Abolitionist Database

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Last Name	First Name	Source	Petition / Town	Church / Anti Slavery Society Affiliation	Office Held / Year	Residence Town
Jackson	H. B.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854
Jackson	John D.	P	Canton / Morley		1845	Madrid
Jackson	M. P.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854
Jackson	R.K.	P	CL / s,f		1850	Canton
Jaquith	Abel	P	Morristown		1854
Jardin	William	P	Mad		1845	Madrid
Jarvis?Purvis	S.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854
Jenkins	Calvin	NP-FBR		FWB Fowler	Minister	Fowler
Jenkins	Elias	I		WME Stockholm	Trustee	Stockholm
Jenkins	Lucy	P	Flr		1839	Fowler
Jenkins	Obadiah	P	Flr		1839	Fowler
Jenkins	Theod.	P	Flr		1839	Fowler
Jenne	Harvey	P	Flr		1839	Fowler
Jenne	Prince	I		FWB Fowler	Trustee	Fowler
Johnson	A. W.	P	Morristown		1854
Johnson	Charles	P	NK		1854	Norfolk
Johnson	Chas. B.	P	DK		1850	De Kalb
Johnson	Clarissa	P	Pierrep		1839	Pierrepont
Johnson	Grant	P	St Law Co		1839	Helena
Johnson	Grant	P	St Law Co		1839	Helena
Johnson	Grant	P	Brasher		1839	Brasher
Johnson	John	I		WM Macomb	Present	Macomb
Johnson	Martha	P	Brasher		1839	Brasher
Johnson	R. E.	I		WM Macomb	Chair	Macomb
Johnson	Robert	P	Morristown		1854	Morristown
Johnson	Susan	P	Brasher		1839	Brasher
Johnson	Thos.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854
Joice	James	P	Mad		1845	Madrid
Jones	Charles	P	Osw / Ogd		1854
Jones	Ervin	P	Potsdam		1838
Jones	H. O.	P	NK		1854	Norfolk
Jones	Joseph	P	St Law Co		1850	Stockholm
Jones	Josiah	P	CL / s,f		1850	Lisbon
Jones	Josiah	P	St Law Co		1839	Lisbon
Jones	Josiah	P	Lisbon		1845	Lisbon
Jones	S.B.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854
Jones	Solomon jr.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854	Oswegatchie
Judd	S F	NP-ERA		FDC 1852	secretary	Ogdensburg
Judd	S. F.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854	Oswegatchie
Judd	Schyler F.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854	Oswegatchie
Judson	Geo.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854	Oswegatchie
Judson	Solomon C.	P	DK		1850	De Kalb
June	Thomas	P	Flr		1839	Fowler

Records retrieved: 43

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.