John dunjee

John William Dunjee (1833 – April 19, 1903) was an American missionary, educator, Baptist minister, publisher, agent of Storer College and founder of Baptist.
John William Dunjee was an American missionary, educator, Baptist minister, publisher, agent of Storer College and founder of Baptist churches across the United States.
Was an American missionary, educator, Baptist minister, and founder of Baptist churches across the United States.

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Burlington

Burlington, John William Dunjee, and the Underground Railroad

Virginia Governor John Mumford Gregory was born in Charles City County, but lived for many years in Richmond. He acquired Burlington in 1860 when he moved back to the county to take up a new job as judge of the Circuit Court. John William Dunjee (1833-1903) was a New Kent slave who was hired out to Judge Gregory. Dunjee escaped and was conveyed by the Underground Rail Road to Canada. Years later he was profiled by abolitionist William Still in a book entitled The Underground Rail Road. Photo courtesy Nancy Phaup.

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Burlington

Burlington, John William Dunjee, and the Underground Railroad

Although Dungy was born in New Kent and was living with Gregory in Richmond when he made his escape, the story about his passage on the Underground Railroad is of particular interest, because so little is known about Charles City slaves who escaped to freedom and because Dunjee came to Charles City to visit the Gregorys at Burlington after the end of the Civil War. Photo courtesy Peggy

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The first African-American student to attend Bates College may have been a president’s son.

John Dunjee, the first African-American student to attend Bates College in Lewiston. William Still’s 1886 Underground Railroad Records

John William Dunjee, who escaped from slavery just before the Civil War, began taking classes in Lewiston in 1866 because it cost less than Oberlin College in Ohio, where he had started his studies.

Bates at the time had just barely become a college, operating under the constant vigilance of Oren Cheney, its abolitionist founder and first president. It was one of the few institutions of higher learning that welcomed African Americans into its classrooms.

At a time when Bates is under fire for doing too little to advance racial justice and equity, it may be a useful reminder of its historic role in racial relations to remember Dunjee, who showed up in Lewiston after the Civil War eager to learn. The college calls him its “first verifiable African American student to enroll.”

Dunjee stayed at Bates for a couple of years before heading to Harper’s Ferr

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John Dunjee

American missionary (1833–1903)

John William Dunjee (also John Dungy or John Dungee) (1833 – April 19, 1903) was an American missionary, educator, Baptist minister, publisher, agent of Storer College and founder of Baptist churches across the United States.

Early life and education

John William Dungy was born into enslavement in New Kent County/Charles City County, Virginia, in 1833 to the Ferrell family. His family asserted that President John Tyler was his father and Dungy's mother was a slave.^[1] John William's absentee owners, the Ferrell family heirs, hired him out to former Virginia governor John Munford Gregory, and while working for Gregory in the winter of 1859 inside the family's house, Dungy learned that the Ferrells were going to take him to Alabama shortly.^[2]

He then decided to make his escape to freedom in Canada through the Underground Railroad with the help of William Still (who later published an account of Dunjee's escape) and others, landing in the port of Philadelphia in February. Dungy arrived on the 15th