This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YRB.2ACE/42.89.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I found some more interesting info on the Murdocks in Eugene Elmer Barker's book "Crown Point, New York, In the Civil War" published 1961: "Slavery had long been a live and hateful topic in Crown Point and sentiment against it ran strong here. Especially they stood against it being extended into new territories. Charles Franklin Hammond, a leading citizen, wrote in a letter to his John, who had gone overland to California in the goldrush of 1859, 'What a curse slavery is! They have not yet done anything in Congress about slavery in California. The people in California have taken a noble stand for freedom, and we in the North will rejoice in their firmness and will sustain them.' The home of Benjamin Warner, remote on a lonely hill in the western part of town, was reputed to be a 'station' on the so-called Underground Railroad whereby runaway slaves were passed along to Canada and freedom. His gravestone at Buck Hollow bears the epitaph, 'A Revolutionary Soldier and Friend of the Slave.' LESS WELL KNOWN WAS THE PROBABILITY THAT DEACON SAMUEL MURDOCK HARBORED RUNAWAYS IN A SECRET CLOSET IN THE ATTIC OF HIS HOUSE ! CLOSE TO THE SHORE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN, WHENCE THEY COULD BE SENT STEALTHILY ON THEIR WAY BY BOAT TO A SAFE HAVEN IN CANADA." (Page 1-2). I think this is extremely interesting information. Stephanie--do you know anything about the Murdock's involvement in the Underground Railroad? Apparently they were a part of that network. I wonder if the runaway slaves were hidden in the old stone house or perhaps in one of the houses built later.