d even if it only be that "well-disposed
citizens" disapprove of her capture and return let her remain free.

[2] Whitney's first patent was 1784. His rights were firmly
established in 1807.

[3] Landon, _Canada's Part in Freeing the Slave_, Ontario Historical
Society, Papers, etc. (1919), quoting Birney's _James G. Birney and
His Times_, p. 435.

Mr. Landon's paper is of great interest and value and I gladly avail
myself of the permission to use it.

[4] A fairly good account of the Underground Railroad will be found in
William Still's _Underground Railroad_, Philadelphia, 1872, in W.H.
Mitchell's _Underground Railway_, London, 1860; in W.H. Siebert's
_Underground Railway_, New York, 1899, and in a number of other works
on Slavery. Considerable space is given the subject in most works on
Slavery.

One branch of it ran from a point on the Ohio River, through Ohio and
Michigan to Detroit; but there were many divagations, many termini,
many stations; Oberlin was one of these. See Dr. A.M. Ross, _Memoirs
of a Reformer_, Toronto, 1893, and _Mich. Hist. Coll._, XVII, p. 248.

[5] The Buxton Mission in the County of Kent is well known. The
Wilberforce Colony in the County of Middlesex was founded by free
Negroes but they had in mind to furnish homes for future refugees. See
Mr. Fred Landon's account of this settlement in the recent (1918)
_Transactions of the London and Middlesex Hist. Soc._, pp. 30-44. For
an earlier account see A. Steward's _Twenty Years a Slave_ (Rochester,
N.Y., 1857).

[6] "The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it
by force." There can be no doubt that the Southern Negro looked upon
Canada as a paradise. I have heard a colored clergyman of high
standing say that of his own personal knowledge dying slaves in the
South not infrequently expressed a hope to meet their friends in
Canada.

[7] _Souvenirs of the Past_, by William Lewis Baby, Windsor, Ontario,
1896. Mr. Baby is a member of an old French-Canadian family of the
highest repute for honor and public service. Charles Baby was the
author's brother. The author lived with him and tells the story of his
own knowledge. The quotations are from Mr. Baby's book.

[8] As was done in the case of Solomon Mosely, spoken of infra, p.

[9] I have not been able to verify other tales of attempted abduction
to my satisfaction, there are, however, several stories which may be
true.

[10] _Canadian Archives Sundries, U. C._, 1819.