Six of these slaves belonged to Samuel Lawrence, a Negro slaveholder, who had purchased himself and family.

White pathetically reports the case of four of the women who had married slave husbands and had twenty children for the possession of whom the Friends had to stand a lawsuit in the courts.

The women had decided to leave their husbands behind but the thought of separation so tormented them that they made an effort to secure their liberty.

Upon appealing to their masters for terms the owners, somewhat moved by compassion, sold them for one half of their value.

White then went West and left four in Chillicothe, twenty-three in Leesburg and twenty-six in Wayne County, Indiana, without encountering any material difficulty.[12] Others had thought of this plan but the Quakers actually carried it out on a small scale.