Letter from Thomas GARRETT to William STILL (1858), Delaware County, PA Contributed to the PAGenWeb Archives by Robert E. Seeley Copyright 2004. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* On Deposit in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Wilmington, 11th mo. 29th, 1858 Esteem’d Friend, William Still, yesterday week, a colour’d woman and 7 children was taken to my brother Edwards in Upper Darby, I heard she was anxious to get to her brother at Mount Holly, New Jersey, or rather I heard she was anxious to get to him at Woodberry, which is correct I cannot tell, but I think it most likely you have seen her, and can tell where they are. A colour’d man has just come up from Dover on the Carrs, and says the woman’s Master came up in the same Carrs. The man says the Master heard she had gone to her brother at Mount Holly, he had a colour’d man taken up at Dover on suspicion of having aided them. It’s very important that they should be got out of the way as, should she be taken, she may be the means of having several other colour’d persons convicted that assisted her. Do use the necessary means to get them out of the way, and to get her Brother away, as he will be likely to be taken, as I hear that he also is a slave. I have not time to write more at present, thy friend T.G. (Thomas Garrett)