“On a hot summer Saturday afternoon some time in the forties eight colored men owned on plantations in the State of Maryland got permission to attend a camp meeting some miles distant the next day. They started that night not for the camp meeting but for the North and freedom. One man backed out when it came to start but the rest pushed forward and reached the north safely. Mason & Dixons line was closely guarded in those days and very few runaway slaves succeeded in getting away. This party however were not missed until Monday and having two nights and a day the start were well up into the State of Pennsylvania before their pursuers were fairly started. One of this number of men who escaped was Lloyd Dorsey who for over forty years has been a resident of this village, and who, though having passed the three-score-and-ten mile post can be seen every day driving ‘old gray’ through the streets as spry as ever.”

Trumansburg Sentinel, July 30, 1890, 2.