Edmondson Listers, This is FYI... Julia Florida/USA Julia. There was a Friends Meeting on the border of Orangeburg and Dorchester Counties but its exact location is unknown today. It was called Edisto. It was organized by Friends moving from the Wateree Meeting at Camden and was almost certainly a preparative meeting under the care of Wateree Monthly Meeting. The records of Wateree are lost. Most of the information about the families at Edisto comes from the journals of Quaker ministers traveling in the ministry through South Carolina, who usually stopped at Edisto. One of those journals suggests that the Edisto Friends established their Meeting along Quaker lines without knowing anything about Friends and later affiliated. That is untrue, because the leaders at Edisto were grown children of the leaders at Wateree. Friends in the Edgefield-Bamberg District area had local worship groups which were under the care of Bush River Monthly Meeting in Newberry County. As with any long -distance relationship in a frontier area, there was less oversight and fewer items getting into Monthly Meeting Minutes and Registers than for worship groups closer. The leading families for this group were the Clouds and the Norris. Most members of both extended families migrated to Indiana in the early 1800's because of their opposition to slavery and the SC laws against emancipation. Since Hinshaw's researchers only looked at official Monthly Meeting Records, they missed about half of the Quakers in South Carolina. One has to trace many SC Quaker families back to NC, VA, & PA or forward to Ohio. Indiana, or Illinois to establish their Quaker membership. Friends did not keep membership lists in this period. Hope this helps you some, B Medlin