ous to go, she promised due obedience to the rules; she
was not told, however, how much she would have to pass through on the
way, else, according to her own admission, she never would have come as
she did; her heart would have failed her. But when the goal was gained,
like all others, she soon forgot her sufferings, and rejoiced heartily
at getting out of Slavery, even though her condition had not been so bad
as that of many others.

Sophia Gray, with her son and daughter, Henry and Mary, was from
Portsmouth. The mother was a tall, yellow woman, with well cut features,
about thirty-three years of age, with manners indicative of more than
ordinary intelligence. The son and daughter were between twelve and
fourteen years of age; well-developed for their age, modest, and
finely-formed mulattoes. All the material necessary for a story of great
interest, might have readily been found in the story of the mother and
her children. They were sent with others to New Bedford, Massachusetts.
It was not long after being in New Bedford, before the boy was put to a
trade, and the daughter was sent to Boston, where she had an aunt (a
fugitive), living in the family of the Hon. George S. Hilliard. Mr. and
Mrs. Hilliard were so impressed by Mary's intelligent countenance and
her appearance generally, that they decided that she must have a chance
for an education, and opened their hearts and home to her.

On a visit to Boston, in 1859, the writer found Mary at Mr. Hilliard's,
and in an article written for the "Anti-Slavery Standard," upon the
condition of fugitive slaves in Boston and New Bedford, allusion was
made particularly to her and several others, under this hospitable roof,
in the following paragraph:

"On arriving in Boston, the first persons I had the pleasure to converse
with, were four or five uncommonly interesting Underground Rail Road
passengers, who had only been out of bondage between three and five
years. Their intelligent appearance contradicted the idea that they had
ever been an hour in Slavery, or a mile on an Underground Rail Road. Two
of them were filling trustworthy posts, where they were respected and
well paid for their services. Two others were young people (one two, and
the other three years out of Slavery), a girl of fifteen, and a boy of
twelve, whose interesting appearance induced a noble-hearted
Anti-Slavery lady to receive them into her own family, expressly to
educate them; and thus, almost ever s