Found William H. in Venice,
1840 census
1870 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
87
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5
Mansfield
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
Seminary-Shares
home at 67
Fulton St, Auburn
with fellow
Tabernacle
Sexton, Amos
Flint(1857
Directory)
Possible location
today may be
brick home near
southwest corner
of Fulton and
Seymour-# 59,
the last house
listed on North
St. in 1857 and
today the oldest
house heading
north. Deed
search
unsuccessful for
Mansfield or
Flynt-may have
been short-term
Rev.
boarders. L. D.
Leroy
Mansfield
Kate Larson; Still, p. 38,
Delos &
Pastor of
marries Amos
517. Geneology and
Elizabeth
Tabernacle Church,
Flynt's
property research, Tanya
Flint
A-URR keeps safe house Auburn daughter.TLW
Warren
COMMENTS
Harbors the James Harris family.
Principle of the Rockland Female
Seminary at Nyack, NY. Born
1821 in Rodman, Jefferson, NY.
Deacon of Protestant Epis. Church
of San Jose, CA, 1878-1898. No
information can be found on "The
Tabernacle" church-never
incorporated and only appears in
the 1857 Directory on Water St.not the 1859. Does not appear in
the church listings of the 1855
census.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
88
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
Marble/Marve Nathan
Marriott
3 Mason
3 Mathews
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
A
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Liberator
Subscription
UGRR; Ardent
Abolitionist,
teacher at Aurora
Susanna A-URR
Quaker school
Mentz
LOCATION
Port Byron
SOURCE
"Nathan Marble & Family….have
endeared themselves to all the
friends of freedom , by their
labors of love. We think we
never spent more happy hours
Mike Reilly-Liberator
than when in conversation with
Subscription List. Frederick Mr. And Mrs. Marble…Their
Douglasd Paper, 23 Dec
kindness toeard us was
1853.
unbounded."
Court St. and
Sherwood Rd.,
Sheila Edmonds, Town
Aurora/Ledyard. Historian. Will at Cayuga
Lived in the
County Records Retention,
house of John & Book M, p. 168. Slocum
Susan King in her Howland & John King were
later years. (see executors. Deed Book FF, p.
tax
360. Tax Rolls, 1850-1859,
Ledyard records).TLW
Ledyard.TLW
County Insane
George FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Auburn
Asylum
Sarah A. FS-URRBirthplace-UnknownSpringport w/ R. Howland
COMMENTS
Miss. Marriot known for her
radical abolitionism and offered
anti-slavery lending library for
citizens of Aurora. Listed in
Aurora in 1850 census. Owner of
land on Lot #34, Village of
Aurora, sold to her by Charles
Kimball in 1826 on corner of
Court St. Also paid taxes on Lot
#70 in Ledyard for $4000 of
personal property, being the same
lot where Quakers John & Susan
King and freedom seeker Richard
Gaskin lived.TLW
1870 Census
1865 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
89
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
Mathias
3 Maybury
3 McChesney
2
Mead (e)
2 Mechum
3 Mendon
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Charlotte FS-URR Birthplace-Africa
Sennett
Elizabeth FS-URR Birthplace-TN
Auburn
Elizabeth FS-URRBirthplace-S. Carolin Mentz
Ardon
A
Delegate
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
Secretary of the
Cay. Co. AntiSlavery Society,
Dr. I. J.
A
1838
John
FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Ledyard
Auburn
Messereau
L.
Methodist Church
3 Michael
Henry
Fleming
3
FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
Fleming
3
Michael
Middleton
Maria
Isaac &
Barbery
Mtd
Property Owner
LOCATION
w/ John Benham
w/ Wm. SteeleClergy
Auburn
Delegate
at July 1839
A
Auburn Conv.
abolitionist talk
FS-URR Birthplace-VA
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Auburn
Genoa
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1850 Census
John Benham is listed as
"Methodist Clergyman" in the
1850 census.
1865 Census
1870 Census
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
Aurora
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
Ledyard
Found Ardon Mead in the 1840
census of Auburn
Friend of Man-19 Sept
1838, p. 2A & 2B
1855 Census
The Messereau families lived
primarily in Cayuga Village and
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
Springport
North Star, June 30, 1850
1870 Census
1870 Census
Old Milton Lot
#3, now
Northfield/Kings
Ferry Area
Deed Book F, p. 39.
Deed book L, p. 14
Isaac appears in the 1820 censusdeeds show land transactions in
1797, 1803 (Lot # 29) and 1804,
buying and selling 100 acres.
William Cromwell is witness to
his 1803 deed!TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
90
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
Minns
Thomas FS-URR
3
Mitchell
George
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Mitchell
Mitchell
AfAm
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
2
Mitton
Capt.
William
3
Montgomery
Robert
AfAm
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Birthplace-S.
Carolina
Auburn
7 Washington
Auburn Directories, 18801905-Cayuga Museum.
Husband of Georgietta Depuy,
daughter of Deb Depuy.TLW
Directory
Auburn
1865-66: 68
Mechanic
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
House is likely still standing
Birthplace-MD
Property Owner
Henry &
Escaped to Canada
Maria FS-URR
by 1846.
Philip
LOCATION
Directory
Auburn
69 Genesee,
today's #53possibly still
standing.TLW
1865-66: Bridge
Auburn
St. n Owasco.
Possibly smuggled
freedom seekers
across Lake
A-URR
Ontario..
Sterling
FSURR
Birthplace-KY
Auburn
Property Value-$300. Father of
Melinda/Lucinda Mitchell
Williams, wife of Perry Williams.
Possible that John Stewart, aka
Robert Ross, Harriet Tubman's
brother, married Millie Hollis as
1865 Census. Kate Clifford
2nd wife in 1863-63 at the
Larson.
Mitchell's home.KCL
TLW Dir. DB
A Phillip Mitchell living at the
Auburn Prison, working in the
machine shop, born in Canada
Little Sodus Bay Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
State Prison
1855 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
91
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
SIGNIFICANCE
Originally
a
Congregati
onal
Church.
Abolitionis
t meetings
held there
A
Moravia
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Summerhill
heila Tucker typewritten note
Adopted an antislavery resolution
in 1856.
Sheila Tucker typewritten note
Members active in UGRR.
3
Moravia
Methodist
Church
3
Moravia
Baptist
Church
A
Moravia
4
Moravia
Congregational
Church
A
Moravia
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Morgan
3
Morgan
3
Morgan
C.
Henry
A
Delegate
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
Auburn
Emily Howland
letter of support to
render assistance to
children in Wash.
A-URR
DC
Ledyard
Mayhem FS-URR Birthplace-GA/VA
Auburn
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
Aurora
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839. Christopher Morgan of Aurora?
Judy Berault
1850 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
92
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
Moses
John
5 Murdock
3 Murdock
Green
John
3
3
3
3
5
3
3
3
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Murray
Nason
Nelson
Newman
Newton
Noble
Oliver
Olmstead
Olney
STATUS
RATING
3
FIRST
LAST NAME NAME
Jack and
Morse
Hannah
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
AfAm
AfAm
Directory
Stephen AfAm
Directory
Augustus FS-URRBirthplace-N. Carolin
Samuel FS-URRBirthplace-West Indie
Mary
Mtd
Property Owner
Thornton
Birthplace-VA,
& Priscilla FS-URR Priscilla-Canada
Henry FS-URR Birthplace-MD
Benjamin
A
SOURCE
Auburn
Auburn
FS-URR Documentation
Sennett
FS-URRBirthplace-S. Carolin Ledyard
John D. FS-URR
Jordon FS-URR
LOCATION
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
COMMENTS
Wisbey, Peter
1869: Union n
South
udy Bryant Directory Database
Worked near the
Rev. Andersons
w/ Sam Dudley
1869: 16-18
Jefferson
Still letter of 28 Oct 1856
1870 Census
udy Bryant Directory Database
1850 Census
1850 Census
1870 Census
1887-12
Cornell/Chapman
Owasco
house still
& Auburn
standing
Auburn
State Prison
Birthplace-GA
Birthplace-LA
County Insane
Auburn
Asylum
Ira
w/ Stephen Waller
Delegate
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
Scipio
1865, 1870 Census
1865 Census
Property Value-$1200
1865-Thornton is at Harriet
Tubman's Home. 1870 they are in
Owasco.By 1887 at 12
Cornell/Chapman
1865-70 Census
1865 Census
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
Found in Scipio, 1840 census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
93
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
4
Overrocker
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
John
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Found in 1850 Sterling census,
age 58, farm value $6000-high,
with wife Miriam and kids. Found
Fair Haven--farm Sheila Tucker, typed notes
on 1875 map, Lot # 53, by
A-URRPossible UGRR agen Sterling
home
from Ingham
cemetery.TLW
Birthplace-LA
Directory
Birthplace-DE
1865: w/ Wm.
Howland. 1869lives at 4
Jefferson, waiter
for Wm Seward,
Auburn
Jr.
Auburn
State Prison
Birthplace-VA
Nimrod &
Property Owner
Owens/Orvins Catherine FS-URR
Directory
1865-66:
Jefferson n
Clark.
1867-70:
2.5 Jefferson
1878-79 Dir: 20
Jefferson 1900:
Anna Owens,
widow Nimrod:
Auburn
32 Jefferson
3 Overton
3 Owen
3
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Benjamin FS-URR
George FS-URR
1865 Census
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
1850 Census
1865 Census.
Judy Bryant Directory
Database.
Property Value-$500. In Auburn,
1880 with 2nd wife Anna, b.VA.
Living next to Hornbeck ext'd
family, 8th Ward at today's 36
Jefferson-Tax Map #115.59-1-39.
Not sure if this is original Owens
house.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
94
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3 Paddock
3 Page
3 Palmer
3 Palmer
3 Parker
3 Parker
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
3
Parker
3
Parker
3
Patree
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Charles &
Lewis
A
John
FS-URR
Ian
Jason
FS-URR
Thomas FS-URR
Sarah
Abolitionists;
UGRR
sympathizers;
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
Birthplace-MD
BirthplaceFS-URR
Unknown
AfAm Property Owner
Anna FS-URR
Charlotte FS-URR
Delila
SIGNIFICANCE
FS-URR
TOWNSHIP
Mentz
Scipio
LOCATION
Montezuma
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Charles, son of James, & Lewis,
Charles' son-all early settlers of
Mentz, War of 1812, Lewis
became major educational
reformer and principle of Auburn
schools, developed many of
Auburn's streets as engineer.
Paddock family members of
Mentz Methodist Church in Mont.
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839. and James attended Pres. Church
Genealogical research by
of Port Byron. All buried in
TLW for private client-File
Methodist Ch. Cem. of Mentz
available.
(Mont).
1870 Census
Auburn w/ E. R. Richardson
Brutus
1865 Census
1850 Census
Birthplace-Wash.
DC
Birthplace-MD
Venice
Auburn
1870 Census
1870 Census
Birthplace-VA
Venice
1865 (in Ledyard)-1870
Census
Mother of Richard Gaskin
Birthplace-Wash.
DC
Venice
1870 Census
w/ Delila Parker-mother of
Richard Gaskins
Directory
Auburn
1859-60:
National Hotel
Property Value-$200
w/ Delila Parker-mother of
Richard Gaskins
TLW Dir. DB
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
95
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3 Patterson
3 Pattick
3
2
3
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Paul
Payson
Purnell/
Pernell
Perry
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
BirthplaceCatherine FS-URR
Unknown
Auburn
Jane
A Gave $1 to North Sta Mentz
Port Byron
FSBirthplace-S.
Henry
URR
Carolina
Moravia w/ Clark Cowen
E. H.
A
Abolitionists;
UGRR
sympathizers;
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
Directory
Auburn
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
COMMENTS
1855 Census
North Star-5 Oct 1849
1865 Census
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
Judy Bryant Directory
Database. Religious
1869: Thornton n Corporation Papers, Vol. 1, Elected trustee of the short-lived
Cornell. 1870-56 p. 241. Cay. Co. Records St. Mark's AME Church in 1870.
Auburn
Garrow
Retention
Owned 3 lots on Garrow St.
John
AfAm
H.R.
Contact between
Tubman
and UGRR leaders
in northern
Auburn/
A-URR
part of county.
Cato
H. Perry's found in 1850 Cay.
Co.: Henry of Locke, Horace of
Locke, Henry of Owasco and
Sheila Tucker, typed notes. Lett
Hudson of Ira.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
96
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5
Phillips
Herman
and
Hannah &
Family
5
Phillips
John
FSURR
FSURR
5
Phillips
William
FSURR
2
Phinney
Alson
3
Picket
Kate
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Pierce
Edward
A
FSURR
Mtd
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-MD
James b. Canada.
Property Owners
TOWNSHIP
Scipio
LOCATION
Sherwood
Birthplace-VA
Ledyard w/ Ab Vanderhill
Birthplace-MD
Ledyard
w/ Wm. Meader
& Sam Otis
UGRR
sympathizers;
at June 23, 1841
Auburn Christian
Anti-slavery Conv.
Birthplace-N.
Carolina
BirthplaceUnknown
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1850-1870 Census
The home of Herman and Hannah
Phillips has been nominated to the
National Network to Freedom by
Judith Wellman, project director.
Property Value-$75-200. Son
James marries Rose Gaskin,
daughter of Richard Gaskin.
1850 Census
1850-1865 Census
Friend of Man-April 13,
1841, p. 1
Owasco w/ J. Cuykendall
Scipio
Lot #36
1870 Census
1820 AfAm Census.
Deed Book BB, p. 92
Buys 2 acres in 1824 Scipio from
Ed. Robinson and Allen Thomas,
near North line of Poplar Ridge
Rd.near the Village of Sherwood.
Blacksmith.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
97
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
Pinder
Stephen
3
Plank
Henry
3
Polfry
William
4
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Pomeroy
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FSURR
FSURR
FSURR
SIGNIFICANCE
LOCATION
Birthplace-DE
Auburn
1855 Census
Birthplace-LA
Ledyard w/ David Thomas
1850 Census
4
Port Byron
Hotel
Housed and
A-URR employed AfAm's
5
Port Byron
Methodist
Church
Frederick Douglas
spoke here
Mentz
Mentz
Genesee St.
Route 38
interchange
Port Byron
COMMENTS
Judy Bryant Directory
Database. Kate Clifford
Larson. 1870 Census under Possible link to Harriet Tubman
surname "Pryder"-waiter
family.KCL
Auburn
Auburn
3rd Ward
SOURCE
Birthplace-MD
UGRR, befriended
Tubman; David
Wright's law
Theodore A-URR
partner
A
TOWNSHIP
Seward family papers.
Subscribed to Bradford
book.
African Americans listed in the
census as "with Richard Dyer"
are known to be residing as
employees of the Port Byron or
National Hotel, run by Richard
Dyer after 1855 when he
purchased the property from from
the widow of Harry Lamkin,
previous owner, and others for
County Deed Book 90, p. 78
$500.
Frederick Douglass'
Paper , 29 July 1853 & 23
Dec 1853.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
98
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
2
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
Port Byron Unknown
Presbyterian deaconChurch
elderly.
Port Byron
Women
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A
A
4
Porter
Lansing
3
Powell
Andy
3
Powell
Noah
SIGNIFICANCE
A
FSURR
FSURR
TOWNSHIP
Port Byron
LOCATION
Presbyterian
Church
SOURCE
COMMENTS
"A venerable deacon in the proslavery Presyterian Ch. in the
place, came out boldly &
manfully for the first time in favor
of immediate emancipation".
Reported by W. O. Duvall of Port
end of Man- 1 April, 1840, p.
Byron as cited.
Gave donations to
Rochester AntiSlavery Fair, 1850,
1855. Sent "A box
of useful and fancy
goods" to this
meeting.
North Star-15 Mar 1850.
North Star-1 Sep 1848.
North Star- 14 Jan 1848. 19
Jan 1855.
UGRR-gave money
to "Charley
Johnson" to help
fugitives
Owasco
Auburn Daily Union,
3/7/1860
(Mary Gilmore)
Birthplace-VA
Brutus w/ George Wayne
1870 Census
Birthplace-GA
Owasco w/ J. Cuykendall
1870 Census
Found a Lansing & Elizabeth
Porter in Owasco, 1860
census.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
99
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
2
3
3
3
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Pratt
Prime
Prime
FIRST
NAME
J. W.
Lewis
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A
AfAm
Richard &
Diana
Dubois
AfAm
SIGNIFICANCE
UGRR
sympathizers;
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
Directory
Directory
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
Auburn
Theological
A Jared Pratt of Genoa in the
Auburn
Seminary
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
1840 census
Auburn 1869: 33 Mechaniudy Bryant Directory Databas Son of Richard & Diana Prime
Auburn
1859-60:
19 S. Fulton St.
TLW Dir. DB
Purnell/
Purcell
John
FS-URR
Birthplace-MD
Directory
1870 Census
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
Auburn200 years of History, 17931993. Auburn Bicentennial
Auburn 1870: 56 Garrow
Cmte., 1992. P. 39.
Putnam
Theodore
&
Catherine
AfAm
Property Owner
Auburn
Quincey
Joseph &
Catherine
AfAm
Property Owner
COMMENTS
Auburn
Diana is a daughter of Caeser
Dubois of Moravia and sister to
Hannah Taylor of Auburn-see
will. Diana Prime lists herself as
"Washerwoman" in the 1859-60
Boyd's Directory business section
om p. 153 on Miller St. near Mill
Dam.TLW.
Appointed, along with Zadoc Bell
and Nelson Davis, husband of
Harriet Tubman, to care for the
property of the AME/Thompson
Memorial Church in 1870.TLW
1850 Census
Property Value-$300
1850 Census
Last name spelled "Dunicut" in
the master census database.
Property Value-$4500
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
100
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
4
3
3
3
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Quincy
R.
Ramsey
Ramsey
Ransom
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
Member of Comm.
Of Arrangements
for AS meetings in
Auburn. Praised by
Fred. Douglass.
Appointed
Secretary &
member of
nominating cmte of
the Aug 1849 mtg a
the AME Zion
Church on
Washington St,
J. W. (H. W. A-URR
Auburn
Auburn?
E. V.
John
John
C.
Letter to the
National Era dated
14 Oct 1855-"The
A
Contest in NY".
FS-URR Birthplace-MD
FS-URR Birthplace-MD
A
UGRR
sympathizers;
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
Auburn
Mentz
Auburn
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Committee member of the
"Colored Freeman of Central
The North Star, 13 Oct 1848
NY", notice published for
and 14 Sept 1849. Also The "Freedom's Jubilee Celebration"
North Star, 10 Aug 1849,
re: West India issue, held at
Aug 25, 1848.
Auburn.
State Prison
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
National Era, 25 Oct 1855.
1850 Census
1855 Census
Not the same individuals
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
101
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
2
3
Ray
Reed
Reed
Riley
3 Roberts
3 Rose
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
John
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
A
Mary & ChilFS-URR
James
Elijah
TOWNSHIP
BirthplaceUnknown Property
FS-URR
Owner
Ledyard
Aaron &
Elizabeth FS-URR
Myron C.
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-MD
Directory
BirthplaceUnknown
3
Rossum
Eli
3
3
Rounds
Sackett
Denis
Luke
Birthplace-N.
FS-URR
Carolina
AfAm Property Owner
3
Samuel?
Aaron
FS-URR
3
Sanford
Charles E. A AfAm
SOURCE
COMMENTS
w/ Nelson King
1855, 1865 Census
Property Value in 1865-$50
Directory
BirthplaceUnknown
Directory
1860 (Elizabeth Only) &
1865 Census.
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
1865-66: Corner
Seymour &
Auburn
Washington
UGRR sympathizer;
AS agent, name
taker at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
Auburn
FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Mtd
Property Owner
AfAm
LOCATION
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839, A Miron C. Reed, age 40-50, with
p. 1A,B, & 2A, B, also-9
wife and child found in Auburn,
Sept, 1840 p. 1 also 19 Sept 1840 census-South St. location
1838, p. 2A
acc. to neighbor names
1850 Census
Note misspelling of original
census entry as "Abigail
Fitch"TLW
1870 Census
1865 Census
Property Value-$50
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
Probably boarding with Harriet
Tubman
Auburn
Moravia
1870 Census
1865 Census
An Ada Rounds boards at 30
Cornell in 1887
Property Value-$350
Auburn w/ Mary McBreezy
1855 Census
Auburn
Auburn
Brutus
Auburn
Auburn
w/ Abijah Fitch
County Insane
Asylum
1867-68: South
n Toll Gate
1867-68:
American Hotel
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
102
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
John
AfAm
SIGNIFICANCE
Documentation
Taught at Miner's
school in Wash.
DC w/ Emily
Howland
3
Seasor
3
Sevois
Mary
(Anna)
A
Francis &
Isabel
Mtd
Property Owner
Thomas &
Mary FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Seward
Mrs. Seward an
active abolitionist
and used home as
station on the
UGRR. Mr.
Seward was Gov.
and Sec. of State
and ardent
abolitionist and
William
strong supporter of
Henry &
his wife's UGRR
Frances A-URR
activities.
3
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Scott
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Searing
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Entry in E. Morgan's diary: 3 Dec
1876-"attended funeral of John
Scott, an old colored man from
Arm's house". (Ebenezer Arms).
Ledyard
Aurora
Judy Furness
Scipio
Sherwood
Judy Breault
Owasco
Genoa
1850-65 Census
Sennett
1870 Census
Auburn
South St.
Genoa, 1865: Property Value$200
Seward to his mother,
Letter published in National Era
11/18/1855: "The
paper on "Convention of the
'underground railroad' works Opponents of the Fugitive Slave
wonderfully. Two
Law" in Boston, where he was
passengers came here last
speaker, in source cited. Also
night. Watch [dog] attacked penned letter to same entitled,
one of them."
"Immigrant White Free Labor or,
The National Era, 24 Apr
Imported Black African Slave
1851, Vol. 5, # 225, p. 68
Labor", a sppech given at
and Vol 11, # 529, p. 32.
Oswego, 2 Nov 1856.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
103
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3 Shapscott
3 Sharp
4 Shepherd
3 Sherman
3
Sherwood
Sherwood
Friend's
Brick
Meeting
5 House
3 Shivet
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
State Prison
Inspector
nominatee from the
Pens letter to paper cited called
Frederick Douglass
"The Pulpit & the Press Corrupted
paper, previously
by Slavery". In April 1853
held by Abijah
edition, he writes to Douglass,
Fitch. Chairman of
Frederick Douglass Paper, subscribing to paper and waxing
the Nat. Comm. Of
27 Oct 1854 and 17 June
eloquently re: AS issues of the
William
A
the Liberty Party Auburn 1857-56 Van Ande 1853. Also, 15 April 1853
day.
Thomas FS-URR Birthplace-MD
Auburn
State Prison
1855 Census
George
George
Possible UGRR
agent. See Ingham
A
entry
Auburn
FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Auburn
State Prison
FS-URRBirthplace-Unknown Auburn
County Orphan
Asylum
Held Anti-slavery
meeting 25 Dec
A
1839.
Richard FS-URR Birthplace-MD
A Lewis and Mary Shepard at 76
Mechanic, 1857 Directory. A
Luther Shepard at 77 Cornell in
Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
1887.TLW
1860 Census
1855 Census
Scipio
Sherwood
Friend of Man 8 Jan 1840
Sterling w/ Henry Douglas
1865 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
104
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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Historical New York Research Associates
3
Shorter
3 Shorter
3 Shorter
3 Shorter
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Catherine FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-MD
Birthplace-MD
Charles FS-URR Property Owner
Frank FS-URR Birthplace-MD
Margaret FS-URR Birthplace-MD
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
Venice
Lots # 93 & 94,
Genesee
Turnpike Rd.,
Cayuga Village.
House still
Aurelius standing.TLW
Scipio
w/ Zeb Hoxie
Springport Howland School
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Daughter of Thomas and Susan
Shorter, married to George
1870 Census.
Cromwell, and mother of longest
Judy Furness, Ledyard Town living Cromwell in Aurora, Ray
Historian.
Cromwell.
1820-1850 Census Will
Box 27, Book D, p.
36.Cayuga Co. Records
Retention.
1870 Census
1870 Census
Property Value-$1000. Early
resident of Aurelius, owns 2 lots
on the Genesee turnpike, husband
of Sally Shorter and father of
Frederick Shorter. Will lists gold
and silver coins, a promisory note
to Erastus Partridge, Businessman
of Seneca Falls for $426.53.
Also, gives wife Sally all land
and buildings on Lot 93 & 94, and
gives to son Charles, use of lots
#95 & 96 in Cayuga village, with
instructions a house be built with
his inheritance and that NO
MONEY should be given directly
to Charles, Jr.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
105
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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3
3
3
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Shorter
Shorter
Silver
Smallwood
Smith
Sally
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Birthplace-West
Indies Property
FS-URR Owner Directory
LOCATION
Cayuga Village,
known as "Aunty
Shorter" by
residence and socalled in
McIntosh's
History of
Aurelius Cayuga Village.
Birthplace-MD,
Thomas &
Susan b. Wash. DC Venice/
Susan FS-URR Property Owners
Aurora
Diana &
Venice/
Peter
FS-URR Birthplace-Portugal Sennett
James
Betsey
FS-URR
Birthplace-VA
Auburn
Association with
early history of the
AfAm AME Zion Church Auburn
Poor House
County Insane
Asylum
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1850,55,60,70 Census
1863-1864 Brigham's
Directory, p. 288
Property Value-$600-800(80 years old.) Wife of Charles.
1870 1880 Census
Property Value-$300. Probably
father of Fred Shorter, b. March
1873 NY to parents both born
MD. This Fred is boarding with
Richard Gaskin family in Auburn,
1900. Thomas and Susan Shorter's
daughter Matilda b. MD in 1858.
1850-55 Census. County
Of Venice acc. to Poor House
Poor House Records-1845records. In for broken leg,
46
intemperance and blindness.TLW
1870 Census
Auburn Bicentennial
History, 1793-1993, pg. 39, Home used for "divine worship"
by Pauline Copes-Johnson.
in 1846.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
106
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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FIRST
TOWNNAME
SIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Charles FS-URRBirthplace-Wash. DC Auburn
Daniel FS-URR Birthplace-MD
Auburn
E.
A
UGRR
sympathizers;
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.
LOCATION
State Prison
State Prison
SOURCE
1865 Census
1860 Census
Auburn
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
1887-65 (now
79) Hamilton.
2
Smith
3
Smith
Edward FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
Auburn
3
Smith
Francis FS-URR
Auburn
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
3
Smith
Henry
Fleming
1870 Census
Birthplace-VA
FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
COMMENTS
Mrs. Francis Dorsey Smith lives
at 41 Chapman in 1929
A James E. Smith is boarding at
12 Court in 1887 with Freeman
sisters.TLW
3 Smith
3 Smith
James
John
FS-URR
FS-URR
Birthplace-VA
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
State Prison
1860 Census
3
Smith
John
FS-URR
Birthplace-N.
Carolina
Auburn
State Prison
1860-65 Census
3
Smith
John
FS-URR
Birthplace-MD
Auburn
ohn & LouisFS-URR
Owen FS-URR
Birthplace-VA
Birthplace-KY
Venice
Auburn
3 Smith
3 Smith
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
3
3
LAST NAME
Smith
Smith
1870 Census
w/ Lyman
Murdock
1865 Census
1850 Census
3
Smith
Samuel FS-URR
Birthplace-NJ
Sennett
w/ Norman
Strong
1865 Census
3
Smith
William FS-URR
Birthplace-VA
Owasco
w/ Cornelius
Hornbeck
1865 Census
A John Smith is living at 8 South
Division in 1887.TLW
Both are buried in the Poplar
Ridge Quaker cemeteryTLW.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
107
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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FIRST
NAME
Snyder
George
3 Snyder
3 Soins?
3
2
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
St. Clair
Stanley
Sterling
Baptist
Church
STATUS
RATING
3
LAST NAME
FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
Directory
Auburn
1859-60:
Northern Hotel
TLW Dir. DB
1865-66:
Thornton n
Birthplace-Canada
Genesee. 1870:
Property Owner
Owasco St. about
Silas
FS-URR
Directory
Auburn
at city line.
David R. FS-URRBirthplace-N. Carolin Auburn
State Prison
James
Birthplace-PA
FS-URR Property Owner
A
A
Speaker at July
1839 Aub. Conv.
Brutus/Me Weedsport/Port
ntz
Byron
Mentz?
Abolitionist Activity Sterling
1860-65 Census
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
1855 Census
1870 Census
COMMENTS
Property Value-$700
Property Value-$300. Barber.
Victory?
Spoke to the delegates of the
condition of AfAm's in Auburnstating the only place thay can get
training is in the Prison! They
want to build a church outside the
village-editor makes comments
derisive to whites who don't
allow AfAm's into THEIR
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
churches.TLW
Sterling Centre
11/2/1844-adopted antislavery
resolution.Frederick Douglass
spoke in this church. William
Kirk family were members of this
Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
church.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
108
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
3
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
A
Sterling
Sterner
William,
Floretta &
Mary FS-URR
Steward
Elizabeth,
Widow
David C.
AfAm
Birthplace-MD
AfAm
Directory
3
Stewart
Ann Maria
F
Birthplace-Canada
3
Sterling Centre
Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
Auburn
Ben and
Birthplace-MD
Rit Ross FS-URR Property Owners
1867-68: 29 E.
Genesee. 1870:
105 Owasco St.
Stewart
Catherine
Documentation,
(aka Jane
association with
Kane) FS-URR Harriet Tubman.
Stewart
Charlotte,
widow
Jacob FS-URR
Directory
Mentz
Fleming
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
1850 Census
1865-Tubman's
Home
from Caroline Co., Md. H.
Tubman's parents. 1865-70
Census.
Fleming
Tubman's Home Kate Larson. 1865 Census
Auburn
COMMENTS
1870 Census
1865-66: South n
Swift. 1867-68:
South n
Auburn
Hamilton.
John
5
SOURCE
Auburn
Steward
Stewart
LOCATION
Directory
3
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Sterling
Presbyterian
Church
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
1869: 101 Van
Anden
Property Value-$50
Ran away Christmas 1854 with
Tubman and T's brothers. Cath.
Married Ben Ross, nee James
Stewart. Elijah and Hester
Stewart are their children.KCL
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
109
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Cayuga County, New York
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LAST NAME
Stewart
Stewart
3
Stewart
Elijah
3
Stewart
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Stewart
STATUS
RATING
3
2
FIRST
NAME
Daniel
Dr.
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
FS-URR Birthplace-PA
Mentz
A
UGRR
Cato?
FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
Fleming
LOCATION
SOURCE
1850 Census
Sheila Tucker
COMMENTS
Tubman's Home
1865 Census
Catherine & James Stewart's son
1865 Census
Property Value-$?
John
Birthplace-VA
Henry, Sr. FS-URR Property Owner
Mentz
John
Henry, Jr. FS-URR
1855-w/ Richard
Dyer. John
Stewart Jr. lived
at 11 Mattie in
1875-76 and
possibly longer.
He lived with
Henry Jones and
Arthur Smith. .
Also, John
Stewart Jr. (also
known
Eliza Stewart was married to
as John Henry
John H. Stewart Jr. They had
Stewart) lived at
three children - Dora, Gertrude
35 Parker in
and Clarence (Dye). John Jr. died
1880-81 and
around 1882-3(?) - she married
perhaps
Alfred Parker. In 1887 she is
later.
1855 Census. Kate Clifford
living
Auburn
Larson
at 14 Aspen. KCL
Birthplace-MD
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
110
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Stewart
John
(aka
Robert
Ross)
FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Association with
Tubman
Auburn
Second ward
1865-70 Census. Kate
Larson
Left with Tubman,
Christmas 1854
5
Stewart
Margaret FS-URR
3
Stewart
Margaret FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
5
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
5
LAST NAME
Stewart
Stewart
Millie
Hollis
(John's
2nd wife) FS-URR
FS-URR
Birthplace-MD
Birthplace-MD
Fleming
born free
Mentz
Auburn
Cato
Mystery niece. Daughter of a
free brother? No free brothers,
so not known if she was free
or not. Margaret Stewart,
Tubman's
mystery neice who was raised in
1865 Census. Kate Larson; the Seward home, married Henry
Brickler to Earl Conrad,
Lucas
8/13/1939 quoted in Humez, 1873. The Lucas family lived at
Tubman, 269-270.
30 Cornell.KCL
1850 Census
Second ward
Port Byron
Kate Larson. 1865-70
Census
Not known if she was a
freedom seeker or not. John
left his first wife and children
in Md. Tubman was
unable to retrieve them.
She married another man.KCL
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
111
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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5
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Stewart
Stewart
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
William, Jr.FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-MD
Documentation of
his escape to
freedom with
Harriet Tubman.
Descendant still
living in Auburn
William, Sr.FS-URR (Judy Bryant)
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Buried at Fort Hill Cem with wife
Emma, next to his father and
Harriet Tubman.KCL/JB Deed
dated 10 March 1884 between
Abijah Fitch (his sons &
Executors) to William Henry
To
South St/
Judy Byrant Kate Clifford "Stuart", property between Isaac
Auburn Built house at 64 Larson Auburn City Deed White on Garrow and Thomas
1870's
Garrow
Book 16, p. 468.
Belt on Cornell, for $260.75.TLW
To
Lived with
Auburn in Harriet Tubman
1880 from and near her,
St.
from the 1880's
Catherine' until his death in
s, Canada.
1912.
dy Byrant
Tubman's younger brother and
Judy Bryant's Gr.greatgrandfather
Moved to Auburn from St.
Catherine's Canada in 1880. Fled
MD with Harriet Tubman
Christmas Day 1854. Harriet
Tubman brought his wife, Harriet
Ann and 2 sons, Wm. Henry, Jr.
and John Isaac out shortly
Kate Clifford Lar
thereafter.KCL/JB
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
112
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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Historical New York Research Associates
5
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Stoop
Story
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
1857: 54
Division.
1859-60:
Oral history claims Stoop
35 Washington
children left on Seward's front
St. 1865: In
steps because they were
Fleming, not at
runaways and feared
Tubman's home.
capture. Found a Stoop/Stupp
Owns RE
family in Auburn, Ward #2, 1850
@$400.00
census, with Tho., 45, Sarah, 24
1869-purchases
and John, 1-next door to DeCamp
from Henry
family. Property Value-$100Fitch, a lot on
400. In 1855, thomas' house is
Cornell St. (see
made of "boards"-rare description1868 Fitch map)
possibly a shanty-style house.
His previous
Sarah Stoop is listed in the 1900
property on
Auburn Directory as "widow of
Birthplace-Unk
corner of
Thomas, over 1 Burt St." She is
(Claims Ulster
Division and
living with her daughter, Anna
County, NY in his
Perrine-traded
1850-1900 Census.
Griffin, widow of Ransom of N.
1855 census entry
with Fitch for
Kate Larson.
Carolina, over Frank and Mary
Thomas &
Property Owner
Cornell
TLW Dir. DB. City Deeds, Prime's residence. They are all
Sarah Ann FS-URR
Directory
Fleming property.TLW
Book 125, p. 202-204
renters.TLW
Chauncey FS-URR Birthplace-Unk
Auburn
State Prison
1860 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
113
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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Historical New York Research Associates
4
3
3
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Took fugitives to Skaneateles.
Once
drove right by a U.S. Marshal.
Member Congregational Church.
Memorial window. Invited
Stoyell
John
A-URR
UGRR
Moravia North Main Streetheila Tucker typewritten note Douglass, Ward, Loguen to speak
Stuart/Stuard
J. B.
FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Mentz
1870 Census
Stuart/Stuard Margaret FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
Cato
1855 Census
5 Stewart
3 Stuhl?
3 Sturin
3
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Swartout
Swarts
Swartz
Both were rescued by John
Bowley from illegal indenture on
former master's plantation in
Talbot Co., MD. Were sent North
to live with father. Bowley's wife,
Kessiah was Harriet Tubman's
niece.KCL
Sons of John H.
Stewart, (Robert
Ross) and his 1st
wife Mary
Manokey Wells.
ohn & MoseFS-URR
Born MD.
Charles FS-URR Birthplace-Unk
Isaac
FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
To
Auburn
about
1867.
Auburn
Auburn
Elizabeth FS-URR Birthplace-Africa
Auburn
1860 Census
Age 98, living with Luke Freeman
and family
Birthplace-Wash
DC Property
FS-URR
Owner
Sennett
1855, 1865 Census
Property Value-$50
John
George
FS-URR
Property Owner.
Directory
Auburn
State Prison
1857: 91 Van
Anden
1865-66: 73
Mechanic
Kate Clifford Larson
1855 Census
1865 Census
Property Value-$700. Living
with Sebio Hornbeck family, 3rd
1850, 1860 Census. Judy Ward, 1850. 1857-Barber at 75
Bryant Directory Database.
W. GeneseeTLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
114
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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Historical New York Research Associates
3 Talfso
3 Talifuro
3
Tallcott
Tallcott's
Corners
Methodist
Meeting
3 House
3 Tappin
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Tate
FIRST
NAME
Sidney
Sam
Joseph
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FS-URR
FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
Birthplace-VA
Birthplace-VA
Quaker abolitionist;
visited AfrAms in
A-URR
Canada
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
w/ Slocum
Scipio
Howland
Ledyard w/ Gardner Gifford
Scipio
5 Sept. 1838 mtg of
Cay. Co. AntiSalvery Soc mtg
held here.
A
Richard FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Auburn
Birthplace-Unk
Diane &
Property Owners
Alfred FS-URR Diana former slave. Ledyard
Sherwood
Corners [?]
COMMENTS
1870 Census
1870 Census
Letters from Joseph Bowne
to Tallcott, 12/3/1836 and
from Tallcott to Samuel
Parson, 11/16/1840 (Queens
Historical Society)
Friend of Man-19 Sept
1838, p. 2A
1860 Census
Sheila Edmunds Research
1850, 1855, 1865 Census
Cornelius Cuyler Estate
papers, Ledyard Town Hall,
Property Value-$300-600.
Judy Furness, Town
Debtor in estate papers of
Historian.
Cornelius Cuyler-auction items.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
115
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Tate
Tate
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
James &
Catherine AfAm
John
'Jack' &
Dinah
3
Taylor
Hannah
Dubois
3
Taylor
Henry
Mtd
AfAm
FSURR
SIGNIFICANCE
Property Owners
Former slaves
Directory
Birthplace-VA
Directory
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Sheila Edmunds Research.
1860 Census. Deed Book
96, p. 170. Deed Book 123,
Easternmost
p. 341. Deed Book 123, p.
house on Dublin 340-341. Deed Book 124, p.
Ledyard Hill Rd., Aurora
247.TLW
Property Value-$1300. James
Tate is listed in Cornelius
Cuyler's administration/will
papers as owing a loan for
$21.28, dated 1856. Burial at Oak
Glen Cem. Voted in 1851-Poll
list. Living alone in 1860 census
of Aurora 2 doors down from
Saul Youngs family. Deeds &
maps reflect ownership as willed
to Tate via James Avery will and
deed for Dublin Hill
property.TLW.
Ledyard
Aurora
Sheila Edmunds Research
Dinah mentioned in Eliza Wright
Osborne's memoirs as former
slave and cook for local lawyer.
Also included in genealogical
info. in diary of H. A. Morgan,
son of E. B. Morgan, Jack Tate,
1775-1851, Dinah, 1784-1860.
Auburn
1857: 123 W.
Genesee
1859-60: 1
Owasco St.
TLW Dir. DB
Wife of James. Daughter of
Caeser Duboise of Moravia-see
will of Caeser Dubois-TLW.
Auburn w/ Widow Baker
1850-55 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
116
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Taylor
Ten Eyck
Tenick/Ten
Eyck
FIRST
NAME
James H.
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
AfAm
SIGNIFICANCE
Directory
Phillip &
Sarah &
Child
Birthplace-"USA"
Elvira FS-URR Property Owner
John
FS-URR
Birthplace-Unk
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Auburn
1859-60: #1
Owasco n
Genesee.
1867-68: 104
Mechanic
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
TLW
Dir DB
Husband of Hannah.
1855 Census
Property Value-$50
Mentz
Auburn
State Prison
1855 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
117
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
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FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
4 Thomas
3 Thomas
Quaker. Scientist.
Horticulturist.
Chief Engineer for
construction of the
Erie Canal from
Rochester to
Buffalo. Delegate
at July 1839
Auburn Conv.Possible UGRR Ledyard/
David A-URR
Agent.
Springport
Charlotte FS-URR Birthplace-Cuba
Auburn
3
3
James &
Margaret
Birthplace-Unk
& Family FS-URR Property Owner
Orina? FS-URR Property Owner
Thomas
Thomas
Ledyard
Auburn
LOCATION
Homestead at
Aurora named
"Greatfield". To
Union Springs
1854 to live with
son.
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Storke's History of Cayuga
County, p. 156, from a description
of the closing ceremonies of the
Cay. Co. Agricultural Fair: "The
exhibition was closed by a long
and formal procession from the
Court House to the Presbyterian
church. Here prayers were
offered, hymns sung and an
address delivered by David
Thomas, full of sound practical
Friend of Man, 27 Sep 1837, thoughts." The 1850-55 census of
3 July 1839.
AfAm shows 2 people from
A Brief History of Aurora, Louisiana, AfAm., living with D.
New York by Temple
Thomas. Sends $50.00 to help the
Hollcroft, pp 61-65.
"Chaplin Bail Fund" collection in
Frederick Douglass Paper,
1853, as appears in a list of
11 March 1853.
contributors..TLW
1865 Census
1855-1870 Census
1860 Census
Property Owner-$75
Property Value-$400
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
118
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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SIGNIFICANCE
4
3
Thomas
Thomas
Rev. John FS-URR
Sarah FS-URR
3
3
3
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas H. FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
Walton FS-URR Property Owner
William FS-URR Birthplace-Africa
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Thompson
Albert &
Elizabeth
AfAm
Documentation
Birthplace-NY
AfAm-Civil War
soldier, 8th U.S.
Company G.
Directory.
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Came to Auburn in 1850 as pastor
of AME Zion Church at
Washington St. Obit claims:
"oldest active minister of the Zion
connection and pastor of the
Thompson AME Zion ch. of this
city." Obit: "Born enslaved in
Lydia Rosell, "50 Years VA in 1814, lived at the residence
Ago", 13 May 1944, Cayuga of George Belts, Cornell St.
Accent, Syracuse Post
where he boarded." Does not
Standard, from notes of Judy appear in any Cayuga County
Auburn
77 Cornell St.
Bryant.
censuses from 1850-1920.TLW
Springport Howland School
1870 Census
Auburn
Mentz
Auburn
State Prison
w/ James Cox
1860 Census
1865 Census
1865 Census
Property Value-$150
1865-66, 69:
33 Mechanic.
1867-68: Cornell
n South.
An "Ann-widow Albert" lives at
1879-80: Cornell Larson. 1865 Census. Judy
5 Bailey in 1891, then at an
Auburn
n Worden.
Bryant Directory Database.
apartment on State St.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
119
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Charles FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
Emily FS-URR Birthplace-Unk
George FS-URR Birthplace-MD
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Birthplace-N.
Carolina
Birthplace-Unk
3
3
Thompson
Thompson
Louisa FS-URR
Richard FS-URR
3
Tomson
Louise
FS-URR
BirthplaceColumbia
3
Trish
David
FS-URR
Birthplace-VA
5 Tubman
3 Turner
3
2
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
3
3
3
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Turner
Turner house
Harriet &
Nelson
Davis FS-URR
Anna FS-URR
UGRR
Birthplace-VA
William &
Property Owner.
Lavina FS-URR
Directory
A-URR
LOCATION
Auburn
Brutus
Brutus
Moravia
Auburn
COMMENTS
1865 Census
1865 Census
1870 Census
State Prison
Aurelius w/ John Mathew
Auburn
SOURCE
County Insane
Asylum
1865 Census
1855 Census
1855 Census
1870 Census
Rev. Carter. The Christian
Auburn
South St.
Recorder, 15 Apr 1865
Gave lecture at Chelton Hills, PA
Springport Friend's Academy
1870 Census
Auburn
1857: Lumber
Court
1865-66:
69 Mechanic
1865 Census. Judy Bryant
Directory Database.
Property Value-$300
Sterling
Fair Haven, top
of the hill
(104A) going
west out of
Fair Haven.
Tina Malcott
([email protected])
947-5368.
Tunnel toward
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
120
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5
3
3
Underwood
Unihank
Van Allen
Van Epps
1
3
3
Van Nest
Van Schaik
Van Schaik
Van Schank
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
George
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
Employer of
freedom seekers.
Law associate of
A-URR William Seward.
Birthplace-N.
Carolina
Clara
FS-URR
Jasper
Birthplace-Wash
FS-URR
DC
Dr.
UGRR
John G. &
family
Richard &
Angelica AfAm
Richard &
Isabel
AfAm
Jason &
Esther
AfAm
Auburn
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
House, Genesee
St., corner Court
Kate Larson. Frederick
Douglass Paper, 13 Oct
1854; Taylor, Willaim
Henry Seward: Lincoln's
Right Hand , 56.
William and Mary Williams
family,
freedom seekers from Maryland,
worked for them. Noted in the
Douglass paper as having donated
$500 to Hamilton College.
Ledyard w/ Thomas Barnam
1865 Census
Auburn
1865 Census
Auburn?
Site of Freeman
murders
Fleming
Property Owner
Brutus
State Prison
Interview with James R.
Cox, Elbert Wixom thesis,
1903, 30.
Check property data
1850-60
Property Value-$350
Property Owner
Brutus
1860 Census
Property Value-$300 (last name
spelled as Van Schock)
Property Owner
Brutus
1860 Census
Property Value-$400
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
121
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3 Waire
3 Walters
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
2
Ward
3
Warner
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
John H. &
Mary
Duboise AfAm
Matilda FS-URR
E. O.
A
SIGNIFICANCE
Directory
Birthplace-VA
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
Angelina FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
TOWNSHIP
Auburn
Venice
Auburn
Auburn
LOCATION
1867-68: 9
Grover. 1929:
35 Richardson
Ave.
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
SOURCE
Judy Bryant Directory
Database. Gladys Stewart
Bryant "Census of Auburn"
1929
Auburn-200 years
of History, 1793-1993.
Auburn Bicentennial Cmte.,
1992. P. 39.
1855 Census
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
COMMENTS
Appointed, along with Zadoc Bell
and Nelson Davis, husband of
Harriet Tubman, to care for the
property of the short-lived AME
Church of Auburn aka St. Mark's
ME Church. in 1870.Hostler and
Barber in firm of Hornbeck &
Waire at 3 Genesee, 35 Market,
etc.
An E. Ward found in Mentz, 1840
census.
1870 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
122
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
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5 Washington
3 Washington
3 Washington
3 Washington
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
FS-URR
FS-URR
FS-URR
FS-URR
Ex-prisoner
accused of being
a fugitive
Birthplace-MD
Birthplace-GA
Birthplace-DE
Anti-Slavery Bugle
7/24/1854, "A Jerry
Rescue Almost"; Auburn
Daily Advertiser , March 27,
1854; Letters from Ingham
and Perry to Titus, March
and April, 1854; Raymond
Sant, Rails, Trails, and
Article by Sheila Tucker in
Sails ( Sheila Tucker and
Syracuse
Auburn
State Prison
Kate Clifford Larson).
Post-Standard, November 2004.
Ira w/ Herston Phillips
1870 Census
Moravia w/ Ed Godfrey
1865 Census
Auburn
State Prison
1865 Census
FS-URR
Birthplace-MD
Washington
George
George
George
Henry
James &
Elvira
3
Waters
Birthplace-Wash
Matilda &
DC/MD Property
John
FS-URR
Owners
3
Waters
3
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Watkins
Watkins?
William
AfAm
Directory
LOCATION
SOURCE
Auburn
1870 Census
Venice
1860, 65, 70 Census
Auburn 1869: 33 Mechanic
Delivers Antislavery address at
Port Byron, 9 Dec
William J.
A
1853
William P. FS-URR Birthplace-LA Springport w/ David Thomas
COMMENTS
Property Value-$200-600
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
Black abolitionist lecturer-not a
resident of Port Byron.
1855 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
123
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
Wells
3 Wesley
3 West
3 Westbrook
3 Westly
2
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
Member of the
"Colored Freeman
AfAm
of CNY"
Birthplace-MD
John &
Property Owner
Malinda FS-URR
Directory
Edward FS-URR Birthplace-KY
David
AfAm Property Owner
William FS-URR Birthplace-Unk
A
AfAm
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
Property Owner
Whaley
Wheatley
J.
Alonson
Wheatley
Henry &
Birthplace-MD
Ann &
Property Owner
Family FS-URR
Directory
3 Wheatley
3 Wheatley
3
Edward
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
COMMENTS
The North Star, 13 Oct 1848
1867-68: 81
Mechanic. 1869:
Auburn
79 Mechanic.
Auburn State Prison Cook
Mentz
Auburn
Auburn
1865
Auburn
Theological
Seminary
1859-60:
Washington Cor.
Auburn
Cottage
One of few AfAm's
Hiram FS-URR
in Moravia.
Moravia
John & Clar FS-URR Birthplace-MD
Ledyard
Anti-slavery
lecturer-Antislavery meeting 7
Nov 1850 at Port
Wheelbanks David GreenFS-URR
Byron
SOURCE
1860 (John only) & 1865
Census.
Judy Bryant Directory
Database.
1850 Census
1855 Census
1855 Census
Property Vlaue-$600
Property Value-$?
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839.
1865 Census
Property Value-$400
1860 Census. TLW Dir.
DB.
Property Value-$300
Lived with Dr.
Jennings at
One of two African Americans
Montville
heila Tucker typewritten note
who lived in Moravia.
1850 Census
North Star,24 October 1850
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
124
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
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STATUS
RATING
3
3
3
FIRST
TOWNLAST NAME NAME
SIGNIFICANCE SHIP
White
Benjamin FS-URRBirthplace-S. Carolin Auburn
White
Whitmore
3 Whitmore
3 Wild
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
John
James
FS-URR
AfAm
Birthplace-MD
Directory
Auburn
LOCATION
State Prision
62 Garrow
SOURCE
1850 Census
1870 Census
COMMENTS
This John White is living where
we know Isaac White (born
Alabama) to have lived at 62
Garrow from 1868, when Isaac
bought the lot and in 1869 built
his house worth $200 in 1869,
acc. to tax records. The 1870
census lists "John" White next
door to the Griffins who we know
eere at 58 Garrow. Why Isaac and
Helen are not listed in the 1870
census by these names is not
known.TLW
1867-68:
104 Mechanic.
1869: 102
Mechanic. 1870:
Auburn
Union Ave. udy Bryant Directory Database
1867-68:
33 Mechanic.
Birthplace-Unk
1869: 110
Property Owner.
Niles/ Mechanic. 1870: 1865 Census. Judy Bryant
Thomas FS-URR
Directory
Auburn 102 Mechanic.
Directory Database.
Albertine FS-URR Birthplace-Unk Springport w/ John Lamkin
1865 Census
Property Value-$50
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
125
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
2
3
Willard
Williams
3
3
3
Williams
Williams
Williams
FIRST
TOWNNAME
SIGNIFICANCE SHIP
William FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Auburn
Officer chosen for
Scipio AS mtg of
Dr. Hurd H
A
13 Sept 1839
Alexander FS-URR Birthplace-VA
Auburn
LOCATION
State Prison
SOURCE
1855 Census
State Prison
25 Sept 1839, p. 2A
1850 Census
COMMENTS
Eliza
Emma
George
FS-URR Birthplace-Canada
FS-URR Birthplace-TN
FS-URR Birthplace-Unk
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
1870 Census
1850 Census
1865 Census
Williams
George
Birthplace-VA
FS-URR Property Owner
Auburn
1850, 1865 Census
Property Value-$300
3
3
3
3
Williams
Williams
Williams
Williams
Birthplace-VA
Horace FS-URR Property Owner
James FS-URR Birthplace-VA
John
FS-URR Birthplace-MD
John E. AfAm
Ledyard
Auburn
Auburn
Ledyard
1870 Census
1850 & 1865 Census
1865 Census
Sheila Edmunds
Property Value-$500
3
Williams
Levi
Birthplace-MD
FS-URR Property Owner
Brutus
1865 Census
Property Value-$20
3
Williams
Mary
FS-URR Birthplace-Florida
Genoa
w/ Abram
Cheesman
1870 Census
3
Williams
Mentz
w/ Chauncey
Higby
1855 Census
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
STATUS
RATING
3
LAST NAME
Wilkinson
Nathan FS-URR
Birthplace-MD
State Prison
State Prison
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
126
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Williams
Williams
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
Perry &
Melinda
Birthplaces-VA &
/Lucinda FS-URR
Canada
Peter &
Caroline
AfAm
Directory
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Auburn
Obit states "Former Slave,
Beloved City Character-Dead.
Lived at 31 Parker St. Died age
85. Born in slavery and lived the
life of a slave in VA and the
1865: Auburn
Carolinas, joined the Union Army
Prison as
was a door keeper at military
whitewasher, b.
balls, etc. at the State Armory.
Wyoming Co.,
known as "Uncle Perry". 1880
NY, 1867-68:
census has Perry and wife, with 2
American Hotel.
sons and father-in-law Henry
1869: Fitch n
1870 Census. Judy Bryant Mitchell, age 69, b. VA. Worked
Genesee. 1880: Directory Database. Obit.,
as janitor at a bank and has
47 Fitch 1910:
27 July 1925 from Sheila
second wife Elizabeth in
31 Parker.
Tucker.
1910.TLW
Auburn
1857-41 Clark;
1859-60:
1 Owasco St.
1863-19 S.
Fulton
Judy Bryant Directory
1865-66:
Database.
TLW Dir.
33 Mechanic.
DB.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
127
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
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2
Williams
3
Williams
5
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Williams
5
Williams
3
Wilson
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
Rev.
Richard &
Electa
A
Samuel &
Betsey FS-URR
William,
Emily,
Mary FS-URR
A
Aaron
FS-URR
SIGNIFICANCE
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society Springport
SOURCE
COMMENTS
History of Cayuga Co.,
Storke, p. 371. Friend of
Man, 3 July 1839.
Pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Springport. He is
listed In 1840 Springport census,
1850 springport census-Electa
only and family.
Birthplace-MD
Brutus
1850 & 1855, (Betsey only)
Birthplace-MD
from Dorchester Co., Md.
Original surname was "Kiah."
Third Ward, in
First fled Dorchester Co.with
household
Thomas Elliott and the famous
of George
Dover Eight, 3/57. Bill and Emily
Underwood.
had to leave Mary behind.
Also 24 Division
Changed their names to Williams
St. acc. to the
and returned to get Mary in 1860;
1867-1872
went through Wm. Still's
Auburn
office.Settled in Ontario (1861
Auburn directories.KCL Kate Larson; 1865 Census
census),then Auburn.
UGRR-gave money
to "Charley
Johnson" to help
fugitives
Auburn
Birthplace-LA
Auburn
Auburn Daily Union,
3/7/1860
(Mary Gilmore)
State Prison
Cook
1850 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
128
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
3
3
3
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
FIRST
NAME
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
SIGNIFICANCE
Winslow
Winston
Catherine
Kane
Stewart &
Tubman Family
son Elijah
Birthplace-MD.
Stewart FS-URR
Son-Canada
Peter
FS-URR Birthplace-DE
Wise
Daniel &
Sarah J. &
Birthplace-MD.
Family FS-URR
Directory
Wood
Wood
James H. AfAm
John
FS-URR
Directory
Birthplace-MD
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
40 Elizabeth St
Auburn in 1870. KCL
Auburn
State Prison
Auburn
1859-64: 1
Francis.
1867-68: South n
Hamilton. 1869:
Union Ave. n
Auburn
South.
Auburn
State Prison
SOURCE
Kate Cliffird Larson
1870 Census
1850 Census
1860 Census. TLW Dir. DB
Tony Gero
COMMENTS
First husband, James Stewart (aka
Benjamin Ross) died in Canada
about 1861-63. Elijah is son of
this first marriage. Catherine
married 2nd Andrew Winslow. A
child Alfred born to this union.
She later moved in with John
Stewart Sr
after she 2nd husband Andrew
Winslow died. Her children
were Elijah
and Esther (Hester) Stewart, and
Alfred Winslow. When Catherine
died
in the 1870s, Elijah helped raise
young Alfred.KCL
Civil War soldier
Judy Bryant Directory
Database
1865 Census
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
129
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
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STATUS
RATING
SIGNIFICANCE
2
Wood
Seneca
A
Officer chosen for
Scipio AS mtg of
13 Sept 1839
3
Woodland
Moses
FS-URR
Birthplace-LA
LAST NAME
3
3
5
5
2
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Woodland
Woods
Worden
FIRST
NAME
BirthplaceMoses FS-URR
Alabama
Vanzella AfAm Property Owner
Lizette
Martha Wrights'
friend;
Frances Seward's
A-URR
sister
Wright
UGRR, kept safe
house. Martha is
sister of Lucretia
Martha
Coffin Mott, both
Coffin &
active
David
A-URR
Abolitionists.
Wright
Wright
Delegate from
Cayuga County,
1839 meeting
of NYS AntiSlavery Society
Directory
Stephen
Thomas
A
AfAm
TOWNSHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Springport w/ Mary Newton
1865 Census
Springport w/ R. Howland
Mentz
1870 Census
1865 Census
Same as above?
Property Value-$100
Wisbey, Peter
Seward House archives has plans
and specs for this house, including
the original drawings and a photo.
letters in 1843, 1860
House now gone-historic marker
placed 2004
Frederick St.,
across from fire
station-brick
Gothic covered
Auburn with vinyl siding.
Auburn
192 Genesee St.
Genoa
Kellogsville
Friend of Man, 3 July 1839. Found in 1840 census of Genoa.
Auburn 859-60: 72 Wall S
TLW Dir. DB
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
130
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
2
3
3
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
Wright
Young
Young
Tom
Sarah
Saul &
Lucretia
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
SOURCE
COMMENTS
Abolitionist, hired
Owen Brown and
A-URR Berkley Cadish
Sterling
Sheila Tucker, typed notes.
FS-URR Birthplace-VA Springport Howland School
1870 Census
Mtd
Property Owners
Ledyard
Aurora
1850, 1855, 1865
Census.(do appear in 1860
census but with no AfAm
designation)
Deed book NN, p. 195.
Cornelius Cuyler Estate
papers, Ledyard Town Hall,
Judy Furness, Town
Historian. Yours Truly,
Henry Wells, Henry Wells
Letters to E. B. Morgan,
Wells College Press, p. 26.
Property Value-$450. Purchased
36 Rods of land in Aurora on
Main St. from Lazarus Ewer in
1831.(went to Lucretia at Saul's
death after 1860.) Appears as
both debtor to and grave digger
for Cornelius Cuyler of Aurora.
Youngs still own same property
on Dublin Hill Rd. by 1904.
Research on-going as to whether
his house still stands.TLW Letter
of 12 March 1859, from Henry
Wells to Edwin B. Morgan
mentions mortgage on the Young
house, payment being arranged
between Morgan and mortgager,
Lewis Himrod as a favor to Henry
and "Charles", likely referring to
Saul's son.TLW
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly
131
Freedom Seekers, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Helpers,
Cayuga County, New York
Tanya Warren, Compiler
Historical New York Research Associates
5
Unknown
John
STATUS
RATING
LAST NAME
FIRST
NAME
Freedom seeker
associated with
FS-URR Seward family
UGRR
A-Abolitionist
FS-Freedom Seeker
URR-Underground Railroad
Mtd-Manumitted
TOWNSIGNIFICANCE SHIP
LOCATION
COMMENTS
Frances Seward to WHS,
10/16/51: after rescue of
William "Jerry" Henry is
Syracuse: "2 fugitives have
gone to Canada--one of them
was our acquaintance
John."
Auburn
Brutus
SOURCE
A mile from
Route 31B on
East Brutus St.
Road
(Crossman’s
Corners)
on the road to
Auburn,right
side.
Jean Baker
Federal house on Route 5.
Basement full of little rooms.
Abandoned.
UGRR Involvement
1-Not Likely; 2-Possible;
3-Likely; 4-Very Likel;
5-Almost Certainly