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12. Mary | | | |
Edmondson | | | |
| | | |
13. Joseph | | | |
Edmondson | | | |
m. Alice | | | |
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14. Louisa |1. Annita L. Joy| | |
Rebecca | m. Wm. A. Clark| | |
Edmondson | | | |
m. Gilbert |2. Lula Joy m. | | |
L. Joy | Arthur Brooks | | |
| | | |
|3. Gilbert L. |1. Corelli Dancy | |
| Joy, Jr., m. | Joy | |
| Margaret Jones | | |
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FOOTNOTES:

[1] _The Washington Union_, April 14, 1848.

[2] Daniel Drayton was a native of New Jersey who had spent several years
following the water. He had risen from cook to captain in the
wood-carrying business from the Maurice River to Philadelphia.
Eventually he engaged in coast traffic from Philadelphia southward.
He seemed to have drifted quite naturally from strong humane
impulses, intensified by an old-time spiritual conversion, into a
settled conviction that the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of
man was a reality and that it was his duty to do what he could to
assist those in bondage.

Latterly his voyages had carried him into the Chesapeake Bay and
thence up the Potomac. His first successful effort to assist the
slaves was made on an earlier trip when he agreed to take away a
woman and five children. The husband was already a free man. The
woman had under an agreement with her master more than paid for her
liberty, but when she had asked for a settlement, he had only
answered by threa