FYI...Char ***************** From: "Jeff G. Bedenbaugh" <jjbede@bellsouth.net> To: <meyerma@webtv.net> Subject: Various Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:19:39 -0400 Hello Mary Alice, Just a few remarks pertaining to things in your recent correspondences. The Dunker settlement was on Palmetto Branch (now known as Kinard's Branch). While the meetinghouse has long since disappeared, the cemetery is located on Fire Tower Road, very near the intersection with St. Luke's Church Road, and is now known as the Chapman - Summers Cemetery. Joseph Summers of VA was the leader of the group, and his son-in-law Giles Chapman began preaching in 1782. This congregation later became Universalists. Some family names listed are: Chapman, Summers, Lynch, Prather, and Martin. The Quakers settled, before 1762, near the road (now Dennis Dairy Road) from Newberry to Mendenhall's (later Langford's) Mill. Among the first to settle were William Coate, Samuel Kelly, John Furnas, David Jenkins, Benjamin & William Pearson, and Robert Evans. There is a marker by the road where the cemetery is located, but the last time I was by there, the woods were very overgrown. The A. R. P. had its roots in Scotland. In 1733 The ASSOCIATE Presbytery was organized to form a more Protestant and democratic church. In 1743 the REFORMED Presbytery was formed by a group known as Covenanters, because they supported the Scottish National Covenant of 1638 which refused to acknowledge the ruling monarch of Britain as the head of the church. (They maintained that the Bible clearly states that Christ is the head of the church). These principles were eventually accepted by the Church of Scotland, but only after the seceders had left the church and many had been driven from Scotland to northern Ireland, where they were not exactly welcomed. Many eagerly jumped at the chance to come to America in the mid - 1700's, entering mainly in PA, NY, and SC. The two groups of seceders united in this country to form the A. R. P. in 1782. Oh, I live more S/E of Bush River. I am located on Lake Murray on what was called locally "Richardson's Branch". It flowed into the Saluda River just west of Buffalo Creek. I have exchanged a few e mails with Dallas Phelps, but we were unable to determine if Andrew Moore really was headed for Texas or some other destination. Jeff Bedenbaugh ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com