Abolitionist Database

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Last Name	First Name	Source	Petition / Town	Office Held / Year	Residence Town
Eastman	Wm. E.	P	H&L	1850	Hopkinton
Eckles	John	P	Lisbon	1845
Eddy	Ebenezer	P	DK	1850	De Kalb
Edmonds	Charlotte	P	Pierrep	1839	Pierrepont
Edsall	Richard	P	Mad	1845	Madrid
Edsall	Samuel	P	Mad	1845	Madrid
Edwards	Perkins	P	NK	1854	Norfolk
Eggleston	B. C.	P	Hopkintn	1850	Hopkinton
Eldred	David	P	Brasher	1839	Brasher
Eldridge	Henry	P	Morristown	1854
Eliot	Robert	P	Lisbon	1845
Elliot		P	St Law Co	1851
Elliot	L. G.	P	Osw / Ogd	1854
Elliott	Adam	P	Mad	1845	Madrid
Ellis	John	P	Mad	1845	Madrid
Ellison	John E.	P	NK	1854	Norfolk
Ellison	Sylvester	P	NK	1854	Norfolk
Ellison	WM jr.	P	CL / s,f	1850	Canton
Ellithorp	Danforth	P	St Law Co	1851	Lawrence
Elms	Walter	P	NK	1854	Norfolk
Emnot	Michael	P	Lisbon	1845	Lisbon
Erwin	Henry A.	P	St Law Co	1851	Lawrence
Erwin	Nancy C.	P	Parishv.	1838	Parishville
	Misc: crossed off Help
Erwin	Nathan	P	Parishv.	1838	Parishville
Erwin	Sturt	P	Lisbon	1845	Lisbon
Estus	Joseph	P	St Law Co	1850
Everest	E. A.	P	NK	1854	Norfolk
Everest	Ethen	P	Pierrep	1839	Pierrepont
Everest	Viney	P	Pierrep	1839	Pierrepont
Everts	Jesse	P	St Law Co	1850	Stockholm
Everts	Martin	P	St Law Co	1850	Stockholm

Records retrieved: 31

Underground Railroad woodcut

Sources

P = petition
I = incorporation (usually church should indicate somewhere in column)
H = Morley WM Church History
HH = Hopkinton Town History
NP = newspaper (should be followed by abbreviation for paper.)
FBR = Free Will Baptist Register
FoM = Friend of Man
St.L.Rp. = St Lawrence Republican

Petition / Town

Should be self explanatory except:

CL = Canton / Lisbon
Nk or NK = Norfolk
HL = Hopkinton / Lawrence

The s stands for signatory as in they signed an abolitionist petition. f is for founder as in they were founding members of an antislavery church; in this case usually the Morley Wesleyan Methodist or the Hopkinton Free Will Baptist church.

Church Affiliation / Antislavery Society Affiliation

FWB = Free Will Baptist +town
FB = Free Will Baptist
WM = Wesleyan Methodist +town
- Ie E Stockholm = East Stockholm, N. Stockholm = North Stockholm, Prpt. = Pierrepont
slass = St Lawrence County Antislavery Society, usually followed by year of record
LP = Liberty Party
Freesoil mt. = Freesoil Democrat meeting
Friends Fr. M. = Friends of Freedom Meeting
LPC = Liberty Party Convention followed by year
LP cand. = Liberty party candidate
FDC = Free Democratic Convention
LP Speaker = Speaker at Liberty party meeting

Office held or year of petition:

Due to space restrictions this column either holds office held by person or year of petition signature. These should be self explanatory I hope.

Residence

I have checked each signature on the 1850 or 1840 US Census. This line shows the town where each signatory resided. Some petitions have signatures from many places. ie. The 1845 petition from Lisbon was signed by William Barnheart of Massena. Some are blank because either there was no person of that name on the census or because there were so many of that name in the county but none from the town of the petition making it impossible to determine who the actual signatory was.

Misc

A space for miscellaneous notes on the person such as years the person served as minister, Office or title, office that individual was a liberty candidate for etc.