Again, I apologize, but please try to correctly- place these records chronologically. Pam ================================================ - DEEP RIVER Meeting was located in the area of High Point, Guilford Co., NC. - DEER CREEK Meeting was located in Harford Co., MD. - ELK RIDGE MEETING was in Montgomery Co., MD. - EVESHAM MEETING, in New Jersey, established 1760; was spoken of in 1779 as in the "West Jerseys." It was located about 3 miles southeast of Moorestown. - FAIRFAX MEETING was in Waterford, in what is now (since 1757) Loudon Co., VA. The first meeting house was built in 1741. Fairfax Monthly Meeting was established in 1744...It would seem that the Friends held meetings in Fairfax as early as 1735 or 1736. The region was then in Prince William County. - GOOCHLAND, a.k.a. GENITO MEETING: Genito Meeting began as as Particular Meeting of HENRICO MEETING, and was originally in Goochland Co., and is now in FLUVANNA Co. See HENRICO MEETING. - Two GOOSE CREEK Meetings are recorded in the records of CEDAR CREEK MEETING: one was in BEDFORD Co., VA and reported to South River Meeting. The other, better-known Goose Creek Meeting was in Bedford Co. before 1782, and now is in LOUDON Co., VA. - GREEN SPRING Meeting was in LOUISA Co., VA. - GUNPOWDER Meeting was located in Baltimore Co., MD. - HENRICO MEETING: The "parent" Monthly Meeting of numerous offshoot Friends' meetings in Virginia; See notes for both CIRCULAR MEETING & for CEDAR CREEK MEETING. By 1781, the Henrico Meeting was almost always referred to as WHITE OAK SWAMP Meeting, and the Particular Meetings still belonging to Henrico were: WAYNE OAK [Waynoak, Weyanoke, etc. ] in Charles City Co., CURLES in present-day Henrico Co.; WHITE OAK SWAMP, also currently in Henrico Co.; SKIMONO in York Co.; and BLACK CREEK in New Kent Co. - HERRING CREEK Meeting was located in the extreme southeastern part of Anne Arundel Co., MD. - HOPEWELL meeting: 7 miles northeast of Winchester, in Frederick Co., VA; named, it is said, for Hopewell in Lancaster Co., PA. - INDIAN SPRING Meeting , MD, was located in Prince Georges Co., MD in southern Maryland. - LITTLE FALLS Meeting, MD was located on the Gunpowder River in southern Harford Co., MD. - LOUISA CO., VA was the site of CAMP CREEK MEETING, of FORK CREEK MEETING, and of GREEN SPRING MEETING. - MIAMI MONTHLY MEETING, located on the Little Miami River in Warren County, "was the first to be established in southwestern Ohio."...The settlement of Friends in the section about the present site of Waynesville began in the closing years of the eighteenth century. A meeting for worship was established about 1801. Miami Monthly Meeting was opened 10 Mo. 13, 1803, by permission of Redstone Quarterly Meeting, held at Westland, PA, 9 Mo. 5, 1803... - MONOQUACY, also written Monocacy, [and also called PIPE CREEK & PIPES CREEK], was on or near the Monocacy River, in Maryland; the former location is now in Frederick Co., MD. It was included in Hopewell until 1744. This meeting, for worship, was laid down in 1762. - MUDDY CREEK Meeting was in Surry Co., NC. - Two NEW GARDEN Monthly Meetings are mentioned in the records of CEDAR CREEK; one Meeting was in Chester Co., PA, and the more often-mentioned New Garden Meeting was in Guilford Co., NC near Marlboro. - PAGAN CREEK Meeting was in Isle of Wight Co., VA. - ORANGE Monthly Meeting was in Orange Co., VA; also known as DOUGLAS' Meeting. - PATAXENT Meeting was located in the extreme northeastern part of Charles Co., MD. - PIPE CREEK MEETING was in Frederick Co., MD. - PICKAWAXON MEETING was located in the extreme southeastern part of Charles Co., MD. - SANDY SPRING Meeting was located in north central Montgomery Co., MD. - SEVERN Meeting was located in the northern section of Anne Arundel Co., MD. - SKIMONO Meeting was in York Co., VA, and was also recorded as Skimmano, Skimmino, Skimmins, and Skimmanse. See notes for Henrico Meeting. - (2) SOUTH RIVER Monthly Meetings existed. The first was located in Anne Arundel Co., MD, and was located in the northeast area of Anne Arundel Co., MD. The second was in Campbell Co., Virginia (Bedford prior to 1782), VA. The Monthly Meeting there was set up in 1757. It survived until 1858. Also known as BEDFORD Meeting. - TOMS CREEK Meeting was in Surry Co., NC. - WARRINGTON Monthly Meeting, established 1747, was held in York Co., PA, 14 miles northwest of the city of York. - WAYNE OAK [Waynoak, Weyanoke, etc. ] was in Charles City Co., VA. See notes for Henrico Meeting. - WEST RIVER Meeting was located in the southeast central part of Anne Arundel Co. , MD. - There were two WESTERN BRANCH Meetings. One was in Nansemond Co., VA; the other meeting was in Isle of Wight Co., VA. - WESTFIELD Monthly Meeting was in Surry Co., NC. - WHITE OAK SWAMP Meeting, also recorded as Whiteoak Swamp, was in Henrico Co., VA. ---------- Interpretive notes: - The most important notation that should be made for this book is that the older records included in this Meeting Book clearly seem to have been re-recorded from an earlier Meeting Book or Books [probably not now still extant.] The order of the records is not chronological at all, which indicates that portions of these records were re-recorded from a prior book or books. - This prior book or these prior books may have even been damaged in some way---that cannot be known from the surviving records. Circumstances imply that some [or even many] of the Meeting Minutes may be missing from the book as now found and now published. It must be borne in mind that many records that should have been recorded [such as a marriage record which would have followed a declaration of intention to marry, and many family and death records] are simply not there in the book of Minutes as it now survives. - The tenets of the Friends disallowed dancing, singing, gambling, consumption of "strong drink", the bearing arms or the hiring of another individual to bear arms as a substitute, and, at a later date {from about 1780}, the owning or overseeing of slaves. It was also forbidden to swear any oath; therefore, the proving of any document in court, as required by law, was accomplished by affirmation. Occassionally this was noted in the Court records of various counties and states, but often it was not so noted [the most obvious example noted by the extractor was in to the records of Orange Co., VA Court records.] Also, for many years, anyone who married someone outside the Quaker faith was disowned by the Meetings for "being out of unity". [This practice was consistent until about the first decade of the 1800's, when it became obvious that losing so many members was becoming damaging to the structure of the church itself.] - It must be remembered that the Quaker method of recording dates does not follow the same format that is now most common [month/day/year], but rather follows the format of day/month/year. Thus, the format 3/5/1747 records a date of the 3rd day, 5th month, 1747. - p. 39: 11/1/1748/1749. John CHEADLE, David & Henry TERRELL of Caroline County, Jno SANDORS [SANDERS], James STANLEY, Benj HARRIS & Stanley HARRIS of Hanover appointed to attend Quarterly meeting at Whiteoak, Henrico County. [This is the first record of Benjamin Harris at the Cedar Creek Meeting. Obviously, Ben was already a man of considerable standing in the Society of Friends by this time. Stanley Harris was the son of John & Mary Stanley Harris of this meeting, and the brother of Daniel Harris. DNA evidence proves these two different Harris families were not closely related. {I PERSONALLY suspect that the line of John & Mary Stanley Harris (which, as I recall, belong to Harris- DNA Group 20?) came from Thomas Harris & Adria Osborne Harris through their son, Capt. William of Henrico, and their grandson, also a William, who moved to New Kent County, Virginia in the 1690's? But that is just my OWN take on all of the accumulated evidence.Everyone, of course, may interpret the evidence as they see fit.} ... ============================================ [END OF FILE] ============================================