Charles Beecher letter to Wilbur Siebert, Mar. 7, 1896

              Georgetown, Mass*
March 7, 96-
W.  Siebert
Dear Sir
* had very little personal knowledge of the Underground railroad.    The only number to which 1 could
give any reply would be  (4)
When I was  in Lane Semiaary-somewhere from 1832-
1834-  (exact dates are gone from me)  x went one night,
dark & cloudy with *rof. C«£» Stowe,  in a covered wagon,
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with a fugitive slave- to the house of (I think) a Mr.
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Grayjj&^in Ohio- but where It was,  * cannot tell.    He
was j^ojaj^t£r_ R.- In this particular
Instance  our mission was a success, & the  girl escaped to
Canada as we afterwards heard.
1 remember to have heard that the man,  Graves,  if
that was  the name,  suffered afterward for his good deeds-
Was  arrested,  convicted,  imprisoned, and impoverished.
But  x cannot  speak with definiteness.    He was  one
of the martyrs of Liberty, whose deeds are written in
the book Johnson in the hand of him that sat on the throne
on which none in heaven or on earth could so much as  look.