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| 512 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD. JOHN was forty years of age, dark, medium size, and another of Lynch's "articles." He left his wife Anna, but no children; it was hard to leave her, but he felt that it would be still harder to live and die under the usage that he had experienced on Lynch's farm. ALFRED was twenty-two years of age; he was of a full dark color, and quite smart. He fled from John Bryant, a farmer. Whether he deserved it or not, Alfred gave him a bad character, at least, with regard to the treatment of his slaves. He left his father and mother, six brothers and sisters. Traveling under doubts and fears with the thought of leaving a large family of his nearest and dearest friends, was far from being a pleasant undertaking with Alfred, yet lie bore up under the trial and arrived in peace. " WILLIAM is twenty-two, black, tall, intelligent, and active," are the words of the record. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1859. ANN MARIA JACKSOX ASD HER SEVEN CHILDREN—MAKY A NX, WILLIAM HEJfRY, FRANCES SABKIXA, 'VnLHELlIINA, JOHX EDWIN, EBEJfEZEK THOMAS, AND WILLIAM ALBERT. The coming of the above named was duly announced by Thomas Garrett: WiLMiSGTos, llth mo., 2Ist, 1858. DEAR FRIENDS—McKiM AND STILL :—I write to inform you that on the 16th of this month, w« passed on four able bodied men to Pennsylvania, and they were followed last night by a woman and her six children, from three or four years of age, up to sixteen years; I believe the whole belonged to the same estate, and they were to have been sold at public sale, I was informed yesterday, but preferred seeking their own master; we had some trouble in getting those last safe along, as they could not travel far on foot, and could not |