But they did not leave the matter therein 1781, Purchase Monthly Meeting, in session at Chappaqua, decided "to appoint a number of solid, judicious Friends as a committee to perform a visit to such Friends who have set their negroes free, and inspect into the circumstances of such negroes and aflford them advice, both with respect to their spiritual and their temporal good, as they may be enabled to do; and endeavor to find what in justice may be due to such negroes as may have spent the prime of their days in the service of their masters." The committee were directed to determine the amount so due, where the late masters were willing to leave it to their judgment. They were also directed to see that provision was made for the proper education of the negro youth. Reports were made from time to time of the progress of this work, until, in 1784, it was recorded that "proper settlements had been made between the Friends who had set their negroes free and the negroes so set free."

Others followed the example set by the Quakers in freeing their slaves, so that, by the end of the century, but few slaves remained in the county. All slaves in the State of New York were made free by law on 4th of July, 1827.

When the Quakers of Purchase liberated their slaves they settled them upon their rough lands in the northwestern portion of the town of Harrison, and thus the negro community', still existing northeast of the village of White Plains, was begun. Some of the slaves liberated in the northern portion of the county collected into a smaller settlement near the village of Bedford. These were the largest colonies of negroes in the county.