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Escaping by boat
Photographer: Internet Archive
Caption: Escaping by boat
Additional Description: John Bowley secreted his family away from Cambridge to Baltimore on a small boat.

This illustration of William Thomas Cope, John Boice Grey, Henry Boice and Isaac White crossing the bay in a skiff, from The Underground Rail Road by William Still 1872, is used here to illustrate the escape of John Bowley and his family.
Submitted: January 29, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p414839
File Size: 1.400 Megabytes

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