le Neck, Cecil county, where he had served under
William Flintham, a farmer.

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SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM MARYLAND (1859)

AND OTHER PLACES.

JAMES ANDY WILKINS, and wife LUCINDA, with their little boy, CHARLES,
CHARLES HENRY GROSS, A WOMAN with her TWO CHILDREN--one in her
arms--JOHN BROWN, JOHN ROACH, and wife LAMBY, and HENRY SMALLWOOD.

The above-named passengers did not all come from the same place, or
exactly at the same time; but for the sake of convenience they are thus
embraced under a general head.

James Andy Wilkins "gave the slip" to a farmer, by the name of George
Biddle, who lived one mile from Cecil, Cecil county, Maryland. While he
hated Slavery, he took a favorable view of his master in some respects
at least, as he said that he was a "moderate man in talk;" but "sly in
action." His master provided him with two pairs of pantaloons in the
summer, and one in the winter, also a winter jacket, no vest, no cap, or
hat. James thought the sum total for the entire year's clothing would
not amount to more than ten dollars. Sunday clothing he was compelled to
procure for himself by working of nights; he made axe handles, mats,
etc., of evenings, and caught musk rats on Sunday, and availed himself
of their hides to procure means for his most pressing wants. Besides
these liberal privileges his master was in the habit of allowing him two
whole days every harvest, and at Christmas from twenty-five cents to as
high as three dollars and fifty cents, were lavished upon him.

His master was a bachelor, a man of considerable means, and "kept
tolerable good company," and only owned two other slaves, Rachel Ann
Dumbson and John Price.

Lucinda, the companion of James, was twenty-one years of age,
good-looking, well-formed and of a brown color. She spoke of a man named
George Ford as her owner. He, however, was said to be of the "moderate
class" of slave-holders; Lucinda being the only slave property he
possessed, and she came to him through his wife (who was a Methodist).
The master was an outsider, so far as the Church was concerned. Once in
a great while Lucinda was allowed to go to church, when she could be
spared from her daily routine of cooking, washing, etc. Twice a week she
was permitted the special favor of seeing her husband. These simple
privations not being of a grave character, no serious fault was found
with them; yet Lucinda was not without a s