Documentation: Peggy Jean Townsend and Charles Walker Townsend III, "Milo Adams Townsend and Social Movements of the Nineteenth Century," published by Beaver County History Online, http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/booklengthdocuments/AMilobook/3Bradford.html, accessed 8 October 2006.
Virginia born machinist James Erwin actively aided the active New Brighton (see Townsend, Benjamin) Underground Railroad network. Erwin was one of several New Brighton citizens that submitted a formal protest of the 1850 Fugitive Slave law to their congressmen.
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