page_title: Jerry Rescue
section_title: Jerry Rescue building
hierarchical_section_title: Jerry Rescue / Jerry Rescue building
caption_attribution_description: English: Townsend Block in Syracuse, New York in Clinton Square - Jerry Rescue Building - 1897
context_page_description: The Jerry Rescue occurred on October 1, 1851, and involved the public rescue of a fugitive slave who had been arrested the same day in Syracuse, New York, during the anti-slavery Liberty Party's state convention. The escaped slave was William Henry, a 40-year-old cooper from Missouri who called himself "Jerry."
  The plan to rescue him was hatched in the South Warren Street office of Dr. Hiram Hoyt of Syracuse.
context_section_description: The event was commemorated in the 1850s when the Townsend Block was renamed the Jerry Rescue Building, which is no longer standing. The building, constructed in 1829, was located on the south side of Clinton Square, at the corner of Water and Clinton Streets. The event is now commemorated with a monument in Clinton Square, Syracuse.
caption: Townsend Block in Syracuse, New York in Clinton Square - The Jerry Rescue Building constructed in 1843 - Syracuse Herald
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