STEPHEN ENNETS and wife, MARIA, with three children, whose names were as
follows: HARRIET, aged six years; AMANDA, four years, and a babe (in the
arms of its mother), three months old.
The following letter from Thomas Garrett throws light upon this arrival:
WILMINGTON, 12th mo., 1st, 1860.
RESPECTED FRIEND:--WILLIAM STILL:--I write to let thee know that
Harriet Tubman is again in these parts. She arrived last evening
from one of her trips of mercy to God's poor, bringing two men
with her as far as New Castle. I agreed to pay a man last
evening, to pilot them on their way to Chester county; the wife
of one of the men, with two or three children, was left some
thirty miles below, and I gave Harriet ten dollars, to hire a
man with carriage, to take them to Chester county. She said a
man had offered for that sum, to bring them on. I shall be very
uneasy about them, till I hear they are safe. There is now much
more risk on the road, till they arrive here, than there has
been for several months past, as we find that some poor,
worthless wretches are constantly on the look out on two roads,
that they cannot well avoid more especially with carriage, yet,
as it is Harriet who seems to have had a special angel to guard
her on her journey of mercy, I have hope.
Thy Friend,