But my name is now John Delaney. Direct your letter to John
Delaney Oswego N.Y. care of R. Oliphant.
OSWEGO, Nov. 21st, 1857.
MR. WILLIAM STILL, ESQ. DEAR SIR:--Your letter of the 19th came
duly to hand I am glad to hear that the Underground Rail Road is
doing so well I know those three well that you said come from
alex I broke the ice and it seems as if they are going to keep
the track open, but I had to stand and beg of those two that
started with me to come and even give one of them money and then
he did not want to come. I had a letter from my brother a few
days ago, and he says if he lives and nothing happens to him he
will make a start for the north and there is many others there
that would start now but they are afraid of getting frost
bitten. there was two left alex about five or six weeks ago.
ther names are as follows Lawrence Thornton and Townsend Derrit.
have they been to philadelphia from what I can learn they will
leave alex in mourning next spring in the last letter I got from
my brother he named a good many that wanted to come when he did
and the are all sound men and can be trusted. he reads and
writes his own letters. William Triplet and Thomas Harper passed
through hear last summer from my old home which way did those
three that you spoke of go times are very dull here at present
and I can get nothing to do. but thank God have a good boarding
house and will be sheltered from the weather this winter give my
respects to your family Montgomery sends his also Nothing more
at presant
Yours truly JOHN DELANEY.