Site of Jane and Lawrence Woodfolk's Revere Court Residence

The Woodfolk Residence formerly stood on Revere Street Court at approximately this location.

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Quick Facts

Location:

3 Revere Street Court

Significance:

Home to freedom seeker Jane Johnson

OPEN TO PUBLIC:

No

Following her escape from slavery, Jane Johnson settled in Boston and married Lawrence Woodfolk. They lived in various residences throughout Beacon Hill and the West End. In his account book of the Vigilance Committee of Boston, Francis Jackson recorded a reimbursement to Jane Woodfolk for boarding Virginian freedom seekers George Thompson and Henry Wilson on April 13, 1859, when she lived at this home.¹

Jane Woodfolk boarded two freedom seekers according to Vigilance Committee records.(Credit: Account Book of Francis Jackson, Treasurer The Vigilance Committee of Boston).

Footnotes

1. Katherine E. Flynn, “Jane Johnson, Found! But Is She ‘Hannah Crafts’?” in In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on The Bondwoman’s Narrative, ed. by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins (New York: BasicCivitas Books, 2004), 377-379; Account Book of Francis Jackson, Treasurer The Vigilance Committee of Boston, Dr. Irving H. Bartlett collection, 1830-1880, W. B. Nickerson Cape Cod History Archives, https://archive.org/details/drirvinghbartlet19bart/page/n61/mode/2up.