Record #132 from Abstracts from William Still's Underground Railroad - Enduring Connections

Traveler's Names	John Hillis
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Origin- Town/City	New Market District
Origin- County	Dorchester
Origin- State	Maryland
Destination	Canada
Birthplace	–
Slaveowner's Name	Mrs. Louisa LeCount
Chapter Title	Sundry Arrivals, 1859
Page Number	500
Other Travelers	John Edward Lee, John Hillis, Charles Ross, James Ryan, William Johnston, Edward Wood, Cornelius Fuller and his wife Harriet, John Pinket, Ansal Cannon, James Brown
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Full Narrative	JOHN HILLIS was a tiller of the ground under a widow lady (Mrs. Louisa Le Count), of the New Market District, Maryland. He signified to the mistress, that he loved to follow the water, and that he would be just as safe on water as on land, and that he was discontented. The widow heard John's plausible story, and saw nothing amiss in it, so she consented that he should work on a schooner. The name of the craft was "Majestic." The hopeful John endeavored to do his utmost to please, and was doubly happy when he learned that the "Majestic" was to make a trip to Philadelphia. On arriving John's eyes were opened to see that he owed Mrs. Le Count nothing, but that she was largely indebted to him for years of unrequited toil ; he could not, therefore, consent to go back to her. He was troubled to think of his poor wife and children, whom he had left in the hands of Mrs. Harriet Dean, three quarters of a mile from New Market ; but it was easier for him to imagine plans by which he could get them off than to incur the hazard of going back to Maryland ; therefore he remained in freedom.

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