For example, it turns out that Abraham Lincoln, who came from the midwest, was descended from Quakers. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname, and then chronologically. I usually like watching the cool videos on Quaker Speak. 4-5: Southwestern Pennsylvania, Ohio, and one meeting in Michigan. J. P. Bell, Co., 1905. James Brown was born in Pennsylvania in 1681 to Quakers James Brown and Honor Clayton Brown. So many of the Old Quaker names being discussed were brave and risked their own life by their testimony. Years later My mother told me that we were related to Elizabeth Fry through the Hill and Perkins side of her English family. Data in the index was extracted from record books of 197 Quaker meetings in 17 states and represents about 25% of Quaker Meetings. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I know a Brinton in Maine, related to me (Fisher) in Ireland. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. And most people related positively seeing it and enjoyed learning about the Quaker history. I would be happy to work on Richard Dunn, of Dunn's Creek Meeting fame. The insight that only 20% of our membership are generational Quakers is actually a comfort, indicating a living interest, not just an ethnic affiliation. Family Line Publications, 1997-2000. The knowing Folger lazy, Thomas Hamm: When you get to North Carolina, there are a number of distinctively Quaker names like Trueblood or Hadley or Hinshaw. Quaker Collection: http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/collections/quaker/index.phpHaverford College Phone: 610-896-1161 Email: dfpeters@haverford.edu Archives for North Carolinaand the southeastern U.S.are stored at: Friends Historical Collection: Guilford College Phone: (336) 316-2264 Email: archives@guilford.edu com complained, complained of: a person could be complained of for an act that was contrary to the rules and advices as outlined in the Discipline. I find it spiritually and emotionally a huge comfort. James Drake. The first documented religious service was held in 1672 by Friends minister William Edmundson. If you did not find a film number for a particular location in the book above, you may find additional Quaker records by looking in the FamilySearch Catalog Place search under the name of the town and the topic Church Records. The Cross Index to Quaker meeting records found on FS Library microfilm 2148 is a list of surnames with the name of the monthly meetings where the surname occurs. It is on 73 FS Library microfilms beginning with 2146 which is a list of abbreviations and meeting symbols used on the cards. 1.2 Quakers in North Carolina 2 Quaker Meetings 2.1 Core Sound (Carteret County) 2.2 Carver's Creek 2.3 Dunn's Creek 2.4 Cane Creek 2.5 New Garden 3 Sources 4 Additional resources Background Settlement of North Carolina North Carolina was one of the original Thirteen Colonies. Ive visited the cemetery in Spiceland, IN, where many of my Quaker ancestors are buried. Then accused of witchcraft by the Puritans for standing up for their Quaker beliefs. Daughter of Solomon Coffin Jr and Sarah Barnard. The first pageincludes the county, the names of the earliest members, and sometimes other clues. Am I missing something? VI. William Wade Hinshaws Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy consists of six volumes, each dealing with a different region, and is supplemented by Willard Heisss Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana in seven parts. Do you think that were better or worse off now that most of us are first or second generation Quaker? So it wasnt just the last names that they used over and over but the first names as well. North Carolina Quakers are centered in Greensboro, where the denominations major institutions are located: the yearly meeting office, Guilford College, and Friends Homes, Inc., a nationally recognized retirement community. On page 487 of the "Encyclopedia" Hinshaw itemizes some of the membership of the New Garden Monthly Meeting:[17]. Its soooo hard to listen without judgment, to understand the uniqueness of our different views and personalities with respect. Quakers recorded a variety of details in their monthly meeting minutes which can be searched by name, location, and event date; or browsed by state . Use Thomas Hills book to determine where records for your ancestors might be. For personal use and not for further distribution. Use FS Library book 973 K22h 1998 At various libraries (WorldCat), Monthly Meetings in North America: a Quaker Index, 4th ed., Rev. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname, and then chronologically. The North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program notes that: Hinshaw discusses Core Sound Meeting on pages 263-4 of his Encyclopedia, [8] with an index of names following. Meeting House was built the same area fronting the W.F. Max Carter: For much of our history, Quakers were endogamous the sociological term for marrying in. North Carolina: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Similarly, among my fathers and mothers ancestors were migrants to Penns Welsh Tract where they gained English-style surnames derived from their fathers first names: Jones, Evans, Davis. Leaving Fox and the others, the Irish evangelist William Edmundson visited the Albemarle region in March 1672 for three days, holding the first religious services in the colony and laying a foundation that would result in North Carolinas becoming in its early years virtually a Quaker province. This webinar will examine the creation of Quaker records and their meaning for the researcher. But I can look. 1695 - 1696 Quaker John Archdale served as Governor of the Colony of North Carolina. (i. e. WTF cares what your name is?). Early Quaker Records of Southeast Virginia. Strong believers in the importance of education, Quakers apparently sponsored the first school in the colony, which was begun in 1705 adjacent to the Pasquotank (later Symons Creek) Monthly Meeting. Quaker Abstract F185.F89 P87 1996, Bell, James Pinkney. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. By the end of the war there were few Friends left in the state, and without the aid of northern Quakers, particularly the support of Francis King and the Baltimore Association, the church might have disappeared from North Carolina. I find it all fascinating. By clicking on the button below, I consent to allowing NCGS to add this data to their MailChimp mailing list. Eliza is not my direct ancestor but connected to my Clark family of Scotland and New Orleans. This is a space created to supply information and links about meetings, burial grounds, and resources, in order to organize the data for Quakers in North Carolina. Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College. If youre a Farlow or a Beeson, youre from Marlboro Meeting down in Randolph county. 1" for New Garden MM, Guilford NC shows James Brown in the company of Richard Beeson, as well as other people mentioned as founding fathers of Hopewell MM, Frederick County, Virginia, or their children, and also mentions Thomas Thornburgh, who became the first clerk of New Garden MM NC. . Furnas should on the list of generations of Friends. I must say some first names of Quaker women are quite unique like Hepzibah, one of my husbands great, great aunt I believe has this name. It made me think and understand the point of view and intentions. Interesting as I am from the same lineage as well! My mother Ruth Trimble Balderston was descended from William Smith, a companion of George Fox, in and out of prison, but surely we would be careless to call Smith a uniquely Quaker name. If Thomas Hills book lists more than one FS Library film number, use the FamilySearch Catalog Film/Fiche Numbers search to find the film number that includes the time period when your ancestor may have been listed. Our world is so complicated and changing all the time . Quakers did not practice baptism. 537. I have Quaker ancestry on my maternal line when my Catholic French ancestor married a young Quaker woman in New Jersey. This collection can be found at the FamilySearch Library on the third floor and is available digitally here. See the front of each volume for a list of abbreviations used. I list an Eliza Coffin b. One visit satisfies their curiosity or they go to the historical society to track down the information they are really interested in. Months of the year are recorded as numbers rather than by their names in an ancestors' record. 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. [13], A number of additional meetings were begun by Cane Creek, including Deep River (1753), New Garden (1754), Rocky River (1754), Centre (1757), Spring (1777), Holly Spring (1790), and Edward Hill (1899).[14]. By 1775 it had slipped to fifth place with 320 meetings. IV and V. Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1946. For me, there is an undercurrent of exclusivity, and that feels very unwelcoming. 1698 - 1786 North Carolina Yearly Meeting held first at Francis Toms' home, and then at Old Neck and Little River Meetings . Around 1752, he moved to North Carolina, where he apparently lived out his life, dying there around 1766. There was no meeting house so she became United Brethren because the church was less than a mile from her home. co chosen overseer(s): selected for an important office of responsibility in the meeting. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 500 College Ave. Swarthmore, PA 19081 Telephone: 610-328-8496 email contact: friends@swarthmore.edu, Friends Historical Collection, Hege Library, Guilford College 5800 W. Friendly Ave. Greensboro, NC 27410 Telephone 336-316-2450 email contact: archives@guilford.edu. If microfilm numbers are listed, write them on your research log. Of course it is important. Some people just really like to know as part of their identity: who am I made of? By 1888, from this small beginning, evolved Guilford College, which has achieved a national reputation for excellence as a liberal arts college. I enjoyed this video! Many FS Library microfilm numbers are listed in Thomas Hill's book. This is also the part of North Carolina where Abigail (Brown) Thornburgh and her husband settled in the 1740s, after their Frederick County, Virginia Quaker marriage at Hopewell MM, witnessed by her father, James Brown. mcd married contrary to disciple: married another Friend, but in a civil ceremony (usually resulting in disownment); sometimes used interchangeably with "married out of society" or "married out of unity.". Unless the member could satisfy the monthly meeting of his or her innocence or repentance, the next step was usually disownment. Self-described as children of light, the Friends eschewed both creed and ritual to live a sacramental life that followed the leading of the Holy Spirit, which they sought in open worship and meditation. Hinshaw volumesand the Index (printed in 1999) are still in print and available throughGenealogical.com. No one QuakerSpeak video is intended to represent all Quakers, all of QuakerSpeak, all of Friends Publishing. Contact the Profile Managers privately: Public Comments: By creating a video that people might find when doing research on Quakers in their family tree, we create a point of entry into the rest of what we dothe other 169 QuakerSpeak videos (and counting). Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. My great-great-grandfather was Quaker, I grew up Presbyterian, but I thought that I would try a Quaker meeting and theyre curious. What we know of James's time in North Carolina comes from Quaker meeting minutes, which have been transcribed in three sets: James Brown Senr 1753 certificate request, 1761 apology and readmission, and Carteret County 1764-66. I appreciate this Q.GroupSpeak as always. Label vector designed by Ibrandify - Freepik.com, https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/coffin/frontis1.html, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fhcarchives/5436563980/. And scarce an honest Hussey.. Next he goes to Dunn's Creek, then to Core Sound on the Atlantic coast. Max Carter: Most Americans, if they shake their family tree, a Quaker nut is going to fall out, and quite often, people discover that when they see one of those Quaker names. The two made their way to Carolina and visited Henry Phillips and his wife, the only known Quaker settlers at that time in the Albemarle region of what is today known as North Carolina. VI. Levi Coffin, from Coffin, Levi. It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I: (North Carolina Yearly Meeting) Browse this collection. Some had first names of the surnames of admired fellow Quakers. The land the meeting house purportedly was on actually ended up in my family in 1750, sold to Thomas Thames by the Dunn family. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Some first fled to Ireland. On Long Island, I would guess that about half of all Quaker families before 1800 were connected with the Hicks, the Seaman, the Titus or the Bowen families. Show Transcript and Discussion Questions Max Carter I live in an historic house in New Hampshire. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Staff members can also help you with microfilm, manuscripts, and family surname files. North Carolina; Elizabeth WHITE b: ca. Part of it is that we all want to be right. They are newcomers or first or second generation Friends. If all of the women wore simple gray dresses, no one knew if one was poor or rich during a time of aristocratic status . What is your and the research of others of the naming/ nomination practices of the early Sandwich Quakers and would you agree with her? That meeting was named for New Garden MM, of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, a meeting this James Brown attended in 1720 (and was disowned by). The following are notes from Quaker records for families with the Gardner surname that arrived in the piedmont area of North Carolina, later forming Guilford County, during the latter part of the 18th century. Reading Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder, might lead to great emotional pain re ones Quaker lineage. It may not be fashionable but I certainly think we could learn more Unity and Kindness in our communities for our diverse world. Several manuscript collections contain a wealth of genealogical information, including the Stanley, Beeson, Hill, Piggott-Pickett, Cox and Mendenhall families. Quaker Ref F78.G47 1989. It will make this page more useful to others researching early Quakers of NC. Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press. Max Carter: Today, probably about 80% of Quakers in attendance or membership in our meetings are not generational Quakers. A significant contribution to minority education was the High Point Normal and Industrial Institute, which was founded in 1891 and eventually was incorporated into the public school system as William Penn High School. We cant solve the historical world conundrum of violence, we can only solve ourselves. The new ideas were more evident in North Carolina after the Civil War when out-of-state evangelists began to hold revivals. During the Civil War North Carolina Friends were persecuted by Confederate authorities for their radical views on slavery as well as their refusal to support the war effort. Ohio / Harlow Lindley, collaborator and historian for Ohio -- v. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. prc produced a certificate: transferred membership. Here's an existing category that seems appropriate. Religious life in England If there were two or more records books, these lines will explain the page numbers next to family information in the next section. United States Church Records Society of Friends (Quakers). Carvers received that status in 1746, and Dunns request was granted in 1750. III. ), daughter of . Quaker Abstract F190.F89 W74 2001. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher. I would so appreciated any and all feedback. All Quaker. (If this, or any other single video topic is not for you, thats ok!) On the contrary, its interesting to learn about the historic footprint of early Quakers who had a distinct religion and culture. Quakerism was founded in 1647 by George Fox, who also established a rich system of record keeping. I can understand your point. There was a time in the 1700s when the colonies /states were headed toward Quakers being the preponderance of religious affiliation. Presently there is extensive cooperation among all major branches of the Society of Friendsthe Friends United Meeting, the Conservative, Evangelical Friends Alliance, and the Friends General Conference. Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989. 1667 in Perquimans, North Carolina; Isaac WHITE b: ca. But the values carried down the generations, and it was good to go back and pick up that dropped stitch and connect with Quakers myself. Quaker Ref E184.F89 H5 v.3, Meldrum, Charlotte D. Early Church Records of Burlington County, NJ, Vols. Will of Henry WHITE. Also, the name Stanley, from Virginia and later Ohio. We saw in Charlottesville and see hatreds causing war deaths all around the world. "The earliest of these meetings in NC seems to have been that at Carvers Creek in Bladen County. But for whatever reason, I chose to speak out about ethnocentricity. Quaker Abstract F157. Friends Publishing Corporation Yep, Im a lindley! And the Friends Society was unique in history. From these states Quakers migrated in the mid- to late- 1700s to Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Names werent initially a part of it for me, but when I saw the name Furnas added here on this thread I remembered my Indiana Quaker grandfathers ice cream business, named Furnas. Share to Facebook. gc granted certificate: permitted to move ones membership. If youre a Winslow in North Carolina, you know youre probably from Perquimans and Pasquotank counties. Im sure there are more but they are my nearest relatives. Find the microfilm, put it on a microfilm reader, and search the Monthly Meeting for your ancestors name. Come for the geneaology trivia, stay for the experience of Quaker worship, testimony, and community today! I sincerely regret that anyone experienced it as promoting an anglocentric or exclusionary view of who Quakers are and can be. Religious Society of Friends Project WikiTree, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015002304221;view=1up;seq=19, Quaker Meetings: MEETINGS IN AND NEAR GUILFORD COUNTY, North Carolina Friends Historical Society, North Carolina Quaker and Slavery (MR/100), Quaker Meetings, United States of America, Learn WikiTree in real time with hands on help from current project members and leaders, Help build resources and links to assist other genealogists in finding their family, Create pages linking them to appropriate categories while learning the ins and outs of WikiTree, Make some great friends with similar interests~that's just an extra. Quaker Dates Dates in many of the entries are recorded according to the Quakers' system. Marriages were overseen by the meetings and all in attendance were witnesses. The Religious Society of Friends - North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends. All of these meetings were located in Bladen County, NC in the 1750s. and Starbucks. Painstakingly developed from monthly meeting records, Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy is the magnum opus of Quaker genealogy. The reasons for migration and migration patterns before and after the Revolutionary War will also be explored. Accessed 12/2011. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. The collection is also available on microfiche beginning number 6051380. In my experience, almost none of the people who visit a Quaker meeting because their ancestor was a Friend come back. Cadwallader, Milhous, Trueblood, Farlow, Sharpless, and Wilbur what do they all have in common? Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the Underground Railroad Cincinnati: Robert Clark & Co. https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/coffin/frontis1.html. Note: Carver's Creek Meeting is also discussed below in the Dunn's Creek paragraph. I disagree with Max Carters statement Most Americans, if they shake their family tree, a Quaker nut is going to fall out I cringed when I heard that. His daughter Priscilla married Robert Dunn. The hasty Coffin, fractious, loud, By 1751 Cane Creek Monthly Meeting was established, followed in 1754 by New Garden. Editor's note: This page arose from an attempt to document the life of James Brown (Brown-2471), in particular his time in North Carolina as recorded in the minutes of several Quaker meetings. Hinshaw, William Wade. Later, English colonists migrated south from Virginia, arriving in significant numbers by the 1660s. I had had no idea of all this. But I am an old lady who has only fairly recently discovered my many Quaker ancestors on both sides of my family. [1] An interesting account suggests many of these first settlers were commoners and runaway indentured servants. Then later those came to Pennsylvania. ], Physical: I discovered that my ancestor Ann Stone Worley Pusey arrived in 1682 with William Penn on the ship Welcome. The Quakers -- more properly known as the Society of Friends -- were an important group in the politics and society of early North Carolina. 1866 Freedmen's Bureau record regarding 75 unnamed Randolph County Quakers abandoning their homes and fleeing to Indiana, the "more quiet west," with at least 125 more to follow. Willow Bend Books, 1994-1996. Hilarious! [5] The two Quakers mentioned as coming from Nottingham are James Brown and James Johnson. Knowing the earlier meeting is a clue about the earliest members' origins. Some of those repositories are listed below. AND that women and men were equal!! William Wade Hinshaw. Other books: Anne Arundel (and Howard) County Church Records. "Trader" Joseph Evans III. For example, each meeting branched off from an older meeting. Some more common like Hunt or Cox. https://library.guilford.edu/quaker-genealogy. I re-stumbled upon it when testing out Ale's WT+ search functionality for freespace pages; I used "Brown" as a search parameter since I knew we had at least a few FSPs related to Brown. A major accomplishment of North Carolina Friends in this period was the opening in 1837, under the guidance of Nathan Hunt, of New Garden Boarding School, the oldest coeducational school in the South. It was begun about 1740, and asked for a Monthly Meeting as early as 1743; in 1746 one had been settled. For example, plain dress. The names Hoag and DeVol/Devoll/Davol are scattered on both sides of my family tree like colored lights on a Christmas tree. Hilty, New Garden Friends Meeting: The Christian People Called Quakers (1983). James Brown apology and readmission (1761), James Brown Senr 1753 certificate request, Minutes of Carteret MM re James Brown 1764-66, North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, Send a private message to the Profile Manager, Pennsylvania, United States, Brown Name Study, Public Comments: Each volume has its own index, but this is a good way to "follow" your ancestor as they moved from one area to another. I appreciated your thoughtful response to that and found that very appropriate. This book is an every name index to the first six volumes of Monthly Meetings compiled by William Wade Hinshaw. We need to be forward looking! The volume is available at Guilford College and many other libraries, including Greensboro Public Library and High Point Public Library, in the genealogy or local history collection. Much of the information in this section is taken from an earlier version of his profile biography. The text continues, stating: They [the men previously identified] represented some of the oldest and best Quaker families in Pennsylvania. Inhabited for ten thousand years by indigenous people, it was explored by the Spanish in the 16th century. Guide to Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. From as far away as Pennsylvania, members of the Society of Friends migrated to the region for its fertile land and ease of navigation. The first Quaker in North Carolina was one Henry Phillips, who had been a member of that church in New England previous to his coming to Carolina in 1665; though William Edmundson, an Irish Quaker preacher, was the real instigator of Quakerism among the settlers. Does this video on Common Quaker Names promote the inclusion and diversity were striving for? It would be great to know more about why it was so important in history for women to be beaten and jailed . Also a marriage certificate. It belonged to the Eastern Quarter"[9], Bladen County, North Carolina had been created in 1734 and covered most of central and western North Carolina at that time. The earliest Quaker settlements were in New England, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. I love his work; hes articulate and cool with his long white beard. ). Gabe and others, I find this video quite educational and entertaining. MM monthly meeting: the lowest administrative unit of Friends, originally comprising of several particular or "preparative" meetings (congregations) that met together monthly to transact church business. They are old Quacker names. Max Carter: You get into the Midwest, which essentially was the South moved North from North Carolina and Georgia and South Carolina from the anti-slavery movements of the early 1800s and youve got Farlows and Newlins and Millses and Beesons and Carters, Hoovers, Nixons, Millhouses. I was raised as a Friend but through convincment not blood or so I thought. Featured guides available at this time include guides to doing genealogy and also for cemetery research. This did leave the remaining Quakers in dire shape and left the South as the backwater of our nation for 100 years. Hinshaw discusses Cane Creek on page 343 of Volume I of his Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy.[15]. The earliest Quaker settlements were in New England, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. II. William Penn and others as owners of enslaved persons. Quaker Ref E184.F89 H5 v.4, v.5, Hinshaw, William Wade. The first Browns at Cane Creek appear to have been Ruth Large Brown, widow of Thomas Brown, and some of her children. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. At the college are the Quaker Center, which has an important role in interpreting the beliefs and practices of the denomination, and the Quaker Historical Collection, which is the archival repository for southern Friends. The earliest existing meeting records, which date from 1680, are from Perquimans Monthly Meeting. LA. Did you recognize any of the names listed in the video? This video does not help me feel things have changed much since that painful moment I experienced as a newcomer 40 years ago. dis disowned, disowned for: removed from membership for violation of the rules or advices in the Discipline; does not imply exclusion from worship, but only the right to participate in decision making. To Gabes gracious comments, I did not find this video off putting or exclusionary. I look at my own 11 generations of Quaker in my family tree and its a trunkits Newlins and Johnsons and Bundys and Carters. We don't know why James went to North Carolina. Levi Coffin of Guilford County was a founder of the Underground Railroad, which enabled thousands of slaves to escape to freedom. To hold revivals are newcomers or first or second generation Quaker that anyone it. 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