Notice that John Calvert,Abraham Hollingsworth, George Hobson, Jr. & Sr., and Francis Tencher (Tincher) were among the early members. Was Francis Tencher a brother of Samuel Tincher, and uncle of Hannah who married Thomas Kincaid? How was Winifred Hobson Kinkead related to the George Hobsons below? HOPEWELL was the first Quaker meeting established in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. It was originally known as Opeckan and was set off from the Concord Quarterly Meeting of Pennsylvania in 1734. The actual date of first settlement is thought to be around 1730. The meeting house is located about 6 miles north of Winchester, Frederick Co., Virginia. A land grant of 100,000 acres was purchased on the Opeckan River. Many of the earliest settlers moved into the area from the Valley of the Monocacy in Maryland BORDEN, Benjamin 850 acres on the western slope of Apple Pie Ridge, many other large holdings CALVERT, John 850 acres near Abraham Hollinsworth, east of Kernstown. HOLLINGSWORTH, Abraham HOBSON, George Jr. HOBSON, George Sr. 937 acres on Middle Creek in what is now Berkeley Co., WV, adjacent to David Logan and John Mills. PARRALL, Hugh 466 acres adjoining John Calvert, near Kernstown, Frederick Co., VA. Many other tracts of land. ROSS, Alexander 2,373 acres 6 miles north of Winchester in Frederick Co., VA. On this tract stands the Hopewell Meeting House. TENCHER, Francis 150 acres on Middle Creek, now in Berkeley Co., WV >From Samuel Smith's History of Pennsylvania, a part of which was printed in the Register of Pennsylvania, Vol. VII, p. 134, edited by Samuel Hazard, is quoted here from Hopewell Friends History (1936). (Smith's History of Pennsylvania was compiled at the direction of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1752.) About the year 1725, Henry Ballinger and Josiah Ballinger, from near Salem, in West Jersey; and soon after them James Wright, William Beals, and others from Nottingham, settled in the upper parts of Prince George's Co., Maryland, near a large creek called Monoquesey (Monocacy). About the year 1796, they applied to New Garden Monthly Meeting for liberty to hold a meeting for worship on first days, which was granted, and held at the house of Josiah Ballenger, and others till the year 1736, when a piece of ground was purchased and a meetinghouse built, which is called Cold Spring meetinghouse, where meetings are still kept. About the year 1732, Alexander Ross and Company obtained a grant from the Governor and Council at Williamsburgh in Virginia, for 100,000 acres of land near a large creek called Opeckan in the said colony, which about that time was settled by the said Alexander Ross, Josiah Ballenger, James Wright, Evan Thomas, and diverse other Friends from Pennsylvania and Elk River, in Maryland, who soon after obtained leave from the quarterly meeting of Chester, held at Concord, to hold a meeting for worship, soon after which land was purchased and a meetinghouse built, called Hopewell, where meetings are still held twice a week. . http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~quakers/hopewell.htm Bond of David Kinkead, Robert Worthington and Andrew Campbell unto Thomas Chew. Gent., justice. For£ 400. 23 July 1742 David Kinkead is admr. of John Hobson,dec. David Kinkead Robt. Worthington Andrew Campbell Wit. Catlett Conway.23 July 1742