January 28, 1842 The Lynn Register comments on the recent seizure and imprisonment of C. T. Torrey, an abolitionist from Mass., while attending a Slaveholders Convention, in Annapolis, MD. The…
Category: <span>Torrey, Charles T.</span>
August 23, 1844 A letter from the Glasgow Emancipation Society, offering sympathy for Torrey, who has been arrested and imprisoned in Baltimore for assisting slaves to escape from their masters…
September 27, 1844 A report of a meeting held in Northampton, in support of Charles T. Torrey, and Jonathan Walker, citizens of Massachusetts. “now pining in southern dungeons, on charge…
May 2, 1845 From the Baltimore correspondent of the Atlas, comes a notice that Torrey, imprisoned, has been sick for a week past, “but is again at work”. He has…
February 27, 1846 From the Boston Daily Star, is a letter Mrs. Torrey has written to the Governor of Maryland, asking for the release of Torrey on grounds of his…
May 15, 1846 A letter signed, “A Baltimorean”, notes the death of Torrey, in the penitentiary hospital, and this becomes a call to the people of Massachusetts to “come out…
May 22, 1846 Notice of the funeral, held at Tremont Temple, with burial at Mt. Auburn, and an evening meeting at Faneuil Hall.