Henry was about six feet high, quite black, visage thin, age twenty-five.  He left neither wife, parents, brothers nor sisters to grieve after him.  In making his way North he walked of nights from his home to Harrisburg, Pa., and there availed himself of a passage on a freight car coming to Philadelphia.

Arrival No. 7.  Henry Bohm.  Henry came from near Norfolk, Va.  He was about twenty-five years of age, and a fair specimen of a stout man, possessed of more than ordinary physical strength.  As to whom he fled from, how he had been treated, or how he reached Philadelphia, the record book is silent.  Why this is the case cannot now be accounted for, unless the hurry of getting him off forbade sufficient delay to note down more of the particulars.

Arrival No. 8.  Ralph Whiting, James H. Forman, Anthony Atkinson, Arthur Jones, Isaiah Nixon, Joseph Harris, John Morris, and Henry Hodges.  A numerous party like this had the appearance of business.  They were all young and hopeful, and belonged to the more intelligent and promising of their race.  They were capable of giving the best of reasons for the endeavors they were making to escape to a free country.

They imparted to the Committee much information respecting their several situations, together with the characters of their masters in relation to domestic matters, and the customs and usages under which they had been severally held to service—­all of which was listened to with deep interest.  But it was not an easy matter, after having been thus entertained, to write out the narratives of eight such persons.  Hundreds of pages would hardly have contained a brief account of the most interesting portion of their histories.  It was deemed sufficient to enter their names and their forsaken homes, etc., as follows: 

“Ralph was twenty-six years of age, five feet ten inches high, dark, well made, intelligent, and a member of the Methodist Church.  He was claimed by Geo. W. Kemp, Esq., cashier of the Exchange Bank of Norfolk, Va.  Ralph gave Mr. Kemp the credit of being a ‘moderate man’ to his slaves.  Ralph was compelled to leave his wife, Lydia, and two children, Anna Eliza, and Cornelius.”

“James was twenty-three years of age, dark mulatto, nearly six feet high, and of prepossessing appearance.  He fled from James Saunders, Esq.  Nothing, save the desire to be free, prompted James to leave his old situation and master.  His parents and two sisters he was obliged to leave in Norfolk.”

Two brief letters from James, one concerning his “sweet-heart,” whom he left in Norfolk, the other giving an account of her arrival in Canada and marriage thereafter will, doubtless, be read with interest.  They are here given as follows: