She fled from Isaac Tonnell of Georgetown, Delaware, in Christmas week, 1853.  A young woman with a little boy of seven years of age accompanied Rose Anna.  Further than the simple fact of their having thus safely arrived, except the expense incurred by the Committee, no other particulars appear on the records.

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MARY ENNIS ALIAS LICIA HEMMIN.

Mary arrived with her two children in the early Spring of 1854.

The mother was a woman of about thirty-three years of age, quite tall, with a countenance and general appearance well fitted to awaken sympathy at first sight.  Her oldest child was a little girl seven years of age, named Lydia; the other was named Louisa Caroline, three years of age, both promising in appearance.  They were the so called property of John Ennis, of Georgetown, Delaware.  For their flight they chose the dead of Winter.  After leaving they made their way to West Chester, and there found friends and security for several weeks, up to the time they reached Philadelphia.  Probably the friends with whom they stopped thought the weather too inclement for a woman with children dependent on her support to travel.  Long before this mother escaped, thoughts of liberty filled her heart.  She was ever watching for an opportunity, that would encourage her to hope for safety, when once the attempt should be made.  Until, however, she was convinced that her two children were to be sold, she could not quite muster courage to set out on the journey.  This threat to sell proved in multitudes of instances, “the last straw on the camel’s back.”  When nothing else would start them this would.  Mary and her children were the only slaves owned by this Ennis, consequently her duties were that of “Jack of all trades;” sometimes in the field and sometimes in the barn, as well as in the kitchen, by which, it is needless to say, that her life was rendered servile to the last degree.

To bind up the broken heart of such a poor slave mother, and to aid such tender plants as were these little girls, from such a wretched state of barbarism as existed in poor little Delaware, was doubly gratifying to the Committee.

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“SAM,” “ISAAC,” “PERRY,” “CHARLES,” AND “GREEN.”

ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD.—­Ran away on Saturday night, the 20th September, 1856, from the subscriber, living in the ninth district of Carroll county, Maryland, two Negro Men, SAM and ISAAC.  Sam calls himself Samuel Sims; he is very black; shows his teeth very much when he laughs; no perceptible marks; he is 5 feet 8 inches high, and about thirty years of age, but has the appearance of being much older.

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