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Note: Owned a large cotton plantation in TN, but moved to Alton, ILsometime after 1832, did not believe in slavery, paid hisworkers.
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Note: Because of grandfather's principles against slavery, he sold hisplantation in Tennessee and mved to Alton, IL that he mightbring up his children in a free state."
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Note: "entirely self sustaining; cotton crops for their own cottonmaterial; flax was grown for their linen; butternut dye forworkmen's clothes; they did their own spinning and weaving;raised their own sugar, etc; smoke houses for smoking and curinghams. The women of the family were particular however, ingetting their clothes from outside, often imported from Boston.John Quigley did not believe in slavery and insisted upon payinghis employees, which caused a good deal of trouble among theslave owners. Finally he gave up his whole plantation and movedto the Free State of Illinois."
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