Quaker businessman A.B. Farquhar, who played a prominent role in the surrender of York PA during the Civil War, had Maryland roots.
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York County PA was an important first step on the journey for freedom seekers arriving from Maryland and Virginia in the early to mid 1800s.
Amos Griest of the Foustown area of York County PA was a conductor in the covert Underground Railroad in the 1840s and 50s
In the early 1800s, York County, Pennsylvania, played an important role in the growing movement
Jim McClure and I will be co-presenting a talk on the Underground Railroad in York
Jonathan Mifflin was from a long and broad line of Quakers who settled in the
Thomas Jefferson in his first year of his presidency sent a letter thanking several supporters
According to the Library of Congress, the Willis House is the most pretentious and academically
The 1860 Census of Warrington Township shows Quaker farmer George Squibb, his wife Mary, one
Sarah Emma Seifert, Mary (Bell) Squibb, and George Squibb lie side by side in the