Quaker, Abigail StantonHer husband, “Benjamin Stanton of Carteret County, North Carolina stated in his will of 1798, “My desire is that all the poor black people that ever belonged to me be entirely free whenever the laws of the land will allow it.”In June 1800 she moved to Ohio with her minor children and the freed slaves to provide a home and secure future for them. She purchased 480 acres of land at New Trenton, later known as Emerson, just outside of Mount Pleasant., in Jefferson Co., Ohio. Many of these former slaves and their descendants, along with the abolitionist citizens of the southwestern corner of Jefferson County, Ohio, were active in the Underground Railroad. Abigail's house no longer stands. Photo: African American Schoolhouse and students, many were descendants of Abigail Stanton's former slaves