For years Norman Schools (current owner of the Moncure Conway House), John Hennessy (chief historian of the Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania National Park), and Al Conner (of the Stafford County Historical Society) have been gathering names of people enslaved who sought freedom.  The following list is constantly changing when new names are discovered.    The photograph is of Evaline Gwinn, from Falmouth, who was enslaved by Conway.

Conway Colony:

• John Berk
• Elizabeth Berk
• Elizabeth S. Berk
• William Berk
• Emma Berk
• Thornton Berk
• William Bray
• Susan Bray
• Hannah Dunnaho
• Cuffee Dunnaho
• Benjamin Grimes
• Hannah Grimes
• Eliza Gwinn
• Dunmore Gwinn
• Alfred Gwinn
• Jacob Gwinn
• Isabel (Isabelle) Gwinn
• Nellie Gwinn
• Evaline Gwinn
• Richard Herod
• Nancy Gwinn
• Herod Elizabeth
• Herod (Herood) James Holmes
• Luthenia Holmes
• Maria “Old Maria” Humstead
• Churchill Humstead
• John Humstead
• Peter Humstead
• Charles Morgan
• Julia Morgan
• Mary Morgan
• Alice Parker
• Clarissie Parker
• James Parker
• Adelaid Parker
• Anna Parker
• David Parker
• Churchill Taylor
• Moncure Taylor
• Francis Francis’s young child
• Francis’s other young child
• Nancy “Aunt Nancy” Williams

[Provided by Norman Schools.]

From Fredericksburg through Stafford:

• John Washington
• Annie E. Gordon
• Washington James
• Washington From Estate of Winter Bray,
• Stafford: Bill (or Billy) Ginnie
• Tom William
• Susan Emanuel Ispic(?)
• Jim Mary
• Muscoe Otway
• Elizabeth Emma
• Laura Mary
• Sam John
• Henry Charles
• William Richards
• Lucy From Estate of Winter Bray,
• Stafford: (continued)
• Henry Thornton
• Ethelbut Braxton
• Sallie Nancy From James Sthreshley Farm,
• “Grafton,” Stafford: Sot Daniel Rose
• John Peter
• George Victoria
• Mary Child, 6 years
• Ned Joseph
• Roberta Lucy
• Tom Susan
• Betsy Candace
• Delia Abby
• Willie Ann
• Delilah Reuben
• Rachel Willis

From Henrietta Fitzhugh Farm, “Boscobel,” Stafford:

• George William
• Lewis Fielding
• Lewis Daphne
• Sylvan Susan
• Mary Barnes
• Phil Ben
• Clomas Jacob Henry
• Harry Daniel

From Henrietta Fitzhugh Farm, “Boscobel,” Stafford: (continued)

• Armstead Yancy
• Tom Lunsford
• Roxy Parker
• Polly Parker
• Nannie William
• Kate,
• Charles,
• Edmund

From J. Horace Lacy Farm, “Chatham,” Stafford:

• Andrew Weaver
• Charles Sprow (Sprout?) Met Federal troops at Catlett’s Station, Fauquier County, and guided them to Falmouth:
• Alfred Peyton Believed from Richmond, Virginia; entered Federal lines in Stafford:
• William Andrew Jackson Escaped into Union lines in Stafford 1862:
• Peter Booker Owned by a “rebel congressman” and worked in Stafford:
• Eliza Gordon