Flight to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in New York's Westchester and Dutchess Counties and Beyond

The focus of this book is a rarely mentioned track of the Underground Railroad in New York State reported in a 1939 letter by the son of two of its station masters: Moses Pierce and Esther Carpenter Pierce of Pleasantville, New York. Fortunately, there is published documentation of this track, which started with Esther Pierce’s parents in New Rochelle, continued to Pleasantville, then to the Jay family in Bedford, from there to David Irish on Quaker Hill in Pawling, and possibly on to a rec...