| Traveler's Names | Asbury Irwin |
|---|---|
| Age | about 40 |
| Description | dark hue, size and height about mediocrity and mental ability quite above the average |
| Alias | – |
| Origin- Town/City | Chester |
| Origin- County | Kent Co. |
| Origin- State | Maryland |
| Destination | Canada |
| Birthplace | – |
| Slaveowner's Name | Michael Newbold |
| Chapter Title | Arrival from Kent County, Maryland, 1858 |
| Page Number | 485 |
| Other Travelers | Asbury Irwin, Ephraim Ennis, and Lydia Ann Johns |
| Other Conductors | – |
| Additional Names | – |
| Method of Travel | – |
| Additional Resources | – |
| Items in Possession | – |
| Full Narrative | ASBURY was first examined, and his story ran substantially thus : " I run away because I was used bad ; three years ago I was knocked dead with an axe by my master ; the blood run out of my head as if it had been poured out of a tumbler ; you can see the mark plain enough ? look here," (with his finger on the spot). I left Millington, at the head of Chester in Kent County, Maryland, where I had been held by a farmer who called himself Michael Newbold. He was originally from Mount Holly, New Jersey, but had been living in Maryland over twenty years. He was called a Hickory Quaker, and he had a real Quaker for a wife. Before he was in Maryland five years he bought slaves, became a regular slave-holder, got to drinking and racing horses, and was very bad ? treated all hands bad, his wife too, so that she had to leave him and go to Philadelphia to her kinsfolks. It was because he was so bad we all had to leave," &c. While Asbury's story appeared truthful and simple, a portion of it was too shocking to morality and damaging to humanity to be inserted in these pages. Asbury was about forty years of age, a man of dark hue, size and height about mediocrity, and mental ability quite above the average. |
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