Robert West Speer, an Underground Railroad conductor, whose Covenanter roots were so strong that he named a son Cameron Cargill Speer.
Robert West Speer sequestered people at his farm just west of New Concord and then sent them to his nephew, James Boyd, or to Mitchell Cunningham. . . . Defying caution, Speer kept a pocket notebook in which he recorded the names of seventy-seven people he helped go north between 1842 and 1856.
More can be read about Robert Spear in the book "A People Apart" by Lorle Porter.
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Robert Speer to Sarah Jamison on 23 Feb 1837 in Muskingum County, Ohio
Robert West Speer sequestered people at his farm just west of New Concord and then sent them to his nephew, James Boyd, or to Mitchell Cunningham. . . . Defying caution, Speer kept a pocket notebook in which he recorded the names of seventy-seven people he helped go north between 1842 and 1856.
More can be read about Robert Spear in the book "A People Apart" by Lorle Porter.
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Robert Speer to Sarah Jamison on 23 Feb 1837 in Muskingum County, Ohio
Robert West Speer, an Underground Railroad conductor, whose Covenanter roots were so strong that he named a son Cameron Cargill Speer.
Robert West Speer sequestered people at his farm just west of New Concord and then sent them to his nephew, James Boyd, or to Mitchell Cunningham. . . . Defying caution, Speer kept a pocket notebook in which he recorded the names of seventy-seven people he helped go north between 1842 and 1856.
More can be read about Robert Spear in the book "A People Apart" by Lorle Porter.
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Robert Speer to Sarah Jamison on 23 Feb 1837 in Muskingum County, Ohio
Robert West Speer sequestered people at his farm just west of New Concord and then sent them to his nephew, James Boyd, or to Mitchell Cunningham. . . . Defying caution, Speer kept a pocket notebook in which he recorded the names of seventy-seven people he helped go north between 1842 and 1856.
More can be read about Robert Spear in the book "A People Apart" by Lorle Porter.
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Robert Speer to Sarah Jamison on 23 Feb 1837 in Muskingum County, Ohio
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