Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #87 from Abstracts from William Still's Underground Railroad

Traveler's Names Hill Jones
Age 18
Description chestnut color and well grown
Alias
Origin- Town/City Middletown
Origin- County
Origin- State Delaware
Destination Canada
Birthplace
Slaveowner's Name John Cochran
Chapter Title Thomas Clinton, Sauney Pry and Benjamin Duckett
Page Number 382
Other Travelers Elizabeth Lambert with three children; Mary, Horace, and William Henry, Hill Jones
Other Conductors
Additional Names
Method of Travel
Additional Resources
Items in Possession
Full Narrative HILL, JONES, a lad of eighteen, accompanied Elizabeth with her children from Middletown. He had seen enough of Slavery to satisfy him that he could never relish it His owner was known by the name of John Cochran, and followed farming. He was of a chestnut color, and well-grown.

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