The North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association is raising funds to save a slice of history.
Our goal is to purchase the former property of Quaker Abolitionist and Underground Railroad Conductor Stephen Keese Smith. See flyer for more information.

Selected Bibliography

  • Boyd, Samuel. "In the Days of Old Glens Falls." Glens Falls, 1927.
  • Brainerd, Aldis Letter to W.H. Siebert, 21 Oct. 1895. "The Underground Railroad in Vermont." Wilbur H. Siebert Collection [microform]. ([Columbus]: Ohio Historical Society), reel 15.
  • Calarco, Tom The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2004.
  • Collison, Gary. Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1998.
  • DeCaro, Louis A. Jr. Fire From the Midst of You. New York and London: New York University Press, 2002.
  • Dr. David Sherwood Kellogg Collection, 70.8, Box 5, Folder 1: Recollections Told by Various Persons, June, 3, 1887: Stephen Keese Smith (Battle of Plattsburgh and the Underground Railroad), Special Collections, Benjamin F. Feinberg Library, State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
  • "Gerrit Smith Anti-Slavery Tour." Albany Patriot 25 June 1845.
  • Hodges, Willis Augustus. Free Man of Color: The Autobiography of Willis Augustus Hodges with an introduction by William B. Gatewood, Jr. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1982.
  • Keese, Samuel. A Memoir of Catharine R. Keese Late of Peru, NY. Comprising Extracts from Her Letters and other Sketches; with Selections From Those Addressed to Her, and the Testimony, of Others Concerning Her, by Her Husband and Friends. New York: James Egbert, 1866.
  • Northup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave. eds. Sue Eakin and Joseph Longsdon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968 reissue of 1853.
  • "Rev. Enos Putnam Sleeps in Churchyard at Johnsburgh," Warrensburgh-Lake George News, 12 Aug. 12, 1962.
  • Sanborn, F.B., ed. The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia, 1884. rpt. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
  • Seaver, Frederick J. Historical Sketches of Franklin County. Albany: Lyon, 1918.
  • Shields, Addie. The John Townsend Addoms Homestead: Including a study of slavery and the Underground Railroad, As It Pertains to Clinton County, NY. Plattsburgh, 1981.
  • "THOMAS." Malone Palladium, 10 May 1895.