Caroline Graves.  Caroline was of the bond class belonging to the State of Maryland.  Having reached the age of forty without being content, and seeing no bright prospect in the future, she made up her mind to break away from the bonds of Slavery and seek a more congenial atmosphere among strangers in Canada.  She had had the privilege of trying two masters in her life-time; the first she admitted was “kind” to her, but the latter was “cruel.”  After arriving in Canada, she wrote back as follows: 

    TORONTO, Jan. 22, 1856.

DEAR SIR:—­WILLIAM STILL—­I have found my company they arrived here on monday eving I found them on tusday evening.  Please to be so kind as to send them boxes we are here without close to ware we have some white frendes is goin to pay for them at this end of the road.  The reason that we send this note we are afraid the outher one woudent go strait because it wasent derected wright.  Please to send them by the express then thay wont be lost.  Please to derect these boxes for Carline Graives in the car of mrs.  Brittion.  Please to send the bil of the boxes on with them.  Mrs. Brittion, Lousig street near young street.

George Graham and wife, Jane, alias Henry Washington and Eliza.  The cold weather of January was preferred, in this instance, for traveling.  Indeed matters were so disagreeable with them that they could not tarry in their then quarters any longer.  George was twenty-four years of age, quite smart, pleasant countenance, and of dark complexion.

He had experienced “rough usage” all the way along through life, not unfrequently from severe floggings.  Twice, within the last year, he had been sold.  In order to prevent a renewal of these inflictions he resorted to the Underground Rail Road with his wife, to whom he had only been married six months.

In one sense, they appeared to be in a sad condition, it being the dead of winter, but their condition in Alexandria, under a brutal master and mistress which both had the misfortune to have, was much sadder.  To give all their due, however, George’s wife acknowledged, that she had been “well treated under her old mistress,” but through a change, she had fallen into the hands of a “new one,” by whom her life had been rendered most “miserable;” so much so, that she was willing to do almost anything to get rid of her, and was, therefore, driven to join her husband in running away.

Henry Chambers, John Chambers, Samuel Fall, and Jonathan Fisher.  This party represented the more promising-looking field-hand slave population of Maryland.  Henry and John were brothers, twenty-four and twenty-six years of age, stout made, chestnut color, good-looking, but in height not quite medium.  Henry “owed service or labor,” to a fellow-man by the name of William Rybold, a farmer living near Sassafras Neck, Md.  Henry evidently felt, that he did master Rybold no injustice in testifying that he knew no