I look forward to seeing it when it's made available. Still's book mentioned probably a dozen or more people who escaped from Norfolk.

I'm also documenting or attempting to document little known UGRR operators/operations in Norfolk. I have an ancestor, Norton Reynolds, who was charged in 1839 with aiding in the escape of a slave. I have yet to find anything to support the charge beyond court records. My ancestor was forced to leave Virginia or face the charges. He lived just long enough to see the war end and slavery abolished. That branch of my family never returned to Virginia and I'm attempting to locate Norton's descendants in hopes of finding some thread of the story, if it was indeed true.

I also found an account, dictated by Mark Rennie De Mortie to his wife Cordelia (nee Downing), who claimed he was involved with UGRR activities. After leaving Norfolk in the 1850's, De Mortie moved to Massachusetts, served as a recruiter for and sutler to the 54th Massachusetts regiment, operated a sassafrass oil refinery and became involved in Virginia politics. He married into an elite free family, that of George T. Downing, of Newport, Rhode Island. What fascinates me is that De Mortie claimed to be freeborn, although I've found evidence that suggests he was manumitted in Norfolk.

De Mortie identified Henry Lundy as another UGRR operator. I have yet to find Lundy in any records of the time, but am still searching. Lundy was from Norfolk County, rather than the city. De Mortie did not reveal anything about the operations or routes, only that he worked with Lundy in Norfolk and later, Lewis Hayden in Massachusetts.

I'm sure there were countless others who were not documented in Still's book and that some stories will surface in the future. I've searched through the Norfolk Journal and Guide for such stories, or at least, biographies and obituaries of ex-slaves, in hopes of discovering new stories connected to UGRR activities.