Sorry, everyone, Apparently I sent too big of a file to the Harris list to handle, so my 7th posting hit the list before my 6th posting of this family. So you have to please place these files in correct chronological order to understand what I am sending. Again, I apologize.I am just not use to having limits placed on the amount of data you can send at one time. So here is Benjamin Harris' files in two parts: the first part I am sending as Benjamin Harrises Part 6a, and the second part as Benjamin Harris, Part 6b. Please do fit both files in their correct chronological order, so that you all have the sequential records correctly. Thanks! Pam ========================================== Hi, all, I am now back again with a continuation of my previous posts on Benjamin Harris (1). This posting has extensive notes regarding how the Quaker "rules" worked, and where the Meetings were. (I apologize to the more long-term Harris researchers on this list, as I have posted this more than once to the list, and some may be bored by it, but I am sure there are some newer researchers out there who may need this information, so I am including it.) Pam ============================================ Extracted from: BREWER, Mary Marshall: Quaker Records of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting, Virginia, 1739-1793; Copyright, 2002, by Colonial Roots; Published, 2002, by Colonial Roots, Lewis, DE, USA - A brief glossary of terms found in these records: - Certificate of clearness in marriage: Certification by one Monthly Meeting to another that a member of the first Meeting was in good standing with them, had not already promised to marry another member of their own Meeting, and, if a widower or widow, that a period of two or more years had passed since the death of his or her spouse. - Disown: The Friends' version of excommunication, resulting most often from a church member's marriage to a person of another faith, and, somewhat less often, from repeated violation of the tenets of the church. - Distress/Sufferings: Confiscation of property or goods for refusal to bear arms in the militia or military service, or for refusing to attend the state-approved church & financially support the ministers thereof. The term of sufferings alternately referred to families in need, for which a voluntary monetary collection was taken up. - Disorderly marriage: Marriage without the prior approval of the Friends [even if to another Friend], or marrying to a person "too close of kin" [first cousins.] - Disorderly walking: Violating any of the tenets of this faith. - Marriage out of unity: Marriage to any person who was not a member of the same faith, and who refused, or was deemed unsuitable, to become a Friend. These circumstances led to the disownment of the church member. - Verge: The topographical area comprising the physical domain of each Meeting, equivalent to the area encompassed within the boundaries of a parish. Due to the wide geographical area that fell within the verge of the early Monthly Meetings of the Friends, smaller groups were set up in various areas. These smaller groups were called "Particular" Meetings, and remained under the "care", or within the jurisdiction, of the larger Monthly Meeting. To more easily understand this system, refer to the location entries for Henrico MM and that of Cedar Creek [below.] ---------- Locations of meetings were extracted from pp. vii-ix in the introduction to this book, pp. v-vi of F. Edward Wright's Quaker Records of Henrico Monthly Meeting and Other Church Records of Henrico, New Kent and Charles City Counties, Virginia [Copyright, 2002, by Colonial Roots; Published, 2002, by Colonial Roots, Lewes, DE, U.S.A.]; and from pp. 209-228 of Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick Co., VA: Records of Hopewell Monthly Meetings and Meetings Reporting to Hopewell [Copyright, 1993, Hopewell Monthly Meeting; Published, 1936, by Hopewell Friends, Strasburg, VA, USA; Republished, 1975, 1993, by Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, MD, USA.] The third source for this meeting location information were extracted from pp. vii-ix in the introduction to: BREWER, Mary Marshall: Quaker Records of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting, Virginia, 1739-1793 [Copyright, 2002, by Colonial Roots; Published, 2002, by Colonial Roots, Lewis, DE, USA.] Author of the first book, F. Edward Wright, cites, for the Monthly Meeting location information: [1] HINSHAW, William Wade: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. IV: Virginia [1950]; [2] Quaker Records in Maryland; [3] VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES: A Guide to Church Records in the Archives Branch, Virginia State Library. - Other locations have been extracted from the records of various monthly meetings, particularly those of the Hopewell, Henrico/ Whiteoak Swamp, and Cedar Creek Monthly Meetings in Virginia. ---------- LOCATIONS OF MONTHLY MEETINGS: - ALAMANCE, NC: CANE CREEK Monthly Meeting. - AMELIA Meeting was in Amelia Co., VA; also known as JOHNSON's Meeting. - BEDFORD Meeting was in Bedford Co., VA, now Campbell Co., VA; also known as SOUTH RIVER Meeting. - BLACK CREEK Meeting was in New Kent Co., VA; see notes for HENRICO MEETING. - BUSH CREEK Meeting was also referred to as MONROVIA Meeting. It was in Frederick Co., VA. - CAMP CREEK Meeting was in Louisa Co., VA. A notation in the Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting Minutes indicates that the land for the Camp Creek meeting house was deeded in to Cedar Creek Meeting in 1764. - CANE CREEK, established in 1751, was in Alamance Co., N.C. This meeting was mentioned many times in the Cedar Creek, VA Meeting as "Caine Creek" and "Cain Creek". There was also a Cane Creek meeting in Union Co., SC, which was extinct in 1786. - CAROLINE Meeting was set up from Cedar Creek before April, 1743; their meeting house was built at Golansville, and the meeting was sometimes referred to by that name. See HENRICO MEETING & CEDAR CREEK MEETING for additional information. - CEDAR CREEK MEETING was in Hanover Co., VA, in the region of the Forks, a couple of miles west of the Anglican Forks Church. Cedar Creek was founded by Friends of the Upper James River by 1722, when Edward MOSBY was directed by the Henrico Meeting to erect a meeting house close to the creek. The Friends at Cedar Creek remained under the care of the Henrico Meeting until 1739, when those attendees at that meeting house united with the Henrico Friends that were located in Caroline Co., and formed a meeting separate from Henrico. Cedar Creek was sometimes also referred to simply as the "Upper Meeting" in the Henrico records. Cedar Creek experienced a period of immediate rapid growth, and soon encompassed Friends residing in the present-day counties of Albemarle, Amelia, Bedford, Campbell, Caroline, part of Charles City, Goochland, Halifax, Hanover, Henrico, Louisa, Orange and Culpeper, and also in the independent City of Richmond. Mt. Pleasant Meeting, in Frederick Co., VA, was [also] probably referred to as Cedar Creek from time to time. - CENTER Meeting was in Guilford Co., North Carolina. - CHUCKATUCK Meeting was in Nansemond Co., VA. - CIRCULAR MEETING: See notes for CURLES and CEDAR CREEK Meetings, VA. - CLIFTS Meeting was located in southeastern Calvert Co., MD. - CROOKED RUN Monthly Meeting was located near the village of Ninevah, now in Warren Co., VA, on the main road between Winchester and Front Royal; about 13 miles from the former and 7 from the latter place. A monthly meeting house was built at Crooked run prior to 1759. A monthly meeting was settled there in 1781-82. The Crooked Run Meeting was laid down in 1810--so few Friends attending... - CULPEPER Meeting was located south of Chester Gap in what is now Rappahannock Co., VA, near the home of John Garwood. John Garwood lived on the north fork of Rush River, near the site of the present town of Washington, county-seat of Rappahannock Co., where he purchased five tracts of land, the first two in 1768, the last in 1794, as revealed by Culpeper Co. records. Culpeper Meeting had a meeting-house in 1782. - CURLES Particular Meeting was one of the three original Particular Meetings referred to by the term, "Circular" Meeting in the Henrico Co. Monthly Meeting records. The other two meetings which this term initially referred to were the BLACK CREEK Particular Meeting in New Kent Co., and WAYNE OAK [Waynoak, Weyanoke] Particular Meeting in Charles City Co. Later, the Circular Meeting came to refer to such various locations as the meeting at MOSBY's in Henrico Co.; WHITE OAK SWAMP in Henrico Co.; CEDAR CREEK in Hanover Co.; Widow BULLAR's [Bullard, Ballard] at Appomattox, then in Prince George Co., next in Brunswick Co. and still later in Amelia Co., but now in Appomattox; and BURLEY/BURLEIGH or Robert HUNNICUTT's Meeting in Prince George Co. - DEEP CREEK Meeting was located on the creek of that name, now lying in Yadkin Co., NC [Surry Co. before 1850.] It began as a Particular Meeting of DEEP RIVER MEETING, NC. - ============================================ [END OF FILE] ============================================