Mary Lumcon's Life in Philadelphia

When the girls were done with two years of school in ipswich, they moved to philadelphia with their two eldest brothers. The siblings lived in the home of a woman named harriet barber, who had been an enslaved woman in virginia and was freed by her enslaver when he died. And mary lumpkin would soon join her children in philadelphia in early 18 60 with her youngest son. It's possible that she knew many other people town who had come from richmond or other places,. She also may have known two formerly enslaved women and their children with slave traders who had also been relocated to pennsylvania around the time that she moved there with her family.