tening to sell her. The mother and five children
were taken aboard at night and after ten days were safely delivered
at Frenchtown, where the husband was in waiting for them. Memoir of
Daniel Drayton, Congressional Library.

[3] The only punishment meted out to Judson Diggs for his act of betrayal,
so far as is known, was that by a party of young men who, shortly
after the occurrence, took him from his cart and after considerable
rough handling, threw him into the little stream that in those days
and indeed for many years thereafter, took its way along the north
side of the old John Wesley Church, then located at a spot directly
opposite the north corner of the Convent of the Sacred Heart on
Connecticut Avenue, between L and M Streets.

A number of old citizens now living distinctly remember Judson Diggs,
who lived, despised and avoided, until late in the sixties. One of
these is Mr. Jerome A. Johnson of the Treasury Department.

[4] Memoir of Daniel Drayton, Congressional Library.

[5] The case against Drayton and Sayres was prosecuted by Philip Barton
Key, the District Attorney, before Judge Crawford, and on appeal the
prisoners were sentenced to pay a fine of $10,000 and to remain in
jail until the same should be paid.

English was absolved from all criminal responsibility and given his
liberty.

After an imprisonment of more than four years they were pardoned by
President Fillmore, to whom such application had been presented by
Charles Sumner.--Memoir of Daniel Drayton.

The fare at the jail was insufficient and of poor quality and a more
wholesome and generous diet was frequently surreptitiously furnished
by Susannah Ford, a colored woman, who sold lunches in the lobby of
the Court House.

[6] Stowe, "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin."

[7] _The National Era_, April 16, 1848.

[8] Memoir of Daniel Drayton.

[9] John Brent, the husband of Elizabeth, the oldest of the Edmondson
girls, had first bought himself, earning the money chiefly by sawing wood;
had then bought the freedom of his father, Elton Brent, for whom he paid
$800, and finally bought Elizabeth's freedom, after which they were
married. He purchased the ground at the southwest corner of 18th and L
streets, now owned by his heirs, and erected a small frame dwelling. This
was later enlarged and there the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion