C: Theodore Chapin of Buffalo, NY, Erie Canal toll collector ana shipping merchant

John N. Barbour was a surprise! Massachusetts bolitionist and reported Underground Railroad operative. I wonder what brought him NW?

He was likely THIS John Brown, formerly enslaved and self-liberated, who came to the area with Capt. Teague (see further down the list) only a few months prior. They arrived in Copper Harbor July 3, 1846 on the steamer "Independence"

Start on B: Known abolitionist and UGRR participant Capt. Isaac Brayton, associate of Garrison, Tappan, Everett, Mann, "that" John Brown, etc. But, the John Brown three lines beneath him?

Anable was working as a mining surveyor in between college and his first career. (Chi Psi catalog 1941, class of 1846)

Confirmed in A: Cortland W Anable. Later Rev. Anable, J.D. & D.D.

Likely identified in A: James Alexander, a sailor at the Soo in the household of Capt. John G. Parker in 1850, lived out most of his life in Ontonagon. Of a complex ethnoracial background,he was born in Virginia or Canada, and his age wavered a bit, too. www.findagrave.com/memorial/815...

I like to use social as repositories for ongoing projects. Today's obsession: this 1846 list of folks who had mail waiting at Fort Wilkins, Copper Harbor, MI in 1846. Who were they? What brought them there? It's quite a list... Now to figure out how BlueSky works with me.

I spend a lot of my time trying to uncover forgotten histories in Michigan' Upper Peninsula. Some Legos and MTG and cats posts, too. She/her. Lilly for tax. #Unerasing #MichiganHistory #LakeSuperior