Elkton (MD) Cecil Whig, "Negro Stampede," October 31, 1857

   NEGRO STAMPEDE––No less than thirty negroes, left Cambridge, Md., by the underground railroad on Saturday night. Fifteen belonging to Samuel Pattison, Esq., seven belonging to Mrs. Jane Cator; three belonging to Richard Keene; one belonging to W.V. Brannock; one belonging to Reuben E. Philps; one belonging to the estate of Wm. D. Traverse, deceased, and two free negroes. These make forty-four who have left there within three weeks.