The Underground Railroad

While researching my grandmother's Hayes line, I came across some interesting information. It seemed too awesome to be true, so I did some further research on the web and it turns out it was correct. My GGGGGGGrandfather, Mordecai Hayes, Sr.'s home was a stop on the underground railroad!

Smedley, R.C., MD.. History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania. Lancaster: 1883.
The book is organized in the order that a slave would reach Pennsylvania and beginning chapters deal with Lancaster County's Underground Railroad stations. Smedley asserts that William Wright of Columbia(?) was among the first to organize the Underground Railroad. Other agents discussed include: Daniel Gibbons (Bird-In-Hand/Enterprise), Thomas Peart, Thomas Whitson (Bart), Lindley Coates (Sadsbury), Dr. Eshelman, James Moore, Caleb C. Hood (Bart), Joseph Smith, Oliver Furness, Joseph Brinton (Salisbury), Joseph Moore (Sadsbury), Samuel Mifflin (Columbia), Joseph Gibbons (Bird-In-Hand), J.K. Eshelman (Strasburg), Jacob Bushong (Bart), Allen Smith (Bart), George Webster (Bart), Thomas Jackson (Northern Lancaster Co. 'In the Forest'), John Russell, Micah Whitson, Henry Carter, Ellwood Brown, Jeremiah Moore (Christiana), Joseph Hood (Bart), Truman Cooper (Sadsbury), James Williams, Joseph Fulton, Mordecai Hayes, Emmor Kimber, and as an alternate route station, Joshua Brinton of Salisbury Township.
LCHS Call Number 973.7115 S637

Green Lawn Farm,673 Harvey's Bridge Road,Embreeville.
Purchased by Mordecai Hayes, Jr. (1780-1847), this property has been in the Hayes family ever since. The little house was built circa 1774 and the big house was built in 1841 by Jacob and Carolien Hayes. Generations of the family have enjoyed summers spent at this pastoral retreat along the west branch of the Brandywine River, as evidenced by anecdotes in the Green Lawn Lyre, printed up periodically by the family since 1910. The home lies within two miles of the British advance on Washington's troops in the Battle of Brandywine (1777) and is a documented stop of the Civil War era "Underground Railroad".