found: MWA/NAIP files(hdg.: Doy, John, b. 1812; note: b. at Hull, England; emigrated to Canada about 1850 and moved from there to Rochester, N.Y.; emigrated to the Kansas Territory in 1854; free-stater and abolitionist; Jan. 1859 while guiding slaves along a portion of the underground railroad, abducted by border ruffians and brought to Missouri; tried on charges of Negro stealing and sentenced to 5 yrs. in prison; rescued from jail in St. Joseph by friends from Kansas and returned to Lawrence; granted a full pardon by Gov. Thomas C. Fletcher of Missouri in 1865)
