 It was only when I got home that I read a letter written in 1843 by a clergyman named William Pettigrew that I found this tidbit. It said, quote, James Newberry and Dick Blunt, a Negro man, took out the children. They had been drowned a half hour when they were taken from the canal, end quote. My great, great, great grandfather, Richard Blunt, had been the enslaved person made to take the children out of the canal.