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1857--Rucker and Chambers Escape
"Rucker's and Chambers' negro men run off" is the title of an article refering to enslaved persons owned by Alfred Chambers and Paschal Rucker. Tax lists show the loss of two enslaved people for Chambers and five for Rucker. Both lived near Woolper Creek.
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1851--Moses Escape
Cited at the November meeting of the Middle Creek Baptist Church by William Huey. He (Moses) "eloped from this part of the country a short time since." He also cited him for "wanting to fight." Huey may have been his slave holder.
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1865--Four Escape from Dinsmore Farm
The freedom seekers were members of the Middle Creek Baptist Church. The September 1865 records, which were reported by S. P. Brady, state that "Lewis, Nancy, Ann and Louisa left state in disorderly manner." Nancy and possibly Lewis and Ann may be from the Dinsmore farm.