| Traveler's Names | John Pinket |
|---|---|
| Age | 27 |
| Description | active turn of mind, tall, fine black color |
| Alias | – |
| Origin- Town/City | New Market |
| Origin- County | Dorchester Co |
| Origin- State | Maryland |
| Destination | Canada |
| Birthplace | – |
| Slaveowner's Name | Mary Brown |
| Chapter Title | Sundry Arrivals, 1864 |
| Page Number | 501-502 |
| 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 |
| Other Conductors | – |
| Additional Names | – |
| Method of Travel | – |
| Additional Resources | – |
| Items in Possession | – |
| Full Narrative | JOHN PINKET and Ansal Cannon took the Underground Rail Road cars at New Market, Dorchester county, Maryland. JOHN was a tall young man, of twenty-seven years of age, of an active turn of mind and of a fine black color. He was the property of Mary Brown, a widow, firmly grounded in the love of Slavery ; believing that a slave had no business to get tired or desire his freedom. She sold one of John's sisters to Georgia, and before John fled, had still in her possession nine head of slaves. She was a member of the Methodist church at East New Market. From certain movements which looked very suspicious in John's eyes, he had been allotted to the Southern Market, he there- fore resolved to look out for a habitation in Canada. He had a first-rate corn-field education, but no book learning. Up to the time of his escape, John had shunned entangling himself with a wife. |
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