years of age, he thought that Palmer had
already had much more of his valuable services than he was entitled to,
and he determined, that if he (the master), ever attempted to capture
him, he would make him remember him the longest day he lived.

William Hughes was an Eastern Shore "piece of property" belonging to
Daniel Cox. William had seen much of the dark doings of Slavery, and his
mind had been thoroughly set against the system. True, he had been but
twenty-two years under the heel of his master, but that was sufficient.

Wesley Williams, on his arrival from Warrick, Maryland, testified that
he had been in the hands of a man known by the name of Jack Jones, from
whom he had received almost daily floggings and scanty food. Jones was
his so-called owner. These continual scourgings stirred the spirit of
freedom in Wesley to that degree, that he was compelled to escape for
his life. He left his mother (a free woman), and one sister in Slavery.

Rosanna Johnson, alias Catharine Beige. The spot that Rosanna looked
upon with most dread and where she had suffered as a slave, under a man
called Doctor Street, was near the Rock of Deer Creek, in Harford
county, Maryland.

In the darkness in which Slavery ordinarily kept the fettered and "free
niggers," it was a considerable length of time ere Rosanna saw how
barbarously she and her race were being wronged and ground down--driven
to do unrequited labor--deprived of an education, obliged to receive the
cuffs, kicks, and curses of old or young, who might happen to claim a
title to them. But when she did see her true condition, she was not
content until she found herself on the Underground Rail Road.

Rosanna was about thirty years of age, of a dark color, medium stature,
and intelligent. She left two brothers and her father behind. The
Committee forwarded her on North. From Albany Rose wrote back to inquire
after particular friends, and to thank those who had aided her--as
follows:

ALBANY, Jan. the 30, 1858.

Mrs. William Still:--i sit don to rite you a fue lines in saying
hav you herd of John Smith or Bengernin Pina i have cent letters
to them but i hav know word from them John Smith was oned by
Doker abe Street Bengermin oned by Mary hawkings i wish to kno
if you kno am if you will let me know as swon as you get this.
My lov to Mis Still i am much oblige for those articales. My
love to mrs george and verry thankful to her R