Who's Who in Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad

N Surnames

Naylor, Freeman
Location: West Middletown Borough, Washington County ; Role: UGRR stationmaster, conductor

Documentation: Earle Robert Forrest, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania, 1926, p. 426.

Virginia-born free African American who aided fugitive slaves escape from Wheeling Virginia to West Middletown.  Forrest says that Naylor settled in West Middletown after the war, but the 1850 census shows him there as a 28-year-old laborer with a small family.

 
Nelson, James
Location: Greene Township, Beaver County; Role: UGRR stationmaster and activist

Documentation: J. F. Richard, History of Beaver County, 1888, chapter XXVIII.

A Greene Township farmer who, according to J. F. Richard's county history "aided and sheltered fugitive slaves."



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