PLACES IN UGRR
CITY/ TOWN | PEOPLE OR SITES | SEX | ETHN. | LOCATION | OCCUPATION | DATE | UGRR CONNECTION | SOURCE | RESEARCH NE |
Albany | Chaplin, William | m | EurAm | 11/20/1951 | addressed AS meetings | Standard, 11/25/51; Sperry, etc. |
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Auburn/ Skaneateles |
Hopkins, John R. | m | EurAm | 1852 | attempted to
protect JR Loguen (false alarm) |
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Baldwinsville | Freedom seekers, five | Unk. | AfAm | 1854 | 4 fugitives from
Maryland, one from South Carolina |
Standard, 10/3/54 | Freedom seeker | ||
Baldwinsville | Humphrey | m | EurAm | small house built
by Baldwin, owned by Episcopalians |
n.d. | hidden room | Anon, 1926, Siebert ms. |
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Baldwinsville | Reed, Charles | m | AfAm | 1831-32 | brother-in-law, James Watkins Seward |
Chambers | site, background | ||
Baldwinsville | Seward, James Watkin | m | AfAm | also stayed in
Syracuse, Volney, Jordan, Skaneateles |
school teacher,
gambler, counter- feiter, also worked for Doreastus Kellogg |
1830s | possible UGRR agent | Chambers, etc. | site, background |
Camillus | Baptist Church | 1850s | AS protests | Maxwell | |||||
Camillus | Bush, Anthony | m | AfAm | Third? Elect.
District, 41/41 owned land |
farmer | 1855 Cen.; age 58; b. Dutchess |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Camillus | Bush, Edward | m | AfAm | Third? Elect.
District, 42/42 owned land |
farmer | 1855 Cen.; age 44; b. Dutchess |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Camillus | Bush, Joanna? | f | AfAm | Third? Elect. District, 42/42 | 1855 Cen.; age 34; b. Dutchess |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Camillus | Bush, Marianne | f | AfAm | Third? Elect. District, 41/41 | 1855 Cen.; age 38; b. Md. |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker | |
Camillus | Jedrick?, Eliza | f | AfAm | Third?Elect. Dist., 150/158 | 1855 Cen.; age 48; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Camillus | Jedrick?,William | m | AfAm | Third? Elect. Dist., 150/158 | none | 1855 Cen.; age 50; b. Columbia |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Camillus | Morgan, Harriet | f | AfAm | First election district, 268/296 | 1855 Cen.; age 39; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Camillus | Rowe's Hotel | 1852 | fugitive Slave Law
protest, Free Soil Party org. |
site, background | |||||
Camillus | Till, Diannah | f | AfAm | First election district, 256/280 | 1855 Cen.; age 65; b. Albany |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Camillus | Till, Elsey | f | AfAm | First election district, 256/280 | 1855 Cen.; age 43; b. Washington |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Camillus | Wilcox, Ann Sherman | f | EurAm | Octagon House, Route 5 | 1841-65 | Way station | 9/13/1953 | abol. conn., even | |
Camillus | Wilcox, Isaac | m | EurAm | Octagon House, Route 5 | 1841-65 | Way station | oral tradition | abol. conn., even | |
Canastota | Stickney, Washington | m | unkn | 1851 | JR-conspirator | Sperry, etc. | site, background | ||
Cayuga Co. | Seward, William H. | m | EurAm | Auburn | attorney, ex-G | 1851 | JR-provided bail | Sperry, etc. | |
Cayuga Co. | Swift | m | Auburn | U.S. Marshall | 1851 | JR-captor | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Clay | Peterson?, John | m | AfAm | First Election District, 3/3 | servant | 1855 Cen.; age 16; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Clay | Unknown | Euclid, Route
31(later owned by Krells) |
Way station | oral tradition | site, background | ||||
DeWitt | DeMot, Betsey | f | AfAm | Second Elect. District, 267/267 | 1855 Cen.; age 50; b. Onondaga |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
DeWitt | DeMot, Samuel | m | AfAm | Second Elect. District, 267/267 | com. Laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 60; b. Maryland |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
DeWitt | Dickinson, Caroline | f | AfAm | Second Elect. District, 60/60 | 1855 Cen.; age 19; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
DeWitt | Dickinson, Moses | m | AfAm | Second Elect. District, 60/60 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 21; b. Onon |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
DeWitt | Dickson, Mary | f | EurAm | First Election District, 262/275 | 1855 Cen.; age 30; b. Ireland |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Censu | AfAm comm. | |
DeWitt | Dickson, Thomas | m | AfAm | First Election District, 262/275 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 36; b. Saratoga |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
DeWitt | Freeman, Jeramiah | m | AfAm | Second Elect.
District, 57/57 owned land |
farmer | 1855 Cen.; age 50; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
DeWitt | Freeman, Jeramiah | m Af | AfAm | Second Elect. District, 57/57 | farmer | 1855 Cen.; age 20; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
DeWitt | Hornbeck, Reuben | m | AfAm | 1853 | rec'd land from Gerrit Smith | Smith, "Dist. of land." |
Freedom seeker | ||
DeWitt | Jones, Harriett | f | AfAm | Second Elect. District, 72/72 | 1855 Cen.; age 26; b. Herkimer |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
DeWitt | Jones, Sylvester | m | AfAm | Second Elect. District, 72/72 | [none] | 1855 Cen.; age 55; b. Maryland |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
DeWitt | Jones, William | m | AfAm | First Election District, 157/166 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age22; b. Maryland |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
DeWitt | Livingston, Charles | m | AfAm | First Election District, 156/166 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 28; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
DeWitt | Nottingham | m | unkn | farmer | 1839 | helped Harriet Powell | Loguen, 367 | site, background | |
DeWitt | Nottingham, Gorton | m | unkn | First Election
District, 160/169-owned land- hatch marks in "color" column |
farmer | 1855 Cen.; age 45; b. Ulster |
? | 1855 Census | ? |
DeWitt | Nottingham, Sarah E. | f | unkn | First Election
District, 160/169- hatch marks in "color" column |
1855 Cen.; age 41; b. Columbia |
? | 1855 Census | ? | |
DeWitt | Scroggins, James | m | AfAm | Second Elect. District, 267/267 | none | 1855 Cen.; age 20; b. Canada |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
DeWitt (1847)/ Syracuse |
Dyson, Henry | m | AfAm | 46 Gazelle | laborer | 1847, 1851 | Freedom seeker? Rec'd land from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of
land." 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker? Site, background |
Elbridge | Allen, Elizha | m | Indian | 2nd Elect. Dist.,
384/437 owned land |
laborer | age 34; b. Oneida |
Onondagan? | 1855 Census | Onondaga? |
Elbridge | Allen, Sophia | f | Indian | 2nd Elect. Dist., 384/437 | age 33; b. Oneida |
Onondagan? | 1855 Census | Onondaga? | |
Elbridge | Baker, Emly | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Distr., 243/265 | age 23; b. Froodar? |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Elbridge | Baler, James | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 345/382 | [none listed] |
age 49; b. Virginia |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Elbridge | Baler, Mary | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 345/382 | age 40; b. Maryland |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker | |
Elbridge | Baler, Maryann | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 345/382 | age 19; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Elbridge | Barnard, Prishlian? | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 206/248 | servant | age 18; b. Maryland |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Elbridge | Cannon, John | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 352/392 | laborer | age 22; b. Delaware |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Elbridge | Cooper, Sarah | f | unkn | 2nd Elect. Dist., 48/53 | seamstress | 1855; age 26; b. Ireland |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. ? |
Elbridge | Freedom seeker, Dave | m | AfAm | Redmonds' home | 1862 | fugitive-hid with Redmond | Herald-American, 10/28/99 | site, background | |
Elbridge | Frog?, Henry | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., w43/266 | age 27; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Elbridge | Haris [sic], Peter | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 385/438 | laborer | age 36; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | Haris [sic], Rachel | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 385/438 | age 36; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Elbridge | Harris, Annaliza | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 386/439 | age 30; b. Schenec. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Elbridge | Harris, Edward | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 386/439 | [none] | age 32; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | Hill, Charles | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 384/437 | laborer | age 22; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | Houland, George | m | AfAm | 1st Elect. Dist., 252/266 | servant | 1855- age18; b. Jefferson |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | Jackson, Betsey | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 243/266 | age 40; b. Schenec |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Elbridge | Jackson, Loeana? | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 191/210 | age 26; b. Onon |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Elbridge | Jackson, Thomas | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 243/266 | age 36; b. Schenec. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Elbridge | Jackson, W. | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 191/210 | laborer | 1855; age 27; laborer |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | Johnson, Jane | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Distr., 192/211 | age 50; b. unknown |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker | |
Elbridge | Loyd, Lancaster | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 345/383 | barber | age 40; b. Wayne |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | Miller, Benjamin | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 345/383 | barber | age 28; b . Michigan |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | Morgan, Charles | m Af | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 192/210 | [none] | age 50; b. unknown |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Elbridge | Qackenbush, Mary Ann | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 440/515 | servant | age 50; b. Schenec. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | Redmond family | EurAm | DeLapp house, MacCollum Ro | farmer? | 1862 | way station | Herald-Journal, 10/28/99 |
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Elbridge | Richardson, Diana | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 191/210 | age 50; b. Onon |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Elbridge | Roberts, A. | m | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 279/305 | farmer | age 23; b. Maryland |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Elbridge | Thomas, Charlotte | f | AfAm | 1st Elect. Dist., 40/43 | 1855-age 19; b. Africa |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker | |
Elbridge | Thomas, Jane | f | AfAm | 1st Elect. Dist., 39/42 | 1855 Cen.; age 49; b. Dutchess |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Elbridge | Thomas, John | m | AfAm | 1st Elect. Dist., 40/43 | farmer | 1855 Cen.; age 29; b. Hudson |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | Thomas, Thomas | m | AfAm | First Elect. Dist.,
39/42 owned land |
farmer | 1855 Cen.; age 59; b. Hudson |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | Thompons?, Emly | f | AfAm | 2nd Elect. Dist., 243/265 | washer | age 65; b. Schenec. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Elbridge | _____, Violett L. | f | AfAm E | 2nd Elect. Dist., 246/269 | servant | age 19; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Erie Canal | Cluny | m | EurAm | Erie Canal through Syracuse | crew member canal boat |
1850 | tormentor of Harris family | Horning | site, background |
Erie Canal | Cowell, Silas | m | EurAm | Erie Canal through Syracuse | oyster and clam dealer |
1850 | tormentor of Harris family | Horning | site, background |
Erie Canal | Harris, Caroline | f | AfAm | Erie Canal east of Syracuse to Syracuse to Montezuma | 1850 | married to a fugitive from S | Horning | site, background | |
Erie Canal | Harris, William | m | AfAm | Erie Canal-more
than 2 miles east of Syracuse |
1850 | fugitive from SC | Horning, Stand., 10/28-29/50 |
site, background | |
Erie Canal | Ogden, Captain | m | unkn | canal boat captain
who rescued Harris |
1850 | Wm. Harris rescue | Stand., 10/28/50 | ||
Erie Canal | Webster, Harwell | m | EurAm | Erie Canal through Syracuse | canal boat cap | 1850 | tormentor of Harris family | Horning | site, background |
Euclid | Soule, Nathan | m | unkn | 11/20/1951 | Business Comm., convention opposed to fugitive Slave Law | Standard, 11/25/51 |
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Fabius | Cross, John | m | EurAm | boyhood home | AS lecturer |
1836 | AS lecturer | ||
Fabius | Tousey, Emmeline | f | AfAm | 1st Elect. Dist., 196/207 | age 37; Rhode Island |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Fayetteville | Gage, Henry | m | EurAm | Genesee Street, from 1854 | 1830s-50s | way station | documents at Gage house |
events, context | |
Fayetteville | Gage, Matilda Joslyn | f | EurAm | Genesee Street, from 1854 | 1830s-50s | way station | recoll's of Gage children |
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Fayetteville | Stuart, Charles | m | EurAm | ASlecturer | 1830s-50s | helped organize AS
society 1837 |
Myers | site of lectures | |
Fayetteville Pompey, Skaneateles |
Gould, Samuel | m | EurAm | lectured, 1837 | AS lecturer |
1837 | AS lecturer | Myers | site of meetings |
F______ | R____, Rev. | m | unkn | missionary to South |
c. 1820? | AS sermon | Pettit, 137 ff | ||
Geddes | Cumeger, Alfred | m | AfAm | 199/199 | laborer | age 26; b. Mass. (Del. Crossed out) |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Geddes | Ellis, Mary | f | unkn | Hse. #1/Family #1 | age 46 | Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | odd mark after n | |
Geddes | Gray, Mary Ann | f | AfAm | 149/149 | age 25; b. Penn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Geddes | Gray, William | m | AfAm | 149/149 | gardener | age 45; b. Maryland |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Geddes | Lee, Emily | f | AfAm | 120/120 | age 25; b. Penn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Geddes | Lee, James | m | AfAm | 120/120 | laborer | age 32; b. Penn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Geddes | Lee, Wesley | m | AfAm | 120/120 | laborer | age 30; b. Penn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Geddes | Myers, Mary | f | AfAm | 149/149 | servant | age 17; b. Canada |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Geddes | Wagoner, Hannah M. | f | AfAm | 199/199 | servant | age20; b. Onondaga |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Jordan | Lloyd, Jim | m | AfAm | barber | 1830s | Freedom seeker? | Chambers, etc. | Freedom seeker | |
Lafayette | Jonson, Horace | m | unkn | 2nd dist., 257/284 | farmer | age 35; b. Madison |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | ?-slash mark in
"color' column |
Lafayette | Jonson, Margaret | f | unkn | 2nd dist., 257/284 | age 31?; b. Montgom. |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | ?-slash mark in
"color' column |
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Lafayette | Wright, Elizabeth | f | unkn | 2nd dist., 24/24 | age 66; b. Mass. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lafayette | Wright, Samuel | m | unkn | 2nd dist., 24/24-owned land | farmer | age 75; b. Mass. |
AfAm comm. | ||
Lodi | Truair, Rev. John | m | EurAm | AS lecturer | 1837 | lectured in Lodi schoolhou | Loguen | site, background | |
Lysander | Carpenter, Frehala? | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 485/504 | age 48; b. Canada |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker | |
Lysander | Carpenter, Harry | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 187/196 | [none] | age 22; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Lysander | Carpenter, Jane | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 186/196 | age 23?; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lysander | Carpenter, Mariah | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 186/196 | age 28; b. Conn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lysander | Carpenter, Richard | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 485/504 | farmer | age 27; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Lysander | Cook, Frances | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 108/114 | age 40; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lysander | Cook, Peter | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 108/114 | [none] | age 43; b. Schenec. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Lysander | Day, Polly | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 108/114 | age
60; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lysander | Frances, Charles | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 187/195 | age 21; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lysander | Frances, Hannah | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 187/195 | age 45; b. Jeffers |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lysander | Frances, Jane | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 187/195 | age 18; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lysander | Frances, John | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 187/195 | laborer | age 36; b. Penn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Lysander | Freeman, Elihu | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 262/282 | shingle maker |
age 46; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Lysander | Freeman, Isiah [sic] | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 262/282 | farmer | age 29; b. Conn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Lysander | Freeman, Poly [sic]Ann | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 262/282 | deaf and dumb |
age 26; b. onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Lysander | Freeman, Rebecca | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 262/282 | age 18; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lysander | Halyard, William | m | AfAm | 1847 | rec'd land from G. Smith | Smith, "Dist. of land" |
Freedom seeker? Site, background |
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Lysander | Peterson, Charles | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 216/227 | laborer | age 22; b. Unknown |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Lysander | Peterson, Mary | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 216/227 | age 22; b. Rensal. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lysander | Randall, Caesar? | m | AfAm | 1847 | rec'd land from Gerrit Smit | Smith, "Dist. of land" |
Freedom seeker? Site, background |
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Lysander | Sears, Edward | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 262/282 | farmer | age 22; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Lysander | Smith, Catharine | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 135/136 | age 30; b. Vermont |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Lysander | Smith, George | m | AfAm | 2nd dist, 134/136 | laborer | age 38; b. Washingt. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Lysander | Weekly, Samuel | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 93/94 | laborer? | age 26; b. Africa |
1855 Census | Freedom seeker | |
Lysander, Onondaga |
Bakeman, Jacob | m | AfAm | Belgium, etc. | miller | 1820s-1850 | son of Rev. War veteran; owned 18 pieces of property; AfAm comm. |
deeds | sites, backgroun |
Madison Co. | Smith, Geritt | m | EurAm | Peterboro | land owner, a | 1851 | JR-conspirator | Sperry, etc. | |
Madison Co. | Thomas, Samuel | m | unkn | Cazenovia | 1851 | JR-conspirator | |||
Manlius | Carver?, Jerry | m | AfAm | 4th dist., 168/178 | laborer | age 30; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Manlius | Doxtatons, Samuel | m | AfAm | 4th dist., 175/184 | laborer | age 50; b. Mont. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Manlius | Freeman, David | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 207/216 | laborer | age 26; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Manlius | Freeman, Sarah | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 207/216 | age 26; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Manlius | Freeman, Warren | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 235/245` | boatman | age 25; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Manlius | Gunn, Sylva | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 373/387 | servant | age 40; b. Columbia |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Manlius | Jackson, James C. | m | EurAm | AS lecturer | 11/20/1951 | convention opposed
to fugitive Slave Law |
Standard, 11/25/51 |
site, background | |
Manlius | Lenison, Elizabeth | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 103/114 | age 77; b. Dutchess |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Manlius | Lewis, Elcey | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 328/349 | servant | age 10; b. Mass. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Manlius | Morgan, Phoebe | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 211/220 | age 41; b. Chenango |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Manlius | Pledgon, Clarrissy | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 202/242 | age 22; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Manlius | Pledgon, Philip | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 202/242 | barber | age 25; b. Arkansas |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Manlius | Smith, Daniel | m | AfAm? | 3rd dist., 22/22 | [none] | age 32; b. Onon. |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. Slash in "color" col. |
Manlius | Smith, Octava | f | AfAm? | 3rd dist., 22/22- | age 23; b. Onon. |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. Slash in "color" col. |
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Manlius | Weld, Theodore | m | EurAm | AS lecturer | 1830-1850s | AS lecturer | site, background | ||
Manlius | Williams, Mary A. | f | AfAm? | 1st dist. 334/381 | domestic | age 21; b. unknown |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker? Slash mark for "color" |
Manlius Town | Noble, Linneas P. | m | EurAm | Genesee Street, Fayetteville | editor, National Era |
1844, 1851 | AS letter to
editor; JR-conspirator |
7/31/1844; Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Marcellus | Clause, Abraham | m | AfAm | 1847 | Rec'd land from Gerrith Smith | Smith, "Dist. of land." |
Freedom seeker? Site, background |
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Marcellus | Sheppard (Shepard) | unkn | SE of Marcellus | 1839 | Harriet Powell rescue | ||||
Marcellus/ Skaneateles |
Thorne, Elizabeth Taber | f | EurAm | Baptist Hill (to1854)/1827 Onondaga Rd.(1854-86) | 1848-65 | way station` | Anklin | site, background | |
Marcellus/ Skaneateles |
Thorne, Obadiah | m | EurAm | Baptist Hill
(to1854)/1827 Onondaga Rd.(1854-86) New Seneca Turnpike, just east of Skaneateles later owned by William E. Richards; demolished 1964 |
1830s-50s | way station | Anklin | site, background | |
Michigan | Foot, C.C. | m | unkn | 1851 | JR-speaker | Sperry, etc. | site, background | ||
Missouri | Lear, James | m | EurAm | slave catcher |
1851 | JR-agent for Jerry's owner | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Missouri | McReynolds, John | m | EurAm | Marion County | plantation own | 1851 | JR-"owner" of Jerry | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Monroe Co. | Fitch | m | EurAm | Rochester | Marshal from | 1851 | JR-captor | Sperry, etc. | |
Onondaga | Bakeman, Artimus | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 211/211 | farming | age 19; b. Onon |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Bakeman, Benjamin | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 211/211-owned land | farmer | age 60; b.Montg. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Bakeman, Jacob | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 30/30-owned land | farmer | age 59; b. Montg. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Bakeman, James W. | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 62/62 | shoe maker |
age 23; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Bakeman, Jane | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 211/211 | age 87; b. Albany |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Bakeman, Juliette | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 30/30 | age 32; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Bakeman, Olikver | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 259/259-owned land | farmer | age 23; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Bakeman, Rachael D. | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 62/62 | age 59; b. Albany |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Bakeman, Rachael D. | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 211/211 | age 54; b. New Jersey |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Bakeman, Samuel S. | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 260/260 | servant | age 20; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Bakeman, Sarah | f | AfAm O | 3rd dist., 259/259 | age 21; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Canele Jane Day | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 146/146 | age 52; b. New Jersey |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Canele, James | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 146/146-owned land | farming | age 60; b. Canada |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Onondaga | Claws, Abram | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 146/150 | laborer | age 30; b. Calcutta |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker? |
Onondaga | Claws, Ann C. | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 146/150 | age 28; b. Calcutta |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker | |
Onondaga | Cook, Ann | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 285/285 | age 53; b. Albany |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Cook, George | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 285/285 | [none] | age 50; b. Mont. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Cook, George | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 302/302 | [none] | age 40; b. Montg. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Cook, Sarah | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 302/302 | age 35; b. Montg. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Day, Catharine | f | AfAm, | 3rd dist., 147/147 | age 33; b. New Jersey |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Day, Daniel | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 147/147-owned land | farmer | age 42; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Day, Hannah | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 150/150 | age 36; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Day, Josiah | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 23/23 | farmer | age 23; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Day, Meranda | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 23/23 | age 26; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Day, Peter | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 150/150-owned land | farmer | age 44; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | DeGroat, John | m | AfAm O | 3rd dist., 252/252-owned land | farmer | age 56; b. New Jersey |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Degroat, John M. | m | AfAm, | 3rd dist., 269/269-owned land | farmer | age 36; b. Orange |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Degroat, Lovina? | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 269/269 | age 26; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | DeGroat, Margaret | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 252/252 | age 54; b. Herkimer |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Degroat, Phylinda | f | Indian | 3rd dist., 270/270 | age 63; b. Conn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Dessian?, Violet | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 55/55-poor house | age 35; b. Virginia |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker | |
Onondaga | Jack | m | AfAm | Onondaga Valley | miller | 1790s | enslaved by Danforths | Herald-American, 2/1/98 |
site, background |
Onondaga | Ketchum, Henry | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 150/150 | servant | age 25; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Lewis, Peter | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 177/184 | servant | age 40; b. Canada |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Onondaga | Lewis, Peter | m | AfAm | 3rd dist.,
146/146-kids born Ontario |
farming | age 37; b. Canada |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Lewis, Sally | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 146/146 | age 27; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Livingston, Nancy | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 285/285 | age 18; b. Onon |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Nash, Eliza | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 276/281 | age 42; b. Calcutta |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker | |
Onondaga | Nash, Henry | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 276/281 | [none] | age 41; b. Calcutta |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Onondaga | Talbott, Absalom | m | AfAm | 3rd dist., 260/260-owned land | black smith |
age 59; b. Mass. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Onondaga | Talbott, Magdalana | f | AfAm | 3rd dist., 260/260 | age 52; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Onondaga | Unknown | Unity Church, Seneca Turnpike | Way station | oral tradition | event/site | ||||
Onondaga | Unknown | Zen Center, 666 Seneca Turnpike | Way station | oral tradition | event/site | ||||
Onondaga | Cemetery, African American | off Makyes Road,
DeGroats and Days are buried there. |
AfAm comm. | site, background | |||||
Onondaga | Danforth family | m/f | EurAm | 1790s | "owned" slaves | Herald-American, 12/1/98 |
site, background | ||
Onondaga | Days | m/f | AfAm | African Americans | sites, backgroun | ||||
Onondaga | DeGroats | m/f | AfAm | African Americans | sites, backgroun | ||||
Onondaga Nation |
African American doctor | m | AfAm | 1779 | killed by U.S. troops | Sullivan's Journals |
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Onondaga Co. | Goodell, William | m | EurAm | several towned | AS lecturer editor |
1834- | AS lecturer | Myers | site of lectures |
Onondaga Co. | Sedgwick, Avelyn | m | EurAm | Delphi, Jamesville,
Skan., Otiscao |
AS lecturer |
April 1837 | AS lecturer | Myers | sites of lectures |
Onondaga Hollow/ Syracuse |
Jackson, Thomas | m | AfAm | house Lock | laborer | 1847, 1851 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. Of
land," 1847; 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Onondaga Nati | Freedom seeker, doctor | m | AfAm | doctor | 1779 | killed by U.S. troops | Sullivan's Journals | site, background | |
Ontario Co. | Bemis | m | EurAm | Marshal from | 1851 | JR-Captor | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Oswego Co. | Salmon, William L. | m | EurAm | Fulton | tanner, currier |
1851 | JR-indicted | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Otisco | Sherman, Anna | f | AfAm | 246/246 | age 51; b. Rens. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Otisco | Sherman, Charles | m | AfAm | 246/246-owned land | farmer | age 55; b. R.I. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Otisco | Sherman, Charles | m | AfAm | 1846 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist of land," 1846 | Freedom seeker | ||
Pompey | Cooley, Meddalton | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 99/111-owned land | mason | age 52; b. Virginia |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Pompey | Cooley, Rachel | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 99/111 | age 50; b. S.C. |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker | |
Pompey | Praleens?, Julia | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 77/78 | servant | age 15; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Pompey | Smith, Daniel | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 24/26 | farmer | age 27; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm. Comm. |
Pompey | Thompson, Deantha | f | AfAm | 2nd dist., 12/13 | servant | age 55; b. Unkn. |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Pompey | Titus, Robert | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 12/13 | servant farmer |
age 28; b. Unkn |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom seeker |
Pompey | Williams, Mason? | m | AfAm | 2nd dist., 89/91 | servant | age 20; b. My? |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Pompey/Oran | Bates | m | AfAm | event/site | |||||
Salina | Freedom seekers-two | m | AfAm | salt workers | 1774 | Freedom seeker? | Bowker, NYS Senate Journal, 1823 |
Freedom seeker | |
Salina | Lewis, Charles | m | AfAm | 1847 | rec'd land from Gerrith Smi | Smith, "Dist. Of land" |
Freedom seeker? Site, background |
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Salina 1847, Syracuse, Manlius |
Wales, Isaac | m | AfAm | 56 Ash (Manlius, 1810) | cartman | 1847, 1851 | first AfAm in
Syracue, 1810-1865, bought freedom for $80; rec'd land from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of
land,"1851 Syr. Directory; Herald Journal, 2/1/96 |
site, background |
Skaneateles | Baptist Church | Ladies' ASS meetings,
Frederick Douglass speech |
1854 | AS meetings | AS meetings | ||||
Skaneateles | Benedict, Michael | m | EurAm | 43 State Street | doctor | Way station | oral tradition (Freeland, Hahn) |
site, background | |
Skaneateles | DeWitt, Francis (Dr. Flink) | m | AfAm | horse doctor | d. 1837 | enslaved | Anklin | enslaved | |
Skaneateles | Edwards, Thaddeus | m | EurAm | 1838 | Vice-Pres., Skan.
AS Society |
Skan. Columbian, 2/7/1838 |
way station? | ||
Skaneateles | Flink (Francis DeWitt) | m | AfAm | horse doctor |
enslaved | Press-Observor, 2/22/1989 | enslaved | ||
Skaneateles | Francis, Charlotte | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 186/198 | age 44; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Skaneateles | Francis, Emelina | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 186/198 | age 28; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Skaneateles | Francis, Eunice | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 186/198 | age 54; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Skaneateles | Francis, Nelson | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 186/198-owned land | age 43; Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Skaneateles | Fuller, James Canning | m | EurAm | 98
W. Genesee St. (corner Fuller St.) |
1830-47 | Sec., Skan. AS
Society; supported Dawn Comm.; Way station |
Skan. Columbian, 2/7/1838; 4/18/1839; Friend of Man, 1/11/42 |
more details | |
Skaneateles | Fuller, Lydia Charleton | f | EurAm | 98 W. Genesee St.
(corner Fuller St.) |
1830s-57 | Way station, sheltered Loguen, 1851 |
Anklin, etc. | event, abol. conn | |
Skaneateles | Fuller, William | m | EurAm | 1837 | Sec., first meeting, Skan. ASS, 2/13/1837 | ms. Minutes, Sernett |
site, background | ||
Skaneateles | Gilbert, Theodosia | f | EurAm | Glen Haven water cure | 1840s-50s | AS activist | Still, etc. | site, background | |
Skaneateles | Glen Haven Water Cure | south end of Saneateles Lake | operated by abolitionists | site, background | |||||
Skaneateles | Grimes, Harry | m | AfAm | 1827 Onondaga R.
(Obadiah Thorne home) |
farm laborer |
fugitive from slavery | Anklin | site, background | |
Skaneateles | Hall, David, 3rd | m | unkn | Business Co | 11/20/1951 | convention opposed
to fugitive Slave Law |
Standard, 11/25/51 |
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Skaneateles | Litherland, Samuel | m | EurAm | 1838 | Exec. Comm., Skan. ASS |
Skan. Columbian, 2/7/1838 |
site, background | ||
Skaneateles | Maltby, Stephen E. | m | EurAm | 1838 | Treas., Skan. ASS | Skan. Columbian, 2/7/1838 |
site, background | ||
Skaneateles | Methodist Church | 1838 | AS society organized | ||||||
Skaneateles | Moses, Chester | m | EurAm | 1838 | Exec. Comm., Skan. ASS |
Skan. Columbian, 2/7/1838 |
site, background | ||
Skaneateles | Price Home (1897) | W. Genesee and Griffin | way station | oral tradition (Freeland) |
site, background | ||||
Skaneateles | Pryor, Georgeq | m | EurAm | 1838 | Exec. Comm., Skan. ASS; teacher, Lydia Mott's school; supporter, Skan. Comm. |
Skan. Columbian, 2/7/1838; Leslie, etc. |
site, background | ||
Skaneateles | Quaker Cemetery | Lakeview Cemetery | |||||||
Skaneateles | Quaker Meeting House, Orthodox | on Richard
Tallcott's farm, West Lake Street, after 1827-73 |
AS congregation | ||||||
Skaneateles | Rattle, James | m | EurAm | 1838 | Exec. Comm., Skan. ASS |
Skan. Columbian, 2/7/1838 |
site, background | ||
Skaneateles | Sandford, L. [?] H. | m | EurAm | 1837 | org. Skan. ASS, 2/13/1837 | ms. Minutes, Sernett |
site, background | ||
Skaneateles | Savage, Joseph | m | EurAm? | 1853 | raised money for
Jerry rescuers |
Syr. Journal, 9/13/53 |
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Skaneateles | Savage, Lydia P. | f | EurAm? | 1853 | raised money for
Jerry rescuers |
Syr. Journal, 9/13/53 |
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Skaneateles | Snook, John | m | EurAm | 1838 | Exec. Comm., Skan. ASS |
Skan. Columbian, 2/7/1838 |
site, background | ||
Skaneateles | Talcott, Daniel | m | EurAm | 1838 | VP, Skan. ASS | Skan. Columbian, 2/7/1838 |
site, background | ||
Skaneateles | Talcott, Joseph | m | EurAm | Quaker reform |
way station | ||||
Skaneateles | Talcott, Richard | m | EurAm | Quaker reform |
way station? | ||||
Skaneateles | Thompson, Henry | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 115/114 | [none] | age 23; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Skaneateles | Thompson, Mary E. | f | AfAm | 1st dist., 115/114 | age 22; b. Cayuga |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Skaneateles | Thorne, W. T. | m | EurAm | 43 State Street--barn (built by Dr. Michael Benedict?) | way station? | oral tradition (Freeland) |
site, background | ||
Skaneateles | Vanscoik, William | m | AfAm | 1st dist., 437/465-owned land | farmer | age 30: b. Cayuga |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Skaneateles | Wilkinson, Alfred | m | EurAm | Route 20, east of Skaneateles | 1838 | Way station? Sec., Skan. AS Society |
oral tradition; Columbian, 2/7/1838 |
site, background | |
Skaneteales | Quaker Meeting House | near Octagon School house | |||||||
Spafford | Spalding, David | m | EurAm | on the road to
Borodino (8 miles from Skaneateles?) |
farmer | 1840s-50s | hosted Douglass; way station? |
North Star, 4/13/39 |
site, background |
Spafford | Spalding, Lucy | f | EurAm | on the road to
Borodino (8 miles from Skaneateles?) |
1840s-50s | hosted Douglass; way station? |
North Star, 4/13/39 |
site, background | |
Syracse | Briggs | m | n | 5/1850 | protest meetng | Nat Archves | background | ||
Syracse | Colvin Davd S | m | EurAm | 5/150 | VP protest meetng | Nat Archves | site bacgrond | ||
Syracuse | Abbot, William G. | m | EurAm | 37 E. Onondaga (h), 4 Franklin Building (w) |
WE & Co., Dry | 1851 ff. | JR-bail; fugitive aid | Sperry; Standard, 4/16/57; 4/28/57 |
site, abol. conn. |
Syracuse | Adams, Doctor | m | unkn | 1841 | offered to shelter Loguen | Loguen, 372 | site, abol. conn. | ||
Syracuse | Adams, H.L. | m | unkn | 1845 | Sec., Methodist AS mtg. | Loucks, 20 | |||
Syracuse | Af Am Freedom seekers--nin | AfAm | went to Loguens' home, Pine and E. Genesee | 11/1857 | fugitives | F. Douglass's Journal | |||
Syracuse | Agan, P.H. (Patrick) | m | EurAm | Globe Hotel, S.
Salina & W. Washington (h) 7 Water St. (w) |
Editor, Syr. Stand. Clerk, Onon. County |
1850, 1851 | protest meetng; JR-Vigilance Comm. |
Nat Archves; Standard, 10/7/50, Sperry, etc. |
site, abol. conn. |
Syracuse | Allan, Henry | m | AfAm | 279 Lock | barber | 1851 Syr. Directory | |||
Syracuse | Allen, Anna Lisa | f | AfAm | Second Ward, 496/675 | 1855 Cen.; age 22; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm Comm. | |
Syracuse | Allen, Ellcey? | f | AfAm | Second Ward, 356/471 | 1855 Cen.; age 26; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Allen, Francis | m | AfAm | 35 Catawba | whitewasher | 1851 Syr. Directory | |||
Syracuse | Allen, Francis M. | m | AfAm | Second Ward, 496/675 | barber | 1855 Cen.; age 23; b. Onon |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm. Comm. |
Syracuse | Allen, Harrison | m | AfAm | 1851, 1853 | JR-indicted; rec'd
land from Gerrit Smith |
Sperry, etc.; Smith, "Dist. of land" |
Freedom seeker? Site, background |
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Syracuse | Allen, Henry | m | AfAm | Second Ward, 116/197 | barber | 1855 Cen.; age 35; b. Onondaga |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Allen, Henry W. | m | EurAm | 8 Burnet. Also Skaneateles? | U.S. Deputy Marshall |
1851, d. 18 | JR-kidnapped Jerry | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Allen, Joseph A. | m | unkn | 1857, 1859 | fugitive aid | Standard, 4/16/57; 4/28/57 |
site, background | ||
Syracuse | Allen, Lucinda | f | AfAm | Second Ward, 116/197 | 1855 Cen; age 27; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Allen, Mary Edwards | f | AfAm | Way station | oral tradition | event/site | |||
Syracuse | Allen, Mathlen? | f | AfAm | Second Ward, Hse.
356/471 owned land |
1855 Cen.; age 55; b. Sara.? |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Allen, Thomas | m | AfAm | Second Ward, 356/471 | 1855 Cen.; age 18; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | AME Zion Church-2nd bldg. | NE corner Almond and Fayette | Rev. J. Loguen, pastor | Hardin | |||||
Syracuse | Baker, James | m | AfAm | 231 E. Fayette | white washer |
1846, 1850 | Rec'd land in
Hamilton Co. from Gerrit Smith, 1846; Pres. Of "Meeting of Colored Citizens" against Fugitive Slave Law, 9/50 |
Smith, "Dist. of
land," 1846; Standard, 9/24/1850; 1851 Syr. Dir. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Baker, James | m | EurAm | 97 James | 1851 | JR-conspirator | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Syracuse | Baptist Church | West Genesee St. | mob attacked AS meeting-1831? |
1831 [1837] | AS meetings | Frothingham, 164 (Siebert ms.) |
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Syracuse | Baptist Church | 1835 | Onon. Co. ASS organized | Loguen, 358 f | site, background | ||||
Syracuse | Barnes, George | m | EurAm | 103 James, 160 Foot | Bookkeeper, r | 1850, 1851 | JR-conspirator | Standard, 10/7/50, Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Bates, Abner | m | EurAm | c. Montgomery & Jefferson | 1838,1842 1845,185 1851 11/20/51; 1854 |
Exec. Comm., Skan.
ASS,; Central Comm., NYS Liberty Party Conv., Syracuse, 1842; AS mtg., 1845; Meeting against Fugitive Slave Law, 9/1850; addressed convention opposed to Fugitive Slave Law; assistance |
Loucks, 27; Skan.
Columbian, 2/7/1838, Loucks, 23; Standard, 10/7/50, 11/25/51; 11/25/54 Sperry, etc. |
sites, backgroun | |
Syracuse | Bates, Joshua | m | unkn | city hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10150 |
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Syracuse | Battis, Mrs. J. | f | AfAm | 382 E. Fayette | laundress | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory | Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Benham, Miles | m | EurAm | city hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Bennet, J.O. | m | unkn | 1842 | Central Comm., NYS Liberty Party Conv., Syracuse, 1842. |
Loucks, 12 | political abolition | ||
Syracuse | Benton, Andrew | m | AfAm | basement 74 E. Genesee | laborer | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Dir | Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Bowen (Owen), John | m | unkn | Syracuse Hotel | 1839 | helped Harriet Powell | Loguen, 366ff | ||
Syracuse | Boyd, Jane | f | AfAm | City Boarding House | domestic | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Dir | Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Brainer? Duard? | m | AfAm | Second Ward, 496/675 | barber | 1855 Cen.; age 18; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Briggs, C.P. | m | EurAm | city hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Brigham, J.B. | m | EurAm | 339 E. Water | Teacher Dist 10, 4 |
1851 | JR-indicted | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Brintnall's Hotel | 1851 | Jerry Henry taken
there after rescue |
NY Times, 10/4/51 |
site | ||||
Syracuse | Briscoe, Sarah | f | AfAm | Seventh Ward, 88/113 | 1855 Cen.; age 39; b. Albany |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Briscoe, William | m | AfAm | Seventh Ward,
88/113 owned land |
none | 1855 Cen.; age 46; b. unknown |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | Bristol, Joseph | m | AfAm | 1846 | rec'd land in Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith | Smith, "Dist. of land," 1846 | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Brown, Hiram K. | m | AfAm | 37 Montgomery | laborer | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory | Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Brown, James | m | AfAm | 68 James | laborer | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory | Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Brown, James | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 579/691 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 25; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Brown, Sarah | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 579/691 | 1855 Cen.; age 20; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Brown, William | m | AfAm? | 1857 | note re "African Aid Society" | Standard, 4/23/57 | |||
Syracuse | Burdic, Perry | m | EurAm | Hunker
who helped Freedom seekers |
1854 | abol. | Standard, 6/5/54 |
site, background | |
Syracuse | Burleigh, William H. | m | unkn | Business Committee |
11/20/51; 1 | convention opposed
to Fugitive Slave Law; JR-convention |
Standard, 11/25/51Sperry, etc. |
site, background | |
Syracuse | Burns, Peter | m | unkn | speaker | Ch. Merrick (Siebert ms) |
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Syracuse | Butler, Thomas J. [I?] | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 253/294 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 65; b. NC? |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | Carrolson, Benjamin | m | AfAm | 58 Irving | laborer | 1851 Syr. Dir | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Carter, George | m | unkn | 1851 | JR-conspirator | Sperry, etc. | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Carter, George | m | AfAm | 1847 | Rec'd land from Gerrit Smi | Smith, "Dist. of land," 1847 |
Freedom seeker? Site, background |
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Syracuse | Cassaw?, Ann | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward,
253/286 owned land |
1855 Cen.; age 37; b. Penn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Castle, Ann | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 649/? | 1855 Cen.; age 57; b. Mass. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Castle, Samuel | m | AfAm | 1847 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. Of land," 1847 |
Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Castle, Samuel | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 648/? | farmer | 1855 Cen.; age 52; b. Maryland |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | Castleton, Rev. T. | m | unkn | 1840x | AS lectures, 1840s | Loucks, 18 | |||
Syracuse | Chase, J.B. | m | EurAm | city hall | 1/1850, 10/1850 |
AS mtg., Fugitive Slave Law mtg. |
Standard, 1/8/50, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Chester, Rev. John | m | AfAm? | minister | 1841 | Sernett, 35 | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Church Street house | near old Baptist
church, moved near McKinstry's Candle Factory, then moved to Bates & Williams' tannery (owned in 1859 by W.H. Van Buren) |
1842? | Loguen's second school | Loguen, 373 | site | |||
Syracuse | City Hall | 1/1850; 5/1850 |
site of protest
meetings, 1/50, 5/50 and 10/4/50 |
Relig. Recorder,
1/24/50; Nat Archives, Standard; Daily Star, 5/17/50; Loucks, IV |
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Syracuse | Clapp, J.M. | m | unkn | 1850, 1851 | Fugitive Slave Law
mtg., JR-conspirator |
Standard, 10/1/50 |
site, background | ||
Syracuse | Clark, Harry | m | AfAm | 59 W. Genesee | domestic | 1851 Syr. Dir | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Clark, Harry | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward 106/106 owned land |
sexton | 1855 Cen.; age25; b. Hudson |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Clark, Henry | m | AfAm | 1854 | Rec'd land from Gerrit Smi | Smith, "Dist. of land." |
Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Clark, Margaret | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward 106/106 | 1855 Cen.; age 32; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Clarke, William M. | m | unkn | Syracuse
Hotel/Lebanon, Madison County |
1839, 1845 | helped Harriet
Powell; AS meeting, 1845 |
Loguen, 366ff; Loucks, 27; Smith Papers, 10/25/39 |
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Syracuse | Clary, Dr. Lyman | m | EurAm | 54 S. Warren | Physician | 1845, 1850, 1851 |
AS meeting, 1845;
VP protest meeting; Pres., Anti-Fugitive Slave Law mtg., 1/50; JR-Vigilance Comm. |
Loucks, 23; Standard, 10/7/50, Relig. Recorder, 1/16/51; Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Cobb, Alfred | m | EurAm | Globe Hotel, S.
Salina & W. Washington (h), 45 East Water (w) |
coal dealer | 1850 1851 | protest meetng; JR-bail |
Nat Archves; Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Cobb, Ira H. | m | EurAm | 24 Montgomery
(Tremont) (h), 44 E. Genesee (w) |
hardward & marble merchant |
1845, 1851ff, 1854, d. 1889 |
AS meeting, 1845; Jerry Rescue; fugitive aid | Sperry; Loucks, 27;
Standard, 11/25/54 4/23/57 |
property, backgr |
Syracuse | Cole, John | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 371/382 | 1855 Cen.; age 21; b. Westch. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Congregational Church | State Tower Bldg. Block, E. Genesee, Warren, Water | 1837-49 | AS organizing site;
Liberty party, 1840; "Cradle of Liberty"; "Fanueil Hall," meeting for freedom of press, 9/10/45; mtg. Of Af Ams re land grants, 1846 |
Loucks, 44; May, 322 | ||||
Syracuse | Convention Hall | SW corner Franklin and Washington St. | 1840s | site of abolition meetings | Hardin, Standard, 1/25/59 |
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Syracuse | Cook, George | m | AfAm | 100 Grape | laborer | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Cook, John B. | m | EurAm | city hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Courier Building | corner Montgomery,
Warren, E. Genesee |
1851 | site of Daniel Webster's tal | Hardin | ||||
Syracuse | Crandall, William L. | m | EurAm | Syracuse House (w),
S. Salina and E. Genesee |
reporter | 1851 ff | Sec. Anti-Fugitive
Slave Law mtg., 1/8/51; JR-indicted; raised money |
Relig. Recorder, 1/16/51; Syr. Journal, 9/13/53, Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Crown, Elizabeth | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 206/206 | 1855 Cen.; age 31; b. Canada |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker | |
Syracuse | Crown, Jacob | m | AfAm | 234 E. Fayette | laborer | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Crown, Jacob | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 206/206 | 1855 Cen.; age 37; b. Dutchess |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Curtis EW | m | unkn | 5/1850 | protest meetng | Nat Archves | background | ||
Syracuse | Davenport, J. | m | EurAm | Syracuse House | "owner" of Har | 1839 | advertised for H's return | Davis etc. | background |
Syracuse | Davis, Caleb A. | m | EurAm | 10 Onondaga (h) or
E. Genesee & McBridge, or Genesee and Orange (later site of SU Extension) |
drover | 1851 | JR-drove escape wagon | Sperry, Hardin, Galpin, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Davis, Cobb | m | EurAm | 134 Towing Path | meat market | 1851 | JR | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Davis, James or Davis, James S. |
m | EurAm | 32 Burnet/46 Maple
or or bds. Tremont, 35 Montgomery (h) stall 1, City Market or 6 Franklin Bldg. (w) |
livestock dealer or dry goods regulator |
1851 | JR-indicted | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Decker, Margaret | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 186/186 | 1855 Cen.; age 80; b. Dutchess |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Decker, Rachael | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 186/186 | 1855 Cen.; age35; b. Ulster |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Decker, William | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 186/186 | clergyman | 1855 Cen.; age 35; b. Orange |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | DeForest, Henry | m | AfAm | Third Ward, 202/288 owner of land |
[none] | 1855 Cen.; age 38; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | DeForest, Henry | m | AfAm | Seventh Ward, 21/32 owned land |
wailer? | 1855 Cen.; age 40; b. unknown |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | DeForest, Rosina | f | AfAm | Seventh Ward, 21/32 | 1855 Cen.; age 40; b. unknown |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker | |
Syracuse | DeForrest, Henry | m | AfAm | Tremont | table waiter |
1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | DeMott, Samuel | m | AfAm | 1847 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of land," 1847 |
Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Denny, Anne | f | AfAm | Seventh Ward, 508/619 | servant | 1855 Cen.; age19; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | DeWit?, Eliza | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 42/52 | 1855 Cen.; age 35; b. Va. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Dillaye, S.D. | m | EurAm | 1850 | VP protest meetng | Nat Archves | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Douglass, Frederick | m | AfAm | Market Hall.
Douglass lived in Rochester |
AS editor, lecturer | 1847 | addressed AS
meeting, Market Hall, 1845 |
Daily Star, 9/23/1847 |
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Syracuse | Douglass, Lovica | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 142/142 | 1855 Cen.; age 65; b. Conn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Dumford Henry W | m | EurAm | 1850 | VP protest meetng | Nat Archves | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Dunbar, Mrs. Rose | f | AfAm | 10 Church | domestic | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Dunbar, Sophia | f | AfAm | 25 Catharine | domestic | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Edwards, Harriet | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 187/187 | 1855 Cen.; age 46; b. Conn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Edwards, William | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 187/187 | 1855 Cen.; age 20; b. Canada |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker | |
Syracuse | Fayette Street Church | Fayette Street | 1850 | site of "Meeting of
Colored citizens" against Fugitive Slave Law |
9/24/1850 | site, church | |||
Syracuse | Field, Lemuel | m | unkn | 1851 | JR-conspirator | Sperry, etc. | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Filkins, Eliza | f | unkn | 1853 | raised money for
Jerry rescuers |
Syr. Journal, 9/13/53, |
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Syracuse | First Methodist Church | 1843 | 1st meeting of Wesleyans | ||||||
Syracuse | Fisher, Lucindia | f | AfAm | boards 42 Ash | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Fletcher, Maria | f | AfAm | 252 E. Washington | domestic | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Fonda, Nancy Ann | f | AfAm | 128 N. Salina | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Fonda, Primus | m | AfAm | 128 N. Salina | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Forbes, J.G. | m | EurAm | 89 James (h), 1 Wieting Block (w) |
Attorney | 1851 | JR-counsel | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Foster, Isaih [sic] | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 141/141 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 26; b. NYC |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Foster, J.C. | m | unkn | city hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Foster, John | m | EurAm | abolitionist | |||||
Syracuse | Foster, John C. | m | AfAm | 1846 | given land in
Hamilton Co. by Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of land," 1846. |
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Syracuse | Foster, Kearnet? | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 157/157 | wife (no spou | 1855 Cen.; age 58; b. Mass |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Foster, Sarah | f | EurAm | abolitionist | |||||
Syracuse | Freedom seeker | m | AfAm | S.J. May's home | "O, Massa, not | n.d. | Fugitive | May | Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Freedom seeker | m | AfAm | S.J. May's home | well-dressed y | n.d. | Fugitive | May | Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Freedom seeker | f | AfAm | S.J. May's home | well-dressed y | n.d. | Fugitve | May | Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Freedom seeker | f | AfAm | "house in the most fashionable street in the city" | concealed by wife of
proslaveryman |
n.d. | fugitive | Jos.Allen (Siebert ms.) |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Freedom seeker | f | AfAm | Loguens' home and Auburn | "beautiful mulatto woman from Maryland," bride reunited with husband in Auburn | n.d. | fugitive | Wm. Chambers (Sieber ms.) |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Freedom seeker, one | f | AfAm | 24 yrs.old, "nearly white, and beautiful" |
1854 | fugitive | Standard, 4/22/54 |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Freedom seeker, one | Unk. | AfAm | Maryland through
Syracuse to Oswego and Canada |
1854 | fugitive | Standard, 7/22/54 | Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Freedom seekers, elev | m/f | AfAm | six men, five women |
1847 | fugitives | Syr. Star, 7/21/47; Sernett, 41 |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Freedom seekers, nine | m/f | AfAm | railroad station; Loguens' hom | two men, onewoman 6 children |
1857? | fugitives | F.D.'s Paper, 11/28/57? |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Freedom seekers, seve | m/f | AfAm | Loguens' home | sent to Douglass |
1857? | fugitives | F.D.'s Paper, 11/28/57? | Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Freedom seekers, six | m/f | AfAm | Loguens' home | 3 adults, 3 children |
1859 | fugitives | Sernett, 47-8 | background |
Syracuse | Freedom seekers, ten | Unk. | AfAm | 1854 | fugitives | Tribune? 6/3/54 |
Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Freedom seekers, thre | Unk. | AfAm | 1854 | fugitives | Standard, 4/16/54 | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Freedom seekers, thre | Unk. | AfAm | 1854 | fugitives | Tribune? 6/3/54 |
Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Freeman, Louisa | f | AfAm | 43 Burnett | domestic | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Freeman, Annalize | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 355/366 | domestic | 1855 Cen.; age 25; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Freeman, Catharine | f | AfAm | 23 Catherine | domestic | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Freeman, Jane | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 140/140 | 1855 Cen.; age 26; b. Herkimer |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Freeman, Louisa | f | AfAm | Sixth Ward, 258/316 | servant | 1855 Cen.; age 24; b. Steuben |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Freeman, Peter | m | AfAm | 33 W. Water | laborer | 1846, 1851 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. Of
land," 1846; 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Freeman, Peter | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 140/140 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 35; b. Montg. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Freeman, Robert | m | unkn | 1842 | central committee
of NYS Liberty Convention mtg., Syracuse |
Loucks, 12 | political abolition | ||
Syracuse | Frick, George | m | AfAm? | Eighth Ward,
256/261 owned land |
gardner | 1855 Cen.; age 43; b. Germany? |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | Fuller, Ger. | m | EurAm | 1851 | JR | Galpin | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Fuller, James | m | EurAm | doctor (son of JC & Lydia) |
1851ff, d. 1889 |
JR-conspirator; raised money; fugitive aid |
Syr. Journal, 9/13/53; Standard, 4/16/57; 4/23/57; 4/28/57; Sperry, etc. |
site, background | |
Syracuse | Fuller, Sumner | m | unkn | 1851 | drove Loguen to Rochester | Siebert ms. Loguen, 429 |
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Syracuse | Fundy, Primus | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 253/287 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 58; b. Schen. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Fundy, Rachel | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 253/287 | 1855 Cen.; age 44; b. Montg. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Furman, Robert | m | unkn | city hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Garant?, Martha Ann | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 667/828 | 1855 Cen.; age 16; b. Canada |
1855 Census | Freedom Seeker | ||
Syracuse | Gardener Rowland H | m | n | 5/1850 | Sec protest meetng | Nat Archves | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Gardiner, William C. | m | EurAm | sheriff | 1851 | JR-conspirator | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Syracuse | Gardner, Henry | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 253/285 | laborer | 1855 Cen.' age 26; b. Mass. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Gardner, Isaac | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 148/169 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 67; b. Mass. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Gardner, Phillis | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 148/169 | 1855 Cen.; age 68; b. Conn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Gardner, Sarah Ann | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 253/285 | 1855 Cen.; age 18; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Gere, Robert | m | EurAm | 42 Jefferson | contractor | 1851 | JR-convention | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Gilbert, L.J. | m | unkn | 1851 | JR-convention | Sperry, etc. | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Gillett, L.J. | m | EurAm | city hall | 1845; 10/1850 |
AS meeting; Fugitive Slave Law mtg. |
Loucks, 27; Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Ginkins, Hannah | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward 20/20 | 1855 Cen.; age 33; b. ? |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Ginkins, William | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward 20/20-owned land | weaver | 1855 Cen.; age 40; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Grant, George | m | AfAm | 361 E. Fayette | laborer | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Grant, George | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 50/55 | musician | 1855 Cen.; age 33; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Gray, Nancy | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 40/50 | housekeeper | 1855 Cen.; age 37; b. Montg. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Gray, William | m | AfAm | Freedom seeker aid committee |
1851, 1854 | JR-fugitive slave,
rescued Jerry, worked with fugitive aid committee |
Sperry, etc.; Standard, 1/17/54 |
site, background | |
Syracuse | Grey, William | m | AfAm | W. Genesee | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Griffin, John | m | AfAm | 128 N. Salina | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Haight, Seth | m | EurAm | 26 W. Washington/118 S. Salin | Owner, Daily J | 1851 | JR-bail | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Hallenbeck, Peter | m | unkn | 1851 | JR | Galpin | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Hanover Square | Water and Warren Sts. | 1861 | abol's burned in effigy | Hardin | ||||
Syracuse | Harris, B.G. | m | unkn | 1845 | Pres., Methodist AS mtg. | Loucks, 20 | |||
Syracuse | Harrison, Hellen | f | AfAm | Third Ward, 189/266 | domestic | 1855 Cen.; age 18; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Hasbrook, Mahala | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 579/689 | servant | 1855 Cen.; age 21; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Hawley, Lewis T. | m | EurAm | U.S.
Marshall |
1850, 1851 | JR-refused to arrest Jerry | Standard, 10/14/50, Sperry, etc. |
site, background | |
Syracuse | Hawley, Silas, Jr. | m | unkn | AS publisher | 1845 | published Liberty Intellige | Loucks, 23 | site, background | |
Syracuse | Hayden, E.T. | m | unkn | 11/20/1951 | convention opposed
to fugitive Slave Law- Exec. Committee |
Standard, 11/25/51 |
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Syracuse | Hazzell, Jane | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 141/141 | 1855 Cen.; age 40; b. NYC |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Hedgandson, George S | m | AfAm | 1847 | rec'd land
from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of land." | Freedom seeker? Site, background |
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Syracuse | Hedgeuds, George S. | m | AfAm | N. Salina, n. O.C. Bridge | barber | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Henry, William "Jerry" | m | AfAm | Clinton Square-site
of rescue in 1851; site of Jerry Rescue statue, 1990 |
cooper, chair maker |
1851 | fugitive from slavery | Sperry, etc. | home and work |
Syracuse | Higgins, Benjamin L. | m | EurAm | daguerrean, D | 1851 | JR-helped police, eye-witn | Galpin | site, background | |
Syracuse | Highgate, Charles | m | AfAm | Fourth? Ward,
299/366 owned land |
[none] | 1855
cen.; age 43; b.Pa? |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Highgate, Edmonia | f | AfAm | teacher of freed people |
1865 | Principal, Douglass
School, New Orleans, La., lecturer, b. 1844, d. 1869. |
site, background | ||
Syracuse | Highgate, Hannah | f | AfAm | Fourth? Ward, 299/366 | 1855 Cen.; age 35?; b. Va. |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker | |
Syracuse | Highgate, Trevanian | m | AfAm | 32 S. Warren, house 48 Grape | hair dresser | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Hillis, David D. | m | unkn | attorney | 1851 | JR-counsel | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Syracuse | Hollenbeck, Peter | m | AfAm | 1851 | JR-rescued Jerry | Sperry, etc. | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Hopkins, I.A. | m | unkn | publisher | 1844 | published Liberty Almanac | Loucks, 23 | site, background | |
Syracuse | Hovey, Alfred H. | m | EurAm | Mayor | 1850, 1851 | JR-president protest mtg. | Nat Archves Sperry, etc. |
site, background | |
Syracuse | Hoyt, Hiram | m | EurAm | 56 S. Warren (Eye &
Ear Infirmary) |
doctor | 1851 | JR-conspirator | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Hoyt, Jason S. | m | unkn | boarded Britnall's Exchange | carriage manufactr |
1851 | JR-drove escape buggy | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Hughes, A. | m | unkn | city hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law met. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Hunt, Edward K. | m | unkn | 48 Montgomery | mason | 1851 | JR- | ||
Syracuse | Huntington | m | 5/1850 | protest meetng | Nat Archves | background | |||
Syracuse | Jackson, Elizabeth | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 180/207 | 1855 Cen.; age 54; b. Maryland |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker | |
Syracuse | Jackson, Frederick | m | AfAm | 124 Burnett | laborer | 1847, 1851 | rec'd land from Gerrit Smit | Smith, "Dist. of
land"; 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Jackson, Frederick | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward,
180/207 owned land |
whitewasher | 1855 Cen.; age 57; b. Montg. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Jackson, Henrietta | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 148/161 | servant | 1855 Cen.; age 53; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Jackson, Henry | m | AfAm | 31-33E. Water | porter | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Jackson, Henry | m | AfAm | 224 E. Water | whitewasher | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Jackson, Henry | m | AfAm | 1846 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of land," 1846 |
Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Jackson, John | m | AfAm | house Irving, n. E. Genesee | butcher | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Jackson, John | m | AfAm | 53 Irving | teamster | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Jackson, Mariah | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 43/53 | 1855 Cen.; age 22; b. Jeff. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Jackson, Prince | m | AfAm | 135 Lock (work) or 42 Ash | horse farrieror barber, dyer |
1851 | JR-indicted | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Jackson, Prince | m | AfAm | 135 Lock | horse farrier |
1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Jackson, Prince | m | AfAm | 42 Ash | barber, dyer |
1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Jackson, Samuel | m | AfAm | house 280 N. Salina | cook | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Jackson, Samuel | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 43/53 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 41; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Jackson, Samuel B. | m | AfAm | 128 N. Salina | barber | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Jackson, Thomas | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 148/161 | servant | 1855 Cen.; age 62; b. VA |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | Jenkins, William H. | m | AfAm | 150 E. Fayette | carpet weaver |
1846, 1851 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. Of
land," 1846; 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Jerry Rescue site | Raynor Block
(M.Crouse Klock Office) site Clinton Street, west of Clinton Square |
1851 | site of Jerry Rescue | Sperry, etc. | archeological dig | |||
Syracuse | Johnson, George | m | AfAm | 238 E. Genesee | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Johnson, George | m | AfAm | Seventh Ward,
481/585 lived with Wheatons |
servant | 1855 Cen.; age 45; b. NY |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Johnson, Jonathan | m | AfAm | house 128 N. Salina | cook | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Joslyn, H. | m | EurAm | Business Committee |
7/9/50; 11/20/1951 |
Abolition State
Conven., 7/9/50; convention opposed to fugitive Slave Law |
Standard, 11/25/51 |
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Syracuse | Kansaw, Benjamin | m | AfAm | house Irving, n E. Genesee | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Keene, Thomas A. | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward,
240/241 owned land |
cigar maker | 1855 Cen.; age 44; b. New York Co. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Key, Francis | m | AfAm | 1846 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of land," 1846 |
Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Keys, Samuel | m | AfAm | 13 Chestnut | whitewasher | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | King, J.C. | m | unkn | city hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | King, S. | m | unkn | city hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | King, Sereno F | m | AfAm | Sec. Of "Meeting of Colored Citizens" against Fug. Slave Law, rescuer of Jerry | 1850, 1851 | JR-"Let's take him out" | 7/24/1850 Galpin |
home, work | |
Syracuse | Kingsley, Lyman | m | unkn | 125 Warren | sashes and bl | 10/1850, 1851 |
Fugitive Slave Law
mtg., JR-convention |
Standard, 10/1/50, Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Kinney, J. | m | unkn | editor | 1845 | editor, Liberty Intelligence | Loucks, 23 | ||
Syracuse | Kinney, Joel | m | EurAm | City Hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law meetin | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Kisle, Rev. | m | AfAm | minister | 1850 | assisted Harrises | Horning | site, background | |
Syracuse | Knight, Horace B. | m | unkn | 1857, 1859 | fugitive aid | Standard, 4/23/57; 4/28/57. |
site, background | ||
Syracuse | Lando, Frank | m | AfAm | 23 Catharine | teamster | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Landow, Fraqnk | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 148/169 | ostler | 1855 Cen.; age 45; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Langley, Jane | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward,
219/219 owned land |
tailoress | 1855 Cen.; age 39; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Langley, Loem? | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 219/219 | 1855 Cen.; age 22; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Langley, Martha | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 219/219 | 1855 Cen.; age 20; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Lawrence, James R. Jr | m | EurAm | 188 N. Salina/Geer Block | attorney | 1851 | JR-counsel | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Leavenworth, E.W. | m | EurAm | 97 James/Noxon Block | Attorney | 1845, 1850, 1851 |
AS meeting, 1845;
Protest meeting; JR-Vigilance Comm. |
Loucks, 23;Nat
Archves; Standard, 10/7/50, Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Lee, Ebenezer | m | AfAm | 293 E. Fayette | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Lee, Ebenezer | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward,
273/279 owned land |
laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 40; b. Cayuga Co. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Lee, Lucyann | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 273/279 | 1855 Cen.; age 31; b. Conn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Lee, Rev. Luther | m | EurAm | Wesleyan Methodist
Church, E. Onondaga |
Wesleyan minister | UGRR agent 365 in one year |
Jos. Allen (Siebert ms.)Siebert |
home site | |
Syracuse | Leonard, Jane | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 214/214 | 1855 Cen.; age 52; b. Rensalaer |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Leonard, Mrs. Jane | f | AfAm | Exchange Hotel | cook | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Leonard, Thomas | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward,
214/214 owned land |
laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 61; b. Virginia |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | Leonard, Tom | m | AfAm | Syracuse House, S.
Salina and E. Genesee (w) |
waiter | 1839 | assisted Harriet Powell | Davis | |
Syracuse | Lewis, Charles L. | m | AfAm | First Ward, 143/178 | salt boiler | 1855- age 53; b. Conn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Lewis, Edward | m | AfAm | First Ward, 143/179 | salt boiler | 1855 Cen. Age 29; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Lewis, Elder | m | AfAm | AME Zion minister |
1841 | ordained J.W.Loguen | Sernett | Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Lewis, George | m | AfAm | Third Ward, 205/300 | barber | 1855 Cen.; age 34; b. W. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Lewis, Horace | m | AfAm | Scott's Hotel, b. 25 Catharine | barber | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Lewis, Horace | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward,
148/168 owned land |
barber | 1855 Cen.; age 38; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Lewis, Maria | f | AfAm | First Ward, 143/178 | 1855 Cen. Age 50; b. Herkimer |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Lewis, Mary | f | AfAm | boards 64 Pearl | laundress | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Lewis, Mary C. | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 142/142 | 1855 Cen.; age 27; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Lewis, Samuel | m | AfAm | First Ward, 143/179 | salt boiler | 1855 Cen.; age 26; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Lewis, Sarah | f | AfAm | First Ward, 143/179 | 1855 Cen. Age 28; b. Herkimer |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Liles [?], John | m | AfAm | 1847 | rec'd land from Gerrit Smit | Smith, "Dist. of land" | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Lilly, Peter | m | unkn | 57 Irving/ 29 E. Water | blacksmith, tinsmith |
1851 | JR-filed J's handcuffs | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Lisle | m | AfAm | minister | 1850 | assisted Wm. Harris | Standard, 10/28/50 |
home, backgrou | |
Syracuse | Livingston, Mary | f | AfAm | 18 Church | domestic | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Loguen, Caroline | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 279/285 | 1855 Cen.; age 38; b. Chautauqua |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Loguen, Caroline Storu | f | AfAm | E. Genesee and Pine | 1840-50s | way station | |||
Syracuse | Loguen, Jermain | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward,
279/285 owned land |
clergyman | 1855 Cen.; age 40; b. Tennesee |
Fugitive/abolitionist way station |
1855 Census | AfAm-fugitive |
Syracuse | Loguen, Rev. Jermain | m | AfAm | 293 E. Genesee,
corner Pine; Oakwood cemetery, gravesite, section 6 |
AME Zion minister; general agent, UGRR |
1850s | Vigilance Committee JR-indicted, fugitive from Tennessee, headquarters of UGRR, Syr |
Standard, 10/7/50, 4/16/57; 4/28/57; 1/25/59, Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Loomis, Joseph | m | unkn | Attorney | 1851 | JR-counsel | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Syracuse | Lot near Park | 1841 | Loguen's first school | Loguen, 372 | site, background | ||||
Syracuse | Lowell, Russell | m | unkn | Policeman | 1851 | JR-captor | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Syracuse | Lyles, Rev. John | m | AfAm | 237 E. Washington | minister Cong. Ch, 1859 |
1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Mansfield, Rev. L.D. | m | unkn | minister | 1851 | JR-court observor | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Syracuse | Mantles?, Charlotte | f | AfAm | Second Ward, 458/616 | 1855 Cen.: age 30; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Market Hall-see City Hall | ||||||||
Syracuse | Marks, Enoch | m | unkn | also from Camillus? | 1851 | Chair, meeting to
protest fugitive Slave Law, Cong. Ch.; convention opposed to fugitive Slave Law |
Standard, 10/16/51; 11/25/51 |
home, work | |
Syracuse | Marshall, H.P. | m | AfAm | boards 25 Cedar | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | May, Rev. Samuel J. | m | EurAm | 157 James | minister Unitarian Church |
1840s-50s | AS meeting, 1845;
protest meetng; JR-conspirator; raised money; "hundreds" of fugitives |
Loucks, 27; Nat
Archves; Standard, 4/16/57; 4/28/57; Sperry, etc.; May |
site, background |
Syracuse | Maynard, George L. | m | EurAm | City Hall | 1850 | Fugitive Slave Law meeting | Standard, 10/1/1850 | ||
Syracuse | McCarthy D | m | unkn | 5/1850 | protest meetng | Nat Archves | background | ||
Syracuse | McCombs, J.H. | m | unkn | city hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | McCorter, Ann | f | AfAm | First Ward, 144/180 | 1855 Cen.; age 48; b. PA |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | McCorter, Simon | m | AfAm | First Ward, 144/180 | basket maker |
1855 Cen; age 45; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | McCorter, William | m | AfAm | First Ward, 144/180 | 1855 Cen.; age 21; b. Herkimer |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | McCoy, William | m | AfAm | 1853 | rec'd land from Gerrit Smit | Smith, "Dist. of land" |
Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | McCoy, William | m | AfAm | Seventh Ward, 567/695 | servant | 1855 Cen.; age 22; b. Va. |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | McLendon, Joseph | m | AfAm | house 25 Almond | barber | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Mercer, Alfred | m | unkn | 324 Montgomery | Physician | 1851 | JR-left money to comm. J | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Merrick, Charles | f | EurAm | brother of Chloe & Montgomery | 1851 | JR | Siebert ms, et | site, background | |
Syracuse | Merrick, Chloe | f | EurAm | sister of Charles &
Montgomery m. Harrision Reed |
teacher of freed people |
1851 | abolitionist family | Foster | site, background |
Syracuse | Merrick, Montgomery | m | EurAm | 148 E. Washington | Mason | 1851 ff | JR-indicted; fugitive aid |
Sperry, etc.; Standard, 4/23/57 |
site, background |
Syracuse | Merrick, Sylvanus | m | EurAm | 1851 | JR | Foster | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Methodist Church | 1845 | AS meeting | Loucks, 19 | |||||
Syracuse | Miller, A. | m | AfAm | house rear corner
N. Salina and Division |
laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Miller, Nancy | f | AfAm | 11 Church | domestic | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Mills, C.D. | m | EurAm | West Genesee and Liberty | 1860 | resolutions at
Jerry Rescue celebration |
Douglass' Monthly, 11/60 |
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Syracuse | Minor, Rev. Ovid | m | unkn | minister | 11/20/1951 | convention of
citizens' opposed to fugitive Slave Law |
Standard, 11/25/51George Clark, Siebert ms. |
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Syracuse | Mintes, Jane | f | AfAm | 10 Mulberry | laundress | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Mires, Harriet A. | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 220/236 | 1855 Cen.; age 31, b. Schoharie |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Mires, James A. | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 220/236 | whitewasher | 1855 Cen.; age 32; b. Monroe |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Mires, Temple | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 253/294 | 1855 Cen.; age 40; b. NC |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker | |
Syracuse | Moby, John | m | AfAm | 100 Grape | laborer | 1851 | Freedom seeker? | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Montgomery, Alexander | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 108/108 | silver plater |
1855 Cen.; age 22; b. Onon.? |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Montgomery, Margaret | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 108/108 | domestic | 1855 Cen.; age 17; b. Canada |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | Morgan, LeRoy | m | EurAm | 93 W. Onondaga/10
Dillaye Block (work) |
Attorney (Partn | 1851 | JR-counsel | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Morrell, Frederic | m | EurAm | First Ward-cooper shop where Jerry Henry was arrested | Cooper | 1840s-50s | JR-employed Jeerry | Sperry, etc. | site of shop |
Syracuse | Mosher, Catharine | f | AfAm | Exchange Hotel | domestic | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Mullen, Patrick | m | AfAm? | Second Ward | mason | 1855 Cen.; age 20; b. Ireland |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm. Comm. ? |
Syracuse | Mumford, Samuel | m | AfAm | 46 Gazelle | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Myers, Charles | m | AfAm | 64 Pearl | last maker | 1846, 1851 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. Of
land," 1846; 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Myers, Charles | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 141/141 | 1855 Cen.; age 47; b. Montg. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Myers, Emma | f | AfAm | Seventh Ward, 358/440 | 1855 Cen.; age 23; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Myers, James | m | AfAm | Seventh Ward, 358/440 | none | 1855 Cen.; age 21; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Nelson, Eliza | f | AfAm | Seventh Ward, 22/33-owned land | 1855 Cen.; age 42; b. Kings |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Nelson, Mrs. Tabby W. | f | AfAm | boards 141 Montgomery | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Nelson, Nathan | m | AfAm | Brintnall's Hotel,
house 141 Montgomery |
porter | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Nye, Gen. James W. | m | EurAm | Madison County (h),
1 Wieting Block (w) |
attorney partner Forbes |
1851 | JR-counsel | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Oakwood Cemetery | burial site of many FT people | |||||||
Syracuse | Onondaga Historical Assn. | Montgomery St. | interpretive site | ||||||
Syracuse | Orcott, D.A.. | m | unkn | 1850 | protest meetng | Nat Archves | background | ||
Syracuse | Ormsby, Lucius J. | m | unkn | 1857, 1859 | fugitive aid | Standard, 4/23/50; 4/28/57. |
site, background | ||
Syracuse | Park Church | State and Fayette | 1847- | moderate AS church | |||||
Syracuse | Parsons, James | m | unkn | 1851 | JR-conspirator | Sperry, etc. | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Patterson, William | m | AfAm | E. Water | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Pease, Dr. R.W. | m | unkn | 2 Granger Block &
Syr. Medical School |
Physician | 1851 | JR-conspirator | Sperry, etc.; Standard, 11/25/51 |
site, background |
Syracuse | Pellet, Sarah | f | unkn | 1854 | with S.J. May, spoke against recapture of Anthony Burns in Boston |
Standard, 6/12/54 |
site, background | ||
Syracuse | Peters, John | m | AfAm | 42 Ash | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Phelps, D.P. | m | unkn | 11/20/1951 | convention opposed
to fugitive Slave Law |
Standard, 11/25/51 |
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Syracuse | Phillips, Choneig? | m | AfAm | Second Ward | com. labor | 1855 Cen.; age 29; b.Wayne |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Pinney, Rev. | m | unkn | City Hall | minister, offered
prayer at convention |
11/20/1951 | convention of
citizens' opposed to fugitive Slave Law |
Standard, 11/25/51 |
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Syracuse | Plymouth Church | Onondaga and Warren | AS church | ||||||
Syracuse | Porter, Stephen | m | unkn | 15 Mechanic/4 James | butcher | 1851 | JR-indicted | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Potter, Doctor | m | unkn | 1851 | JR-went ahead of J.
to Oneida Bridge |
Loguen | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Powell Archibald C. | m | EurAm | 1850 | VP protest meetng | Nat Archves | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Powell, Harriet | f | AfAm | Syracuse House, S.
Salina and E. Genesee (w) |
1839 | fugitive | Davis, etc. | background | |
Syracuse | Prebyterian Church | 1849-S. Salina and
Warren; 1854-S. Salina schoolhouse; 1861-2517 S. Salina |
1849 ff | AS church | Herald-Journal, 10/2/99 |
site, background | |||
Syracuse | Prendergast, Edward R | m | EurAm | bds @ Tremont; 7 W. Warren (w) |
Commander | 1851 | JR | ||
Syracuse | Pryne, A.L. Rev. | m | minister | 1859 | Jerry Rescue celeb., 1859 |
Douglass' Monthly, 10/59 |
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Syracuse | Putnam, George | m | 1859 | Jerry Rescue celeb., 1859 |
Douglass' Monthly, 10/59 |
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Syracuse | Putnam, Hiram | m | unkn | Bds.
Globe Hotel, 101 James; Office 5, Townsend Block (w) |
1845, 1850, 1851 |
AS meeting, 1845;
protest meeting; JR-Vigilance Committee |
Loucks, 28Nat Archves; Standard, 10/7/50, Sperry, etc. |
site, background | |
Syracuse | Quincy, John | m | AfAm | Star Place | cook | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Randall | m | AfAm | 1851 | smashed door, JR | Ch. Merrick (Siebert ms) |
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Syracuse | Randall, Edmund | m | AfAm | Linden, near Adams | wood sawyeer |
1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Randall, Eliza | f | AfAm | corner Montgomery and Adams | domestic | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Ray, Marianty | f | AfAm | Second Ward, 215/366 | 1855 Cen.; age 48; b. Onon |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Ray, Nelson | m | AfAm | Second Ward, 215/366 | carpenter | 1855 Cen.; age 21; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Ray, Samuel | m | AfAm | Second Ward, 215/366 | carpenter | 1855 Cen.; age 48; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Ray, Samuel | m | AfAm | 8 Division. Also Salina | carpenter | 1846, 1851 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. Of
land," 1846; 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Raymond, Rev. R.R. | m | unkn | 105 N. Salina; 195 James | Minister Editor, Evening Chronicle |
1850, 1851 | JR-Vigilance Committee | Standard, 10/7/50, Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Raynor Henry | m | EurAm | 5/1850 | protest meetng | Nat Archves | background | ||
Syracuse | Reed, Enoch | m | AfAm | 246 Lodi | 1851 | JR-indicted | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Syracuse | Reed, Enoch | m | AfAm | 246 Lodi | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Reed, Isaac | m | AfAm | house rear 150 Montgomery | shoemaker | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Reed, Peter | m | AfAm | 1851 | JR helper | Loguen | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Rhoades H | m | unkn | 5/1850 | protest meetng | Nat Archves | background | ||
Syracuse | Robbins, Ann | f | AfAm | Seventh Ward, 358/440 | 1855 Cen.; age 26; b. Chenango |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Robbins, Morris B. | m | AfAm | Seventh Ward, 358/440 | none | 1855 Cen.; age 40; b. Chenango |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Robbins, Mrs. Mahala | f | AfAm | 1851 | JR-helped remove shackl | Sperry, etc. | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Robinson, Mary | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward,
148/168 owned land |
laundress | 1855 Cen.; age 39; b. Schenec. |
1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Ross dge | m | EurAm | "late of Cortland Conty" | 5/1850 | protest meetng | Nat Archves | background | |
Syracuse | Sabine, Joseph F. | m | EurAm | bds. Syracuse Hse,
S. Salina & E. Genesee; 2 & 5 Townsend Block (w) |
attorney, U.S. Commissr |
1851 | JR-commissioner | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Sabine, Mrs. Joseph F. | f | EurAm | bs. Syracuse House, S. Salina & E. Genesee | 1851 | JR-conspirator | Sperry, etc. | ˙˜∫ | |
Syracuse | Sabine, William | m | EurAm | Onondaga Hollow, Seneca Turnpike | farmer | 1840s-50s | abolitionist rally, Liberty Pty | Sabine file, O | WERM a9/"WEN |
Syracuse | Salisbury, L.H. | m | unkn | Recess basement, 5
S. Warren; 237 E. Water |
grocer | 1851 | JR-indicted | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Sammons, T. | m | unkn | City Hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Sanford, Joseph | m | AfAm | 1846 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist of land," 1846 | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Scroggins, George | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 40/50 | blacksmith | 1855 Cen.; age 25; b. Canada |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | AfAm fugitive? |
Syracuse | Sedgwick, Charles B. | m | EurAm | 114 James/5 Hanover Arcade | attorney | 1848, 1850, 1851 |
Free Soil
convention, 1848; Vigilance Committee; JR-counsel |
Loucks, 34; Standard, 10/7/50; Siebert micro; Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Shelton | m | EurAm | attorney | 1851 | JR-counsel | NYTimes, 10/4/51 | ||
Syracuse | Sidney, Martha | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 108/108 | 1855 Cen.; age 36; b. Canada |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker | |
Syracuse | Sidney, William | m | AfAm | 179 E. Washington | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Sidney, William | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward,
108/108 owned land |
whitewasher | 1855 Cen.; age 35; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Simmons, H. | f | AfAm | 26 Burnett | domestic | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Simmons, Henry | m | AfAm | 1853 | rec'd land from Gerrit Smit | Smith, "Dist. of land" |
Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Simon, Soloman | m | AfAm | Second Ward, 356/473 | barber | 1855 Cen.; age 38; b. Cayuga |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Simons, Oliver | m | AfAm | Second Ward | com. labor | 1855 Cen.; age 29; b. Albany |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm. Comm. |
Syracuse | Smith, A.S. | m | unkn | City Hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Smith, Phoebe | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 187/187 | 1855 Cen.; age 25; b. Ont. Co. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Smith, V.W. (Vivus) | m | unkn | 92 Onondaga (work) | editor; sec., Syr-Utica RR |
1850, 1851 | Fugitive Slave Law
mtg.; protest meetng; JR-Vigilance Committee |
Nat Archves Standard, 10/1/50, 10/7/50, Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Smith, William | m | AfAm | 1859 | "a bad man" | Sernett, 49 | |||
Syracuse | Smith, William | m | AfAm | 1846 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of land," 1846 | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Snider, Charlotte | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 220/253 | 1855 Cen.; age 32; b. Herkimer |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Snow, P.H. | unk. | unkn | 1851 | JR-convention | Sperry, etc. | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Soule, E.L. | m | unkn | City Hall | President, convention |
11/20/1951 | convention of
citizens' opposed to fugitive Slave Law |
Standard, 11/25/51 |
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Syracuse | Spencer Thomas | m | EurAm | 5/1850 | VP-protest meetng | Nat Archves | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Stevens, W? | f | AfAm | Second Ward, 202/340 | 1855 Cen.; age 65; b. Mass. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Stewart, Harvey | m | EurAm | City Hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Stiles, Ezra | m | 1843 | Liberty Party
candidate for coronoer |
Loucks, 14 | ||||
Syracuse | Storum, Maranda | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward,
279/285 (Caroline Loguen's sister) |
1855 Cen.; age 30; b. Chautauqua |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Strieby, Rev. Michael | m | EurAm | Syracuse | minister, Plymouth
Cong. Ch., 1853 |
1853-64 | helped org.
Plymouth Cong., 1853; Jerry Rescue celeb., 1859 |
Herald American,
2/8/98; Douglass' Monthly, 10/59 |
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Syracuse | Summers, Moses | m | unkn | 90 Willow | owner and ed, Syr. Standard |
1851 | JR-indicted | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Syracuse House site | SE corner Salina and Water St. (now Onbank) | 1827, 1839 | celebration of end
of slavery in NYS, 1827; Harriet Powell escape, 1839 |
Herald- Journal, 2/1/98 |
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Syracuse | Tappan (Jackson?), Pri | m | AfAm | Second Ward, 202/340 | maren- doster? |
1855 Cen.; age 44; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Teall, Oliver | m | EurAm | 77 E. Fayette | Pres., Onon. Co.
Bank; Dir., Syr-Utica RR |
1845, 1850, 1851 |
AS meeting, 1845; VP protest meetng; JR-convention |
Loucks, 23; Nat Archves; Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Teetan? Canulan? | f | AfAm | Second Ward, 496/675 | 1855 Cen.; age 26; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Thomas, John | m | unkn | bds. 39 W. Genesee
(h); Townsend Bl. (w) |
Ed., Carson League;
Liberty Party Paper, 1849-51; Frederick Douglass's Paper, 1851- |
1840s ff | assisted Loguen,
1840s; Liberty Party paper editor, 1849-51; Fugitive Slave Law mtg.,
10/50; JR-Vigilance Committee; Chair, Jerry Rescue Comm.,1857; resolutions 1859 |
Loguen, 380ff, Standard, 10/1/50, 10/7/50, Sperry, etc., Douglass' Monthly, 10/59 |
site, background |
Syracuse | Thompson, Diantha | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 43/53 | 1855 Cen.; age 52; b. Albany |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm. Comm. | |
Syracuse | Thompson, George | m | EurAm | spoke at
anti-Freedom seeker Slave Law meeting, 1851 |
British AS lecturer |
1851 | AS lecturer | Galpin | site of speech |
Syracuse | Thompson, Isaac | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 53/58 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; 1855 Cen.' age 24; b. Jeff |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Thompson, Nancy Ann | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 53/58 | 1855 Cen.; age 22; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Thompson, Nathaniel | m | AfAm | boards 10 Mulberry | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Thompson, William | m | AfAm? | 158 N. Salina or
bds. 56 Catherine (h); 350 Water or 21 Taylor (w) |
grocer or mason or laborer |
1851 | JR-indicted | ||
Syracuse | Thompson, William | m | AfAm | 158 N. Salina | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Thopson?, Angeline | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 180/213 | 1855 cen.; age 24; b. Madison |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Thopson?, William | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 180/213 | dancing master |
1855 Cen.; age 31; b. Jeff. |
1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Titus, O.W. | unkn | linden, near Adams | lumber and salt, alderman |
1850, 1851 | JR | Standard, 10/14/50, Sperry, etc. |
site, background | |
Syracuse | Townsend Block site | Water St., South of Clinton Square | 1851 | Hearing for Jerry Henry | Sperry, etc. | ||||
Syracuse | Trowbridge, Dr. | m | EurAm | 1854 | "Hunker" who helped fugiti | Standard, 6/5/54 |
site, background | ||
Syracuse | Tucker, J.N.T. | m | unkn | editor | 1844 | edited Liberty Almanac | Loucks, 23 | ||
Syracuse | Unknown | EurAm | Syracuse, SW corner E. Genes | news editor | Way station | oral tradition | event/site | ||
Syracuse | Unknown | Wirtz Grill
(Anchor), NW corner, E. Fayette and Columbus |
Way station | oral tradition | event/site | ||||
Syracuse | Unknown | Valley Drive at
South Avenue farmhouses where people lived in slavery |
oral tradition | ||||||
Syracuse | Unknown | corner South Salina
and Kennedy Frank's Grill, barbershop |
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Syracuse | Van Allen, George | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 667/828 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 29; b. Columbia |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Van Allen, Mary | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 667/828 | 1855 Cen.; age 32; b. Maryland |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker | |
Syracuse | Van Buren, Abraham | m | AfAm | house E. Genesee | cartman | 1846, 1851 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist of
land," 1846; 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Van Buren, J. | m | AfAm | 206 Towing Path, E.C. | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Van Buren, John | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 41/51 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 69; b. Ulster |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Van Buren, Susan | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 41/51 | 1855 Cen.; age 68; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Van Duzen, G. | m | unkn | City Hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Vandenburgh | m | unkn | 5/1850 | protest meetng | Nat Archves | background | ||
Syracuse | Vandenburgh, Col. Orig | m | EurAm | Syracuse, bds.
Globe Hotel, S. Salina & W. Washington; 7 Malcolm Block (w) |
1851 | JR-countermanded orders | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Syracuse | Vashon, George B. | m | AfAm | 29 E. Water,
upstairs, boards E. Water |
attorney | 1851 | Sec., Anti-Fugitive
Slave Law mtg., 1/8/51 |
Relig. Recorder,
1/16/51; 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Vashon, George B. | m. | AfAm | attorney | 1851 | sec., AS meeting, Congregational Church; statement on riots, 12/14/51;convention opposed to fugitive Slave Law |
Standard, 10/16/51, 11/25/51, 12/6/51 |
home, work | |
Syracuse | Waggoner, ? | M | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 183/183 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 56; b. Herkimer |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Waggoner, Hannah | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 183/183 | 1855 Cen.; age 55; b. Ulster |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Waggoner, James | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 183/183 | 1855 Cen.; age 24; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Waggoner, John | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 183/183 | 1855 Cen.; age 24; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Waggoner, Maryan | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 183/183 | 1855 Cen.; age 29; b. Oneida |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Waggoner, Sarah | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 183/183 | 1855 Cen.; age 23; b. Onon |
AfAm comm. | |||
Syracuse | Wagner, John Jr. | m | AfAm | 1847 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of land," 1847 | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Wagoner, James | m | AfAm | Third Ward, 203/289 | servant | 1855 Cen.; age 56; b. Schoharie |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Walker, Jacob | m | AfAm | 224 E. Water | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Wall, C.W. | m | unkn | 11/20/1951 | convention opposed
to fugitive Slave Law |
Standard, 11/25/51 |
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Syracuse | Walsh, Paulina M. | f | AfAm | Second Ward, 458/616 | 1855 Cen.; age 23; b. Onon |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Wandall, Edward | m | AfAm | 1/21/1909 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of land," 1847 | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Wandell, Richard | m | AfAm | 1/21/1909 | rec'd land from Gerrit Smith | Smith, "Dist. of land" | Freedom seeker? site, background |
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Syracuse | Ward, Rev. Samual R. | m | AfAm | Cong. minister, AS
lecturer, editor True American, Impartial Citizen |
1851 | JR-conspirator, fugitive from Maryland, Vice-Pres. Cand., 1850 |
Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Syracuse | Washburn, R.W. | m | unkn | Business Committee | 11/20/1951 | convention opposed to fugitive Slave Law | Standard, 11/25/51 |
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Syracuse | Washington, George | m | AfAm | "preacher" | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith, 1847 |
Smith, "Dist. of land," 1847 | Freedom seeker | ||
Syracuse | Washington, John | m | AfAm | Lodi? | Rec'd land in Hamilton Co. from Gerrit Smith, 1846 | Smith, "Dist. of land," 1846 | Freedom seeker? site, background |
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Syracuse | Watkins, (Harriet?) | f | AfAm | bds. 17 Mechanic
(Stephen Porter's res.) |
seamstress | 1851 | JR-dressed J. in women's | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Watkins, Rachael | f | AfAm | Irving, north E. Fayette | laundress | 1851 | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Watkins, Susan | f | AfAm | Irving St. | 1851 | JR-dressed J. in women's | Sperry, etc. | site, background | |
Syracuse | Watson, Charles | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 180/214 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 22; ab. Delaware |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | Watson, John | m | AfAm | 37 S. Warren | ostler | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Watson, Susan | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 180/214 | 1855 Cen.; age 25; b. Onon |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Weaver, Julia | f | AfAm | Seventh Ward,
378/466 owned land |
1855 Cen.; age 37; b. Albany |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Wells, Anna | f | AfAm | Second Ward, 356/47w | 1855 Cen.; age 35; b. NJ |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm Comm. | |
Syracuse | Wells, Frank | m | AfAm | Second Ward, 356/472 | carman | 1855 Cen.; age 60; b. Miss. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Wells, Miss Mary Ann | f | AfAm | boards 293 E. Genesee | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker | |
Syracuse | Wendell, Edward | f | AfAm | house 196 East Water | cartman | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Wendell, Richard | m | AfAm | house 54 Ash | cartman | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Wesleyan Methodist Church | 304 E. Onondaga and Jefferson built 1847 | 1847- | AS church, face carvings | Loguen, 363, etc. | ||||
Syracuse | Wheaton, Charles A. | m | EurAm | S. Salina and W.
Water (h); 106 E. Genesee (w) |
hardware | 1843, 1845, 1850, 1851 |
Liberty Party
candidate for county clerk; AS meeting, 1845;
protest meetings, 5/50 and 10/10; Vigilance Comm., JR-conspirator; convention opposed to Freedom Slave Law |
Loucks, 14, 27; Nat. Archives; Standard, 10/1/50, 10/7/0 Sperry, etc.; Standard, 11/25/51 |
site, background |
Syracuse | Wheaton, Horace | m | EurAm | 112 S. Salina (corner W. Water) (h) |
hardware | 1850, 1851 | VP protest meetng; JR-convention |
Nat Archves; Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Whipple, Arabella? | f | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 218/218 | 1855 Cen.; age 24; b. Virginia |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker | |
Syracuse | Whipple, Edward | m | AfAm | Third Ward, 202/288 owner of land |
1855 Cen.; age 26; b. Va |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Whipple, Edward | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward,
218/218 owned land |
laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 25; b. Virginia |
Freedom seeker? | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | White, Hamilton | m | EurAm | E. Genesee and Grape (h) | cashier, Onon. Co. Bank |
1851 | JR-counsel | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | White, Horace | m | EurAm | 57 E. Fayette (h) | Pres. RR; attorney; cashier Syracuse Bank |
1845, 1850 1851 |
AS meeting, 1845;
VP protest meetng; JR-counsel; gave rr passes to fugitives |
Loucks, 27; Ch. Merrick and A.D. White (Siebert ms.); Nat
Archves; Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | White, Thomas G. | m | unkn | City Hall | 10/1850, 1851, 1853 |
Fugitive Slave Law
mtg., JR-speaker; raised money |
Standard, 10/1/50;Syr. Journal, Sperry, etc. |
site, background | |
Syracuse | Whitney, C.S. | m | unkn | City Hall | 10/1850 | Fugitive Slave Law mtg. | Standard, 10/1/50 |
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Syracuse | Wilkinson, John | m | EurAm | 96 Foot (h), 16 S. Salina (w) | Pres., Syr & Utica RR |
1850, 1851 | Protest meetng; Vigilance Comm., JR-convention |
Nat Archves; Standard, 10/7/50, Sperry, etc. |
site, background |
Syracuse | Willard, Irena | f | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 42/52 | 1855 Cen.; age 61; b. Orange |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Syracuse | Willard, John | m | AfAm | Fourth Ward, 42/52 | laborer | 1855 Cen.; age 46; b. NYC |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Williams, Cordy | m | AfAm | 7 Church | ostler | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Williams, Corodon? | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward,
279/285 (lives with Loguens) |
painter | 1855 Cen.; age 46; b. NYC |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | Freedom Seeker |
Syracuse | Williams, Corydon A. | m | AfAm | 1847 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of land," 1847 |
Freedom seeker? site, background |
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Syracuse | Williams, John | m | unkn | 1851 | JR-Vigilance Committee | Sperry, etc. | site, background | ||
Syracuse | Williams, John | m | AfAm | 1846 | Rec'd land in
Franklin Co. from Gerrit Smith |
Smith, "Dist. of land," 1846 |
Freedom seeker? site, background |
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Syracuse | Williston, C.F. | m | EurAm | cabinet maker, mayor of Syr. |
1840s-50s | JR-Jerry worked in shop | Sperry, etc. | site of cabinet sh | |
Syracuse | Willson, Lewis | m | AfAm | 180 Montgomery | laborer | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Wilson, George | m | AfAm | Second Ward | ? Trainer? | 1855 Cen.; age 28; b. Oswego |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Winner, David | m | AfAm | Eighth Ward, 187/187 | whitewasher | 1855 Cen.; age 60; b. Penn. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. |
Syracuse | Woodruff, John | m | unkn | Bear & N. Salina | boarding house owner |
1851 | JR-convention | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Syracuse | Wright, Josiah | m | unkn | 1843 | Liberty Party
candidate for Assembly |
Loucks, 14 | |||
Syracuse | Clark, George W. | m | EurAm | "singer for liberty" | Ch. Merrick, e | site, background | |||
Syracuse | Foster, John | m | AfAm | 16 Irving | barber | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Syracuse | Highgate, Charles | m | AfAm | 32 S. Warren, house 48 Grape | hairdresser | 1851 | AfAm comm. | 1851 Syr. Directory |
Freedom seeker |
Van Buren | Arnold, Susan Hawley | f | EurAm | Van Buren near Camillus | way station | oral tradition | site, background | ||
Van Buren | Hawley, Benjamin | m | EurAm | Town of Van Buren near Camillus | way station | oral tradition | site, background | ||
Van Buren | Mack, Betsey | f | AfAm? | First election district, 186/186 | 1855 Cen.; age 57; b. Onon. |
AfAm comm. | 1855 Census | AfAm comm. | |
Van Buren | Slater, Thomas | m | AfAm | 1855-6 | pretended to be a fugitive | Rochester Daily Union, 1/28/56 | imposter | ||
Van Buren | Weaver, Lyman A. | m | EurAm | 1855-6 | way station | Rochester Daily Union, 1/28/56 | site, background | ||
Washington Co. |
Gibbs, Leonard | m | EurAm | Washington County | attorney | 1851 | JR-defense counsel | Sperry, etc. | site, background |
Washington, D.C. |
Webster, Daniel | m | EurAm | Syracuse, Courier Building | U.S. Secretary | 1851 | JR-vowed to enforce fugitiv | Sperry, etc. |