Small brown leather album of cartes de visites, one tintype and a loose cabinet card. Inscription, written twice, on front pages: "Presented to Charles H. Bushong by his grandfather Henry Bushong". This album contains photographs of members of the family of Henry Bushong and his son, Gilbert Bushong, who were devout Quakers and Abolitionists who aided freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad at their farm in Bart Township, Lancaster County, during the Civil War.
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Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Small brown leather album of cartes de visites, one tintype and a loose cabinet card. Inscription, written twice, on front pages: "Presented to Charles H. Bushong by his grandfather Henry Bushong". This album contains photographs of members of the family of Henry Bushong and his son, Gilbert Bushong, who were devout Quakers and Abolitionists who aided freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad at their farm in Bart Township, Lancaster County, during the Civil War.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Family gathering in the back yard of the Gerhart family, at the corner of Duke and Walnut Streets, Lancaster. Identified in the photograph are: Margaret Jenkins, Ruth Patterson, Tess Howell, Susan Howell, Susan Baumgardner, Mary Gerhart Taylor, Susan Baumgardner, Mary Eberman Hopkins, Elizabeth Howell, Robert Gerhart, Heyward Jenkins, Helen Gerhart, Charles Howell, John Baumgardner, Ellen B. Patterson, Edwin Eberman, Mary B. Eberman, Susan Eberman Reynolds, Howard Smith, Ritchie Jenkins, Thomas Baumgardner, Eliza B. Gerhart, Marguerite Gerhart, Susan Baumgardner Herr, Thomas Baumgardner.
A writ of habeas corpus is a procedure for obtaining a judicial determination of the legality of an individual's custody. This collection includes petitions for writs of habeas corpus and the writs themselves, showing the names of petitioners, persons to be brought to court, nature of dispute or alleged crime, dates of writs and accompanying documents, names of judges, and names of persons that the writs are filed against. Petitioners include indentured servants, Freedom Seekers, free persons of color, convicted prisoners, those awaiting trial, relatives of prisoners, parties in child custody disputes, and relatives of army recruits and draftees.
