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| 504 THE UlfDEBQROUND SAIL ROAD. homely by any means, although not of a fashionable color. He was under the patriarchal protection of a man by the name of William Price, who carried on farming in Cecil county, Maryland. Albert testified that he was a bad man. JOHX GRINAGE was only twenty, a sprightly, active young man, of a brown color. He came from Middle Neck, Cecil county, where he had served under William Flinthatn, a farmer. SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM MARYLAND (1859) AND OTHER PLACES. JAMES ANDY WILKINS, and wife LDCIXDA, with their little boy, CHARLES, CHABLES HENRY GBOSS, A WOMAN* with her TWO CHILDREN—one in her arms—JOHN BROWN, JOHN ROACH, and wife LAMBY, and HENKY SMALLWOOD. The above-named passengers did not all come from the same place, or exactly at the same time; but for the sake of convenience they are thus embraced under a general head. JAMES ANDY WILKINS " gave the slip " to a farmer, by the name of George Biddle, who lived one mile from Cecil, Cecil county, Maryland. While he hated Slavery, he took a favorable view of his master in some respects at least, as he said that he was a " moderate man in talk ;" but "sly in action." His master provided him with two pairs of pantaloons in the summer, and one in the winter, also a winter jacket, no vest, no cap, or hat. James thought the sum total for the entire year's clothing would not amount to more than ten dollars. Sunday clothing he was compelled to procure for himself by working of nights; he made axe handles, mats, etc., of evenings, and caught musk rats on Sunday, and availed himself of their hides to procure means for his most pressing wants. Besides these liberal privileges his master was in the habit of allowing him two whole days every harvest, and at Christmas from twenty-five cents to as high as three dollars and fifty cents, were lavished upon him. Hia master was a bachelor, a man of considerable means, and " kept tolerable good company," and only owned two other slaves, Rachel Ann Dumb-son and John Price. LUCTNDA, the companion of James, was twenty-one years of age, good-looking, well-formed and of a brown color. She spoke of a man named George Ford as her owner. He, however, was said to be of the " moderate class" of slave-holders; Lucioda being the only slave property he possessed, and she came to him through his wife (who was a Methodist). The master was an outsider, so far as the Church was concerned. Once |