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1 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUAKER GENEALOGY, QUAKER ABBREVIATIONS b bur cert ch co com con d dec dis dt fam form gc gct gl h jas ltm m mbr mbrp mcd MH MM mos born buried certificate child, children chosen overseer, overseers complained, complained of condemned died deceased disowned, disowned for daughter, daughters family formerly granted certificate granted certificate to granted letter husband joined another society liberated to marry, left at liberty to marry marry, married, marrying, marriage member membership married contrary to discipline Meeting House Monthly Meeting married out of society mou mtg prc prcf QM rec recrq relfc relrq rem rm rmt roc rocf rol rolf rpd rq rqc rqct rqcuc rst s uc w YM married out of unity [faith] meeting produced a certificate produced a certificate from Quarterly Meeting receive, received received by request released from care for released by request remove, removed reported married reported married to received on certificate received on certificate from received on letter received on letter from reported request, requests, requested requested certificate requested certificate to requested to come under care (of meeting) reinstate, reinstated son, sons under care (of meeting) wife Yearly Meeting Page 1 of 23

2 DATE NAME MONTHLY MEETING ACTION VOL PAGE COMMENT Hannah Stanfield w. (1) Thos. Dixon (2) John Stanfield. dt Simon & Ruth Hadley, b in Ireland Cane Creek, NC d aged 73 yrs. 4 mos., bur Cane Creek I 364 Birth & Death Records page 10-D John Stanfield Rachel Stanfield [Stalker] Ch: Samuel Jonathan John Alice Nathan Deep Creek, NC b b b d b b b I 792 Birth & Death Records page 18 David Stanfield Elizabeth Stanfield Ch: William Williams David S. Charles Isaac Samuel Vernon Hannah Jones Lidia Jane Elijah New Hope, TN b b b b b b b b I 1088 Birth & Death Records page 29 Samuel Stanfield Lydia Stanfield, w. New Hope, TN d d I 1088 Birth & Death Records page 25 James Stanfield, s Francis Stanfield & Grace Philadelphia, PA prcf - Chester MM, to m - Mary Hutchinson, dt George, of Burlington II dated 1689/90, 12, 03 Eli Harvey Mary Stanfield m. Ch: William Ann Mary Son Cynthia Springfield, OH b d b d b b b b d b V 572 William Stanfield bur Caesars Creek Caesars Creek, OH b d V 203

3 DATE NAME MONTHLY MEETING Charity Mendenhall bur Caesars Creek Ch: Jane Samuel Jane Mary William bur Caesars Creek Nancy bur Caesars Creek ACTION VOL PAGE COMMENT b d b b b b b d b d , 04, , 04, 27 James Stanfield Mary [Hutchinson] Hutchinson Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, PA ltm - Mary Hutchinson ltm - James Stanfield II II , 04, 06 John Stanfield (with w, Hannah, & ch) Cane Creek, NC rocf - Newark MM, PA I 419 dated 1753, 10, , 04, 2_ John Stanfield, N.C., s John, Pa. Cane Creek, NC m - Phillipinia Jones I , 05, 05 Thomas Stanfield Cane Creek, NC gc I , 12, 28 Samuel Stanfield & w & ch Jane John Samuel New Garden, NC rocf - Uwchland MM, Pa. I 571 dated 1765, 09, , 05, 04 Samuel Stanfield Cane Creek, NC dis mou I , 08, 01 Mary Stanfield, widow Samuel Stanfield John Mendenhall, Guilford Co. New Garden, NC New Garden, NC m - John Mendenhall m - Mary Stanfield [wid of Samuel] I , 12, 27 William Stanfield New Garden, NC rocf - Uwchland MM, Chester, Pa. I 571 dated 1777, 11, , 04, 29 George Stanfield New Garden, NC recrq I , 04, 29 Samuel Stanfield Mary William Lydia Ch William New Garden, NC recrq I , 05, 04 Jane Stanfield, dt. Deep River, NC m - John Brooks I 838 Page 3 of 23

4 DATE NAME MONTHLY MEETING Samuel & Mary, Guilford, Co ACTION VOL PAGE COMMENT 1781, 02, 03 Mary Biddock (form Stanfield) Cane Creek, NC dis mou I , 07, 26 Mary Stanfield New Garden, NC gc I , Mary Stanfield Deep River, NC rocf - New Garden MM I 838 dated 1783, 07, , 01, 03 Samuel Stanfield & William Stanfield 1785, 02, 05 Samuel Stanfield & William Stanfield Deep River, NC gct - Cane Creek MM (rem) I 838 Cane Creek, NC rocf - Deep River MM, NC I 419 dated 1785, 01, , 02, 04 John Stanfield & fam Philpana Stanfield (with h) Cane Creek, NC Cane Creek, NC gct - Deep River MM, NC gct - Deep River MM, NC I I , 11, 06 John Stanfield & w & ch (s:) Thomas Samuel William 1786, 11, 06 Philopena Stanfield & dt Hannah Lydia Philopena Deep River, NC rocf - Cane Creek MM I 838 dated 1786, 02, 04 Deep River, NC rocf - Cane Creek MM I 838 dated 1786, 02, , 02, 03 William Stanfield Cane Creek, NC gct - Deep River MM, NC I , 03, 05 William Stanfield Deep River, NC rocf - Cane Creek MM I 838 dated 1787, 02, , 03, , 03, 04 Mary Stanfield dt William & Deborah, Guilford Co., NC Eli Harvey, s William & Elizabeth, Orange Co., NC Deep River, NC m - Eli Harvey m - Mary Stanfield I I , 06, 26 Thomas Stanfield New Garden, NC Cert rec from New Garden MM, Pa. - endorsed to Westfield MM I 571 dated 1789, 07, , 01, 13 John Stanfield, s. Deep River, NC m - Rachel Stalker I 838

5 DATE NAME MONTHLY ACTION VOL PAGE COMMENT MEETING 1791, 01, 13 Samuel & Mary, Guilford Co., NC Rachel Stalker, dt George & Sarah, Guilford Co., NC Deep River, NC m - John Stanfield , 10, 22 Thomas Stanfield Westfield, NC rocf - New Garden MM, Pa. endorsed by New Garden MM, NC I 969 dated , 11, 07 Hannah Cain (form Stanfield) Deep River, NC dis mos I , 11, 07 Rebekah Cain (form Stanfield) Deep River, NC dis mos I , 11, 07 Hannah Cane (Cain) (form Stanfield) Deep River, NC dis mos I 803 Cane 1791, 11, 07 Rebekah Cane (Cain) (form Stanfield) Deep River, NC dis mos I , 01, 02 William Stanfield Deep River, NC gct - Springfield MM, to m. I , 01, 25 Charity Mendenhall, dt Richard Mendenhall, dec & Jane, Guilford Co. 1792, 01, 25 William Stanfield, s Samuel, dec & Mary, Guilford Co. Springfield, OH m - William Stanfield I 891 Springfield, OH m - Charity Mendenhall I , 05, 05 Charity Stanfield Springfield, OH gct - Deep River MM I , 05, 07 Charity (Stanfield) Deep River, NC rocf - Springfield MM I 838 dated 1792, 05, , 09, 03 Thomas Stanfield, of Deep Creek Deep River, NC dis mou I , 10, 09 Lydia Stanfield, dt William & Deborah, Guilford Co. New Garden, NC m - Jehu Hiatt I , 01, 03 Samuel Stanfield Cane Creek, NC gct - Deep River MM, NC I , 03, 02 Samuel Stanfield Deep River, NC rocf - Cane Creek MM, NC I 838 dated 1795, 01,03 Samuel Stanfield, Guilford Co., s. Page 5 of 23

6 DATE NAME MONTHLY MEETING ACTION VOL PAGE COMMENT 1795, 09, 10 Samuel & Mary Deep River, NC m. - Grace Stalker I , 04, 01 Samuel Stanfield Deep Creek, NC dis mou I , 12, 30 George Stanfield New Garden, NC gct - Spring MM I , 12, 07 Samuel Stanfield Cane Creek, NC con - misconduct for which he was dis I , 12, 07 Samuel Stanfield Cane Creek, NC gct - New Hope, MM, [Tenn.] I , 12, 28 Samuel Stanfield New Hope, TN rocf - Cane Creek MM, NC I 1098 dated 1799, 12, , 03, 29 Thomas Stanfield Samuel Stanfield William Stanfield David Stanfield Nathan Stanfield New Hope, TN recrq of father, Samuel I , 08, 29 William Stanfield, Jr. New Garden, NC rpd rem to Lost Creek MM I , 10, 24 William (Stanfield), Jr., mbr of New Garden MM Lost Creek, TN com by that mtg I , 10, 29 Thomas Stanfield New Hope, TN com for attending a mcd I , 03, 31 William Stanfield Jr. Lost Creek, TN rpd rem to Maryville I , 07, 02 William Stanfield & fam Deep River, NC gct - Miamma MM, Ohio I , 02, 14 William Stanfield & w, Charity, & Ch. John Samuel Jane Mary 1805, 11, 02 Lydia Stanfield & sister Philpania Stanfield Miami, OH rocf - Deep River MM, NC V 124 dated 1804, 07, 02 Deep Creek, NC dis I , 01, 18 Thomas Stanfield New Hope, TN gct - Miami MM, Ohio I 1098

7 DATE NAME MONTHLY MEETING 1807, 02, 12 Thomas Stanfield & w. Hannah ACTION VOL PAGE COMMENT Miami, OH rocf - New Hope MM, Tenn. V 124 dated 1806, 01, , 02, 25 George Stanfield (of Grayson Co., Va.) New Garden, NC death rpd. I 571 Page 7 of 23

8 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUAKER GENEALOGY, VOL I, CANE CREEK MONTHLY MEETING, PAGE 343 CANE CREEK MONTHLY MEETING Orange (now Alamance) County, North Carolina Cane Creek Monthly Meeting was established 7 th of 10 th month, 1751, being located on the steams from which it took its name, in the central part of the large area which comprised Orange County. This area included all the present counties of Caswell, Person, Alamance, Chatham and Orange and parts of Rockingham, Guilford, Randolph, Lee, Wake and Durham. In 1777, Chatham, Guilford and Wake Counties were established - each taking a part of Orange County. The division line between Orange and Chatham was run a short distance to the south of the meeting house, so the meeting continued to be in Orange County, but the residences of many of the members were thrown into Chatham. This accounts for the fact that in a large number of families the older children were recorded as having been born in Orange County and the younger ones in Chatham County. In 1849 Orange County was again divided, the western portion, including the site of Cane Creek Meeting, being set off as Alamance County. The meeting house is today located in that County, adjacent to the village of Snow Camp, and about 15 miles south of Graham, the county seat. The meeting was set up under authorization of Perquimans and Little River Quarterly Meeting as set forth in the following minutes, dated 1751, 6, 31: Friends on Cane Creek wrote to our Quarterly Meeting Desiring a Monthly Meeting to be settled amongst them, which was referred to this meeting & several Friends of them parts appeared at this meeting and acquainted Friends that there is Thirty families and upwards of Friends settled in them parts & Desire still in behalf of themselves and their Families to have a Monthly Meeting settled amongst them, which request upon mature consideration Friends think proper to grant & leave to themselves to settle it in the most convenient place amongst the Body. It is not possible to present a complete list of the thirty or more families of Friends who are referred to in the above minute. That the original membership was scattered over a large territory is shown by a minute in the proceeding of the first sitting, 1751, 10, 7, which states that Friends of New Garden belonging to this monthly meeting, request the privilege of holding a meeting for worship on first days at that place. The distance from Cane Creek to New Garden was upward of thirty miles. The Cane Creek birth records show that one or more children were born, in Orange County, North Carolina, prior to 10 th month, 1751, in each of the following families: William and Hannah Brown John and Abigail Pike Anthony and Sarah Chamness William and Sarah Piggott At the opening session of the meeting, certificates were produced by Hugh and Mary Laughlin John and Rachel Wright John Powell Martha Hiatt and children John Hiatt Joseph Doan Robert Summers, wife and children Simon Dixon Aaron Jones Henry Ballenger, wife and children William Reynolds, wife and children Elizabeth Vestal and sons, William and Thomas Other persons who are mentioned in the minutes during the first eighteen months include the following, some of whom were probably among the thirty families: Ann Armfield William Baldwin Mary Ballenger Rachel Ballenger Bowater Beals Peter Dillon John Doan Elinor Edwards Sarah Beals Thomas Beals Benjamin Beeson William Beeson Rebekah Branson Jonathan Harrold Richard Henderson Martha Hiatt Thomas Branson Juliatha Carr Thomas Carr Sarah Chapman Benjamin Clark Sarah Hiatt William Hiatt Sarah Hodgin Catherine Cox William Cox Charles Davies Hannah Davies Daniel Dillon John Hodson Sarah Hodson John Hoggatt

9 William Hoggatt Rachel Howard Mary Hudson Eleazar Hunt Thomas Hunt William Hunt Elizabeth Jackson Isaac Jackson John Jones Able Knight Elizabeth Laky William Marshill Edward Matthews Mary Matthews William Matthews Henry Maynor Mordecai Mendenhall Hur Mills John Mills Thomas Mills Benjamin Moorman Matthew Ozbun Jeremiah Piggott David Reynolds Benjamin Ruddock Joseph Ruddock Richard Sidwell Phebe Summers Frances Taylor James Taylor John Hiatt and Sarah Hodson were married 1752, 4, 22. The list of witnesses includes George Hiatt George Hodson Henry Ballinger Thomas Hunt Eleazer Hunt Thomas Beales Martha Hiatt Mary Hodson Hannah Ballinger Robert Taylor Martha Thornton Thomas Thornton Thomas Thornburgh William Thornburgh Joseph Wells Thomas Wilkisson Johnathan Williams Abigail Pike Sarah Beals Ann Hunt Eleazer Hunt and Catherine Cox were married 1752, 12, 4. Among the witnesses were Thomas Hunt Zebulon Gaunt John Wright Charles Davis Henry Mayner William Piggott Mary Jackson Mary Matthews Hannah Davis Mary Wright Rachel Mayner The birth and death records of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting are in two volumes, designated as II and III. In each volume the pages devoted to birth records and those devoted to death records are numbered separately. In the following abstract, page numbers without volume indication refer to the birth records in volume II. Page numbers followed by the designations D, 2 and 2D refer to death records in volume II, birth records in volume III, and death records in volume III, respectively. The abstract of the minutes and marriage records has been compiled from the men s minutes (four volumes), women s minutes, (three volumes), and the register of marriage certificates. Page 9 of 23

10 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUAKER GENEALOGY, VOL. I, DEEP CREEK MONTHLY MEETING, PAGE 971 DEEP CREEK MONTHLY MEETING Surry (now Yadkin) County, North Carolina The establishment of Deep Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, Surry, (now Yadkin) County, North Carolina, was authorized by the following minute. The first sitting was held the sixth of fourth month, William Hough was appointed the first clerk; Simon Hadley, recorder of births, deaths and marriages; Daniel Huff, treasurer. We of the Committee appointed to visit the preparative meeting of Deep Creek on their request to hold a monthly meeting among themselves, after visiting them, Report that we think it will be best to grant their request; with the Quarterly Meeting appointing a committee to attend the sittings thereof for their help and instruction as long as the Quarterly Meeting shall think necessary, all which we submit to the Quarterly Meeting: - Jacob Hunt, Joseph Hoggatt, Moses Gregg, Bowater Sumner, Enoch Macy. Which this Quarterly Meeting concurs with; and directs that they hold said meeting on the first Seventh day in each month, and their preparative meeting on the fifth of the same week and appoints John Talbot, Jacob Hunt, Tristim Barnard, James Thornbrugh, Allen Unthank and Abijah Coffin, to attend the first opening thereof, and Barnedas Coffin, Hezekiah Starbuck, John Sanders and Seth Coffin, to attend the other meetings in the Quarter for at least two of them at each, who are to report their care and satisfaction to next meeting. From a Quarterly Meeting held at Deep River by adjournment the 13 th of the 3 rd mo Jesse Williams, Clerk. Previous to the setting up of a monthly meeting at Deep Creek, the preparative meeting had been under the jurisdiction of Deep River Monthly Meeting. The following list contains the names of some of those who composed the original membership of Deep Creek Monthly Meeting. George Adams Susana Adams William Adams Francis Barnard, Sr. Jane Barnet Daniel Bills Deborah Bills Anna Bond Charlotte Bond John Bond Garner Brian Ann Brown Jacob Brown Jane Brown Mary Brown William Brown James Burnside Mary Burnsides Adam Coffin Hannah Davis Joseph Davis Ann Dobbins Jacob Dobbins Nathan Farmer Bridget Hadley Eulis Hadley Simon Hadly Ruth Hinshaw Rebecca Hobson Stephen Hobson Israel Hough Mary Hough William Hough or Huff Judith Hutchens Nicholas Hutchens Sarah Hutchens Strangeman Hutchens Susanna Hutchens Thomas Hutchens Jemima Johnson John Johnson Daniel Jones Joseph Keys, Jr Lydia Keys Jos. Noblet Samuel Pearson Ann Philips Sarah Reece Catherine Russel Charles Russell Sarah Shugart Zachariah Shugart John Stanfield Archelus Stanley Ann Stockton Thomas Vestal Samuel Welch Keziah Worth Jemima Zacry William Zachery Preparative meetings under Deep Creek Monthly Meeting included Deep Creek, Hunting Creek, Swan Creek and Forbush Creek. The following abstract of the records of the meeting has been complied from one volume of birth, death and marriage records, two volumes of men s minutes ( ), and one volume of women s minutes ( ). The men s minutes, covering the period subsequent to 1853, have been lost.

11 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUAKER GENEALOGY, VOL I, DEEP RIVER MONTHLY MEETING, PAGE 773 DEEP RIVER MONTHLY MEETING Guilford County, North Carolina The minute of Western Quarterly Meeting 1778, 8, 8, authorizing the establishment of Deep River Monthly Meeting, is as follows: The Friends appointed last meeting to inspect the capacity of friends at Deep River respecting their request of holding a monthly meeting amongst themselves report as follows: - We the committee appointed at last meeting to take under sollid consideration the request of friends of Deep River respecting their holding monthly meetings agree to report: - we had an opportunity with them, as also a number of our women friends who united with us, and after a time of waiting and sollidly confering thereon, Give it as our best sence & judgement that the granting of their request will be consistant with best wisdom. All which we submit to the meeting; with which judgement this meeting unites and establishes accordingly and orders the said meeting to be on the first second day of the week in each month. And directs the Clerk to transmit a copy of the above minute to the aforesaid meeting & report his care to next meeting. The first setting of the new meeting was held 1778, 9, 7. John Talbot and Mary Talbot were appointed first clerks and John Rudduck, Jr., recorder of births, deaths and marriages. The preparative meeting at Deep River Monthly Meeting had been under the jurisdiction of New Garden Monthly Meeting previous to the setting up of Deep River Monthly Meeting. The original membership of the new monthly meeting included Jemima Baldwin John Baldwin Catharine Barnard Francis Barnard Margaret Barnard Tristram Barnard Levinah Beard Phebe Beeson Ann Bond Edward Bond Sarah Brazelton Sarah Brooks Ann Clasby Charles Clasby Barnabas Coffin Hannah Coffin Libni Coffin Lydia Coffin Mary Coffin Samuel Coffin Seth Coffin Mary Cook Thomas Cook Sarah Crues Thomas Elmore Latham Folger Matilda Folger Jonathan Gifford Unice Gifford Philip Ham Priscilla Ham Obadiah Harris Rebekah Harris Jonathan Harrold Mary Haworth Micajah Haworth Phebe Haworth Phebe Healy John Hiatt, Sr. Mary Hiatt Ruth Hinshaw John Hoggatt Joseph Hoggatt Phebe Hoggatt Ruth Hoggatt Elizabeth Howell Jonathan Howell Ann Huff Abner Hunt Judith Macy John Macy, Sr. Matthew Macy Phebe Marshall Charity Mendenhall Dinah Mendenhall Jane Mendenhall John Mendenhall Mary Mendenhall Moses Mendenhall Stephen Mendenhall Aaron Mills Amos Mills Henry Mills Reuben Mills Joseph Pattison Elizabeth Pike Nathan Pike Jane Rudduck John Rudduck, Jr. Sarah Rudduck Hezekiah Sanders Joel Sanders John Sanders John Sanders, Jr. Martha Sanders Susanna Sanders George Stalker Sarah Stalker Archelaus Stanly Jehu Stuart Sarah Stuart John Sweet John Talbot Mary Talbot Henry Thornbrugh Joseph Thornbrugh Rachel Thornbrugh John Unthank Manlove Wheeler Isaac Williams Deep River Meeting is located in the western part of Guilford County, about 12 miles from Greensboro. A midweek meeting was set up in 1753, and a preparative meeting established in Located in the same section and having its beginning only two years later, the history of Deep River is similar to that of New Garden. Both meeting enjoyed large growth through immigration from the North during the latter half of the eighteenth century, and both suffered great losses by migration to the Page 11 of 23

12 Northwest during the first half of the nineteenth century. Writing of the latter movement, Dr. Weeks in Southern Quakers and Slavery, page 264, says: Deep River is, and has been, one of the strongest monthly meetings. Its record of migration begins with 1811 and extends to As usual, they are all to Indiana except ten, which are divided between Tennessee, Ohio and Illinois. Between 1811 and 1845 the movement was quite uniform. The favorite objective point was the White Water Meeting, Ind. Deep River, like New Garden, has had sufficient vitality to withstand this constant drain on its strength. Preparative meetings under Deep River Monthly Meeting included Deep River, Springfield, Muddy Creek, Deep Creek, Belews Creek, Gum Swamp and Hitchcock. The following abstract of the records of the meeting has been compiled from one volume of birth, death and marriage records, five volumes of men s minutes ( ), and two volumes of women s minutes ( ).

13 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUAKER GENEALOGY, VOL. I, LOST CREEK MONTHLY MEETING, PAGE 1101 LOST CREEK MONTHLY MEETING Jefferson County, Tennessee Lost Creek Monthly Meeting was established the 20 th of 5 th month, 1797, near the present town of New Market, Jefferson County, Tennessee. Nathan Hunt and Jacob Hunt were in attendance as representatives of New Garden Quarterly Meeting. Abraham Woodward and Sarah Mills were appointed clerks. Henry Thornbrough, Richard Hayworth, Mary Turner and Eleanor Sumner were appointed to attend the next session of the Quarterly Meeting at New Garden, N.C. At the monthly meeting held 23 rd of 9 th month, 1797, John Mills, Henry Thornbrough, Sarah Mills and Rachel Thornbrough were chosen to serve as Elders. The exact date of settlement of Friends in Lost Creek Valley is not known. John Mills and family are said to have been the earliest settlers and the date of arrival has been fixed as about ( Genealogy of the Maulsbuy Family, page 30.) The early Tennessee settlements in Greene and Jefferson Counties were under the care of New Garden Monthly Meeting, N.C. In 1786, the memberships of John and Sarah Mills and children and of William and Rachel Beals and children were transferred to New Garden by certificates issued by Center Monthly Meeting. By certificates dated 1791, 11, 5, New Garden Monthly Meeting transferred the memberships of these families and of William and Margaret Hinshaw and children William and Eleanor Sumner Jesse and Hannah Baldwin and children Jeremiah and Judith Horn and children Moses and Hannah Ballenger and children Richard and Ann Haworth and children to Westfield Monthly Meeting, N.C. All these certificates were received at Westfield, 1792, 1, 21. The minutes relating to this transfer state that the families were living on the waters of the Holston River and it was believed that it would be more convenient for them to belong to Westfield. Before granting these certificates New Garden Monthly Meeting assured itself that the lands on which the members were living had been purchased from the native Indian owners. Certificates for other Friends who are know to have been living at or near Lost Creek at early dates were received at Westfield as follows: Richard Mills and children from Deep River, 1792, 6, 23 Elihu and Sarah Swain and children, 1791, 12, 24 Evan and Susannah Lewis and children, from Hopewell, Va., 1791, 12, 24 John and Lydia Maulsby and children, from Hopewell, Va., 1791, 12, 24 Mordecai and Hannah Mendenhall and children, from Deep River, 1792, 6, 23 Aaron and Charity Mills and children, from Deep River, 1793, 1, 19 Henry and Rachel Thornbrough and children, from Springfield, 1792, 4, 21 Isaac Williams and children, from Deep River, 1792, 4, 21 William and Rachel Williams and children, from Cane Creek, 1792, 12, 22 Thomas and Margaret Chapman and family, from Cane Creek, 1793, 6, 22 Miles Chapman and family from Cane Creek, 1793, 6, 22 Abraham Woodward and family (wife Hannah), from Center, 1793, 2, 16 Joseph and Rebecca Thornbrough and children, from Deep River, 1792, 6, 23 Nehemiah and Sarah Ellis and children, from Hopewell, Va., 1793, 10, 25 William Frazier and family (wife Susannah), from Center, 1793, 6, 22 William Thornbrough, from Deep River, 1792, 9, 22 Isaac Stout (wife Susannah) from Cane Creek, 1794, 12, 20 Joel Elmore, from Deep River, 1793, 4, 20 Walter Thornbrough, from Springfield, 1793, 6, 22 Samuel Mills, from Center, 1791, 12, 24 When Newhope Monthly Meeting was established in Greene County in 1795, Lost Creek Friends were included in its membership. Additions to their number, through certificates received at Newhope Page 13 of 23

14 prior to the setting up of Lost Creek Monthly Meeting, included: Thomas and Ann Marshill and family, from Deep River, 1795, 7, 25 Jesse Adamson and children, from Deep River, 1795, 12, 26 Daniel Osborn and family (wife Margaret), from Center, 1795, 10, 31 John Bond and children, from Center, 1795, 11, 28 Patrick Beard and family (wife Hannah), from Center, 1795, 12, 26 John Moffitt, from Cane Creek, 1796, 3, 26 William and Elizabeth Woodward and son, from Center (Elizabeth and son 1795, 8, 29; William 1797, 1, 28) Others who had certificates addressed to Newhope, but presented them at Lost Creek instead, included Isaac and Esther Jones Israel and Welmet Elliott and family John and Margaret Canaday and family Jesse and Hannah Jones and family Asa Mills Mordecai and Phebe Mendenhall and family Eunice Wilson and family Joseph Moon William Morgan Isaac and Ruth Marshill and family John Hodgen Charles Canaday Others who were members from the date of organization of the monthly meeting or became members within the next few months included Jacob Bailey William Brazleton Alexander and Margaret Campbell and family James and Lydia Ballenger and family Isaac Hammer and family Ezekiel Trogdon Rueben Morgan Johnathan and Ann Newman Alice Dimmitt Mary Turner Meetings for worship were held at Lost Creek from an early date, - at first in homes and later in a log meeting house. A preparative meeting was established in 1795 by Newhope Monthly Meeting, with the approval of New Garden Quarterly Meeting. Under date of 25 th of 5 th month, 1796, John Mills deeded to Lost Creek Meeting a three acre tract which was used as a site for a meeting house and school house and for a grave yard. At the first session of Lost Creek Monthly Meeting, Friends inhabiting about Thomas Marshall s in the head of the Grassy Valley (across the Holston River in Knox County) requested the privilege of holding a First Day Meeting. This was granted and Grassy Valley became an important preparative meeting. Other meetings for worship in Lost Creek Monthly Meeting were Lower Settlement (became a preparative meeting and a monthly meeting under the name of Newberry), Panther Creek, and South of French Broad River. Until 1803, Lost Creek Monthly Meeting was attached to New Garden Quarterly Meeting, in North Carolina. In that year Newhope and Lost Creek Quarterly Meeting was established by North Carolina Yearly Meeting, to meet at Newhope in the 5 th and 11 th months and at Lost Creek in the 2 nd and 8 th month. Migration to the North began in 1802, with one certificate (for Amaziah Beeson and family) to Westland Monthly Meeting, Pa. Between 1803 and 1810, about twenty-five certificates were issued to Miami Monthly Meeting, Ohio, and ten to other Ohio meetings. Beginning with 1810 the tide of emigration turned to Indiana. During the two decades between 1810 and 1830 more than thirty certificates were issued to White Water, twenty to New Garden, five to Silver Creek, two to West Grave, ten to Lick Creek, six to Springfield, four to Honey Creek and three to Duck Creek. During this period about ten more certificates were issued to the Ohio meetings. From 1827 to 1832, Vermilion Monthly Meeting, Illinois, was the favorite objective, with about ten certificates. A large percentage of the above mentioned certificates were for families - many of them large. Altogether, they probably represent a loss to Lost Creek Monthly Meeting of at least 400 or 500 members. Grassy Valley Meeting was discontinued in It appears that all the other smaller meeting disappeared about the same time, leaving Lost Creek as the sole survivor in the monthly meeting, and it reduced to a small fraction of its former strength.

15 A large number of those who removed from Lost Creek to the North between 1802 and 1820, perhaps as many as one-third of the total number of emigrants, settled in the north-west corner of Wayne County, Indiana. Here, near the present town of Economy, they established Springfield meeting for worship as early as 1815, a preparative meeting in 1817, and Springfield Monthly Meeting in Because of the great predominance of Tennesseans among the settlers, the community was called the Tennessee Settlement. The town of Economy was laid out in 1825 by Charles Osborn, noted minister and abolitionist who had removed from Lost Creek to Ohio in 1816 and to Indiana in In 1897, the Tennessee meetings were transferred from North Carolina Yearly Meeting to Wilmington Yearly Meeting, held at Wilmington, Ohio. Lost Creek Monthly Meeting reported to the Yearly Meeting, in 1934, at total of 59 members, and of whom 22 were classed as non-resident, and 6 as associate members. The records of Lost Creek Monthly Meeting consist of one book of birth, death and marriage records, one book of men s minutes ( ), and one book of women s minutes ( ). These books have been deposited at the Yearly Meeting House, Richmond, Indiana. The men s minutes for the period subsequent to 1831 have been lost. Page 15 of 23

16 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUAKER GENEALOGY, VOL I, NEW GARDEN MONTHLY MEETING, PAGE 487 NEW GARDEN MONTHLY MEETING Guilford County, North Carolina New Garden Monthly Meeting was set up in 1754 by direction of Perquimans and Little River Quarterly Meeting. This action of the Quarterly Meeting is recorded in the following minutes. Perquimans and Little River Quarterly Meeting held at Old Neck in the County of Perquimans, N.C., the 25 th of the 5 mo Friends at New Garden requested this meeting to Grant them the privilege of holding a Monthly Meeting amongst them by Reason of the hardship they underwent in Attending the monthly meeting at Cane Creek; And it appeared to this meeting that there is Near or Quite Forty Families of Friends seated in them parts; In consideration of which, this meeting thought propper to grant them there request. New Garden Monthly Meeting Minutes. From our Quarterly Meeting held at Old Neck, in the County of Perquimans, ye 25 th to ye 26 th of ye 5 th mo To Friends at New Garden in Capefair: - Dear Friends: These are to inform you that your request of having a Monthly Meeting settled among you, was laid before this meeting, and Friends having weightily considered thereof, unanimously agreed to grant your request. Signed on behalf, and by order of, our aforesaid meeting by Joseph Ratliff, Clerk. A list of the names of some of the men embraced in the original membership of New Garden Monthly Meeting includes Thomas Beals Binjamin Beeson, near Deep River Wm. Beeson Abraham Cook Daniel Dillon Eleazar Hunt William Hunt Mordecai Mendenhal, near Deep River John Mills Henry Mills Hur Mills Thomas Mills Benjamin Rudduck John Rudduck Thos. Thornbrugh (appointed first clerk) Thomas Vestal Richard Williams Among those who became members by the presentation of certificates during the first few months were James Brown William Smith, wife and children Richard Beeson and wife George Hyatt Isaac Cox and wife Anthony Hoggatt and wife Benjamin Britain Joseph Unthank, wife and children Samuel Pearson, wife and children were received in membership by request. Nathan Dicks Zacharias Dicks Peter Dicks, wife and children Isaac Pidgeon Joseph Hoggatt Robert Hodgson Hanuel Edwards George Hodgson The following account of the early history of New Garden Meeting is abstracted from Southern Quakers and Slavery, page : Of the settlers who formed the New Garden meetings the first to arrive were doubtless the immigrants from Pennsylvania by way of Maryland. They brought the name with them from Pennsylvania. It has always been a characteristic of Quakers to reproduce the names of the sections with which they have been associated in former years. Many English Quaker names are reproduced in America. There is

17 a New Garden and a Springfield in Pennsylvania. They were carried thence to North Carolina, and from there, in turn, to Indiana. (Dr. Albert Cook Myers, in Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, says that New Garden Meeting in Pennsylvania was named in remembrance of New Garden Meeting in County Carlow, Ireland.) The first settlement at New Garden was about In 1751 a meeting for worship was granted by Cane Creek Monthly Meeting. For the next three years the monthly meeting circulated between Cane Creek and New Garden. The settlement must have grown rapidly, for New Garden Monthly Meeting was set up in It was destined to become the most important meeting in the State, and was the mother of many others. In the first year, 1754, we have settlers coming in from Pennsylvania, from Hopewell and Fairfax meetings, Virginia. During 1755 nine certificates were received, representing Pennsylvania and Virginia only. According to the official minutes, which note all certificates received, there were brought in during the sixteen years, , inclusive, eighty-six certificates in all. Of these forty-five came from Pennsylvania, thirty-five from Virginia, one from Maryland, and four from northeastern North Carolina. The New Garden settlers were soon to be reinforced by other immigrants who also came from old Quaker stock. These were the settlers from Nantucket Island, Mass. This movement began in 1771, and Libni Coffin was the first Nantucket man to arrive at New Garden. During the period of five years from 1771 to 1775 there were forty-one certificates recorded at New Garden Monthly Meeting from Nantucket out of a total of fifty certificates received. Migration from the northward stopped suddenly at the outbreak of the Revolution. From that time the meeting were kept up by natural increase, not by new arrivals. About the end of the eighteenth century there began the great migration to the Middle West which sapped the strength of all North Carolina meetings and ended the existence of many. New Garden contributed in large numbers to the movement but had sufficient vitality to withstand the losses in membership. The birth, death and marriage records of New Garden Monthly Meeting are in two volumes, designated as I and II. In the following abstract, page numbers without volume indication refer to records in volume I; page numbers followed by the figure 2, refer to records in volume II. The men s minutes herein abstracted extend from 1754 to 1888; the women s minutes from 1790 to The women s minutes prior to 1790 were destroyed when the house of Prudence Williams was laid waste by fire. Page 17 of 23

18 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUAKER GENEALOGY, VOL. 1, NEW HOPE MONTHLY MEETING, PAGE 1077 NEWHOPE MONTHLY MEETING Greene County, Tennessee Newhope Monthly Meeting was established in Greene County, Tennessee, 28 th of 2 nd month, 1795, by direction of New Garden Quarterly Meeting and Westfield Monthly Meeting. Samuel Ellis was appointed to serve as clerk, Samuel Frazier as recorder, Benjamin Iddings, Ellis Ellis, Elihu Swain and Joseph Thornburgh as overseers, and Daniel Bonine and George Haworth as overseer of the poor. Settlement by Friends in Greene County began as early as The meeting was first called Nolichucky from the name of the stream on which the settlement was located. In 1789 a committee appointed by New Garden Monthly Meeting to visit the little meeting at Nolachuckey reported the appointment complied with to a degree of satisfaction. Certificates were ordered to be prepared for Thomas Embree and family, John Rambo, and Samuel Frazier and children, all residing at Nolichucky, transferring their rights of membership to Westfield Monthly Meeting. Westfield had been established in 1786 and it was thought to be more convenient for Tennessee Friends to have their membership there than at New Garden. A preparative meeting was settled [at Nolichucky] on the fourth day the 12 th of the 8 th month, 1793, and the name of Newhope given to it shortly after. Other Friends who were members at Newhope before the establishment of the monthly meeting, or who became members soon afterward, include: Moorman Ballard James Barrett John Bowater Beals Jacob Beals Daniel Bonine Jacob Clearwater Aaron Coppock Ruth Davidson Peter Dillon Ellis Ellis Mordecai Ellis Samuel Ellis Susannah Edmundson James Fisher Ezekiel Frazier George Haworth James Haworth Moses Hoggatt Benjamin Iddings Evan Jones Abram Marshall William Neal Benjamin Pickering William Rees Abraham Smith Seth Smith Thomas Stanfield Jesse Willis James Wright Names of Friends living at Lost Creek Monthly Meeting, are noted in the introduction of the records of the latter meeting. Meeting for worship under the jurisdiction of Newhope Monthly Meeting were established at Limestone (later a preparative meeting) Lick Creek, Shilo and Westland. Migration to Ohio began in 1804 with 16 certificates to Miami Monthly Meeting. Twelve more were issued to the same meeting in 1805, and five in During the next nine years about 15 certificates were directed to various meeting in Ohio and Indiana. Then came a period of 11 years, from 1816 to 1826, with no certificates to the Northern States, followed by a similar period, 1827 to 1837, of renewed activity. During this latter period about seven certificates were issued to Vermilion Monthly Meeting, Illinois, eleven to Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, Indiana, and four to other meeting in Ohio and Indiana. Newhope Monthly Meeting was attached to New Garden Quarterly Meeting until 1803, to Newhope and Lost Creek Quarterly Meeting (later called Lost Creek Quarterly Meeting) until 1888, to New Garden Quarterly Meeting from 1888 to 1892, when it was transferred to Friendsville Quarterly Meeting. In 1897 Friendsville Quarterly Meeting, then embracing all the meetings in Tennessee, was transferred from North Carolina Yearly Meeting to Wilmington Yearly Meeting in Ohio. Newhope Monthly Meeting was laid down about the same time. The existing records of Newhope Monthly Meeting, consisting of one volume of birth, death and marriage records, and one volume of men s minutes ( ), have been deposited at the Yearly

19 Meeting House, Richmond, Indiana. The men s minutes subsequent to 1846 and all the women s minutes have been lost. Page 19 of 23

20 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUAKER GENEALOGY, VOL. II, PHILADELPHIA MONTHLY MEETING, PAGES 329 & 441 Page 329 PHILADELPHIA MONTHLY MEETING There were a few Quaker settlers on the west bank of the Delaware, notably at Upland (now Chester) and near the falls, several years before William Penn received the grant of Pennsylvania in They were closely associated with Friends at Salem and Burlington, meeting with them occasionally for worship and business. Under Penn s direction Pennsylvania was rapidly opened to further settlement, and there was a large influx of Quakers and others. Several monthly meetings were organized in quick succession, of which the first occurred in the newly projected capital of the colony, Philadelphia. The Friends who had been meeting since 1681 at the house of Thomas Fairman, at Shackamaxon, a short distance up the river, joined with the newer settlers in Philadelphia in establish a monthly and quarterly meeting on eleventh month 9, 1682 (January ). They opened their first meeting with the following minute: The Friends of God, belonging to the Meeting in Philadelphia, in the province of Pensylvania, being met in the fear and power of the Lord, at the present meeting place in the said City: the 9 th day of the 11 th month, being the 3 rd day of the week, in the year They did take into their serious Consideration, the Settlement of meeting therein, for the affairs and service of Truth according to that Godly and comely practice and Example, which they had received, and enjoyed with true satisfaction amongst their friends and Brethren, in the Lard of their Nativity; and did then and there agree, that the first third day of the week in every month, shall hereafter be the monthly meeting day for men s and women s meetings for the affairs and service of Truth in this City and County, and every third meeting shall be the Quarterly meeting of the same. The exact location of the present meeting place in which the first meetings were held is unknown. A boarded meetinghouse, elsewhere alluded to in the minutes was probably on Front street. The Bank meetinghouse on Front street above Arch, was finished in Another meetinghouse was built of brick in the center square of the city, designed for use in the day-time as the house nearer the river was to be used at night. But the expectation of Penn and the pioneers that the city would grow up around the center square proved to be erroneous, and the Center meetinghouse was little used. It was finally taken down between 1701 and 1703 and its materials used to replace the frame building on the bank of the river. Meanwhile a Great meetinghouse was build in at the southwest corner of Market (then High) and Second streets, in order to accommodate the Quarterly and Yearly Meetings. Enlarged in 1755, it was only displaced in 1804 with the building of the meetinghouse which now stands on Arch Street at Fourth. Philadelphia Monthly Meeting prospered as the number of Friends in Philadelphia grew. Except for the deflection of George Keith and his followers in the 1690's it suffered no division until 1772, when it voluntarily set up a monthly meeting for the Northern District of Philadelphia. This was made up of members of the old Bank meeting, who had moved to Key s Alley (New Street) in A monthly meeting for the Southern District was also established in 1772, meeting at first in a building on Fourth street near Chestnut, but soon going to the Hill meeting, so-called, on the south side of Pine street, below Second. A monthly meeting for the Western District was set off in It occupied the present building at 20 South Twelfth Street, which had been erected two years before. The Separation of left the Arch Street meetinghouse in the hands of the Orthodox group. Hicksite Friends met temporarily in Carpenters Hall until they could build a meeting house on Cherry street below Fifth. In 1857 they moved to the present location of Cherry Street above Fifteenth, adjoining the Race Street meetinghouse which the Yearly Meeting had built at the same time. A building was erected in 1882 for an indulged meeting at the Fair Hill Burying Ground, Germantown Avenue at Cambria Street. The land had belonged to Friends since the founding of the city, and had been used as a meeting place in the eighteenth century. The Monthly Meeting now has indulged meetings for worship in West Philadelphia (established 1837), and, with Green Street Monthly Meeting, on Girard Avenue. Green Street Monthly Meeting, at Fourth and Green Streets, was established in 1816 by the Monthly Meeting for the Northern District, and was retained by Hicksite Friends at the time of the Separation.

21 The standard histories of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania describe the establishment of Friends meetings in the city. Philadelphia Friends have been so intimately associated with the history of Pennsylvania Quakerism that few special studies of the local meetings are available. In 1889 The Friend (Philadelphia) published a series of articles on early Philadelphia meetinghouses by Joseph W. Lippincott (vol. 62, pp 283 and continued), and George Vaux (vol. 63, pp 99 and continued). There are some interesting facts in the centennial volume, The Friends Meeting House, Fourth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, ca. 1904). The manuscript records of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, covering the period prior to the separation in 1827, consist of two volumes of birth and death records; marriage records (two volumes and part of a third, started 1814 and continued in use after 1827 by the Orthodox branch); fourteen volumes of certificates received (original certificates mounted) ; two supplementary volumes of certificates received, ; certificates issued (three volumes and part of a fourth, started 1823 and continued in use after 1827 by the Orthodox branch); one volume of certificates received, ; men s minutes, ; women s minutes All these records are at 302 Arch Street, Philadelphia, except the book of certificates received, , which is at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore. The Orthodox records, also at 302 Arch Street, consist of two volumes of birth and death records; marriage records , and certificates issued, (in the older books referred to above); certificates received, ; men s minutes, ; women s minutes, and The women s minutes for the period from 1859 to 1890 are missing. The Hicksite records, deposited at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore, consist of birth and death records (three volumes); marriage records, , (three volumes of marriages in meeting and one volume of marriages out of meeting); certificates issued, , (two volumes); men s minutes, (ten volumes); women s minutes, , (8 volumes); minutes of meeting of men and women held jointly, , (two volumes). The Primitive Friends records are in the care of Charles Henry Moon, Fallsington, Pa. Page 441 DEATHS OF PERSON NOT FRIENDS An account of the Burialls of such as not Friends within this town of Philadelphia. Taken & recorded by me, Wm. Hudson, for the satisfaction of all people whatever their perswation or profession may be. The records of Friends Burialls being distinctly taken in another place of this book by me apoynted thereto by the Monthly Meeting to which this Book Belongs. Frances Stanfield, s James & Mary, - bur James Stanfield - bur Mary Stanfield, dt James, - bur Page 21 of 23

22 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUAKER GENEALOGY, VOL I, WESTFIELD MONTHLY MEETING, PAGE 953 WESTFIELD MONTHLY MEETING Surry County, North Carolina A copy of a minute of the Quarterly Meeting held at Can Creek 1786, 11, 13. The committee appointed last meeting to visit the Preparative Meeting of Tom s Creek report as follows: - We of the committee appointed to visit the Preparative Meeting of Tom s Creek, and inspect with their capability of holding a monthly meeting to the honor of truth, have complyed with the appointment, and do give it as our sense and judgement that their request may be granted which we submit to the Quarterly Meeting; John Talbot John Hocket Obediah Harris Thomas Winslow William Tomlinson William Hill; which judgement this meeting confirms and directs that the said meeting be held on Seventh Day preceeding the last seventh day in each month, also that it be known in the future by the name of Westfield. Extracted from the minutes of said Quarterly Meeting by Jesse Williams, Clerk. Agreeable to the foregoing direction, friends meet the 23 day of ye 12 month, The representatives from the preparative meeting were David Ballard and Thomas Jessop. Boater Sumner was appointed clerk; Samuel Bond, recorder. Tom s Creek Meeting, the predecessor of Westfield, was located in Surry County, N.C., not far from the Virginia line. The meeting for worship was organized about 1771; the preparative meeting in As noted above, the name was changed to Westfield when the monthly meeting was established in Previous to this time, Tom s Creek Preparative Meeting had been attached to New Garden Monthly Meeting. In addition to Surry and adjoining counties in North Carolina, the verge of Westfield Monthly Meeting included adjacent territory in Virginia and settlements in Greene and Jefferson Counties, in Tennessee. The following list of names, taken from the early minutes, represents a part of the original membership of Westfield Monthly Meeting. No complete list is available. Byrom Ballard David Ballard Garman Ballard Moorman Ballard Thomas Ballard John Bowater Beales William Beals Amasa Beeson Samuel Bond Gardner Briant John Briant John Burris, Sr. John Burris, Jr. Benjamin Carr John Carson Thomas Davis Thomas Davis, Jr. Samuel Frazier Moses Grigg Joseph Hart John Hiatt Joseph Hiatt Joseph Hiatt, Jr. William Hiatt Curtis Jackson Jacob Jackson John Jackson Joseph Jackson Hannah Jessop Joseph Jessop Thomas Jessop Timothy Jessop William Jessop Isaac Jones James Mackiney Richard Pinson Thomas Puckett David Reece William Rudduck Royal Simmons Bowater Sumner Caleb Sumner Thomas Sumner William White Westfield Monthly Meeting and Westfield Quarterly Meeting were laid down about 1832, most of the members having removed to the West. Those that had not removed were attached to Deep Creek Monthly Meeting, and it joined to Deep River Quarterly Meeting. The following abstract has been complied from one volume of birth, death and marriage records and one volume of men s minutes, The women s minutes have been lost.