William "Bill" Bailey (b. 1825 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-8253
Fled from Slavery, Talbot County, Maryland, 1856

Sources:

Still, William. Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coales, Publishers, 1872.

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2004.

"Two Thousand Six Hundred Dollars Reward," Baltimore Sun, 22 November 1856.

Internet Sources

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libaries: Documenting the American South.  "Harriet, the Moses of Her People, Bradford, Sarah H." 

Ancestry.com. 1861 Canada West Census, Wentworth County, p. 35.

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