Smyrna times., 1884-03-26
Bits of Local History.

N0O1 1llC OI u HlSlG I
the capital of the State of Delaware
was taken out to farm called eth
wildcat" owned by the HUM family
There | beheld one of the most arden
men pennsylvania produced to he'll,
fugitive slaves, and his father befor'
MN ran vessel out of Jones' Creel,
Vne captain of which was black man
anu ne was ordered to stop near tb,
mouth OF the creek on every voyage t,
Fnliadelphia for the purpose of LETTING
escaped slaves get on board. A mill
pond at that spot shows the veritahI,
Lotus Hover of Egypt growing on the
surface ofthe water, and it is said to h,
the only place in America where tb,
Lotus is indigenous or naturalizsd A
lew miles from the same place, at the
village of Camden, lives a colored
woman, Brinkley, and her aged son
VINO were both systematic assi,ters ot
fugitive slaves, and probably have
spirited away hundreds of them.
Mr. HUM, already mentioned. had a
terrific fight at Chester, Penn. with
one of the Mayo family from West
River, Md, who had captured a slave
from his kitchen. This Quaker man
ioughtwith the stakeholder almost with
the fury of a maniac. Another men,
DER OF the same family was indicted at
New Castle for assisting fugitive slaves
In connection with Thomas Garrett
Chief Justice fancy was on the bench
and the father of the present Thomas
Francis Bayard prosecuted the aboli-
tlonlsts. Both of them were fined TO
an amount that completely stripped
tnem OF all their property, but never
theless Mr.. Garrett accumulated
another respectable competence before
lie died, and Mr.. HUM went to Soutb
Carolina during the war and began to
educate the freedmen there.
Near Seaford, Delaware, on the
Maryland boundary line, still stands
IN all Its integrity the famous Kidnap-
pers' Tavern of Patty Cannon and her
son-ln-law, young Johnson, two of the
most remarkable characters who ever
inquired IN the cOntraband slave trade.
ratty Cannon originally lived in farm
mouse a few rods from the same spot.
her hrst son-in-law was hanged for
slave-trader who came to
the house with large amount of
money to buy the free negroes of Della
ware. The widow of the convict then
married Johnson, who was prosecuted
by John NJ. Clayton on behalf of the
quaker Protection Societies of the
North, and whipped at the post. He
Quilt this large hotel, the high pitched
roof OF which contains no dormer win
lows and was used as a prison pen
Which is still to be seen.
Delaware, at the period above named.
several thousand free
negroes, and the price of that kind of
being high it was a regular
BUSINESS to steal these people, assault
hem with clubs, gag and tie them.
'nd sell them to Georgia traders. Pat
y cannon was finally arrested for MUIR
Ter, the bones of different individuals
'elng found in the fields around her
ia dwelling, and the remains of one
nan being identified as missing slave
raider who was shot by Patty and her
ang as ne was going to Laureltown.
ne died from poison, it is believed
'hiIe in Jail at Georgetown, and her
kull and that of her sister, Betty Can
on, and her foster-father, Ebenezer
ohnson, are now to be seen at Fowler
Wells ON Broadway. They were
otalned by the Phrenologist while
in that region thirty or forty
ears ago.
Fatty Cannon is said to have been
he daughter of an English gipsy and
lie discarded son of a nobleman.
'served at the recent sale of H. C.
-urphy's library a book published
any years ago which contains an
'curate description of Patty Cannon's
IN and her methods of kidnapping.
he Harper's are about to publish a :
vel which restores that singular =
'rlod in American social history .
Gorge Alfred TOaCnsend, in NeV York
'ibune. o