agents of that place.
Samuel W. Mifflin, of Columbia, Pa., v/as an abolitionist by birth and education. » . « His mother was the sister of William Wrignt of Columbia, an agent of the Underground. Railroad from the days of its earliest travel. As far back in his boyhood as he [p.49] can remember Samuel was accustomed to seeing fugitives passed along by different members of his famxlly. When he saw the tall fugitive stride across the yard in women's .nabiliments that reached but to Ms knees he wondered that anyone could think him disguised in such short garments. But when he saw him seated by the side of his aunt on the back seat of a dear¬ born, with all the appearance of a woman, it excited no suspicion or remark other than that "Mrs. Wright was too m,uch of a Quaker to mind riding alongside of a nigger."
When Mr. Mifflin was a boy, a fugitive was hid in a corn field and fed day after day by a cousin who went out with nis gun, and his game bag filled with provisions.
Mifflin's father's death occurred in 1840. Shortly before this he found the parlor occupied by thirteen fugi¬ tives. They belonged to t?fo families brought in from the neighborhood by his elder brother. They were kept during two days and nights of stormy weather, nigh ?/ater prevent¬ ing them fromi crossing the Susquehanna. On the third night they were placed in care of Robert Loney, wno ferried them across to the Columbia shore. [p.50] A slave woman with
