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2 unusual facts about Bustill


Bustill

Joseph Cassey Bustill (1822-1895), African American conductor in the Underground Railroad

Charles Hicks Bustill (1816-1890), American, plasterer, abolitionist and conductor in the Underground Railroad


Charles Hicks Bustill

His father David Bustill was born free as the mixed-race son of Elizabeth Morrey (1745-1827) and Cyrus Bustill (1732-1806) (born in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey).

Maria Louisa Bustill

Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings.


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