Amos and Hannah Mason House - Northeast African American Historic Places Map (sitios de interés)
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Gilbert Mills Road across from Red Schoolhouse Road, Gilbert Mills, New York Site #26 on Driving Tour of the Underground Railroad in Oswego County
About: These African Americans actively supported the Freedom Trail. In December 1839, Hannah’s son, James Watkins Seward, was kidnapped in New Orleans. Oswego County abolitionists Volney successfully lobbied for his release, but in July 1841, he was hung for murder in St. Louis. In his last letter, he wrote that he still held his “Abolitions opinions” and his “Calvinistic beliefs.”