Jeff Pipkin (b. circa 1810 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-6037
Fled from slavery, Baltimore City, Maryland, 1853
Biography:
“Six very clever-looking passengers, all in one party from Baltimore, Md., [arrived] the first Sunday in April, 1853,” reported William Still in his Underground Railroad (1872). Among these were Jefferson Pipkin, age forty-three, and his wife, Louisa, age thirty-three. The couple ran away from their Baltimore owner, W.B. Muse, on April 3, 1853. Reaching Canada, the Pipkins reportedly appealed to Still for assistance in recovering the children left behind and far-flung by enslavement across the state. Muse put up a two hundred dollar reward for the couple.
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