Thomas Garrett to James Miller McKim and William Still, November 4, 1856

    Source citation
    William Still, The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), 638.
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    Letter
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    Transcriber
    Zak Rosenberg
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    WILMINGTON, 11th mo., 4th, 1856.

    ESTEEMED FRIENDS, J. Miller McKim and William Still: - Captain F., has arrived here this day, with four able-bodied men. One is an engineer, and has been engaged in sawing lumber, a second, a good house-carpenter, a third a blacksmith, and the fourth a farm hand. They are now five hundred miles from their home in Carolina, and would be glad to get situations, without going far from here. I will keep them till to-morrow. Please inform me whether thee knows of a suitable place in the country where the mechanics can find employment at their trades for the winter; let me hear to-morrow, and oblige your friend, THOMAS GARRETT.

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