Carter, Joah (James)
Carter, Elizabeth
Location: Freehold Township; Sugar Grove Township, Warren County ; Role: UGRR stationmaster
Documentation: Gregory Wilson/Warren County Historical Society, "Underground Railroad Sites in Warren County, PA," 2005, http://www.paundergroundrailroad.com/sites.htm, accessed January 6, 2006.
English-born Joah Carter received fugitives from Corry, Erie County, and Tidioute and hid them on his property until it was safe to send them onward. His home was located between Sugar Grove and Lottsville. He is shown on the 1850 census as a 64-year-old farmer, living with Elizabeth, age 61, also born in England, Joseph, age 21 and Joshua, age 19. Both boys were born in New York.
http://www.afrolumens.org/ugrr/whoswho/cnames.html
Although little is known today about Joah Carter, his work on the local Underground Railroad gained him such notoriety that in a list of communities including Spring Creek and Sugar Grove with stations, his home the only residence mentioned by name. Carter’s property was a stopping ground between Little Africa in Spring Creek Township, and the North Road in Sugar Grove which would take you to the Catlin & Miller farms.
The Carter Farmstead
Appx. one-half mile past Turnpike Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Freehold Twp., Warren Co., PAhttp://www.mysugargrove.com/ugrrsites
It was said of Joah Carter that his abolitionist “prayers were longer than his pocketbook,” but Carter’s name appears regularly as a local abolitionist, so much so that his home appears in early reports of Underground Railroad routes.
http://www.mysugargrove.com/ugrrabolitionists
In 2004, 2005, and 2006 Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania hosted the "Underground Railroad Convention". Actors played the parts of Frederick Douglass,
Soujourner Truth, and Susan B. Anthony, and Joah Carter!
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