NJ Pine Barrens Maritime-Culture-Landscape 1 1 2024

Moses Grandy Landing Maurice River (1843)
Underground Railroad
Baylis was a Delaware Bay schooner captain who assisted
fugitive slaves by removing them from the Virginia coastline
to freedom for a fee. Baylis and the Keziah, his schooner,
were active until his capture in 1858. Baylis was charged
with five counts of kidnapping. At his trial, the prosecution
maintained that the Black passengers were runaway slaves
that paid between $34 to $50 for Baylis to transport them
to New Jersey, a free state.
Although the Underground Railroad is best remembered
as a series of overland routes, the stealthy network also
operated at sea. One of the most important seaborne
route of the Underground Railroad ran from the South,
past Cape Henlopen, up the Delaware Bay and into New
Jersey’s Delaware Bay and River Ports
Rancocas
Pathways
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