[419] Article on "The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Workings," in _Fitchburg Daily Sentinel_, Oct. 31, 1893. [420] Letter of Mr. F. B. Sanborn, Concord, Mass., Feb. 1, 1896, states that "Concord was a place of resort for fugitives." Letter of Mr. S. Shurtleff, South Paris, Me., May 25, 1896, states that "The direct line of the Underground Railroad was from Boston through Vermont, via St. Albans." [421] _Atlantic Monthly_, March, 1897, p. 345; _Fitchburg Daily Sentinel_, Oct. 31, 1893; letter of Mr. Sanborn, Concord, Mass., Feb. 1, 1896. Boston was the starting-point of longer lines running north along the coast; one, so far as can now be made out, turning and passing obliquely across New Hampshire; the other following the shore into Maine. Mr. Simeon Dodge, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, who had intimate knowledge of the first of these courses, gives, in an illustrative case, the names of Marblehead, Salem and Georgetown as stations;[422] and Mr. G. W. Putnam, of Lynn, gives the names of persons harboring slaves at two of these places.[423] A report of the Danvers Historical Society is authority for the statement that Mr. Dodge, together with some of the abolitionists of Salem, maintained a secret thoroughfare to Canada,[424] which passed through Danvers, and on through Concord, New Hampshire.[425] From Concord fugitives were sent north to Canterbury and Meredith Ridge[426] in two known instances, and more frequently, it appears, to Canaan and Lyme. James Furber, who lived in Canaan for several years, is said to have made trips to Lyme about once a fortnight with refugees received by him.[427] From Lyme they may have gone north by way of the Connecticut valley. At Salem the coast route parted company with the New Hampshire route, and ran on through Ipswich, Newburyport and Exeter[428] to Eliot, Maine, and perhaps farther. [422] Letter of Mr. Dodge, March, 1893. [423] Letter of Mr. Putnam, Lynn, Mass., Feb. 14, 1894. [424] _Old Anti-Slavery Days_, p. 150. [425] Letter of David Mead, Davenport, Mass., Nov. 3, 1893. [426] Letter of Judge Mellen Chamberlain, Chelsea, Mass., Feb. 1, 1896. [427] Letter of C. E. Lord, Franklin, Pa., July 6, 1896. [428] Letter of D. L. Brigham, Manchester, Mass., Nov. 16, 1893; letter of Professor Marshall S. Snow, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., April 28, 1896.