[409] Letter of Mr. Robinson, Ferrisburg, Vt., Aug. 19, 1896; letter of Mr. Poland, Montpelier, Vt., April 12, 1897. [410] Letter of Mr. Brainerd, St. Albans, Vt., Oct. 21, 1895. [411] Letters of Mrs. Abijah Keith, Chicago, Ill., March 28, and April 4, 1897; letters of Mr. Poland, April 7 and 12, 1897. [Illustration: CAVES IN SALEM TOWNSHIP, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO. The cave on the left was a rendezvous for fugitives.] [Illustration: HOUSE OF MRS. ELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE, A STATION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, VALLEY FALLS, RHODE ISLAND.] Having thus sketched in the Vermont lines of Underground Railroad, it is necessary for us to return to the consideration of the New Bedford route, which had some accessory lines near its source. One of these had stations at Newport and Providence, managed by Quakers--Jethro and Anne Mitchell with others in the former, and Daniel Mitchell in the latter.[412] Another was a short line through Windham County, in the northeastern part of Connecticut, to Uxbridge, where it joined the main line.[413] The Rev. Samuel J. May, who was a resident of Brooklyn, Connecticut, in the early thirties, had fugitives addressed to his care at that time, and he helped them on to Effingham L. Capron while he lived in Uxbridge, and afterwards when he settled in Worcester.[414] From Boston[415] westward there were at least two paths to reach the New Bedford road, one of these was by way of Newton to Worcester, and the other through Concord to Leominster. Mr. William I. Bowditch generally passed on the fugitives received at his house to Mr. William Jackson, of Newton, thence they were sent by rail to Worcester.[416] Colonel T. W. Higginson writes that fugitives were sometimes sent from Boston to Worcester,[417] while he lived in the latter place, and that he has himself driven them at midnight to the farm of the veteran abolitionists, Stephen and Abby Kelley Foster, in the suburbs of the city.[418] All along the short route, from Boston to Leominster and Fitchburg, stations were systematically arranged, according to the statement of Mrs. Mary E. Crocker,[419] who was one of the helpers at Leominster.[420] This was the route taken by Shadrach, after his rescue in Boston.[421] [412] Letter of James S. Rogers, Chicago, Ill., April 17, 1897. [413] Letters of Joel Fox, Willimantic, Conn., July 30, 1896, and Aug. 3, 1896. [414] _Some Recollections of our Anti-Slavery Conflict_, p. 297. [415] "In Boston there were many places where fugitives were received and taken care of. Every anti-slavery man was ready to protect them, and among these were some families not known to be anti-slavery." James Freeman Clarke, _Anti-Slavery Days_, p. 86. [416] Letter of Mr. Bowditch, Boston, April 5, 1893. [417] Letter of Mr. Higginson, Glimpsewood, Dublin, N.H., July 24, 1896. [418] T. W. Higginson, _Atlantic Monthly_, March, 1897.