sentences:  Despite the legal threats, the Abolitionist movement was strong in Gibson County where many were active in the Underground Railroad, some openly known as Abolitionists such as David Stormont and his wife who maintained a station at their home three miles northwest of Princeton, along with John Carithers who aided runaway slaves at his home east of Princeton, Sarah Merrick, Princeton, was jailed in Gibson County for helping a runaway slave and her children from nearby Henderson, Kentucky, where slavery was legal, escape to free territory after she was unable or unwilling to pay her $500 bail.One individual, a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Thomas B. McCormick, was so well known as an Abolitionist that he fled to Canada after the Kentucky governor requested his extradition.Joseph Hartin, Princeton, politically identified as an Abolitionist.