SARAH SMITH, alias MILDRETH PAGE, and her daughter, nine years of age.  Sarah and her child were held to service by the Rev. A.D.  Pollock, a resident of Wilmington, Del.  Until about nine months before she escaped from the Reverend gentleman, she was owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Lee of Fauquier Co., Va., who had moved with Sarah to Wilmington.  How Mr. Pollock came by Sarah is not stated on the records; perhaps by marriage; be that as it may, it was owing to ill treatment from her mistress that Sarah “took out” with her child.  Sarah was a woman of becoming manners, of a dark brown complexion, and looked as though she might do a fair share of housework, if treated well.  As it required no great effort to escape from Wilmington, where the watchful Garrett lived, she reached the Committee in Philadelphia without much difficulty, received assistance and was sent on her way rejoicing.

LUCY GARRETT, alias JULIA WOOD.  John Williams, who was said to be a “very cruel man,” residing on the Western Shore of Va., claimed Lucy as his chattel personal.  Julia, having a lively sense of his meanness stood much in fear of being sold; having seen her father, three sisters, and two brothers, disposed of at auction, she was daily on the look-out for her turn to come next.  The good spirit of freedom made the way plain to her by which an escape could be effected.  Being about nineteen years of age, she felt that she had served in Slavery long enough.  She resolved to start immediately, and did so, and succeeded in reaching Pennsylvania.  Her appearance recommended her so well, that she was prevailed upon to remain and accept a situation in the family of Joseph A. Dugdale, so well known in reformatory circles, as an ardent friend of humanity.  While in his family she gave great satisfaction, and was much esteemed for uprightness and industry.  But this place was not Canada, so, when it was deemed best, she was sent on.

ELLEN FORMAN, alias ELIZABETH YOUNG.  Ellen had formerly been owned by Dr. Thomas, of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, but about one year before escaping, she was bought by a lady living in Baltimore known by the name of Mrs. Johnson.  Ellen was about thirty years of age, of slender stature, and of a dark brown complexion.  The record makes no mention of cruel treatment or very hard usage, as a slave.  From traveling, probably, she had contracted a very heavy cold, which threatened her with consumption.  The Committee cheerfully rendered her assistance.

WILLIAM WOODEN, alias WILLIAM NELSON.  While Delaware was not far from freedom, and while Slavery was considered to exist there comparatively in a mild form, nevertheless, what with the impenetrable ignorance in which it was the wont of pro-slavery whites to keep the slaves, and the unwillingness on the part of slave-holders generally to conform to the spirit of progress going on in the adjacent State of Pennsylvania, it was wonderful how the slaves saw through the thick darkness thus prevailing, and how wide-awake they were to escape.