if you cant bring all bring Alexander surely, write when you
will come and I will meet you in Albany. Love to you all, from
your loving Husband,

JACOB BLOCKSON.

fare through $12,30 to here.

MR. STILL: SIR:--you will please Envelope this and send it to
John Sheppard Bridgeville P office in Sussex county Delaware,
seal it in black and oblige me, write to her to come to you.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS IN 1859.

SARAH ANN MILLS, Boonsborough; CAROLINE GASSWAY, Mt. Airy; LEVIN HOLDEN,
Laurel; WILLIAM JAMES CONNER, with his wife, child, and four brothers;
JAMES LAZARUS, Delaware; RICHARD WILLIAMS, Richmond, Virginia; SYDNEY
HOPKINS and HENRY WHEELER, Havre de Grace.

Sarah Mills set out for freedom long before she reached womanhood; being
about sixteen years of age. She stated that she had been very cruelly
treated, that she was owned by a man named Joseph O'Neil, "a tax
collector and a very bad man." Under said O'Neil she had been required
to chop wood, curry horses, work in the field like a man, and all one
winter she had been compelled to go barefooted. Three weeks before Sarah
fled, her mistress was called away by death; nevertheless Sarah could
not forget how badly she had been treated by her while living. According
to Sarah's testimony the mistress was no better than her husband. Sarah
came from Boonsborough, near Hagerstown, Md., leaving her mother and
other relatives in that neighborhood.

It was gratifying to know that such bond-women so early got beyond the
control of slave-holders; yet girls of her age from having had no pains
taken for their improvement, appealed loudly for more than common
sympathy and humanity, but rarely ever found it; on the contrary, their
paths were beset with great danger.

Caroline Gassway, after being held to service by Summersett Walters,
until she had reached her twenty-seventh year, was forced, by hard
treatment and the love of freedom, to make an effort for deliverance.
Her appearance at once indicated, although she was just out of the
prison-house, that she possessed more than an ordinary share of courage,
and that she had had a keen insight into the system under which she had
been oppressed. She was of a dark chestnut color, well-formed, with a
large and high forehead, indicative of intellect. She had much to say of
the ways and practices of slave-holders; of the wrongs of the system.
She dwelt especially upon her own situation as a