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Underground Railroad Operatives & Stops on the Underground Railroad

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Bigelow, Ensign, Frink, Hopper and 7 others
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    Horace Ensign (1793 - 1880)
    He was the son of William Ensign and Mary Wadhams. His father, William Ensign, a native of Massachusetts, was a large landowner, and for some time resided at Dalton, Berkshire county, Mass., where he ...
  • Merlin Edward Mead (1794 - 1874)
    Merlin Mead (August 18, 1794 – December 23, 1874) was an Underground Railroad conductor and station master, one of several people from the hamlet of Cadiz within Franklinville, New York that sheltered ...
  • Nelson Frink (1816 - 1875)
    Descendant of Plymouth colony founder John Alden Salamanca, Erie, New York: Long the ancient home of the Seneca Indians. This is an interior town, south of the center of the county. It was erecte...
  • Dennis "Darius" Bigelow (1779 - 1851)
    Austin Bearse, Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston (Boston: Printed by Warren Richardson, 1880), 3. According to Boston City Directories, in 1848 "Dennis Bigelow, Clerk" worked at 2 Un...
  • https://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/u/undergroundrr/ from the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.
    Dr. Hezekiah Joslyn, M.D. (1797 - 1865)
    A founding member of the radical abolitionist Liberty Party. ~• (note: "Many former Liberty leaders subsequently became founders of the Republican Party, including Salmon Chase.) " (1837) Superv...

This project is about documenting the stops, communities and Operatives working anonymously to move slaves north and to freedom in Canada.
It is not to document "Abolitionists" or publicly well known speakers. One of the confusing issues for people new to researching this topic is not understanding that thousands of slaves were bought, particularly by wealthy Quaker familes, and brought north to be smuggled to freedom. Do not confuse someone "owning" lots of slaves with someone buying them to free them which is a particularly egregious error made by poor researchers.

Stops:

Ischua Creek,Catteraugus, New York

"Versailles, Cattaraugus, New York"

        Source:
        https://historicpath.com/article/underground-railroad-stations-eber...

Bibliography:

http://iagenweb.org/history/annals/1903-Apr.htm
Aftermath of the celebrated Daggs Fugitive Slave case of 2 years earlier.
ANNALS OF IOWA
VOL. VI, NO. 2, APRIL 1903

AN IOWA FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE - 1850.

https://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/stampedes/the-1848-daggs-f...
Excellent article on the Daggs Fugitive Slave case

Lots of information on Salem, Iowa, an early Underground Railroad station that seems to have been a hub of Abolitionist activity. Shows various houses with secret hiding places, discusses tunnels, various anecdotes of the Underground Railroad:

Oneida County and Beyond
https://www.oah.org/site/assets/files/10189/508_fost.pdf
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