English was absolved from all criminal responsibility and given his
     liberty.

     After an imprisonment of more than four years they were pardoned by
     President Fillmore, to whom such application had been presented by
     Charles Sumner.—­Memoir of Daniel Drayton.

The fare at the jail was insufficient and of poor quality and a more wholesome and generous diet was frequently surreptitiously furnished by Susannah Ford, a colored woman, who sold lunches in the lobby of the Court House.

[6] Stowe, “Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

[7] The National Era, April 16, 1848.

[8] Memoir of Daniel Drayton.

[9] John Brent, the husband of Elizabeth, the oldest of the Edmondson girls, had first bought himself, earning the money chiefly by sawing wood; had then bought the freedom of his father, Elton Brent, for whom he paid $800, and finally bought Elizabeth’s freedom, after which they were married.  He purchased the ground at the southwest corner of 18th and L streets, now owned by his heirs, and erected a small frame dwelling.  This was later enlarged and there the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church was established.  He was a laborer in the War Department during forty years and died in 1885.—­From interviews with Mr. Brent and other members of the family.

[10] Hamilton Edmondson was sold in the New Orleans slave market about the year 1840 and took the name of his purchaser and was thereafter known as Hamilton Taylor.  He learned the trade of cooper and was allowed a percentage of his earnings, but was unfortunate in having his first savings stolen.  He eventually acquired his freedom through the payment of $1,000.

[11] He continued in the cooperage business, was highly respected and became comparatively wealthy, having a place of business on Girard near Camp street.  John S. Brent, who is his nephew and the son of the John Brent heretofore mentioned in this narrative, spent a week with his uncle, Hamilton Taylor, in 1865, on his return from Texas, when, as a member of the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry, he was mustered out of the service.—­Interview with John S. Brent.

[12] The fame of the Edmondson children through the incident of the Pearl
     was now wide indeed, and after the Brooklyn meeting there had been
     made many suggestions looking to their education and further benefit. 
     The movement for the education of Emily and Mary was crystallized
     into a definite proposition and they were both placed in a private
     school a short distance out of New York.  Miss Myrtilla Miner had
     already established her school for girls at Washington and had moved
     to a new location at about what is now the square bounded by 19th,
     20th, N and O streets.  Here, after returning from New York, Emily
     assisted Miss Miner in the school and it was in one of the little