Abolitionist Database

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Last Name	First Name	Source	Petition / Town	Church / Anti Slavery Society Affiliation	Office Held / Year	Residence Town
na	E. N.	P	St Law Co		1851
Nale?	Edward	P	Osw / Ogd		1854
Naughton	F. W.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854
Neavill	John	P	Canton / Morley		1845
Neomin?	Retin	P	Osw / Ogd		1854
Nesbit	James	P	NK		1854	Norfolk
Newby	Robert	P	CL / s		1850	Lisbon
Newell	Samuel	NP-FBR		FWB Lawrence	Minister	Lawrence
Newell	Solomon	P	Canton / Morley		1845
Newham?	Orrin	P	Mad		1845	Madrid
Newland	Peabody	P	St Law Co		1851	Lawrence
Newton	Hannah	P	St Law Co		1839	Canton
Newton	Henry	P	Flr		1839	Fowler
Newton	Marshall	P	St Law Co		1839	Canton
Newton	Marshall	P	Potsdam		1838	Canton
Nichols	H.	P	Osw / Ogd		1854	Oswegatchie
Norris	Fredrick P.	P	St Law Co		1851
Norris	Joseph R.	P	St Law Co		1851	Hopkinton
Northrup	Amanda	P	Pierrep		1839	Pierrepont
Northrup	Franklin	P	Pierrep		1839	Pierrepont
Northrup	Franklin	P	Pierrep		1839	Pierrepont
Northrup	H. S.	P	Morristown		1854	Oswegatchie
Northrup	James R.	P	Lisbon		1845	Lisbon
Northrup	Leonard S.	P	Lisbon		1845
Northrup	Wm H	P	CL / s		1850	Morley
Northum	E. A.	P	Morristown		1854	Morristown
Northum	Erastus	P	Morristown		1854	Morristown
Norton	Harvey L.	P	St Law Co		1851	Lawrence
Norway	Abramson	P	Lisbon		1845
Norway	Charles	P	Lisbon		1850	Lisbon
Norway	James	P	Lisbon		1850	Lisbon
Norway	James	P	Lisbon		1845	Lisbon
Noyes	Esther	P	St Law Co		1839

Records retrieved: 33

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.