According to The History of Guilford County, North Carolina by Sallie W. Stockard in 1902, the Quakers as early as 1772 were discussing slavery and the sin of it; and in 1774 they freed their slaves. They chartered a ship, The Sally Ann, to transport their slaves to Hayti, where they might be free.
Early in the nineteenth century the Quakers participated in organized efforts to protect and restore the freedom of those negroes kidnapped and sold into slavery. Some also participated in the undeground railroad that helped slaves escape to the north.
Needless to say, slaveholders themselves indulged in heavy threats which intimidated many non-slaveholders, including many who had no knowledge of the underground railroad. Though these were innocent, they could not endure the sentiment. They started a migration to the Northwest. Whole counties in Indiana and Ohio were peopled by Guilford County stock and their homes were left vacant. The first emigrants went west by horseback, with pack horses, following the buffalo trails. These animals had come to Guilford to feed on the great peavine pastures in the winter. In the spring they went again to the northward, fording the Buffalo Creek, the Haw River, the Dan River, at the best fords. Buffalo trails and buffalo fords were an advantage to those seeking outlet westward.
About 1830, four hundred families went west from Guilford County. The efficient cause was slavery, the old, old story of the time. It was probably with this group that the young Thomas Hussey, his widowed mother, and two sisters began their migration from North Carolina to the White Lick Monthly Meeting in Morgan County, Indiana.
Whole families and monthly meetings went west from Guilford. Deep River Monthly Meeting, Dover Monthly Meeting, Springfield Monthly Meeting, New Garden Monthly Meeting were impoverished by the constant drain of migration.
The census of 1850 brought out the fact that nearly one-third of the population of Indiana was from North Carolina, while Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas each had a large number of Carolinians.
Birth date: Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Mill Creek Monthly Meetings, Hendrix County, Indiana.
Source: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I. 1832, 5, 30. Back Creek MM - Thomas granted certificate to White Lick MM, Morgan, Ind.
CD#2, Marriages of ... Indiana, indicates Thomas Hussey married Aletha Benbow in Hendricks County, Indiana on 02-Oct-1834.
Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Mill Creek Monthly Meetings, Hendrix County, Indiana.
1849, 8, 11. Thomas and wife Aletha and children Stephen, William, Jesse, John, Lydia, and Jediah received on certificate from White Lick MM. 1850, 7, 13. Thomas and wife Aletha and children Stephen, William, Jesse, John, Lydia and Jediah granted certificate to White Lick MM. 1850, 7, 17. Thomas and wife Aletha and children Stephen, William, Jesse, John, Lydia, and Judiah received on certificate from Mill Creek MM.
1850 Hendricks County, IN census, page 087, family 76, indicates name as Thussey Hussey, age 40, farmer with real estate valued at $3150, born in North Carolina. Aletha and all children except Ann and Rebecca are indicated in the census.
Death: Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Mill Creek Monthly Meetings, Hendrix County, Indiana.
This reference also contains a complete reference to the births of Thomas, Aleatha, and their eight children.

Batch #: 7816509, Sheet #: 85, Source Call #: 1126329
Birth: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I, NC.
Death: Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Mill Creek Monthly Meetings, Hendrix County, Indiana.